down to the marrow

“I’m just saying though. You know it’s harder to hook up with guys than girls.”  “Most of the time, anyway.”  “I think I want to keep hooking up with guys,” Kon said, moving past this. He looked Tim directly in the face.  “That’s great.” Now Tim had to wonder where this was going.  “So I was wondering if you’d ever want to hook up. Not all the time or anything,” Kon was very vehement about this last point, waving his hands with the force of it. “Just, you know, sometimes. If you’re single, and I’m single, and everything. As a way to make it easier. Super easy, you know? Just. Casual. Helping each other out sometimes.” At this point Kon was babbling.  Tim could be normal about this. Tim could be so, <i>so</i> unbelievably normal.  “Sure,” he heard himself saying, as if very far away. “That would, uh...work for me.”  See? Normal.