“How old are you?” she asked.“Almost twenty-six.”“Almost twenty-six, huh? Well, I’m almost fifty-eight. If I was twenty or thirty years yo...nger…”“You kiss like you’re twenty-eight.”“Oh, really? And what does that mean?”“It means we should kiss whomever we want; fifty-eight, twenty-eight, twenty-six, whatever.” He pulled her a little closer and put his hand on her cheek. “Besides, you look a lot younger than that. It’s obvious where Bree’s and Summer’s foxy lady genes came from.”He pulled her. He had his cigarette in his mouth as he peed, and he turned his head to me, ‘Fucking hell son, I needed this, must have drank 10 pints’, and as he spoke the red tip on his cigarette glowed. ‘I’m not a boy’, I said, nervously, and then he rather stupidly asked who I was, as if being a girl was an impossibility. ‘I’m a girl’, I said f***efully, that was when he turned to me, still peeing, ‘You’re a girl’, he retorted credulously, and my heart sank at my presumed unattractiveness. I think he saw. Aval mulaiyil vaai vaithu niraiya neram paal kudika vendum endru oru aasai varum, thinamum nithyavin mulaiyai paarthu rasithukondu irunthen, oru naal aval keezhe guninthu pen edukum pozhuthu avalin periya mulai pilavu therinthathu. Naan vaayai pilanthukondu aval mulai pilavai paarkum pozhuthu nithya ennai paarthu vital.Aval ennai paarkum pozhuthu naan udane keezhe guinthu maths poda aarambithen, nithya naan avalai paarkiren enbathai kandu pidithu vital. Oru naal tuition leave vital, appozhuthu. I cried for days until my brother decided to join the team I had been on. So there I was again with David but, this time I wasn't always being sent out onto the field. I could stay by David I didn't miss a single practice all summer even though most parents and siblings didn't stay for them.I started to worry that David might catch on to the way I was feeling but I didn't have to worry because the day before the game he asked me to be his assistant for the season. Of course I said yes and that.