What is it ... slang? Words?" Well a few weeks in school surrounded by your peers should take care of that. Anyone else?" Actually the slang might get...me for a little while too," I volunteered."Oh, of course," Mrs. Delino tittered. "I suppose the teenage slang on Islandia is much different than it is here." I think it is mostly absent, rather than different," Cole commented. "Life on Islandia is very rural, outside of the capitol, and they all live very much closer to the edge of wildness than. His bed was the place where he collapsed and cried some more. His phone vibrated in his pocket and he pulled it out and looked at the screen. It was Derek sending him a text that read nothing more than the words ‘Beer?’ He texted back. ‘Not now, my life is over.’ 30 minutes later there was a knock on his door. Derek stood there with his ‘going out to get laid’ clothes on. ‘What’s wrong bro?’ he asked looking at Jacob. ‘Alex decided she can’t love men, or me, or both. I don’t even know. Sue shook her head as a sign of mute rebuke but did not give any explanation for having changed her mind so suddenly. We could not understand anything. At home, we talked it over, without having a clue what had gone wrong. And finally, we asked ourselves: could we risk to show up at the ‘Rider’ once again after having exposed our intentions so openly? Maybe she would get a hysterical crisis, seeing us again. Or sue us for sexual harassment or stalking. Finally we decided that Sue was too. It would take a mental health professional to explain so I won't try.I was checking out prospects when I first saw her or them actually. They were a couple dressed up like Raggedy Ann and Andy. They were both petite. One look told me that Andy was a girl too. They looked kind of young even underneath all the makeup they were wearing. I wondered how they'd gotten into the party. This was supposed to be a college-age crowd. Well, the booze had been flowing for a while now and no one was paying.