.. I hope it’s alright to call my boss that, since I plan to have him naked in my new bed as soon as we can make it happen.”“I have something el...e I need to tell you. Be honest with me, because you know I’ll always be honest with you.”“Sure, let’s have it.”“I’ve met a seventeen year old girl over in Stewart who is absolutely, the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. I gave her a test and if she passes my test, I’m bringing her home with me on her eighteenth birthday. Have I lost you?”“No, but. "I bet you didn't know that, did you?" I did not. Why haven't I seen any of them?"He looked sad."We lost two of them in a car crash. It just about killed Emma too. She was never the same again. She died three years later, and I always thought was a broken heart that took her. The other one is living in Israel with his wife. Met her in college and converted to Judaism. They used to write more'n they do now. They're busy with their life. Point is I ain't no stranger to yammerin' brats."We carried. Stanford would give me more possibilities, but not so much more that I’d risk losing you over it.”“So that’s really where you want to go?”“Have you ever had competing interests? Where you had to balance the plusses and minuses?”“Sure.”“And in most cases, you end up trading one desire for another, right?”“Usually, if not always.”“According to my dad, your goal should be to maximize the positive and minimize the negative. Being with you is WAY more of a pro than going to Stanford, but if I can’t. I was generally straight, on the odd occurrence I'd find myself turned on about men on me , but had never engaged in it... Until it was decided for me.It was winter time, about mid-December and the night came early. There was the odd pile of snow from all that remained from the downfall during the week. I had broke up from school and arranged to meet my girlfriend at hers, we had brought a few films the previous weekend to watch. The plan was to leave mine when my mum left for the night shift.