He couldnot really dance but told Jess that he had admitted to his friends thathe thought that she was beautiful and that he would like to dance withh...r. His friends had told him that he was stupid so he had summoned upall of his courage to ask her and that as she had agreed to dance withhim, he would be the envy of all of his friends.As he escorted Jess back to our table she touched his chin and kissed himon the cheek. I heard her whisper, "Tell your friends that I think thatyou are a very. “We have a game tonight!” she blurtedout. “I’d love for you to come see me.” He turned redin the face, but she sat and smiled at him, waiting tohear what he would say. He figured that he might as wellgive it a shot. He was tired of jacking off all the time, andwanted to see how she would react. “Well, Nicolette” he toldher, “I just have one small problem. I should not tellyou this, but I am not really a very nice man. I thinknasty thoughts. She pushed her hair behind her ear and looked at Andrei who sat there on his couch and watched her with a wary eye during today's lesson. She always felt his eyes on her, making sure all her moves were perfect. He often did this, sitting back on his beloved couch, shouting instructions and step numbers out to echo through his hall.Thrusting her legs into the air and gliding around on her toes, she looked like an angel walking on the clouds. And today, after all these years, Andrei couldn't keep. .. that's when they had to put me into treatment for awhile."Neither of us talked for a long while after this. We'd both spoken of our most private secrets to the other and we had a growing sense of connection between us. Two rather emotionally damaged people who'd had something happen to our lives when we were both still barely children that we could neither explain or entirely adequately deal with the lingering historical repercussions."Ok ... so Bad News Bear somehow fucked up our lives..