Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.

“Without pain, we couldn't know joy.”

“I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book…”

“dated when we were sophomores and we've been hooking up occasionally ever since…”

“As I walked up toward the band kids, Ben shouted, ''Jacobsen, was I dreaming or…”