You sure seem suited for Football!" I added innocently."I do - I am quarterback on the school team" he replied self-importantly. Only Fran got the imp...icit insult and tried to suppress a giggle. She was only partly successful and got a withering glare from bimbo one.It was a case of 'saved by the bell' and we headed back in. "You gotta be careful with Darren," Fran warned me in a whisper. "He can be pretty mean." Thanks. I'll take note of that. But he seemed too dense to realize that the joke. ." It varies from one month to another," Ian said, "but about that."After school, Mom took me to Cheryl Hewitt's office again. I didn'ttell her that I'd talked to Carmen on the phone again; I told her aboutgetting to know Hunter, Hanna, and their friends, and about the incidentwith Mrs. Dirksen in the ladies' room at church, and lunch with theDirksens afterward. As I should have expected, but hadn't, she askedme to go through the same empathy exercise we'd done for Mom and Dad,putting myself. I guess I’m still a little overheated. I’d never had these feelings before, not even when Danny and I wrestled, real wrestling, not the fake cop-a-feel wrestling we did later on but the matches where we didn’t hold back, where we each aimed to pin the other to the mat and keep him or her there. The real deal.It was a win-win. Danny liked fucking, he told me so and when I’d seen him with Ruth I knew there was nothing fake about the way he gave it to her. He could be tender when he wanted to be. En thambiku engal kala uravu theriyaathu, avan veguliyaanavan aanal kalluri padithu kondu irunthaan. Nalai veetil yaarum iruka maatargal, appozhuthu vickey irunthaal avanai en pundaiyai naka vidamal endru plan seithen.Vickey idam naalai veetil yaarum iruka matargal appozhuthu nee kalluriku selamal en veetirku vanthu vidu endru sollinen. Avan sari akka naan eppadiyaavathu vanthu vidugiren endru solli vitu kilambinaan. Veetil yaarum ilai endraal mama veetirku varuvaare, ena seivathu iruvarum ore.