It made me a grouchy little gremlin, but coffee usually helped. Right now I was feeling very much like that grouchy little gremlin. Fuck, I needed to ...et some coffee. And check in with work. And freshen up. And a bunch of other things. I can never go back to sleep after waking up anyway.I untangled myself from Wes, wincing because my entire body was sore. I could barely sit up and get my legs to the edge of the bed. Jesus fucking Christ. He’d been rougher than I’d thought.“Mm, don’t,” said a. Think you could come out with me without your parents taking out commitment papers for one or both of us?”“Sure.”“Your door in ten?”“Don’t hurry.”When he got to her door, she was dressed more for a date than for getting rained on. She took a parka and an umbrella, though. Still, he had her wait in the doorway until he’d got the car and pulled up.“Look,” he began, “if going steady sounds too much like high school, what does going steady mean?”“It’s an exclusive. You don’t date anyone else.”“It’s. That wouldn’t happen in real life.’ ‘True.’ ‘So do you spend time off getting high?’ Mila asked. ‘Don’t listen to him.’ I said. ‘He just said that cause I tried t one time before and he was too scared to and since he’s used the ‘High’ joke every time I do something stupid.’ I answered. ‘Oh!’ Mila said. ‘You’re not one of those people who get smashed at a concert are you?’ Mila asked. ‘No! You pay for a ticket and then get so drunk that you don’t remember, you might as well have saved your money. "I think the bedroom should be light blue" Rubbish!! - pink. You are so silly sometimes, Angie - really quite pathetic!" Blue" Pink" Blue" Pink if I win our next fight, blue if you do" OK."And so the day began with a walk over the Heath to the bathing pond. It was February now and a cold frost made their feet so numb with cold that they avoided the grass and stuck to the paths. "Just look at us, Katie, we are blue all over before we've even got into the water. They'll be locking us up for being.