I just want to be sure you don’t break a little girl’s heart. Or your own.”“I miss both of them today,” I admitted, “but I know Becky has ...o move on. At least my head knows. My heart is having a little difficulty.”“I think you’ll be fine,” Mom soothed, “but we need to do something to get you out of this funk you’re in. Now, if you were a girl, I’d just take you shopping, get you a makeover or a pedicure or something, but you don’t need a haircut and I just don’t see you as the type to get your. Did you start without me? He just chuckled and said no honey bunny, I am saving it all for you. Take your clothes off and come in the bedroom, I got something just for you. I quickly stripped down to my birthday suit, and ran in and jumped on the bed and started jumping up and down like the k** I am. He said I sure was rambunctious today, and I said yep, whatever that means. He went to the closet and got this box out, and opened it, and took out this thing with straps, and a big black rubber. ”“Fine,” Taylor replied sullenly.“Taylor likes to shock people,” Alex explained to Jake. “Especially attractive men. She almost drove her fiancé away before she admitted she was in love with him.”“It’s fine,” Jake responded. “I promise I won’t bolt.” The waitress took orders for various salads and sandwiches, including a refill of Jake’s glass ordered by Karla.“I think you’re done analyzing programs today,” Tanya observed. “You should probably call out for the rest of today.”“You think I. Medium height, medium weight, mousy brown hair, average looks, average intelligence. A “salt of the earth type,” his mother would have called him. In any crowd of people, he was the guy blending in. Despite that, he always felt his biggest problem was that he was somehow… different from everybody else. It wasn’t that he was ugly – he wasn’t. And it wasn’t that he was shy, or afraid to meet new people, either. He belonged to several internet websites where you could join, meet people with.