Avoidance helped settle the emotions. Considerably.

“Take of your shirt,"he said.But I hadn't won Ethan Sullivan-and he hadn't won m…”

“People hate us, blah blah blah, wish we’d go straight to hell, or maybe Wiscons…”

“For now, with his emerald eyes locked on mine, where I was going didn't seem so…”

“Say what you had to about Ethan, but the boy filled a library very, very well.O…”