I’ve warned the rest of them to be careful around him,” Tami said.“The rest of who?” Alan asked.“Girls who’re friends of mine,” I said t... Alan, and then turned to Tami. “Jim almost killed him when Mike hit on Jim’s girlfriend. If Mike isn’t careful, he’ll piss people off there, too.”Tami looked down and then up at me.“I think Harper’s gone out with him,” she said, and braced herself for the blowup.I just laughed.“What’s so funny?” Alan asked.“Of all my friends at Wesleyan, Harper’s the one that. But when we aren't bickering... we're just..."I wiggled my eyebrows at her, and she understood. I was always queasy about topics like that, topics about love and sex."Is he good in bed?" She asked, obviously calm when speaking of this subject."Um... Yeah... I guess..." I trailed off, not knowing what to say.She groaned and rolled her eyes. "Like, is he too rough, too sensitive, what?" Well, he tends to get a bit handsy. He has a really rough touch."She gave me a look of sympathy. "Too bad he's. I never would have guessed that Gail was lonely. She's always doing something, but now that you mention it, she's almost always doing it alone, even when she's surrounded by other people." Has she asked anyone to Sadie Hawkins?" I don't think so. If she did, she hasn't said anything to me about it. She's been really quiet, especially this week, even on the days you haven't sat with us."I kissed Missy outside of her Biology class and wandered on to mine, wondering the entire way if there was a. He rolled onto his stomach and reached underneath the bed, removed a shoe-box he found there and lifted the lid. There were stacks of paper inside, bar napkins, matchbook covers, business cards, corners torn off of newspaper pages, all of them carried a name and a number- names that he had forgotten and numbers he had never called. He tossed the flyer on the top of the heap and replaced the lid. The box went back under the bed and he pulled the covers back up to his chest, then turned off the.