They'll never meet him. They'll never know that its actually possible for a boy to be so boring you'd agree to kiss him just to get him to shut up. I should get paid to listen to him talk when he calls on the phone. I should get a dollar fifty a hour. Minimum.

“But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes withou…”

“You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come right down to it, e…”

“She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke…”

“Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on th…”