#page50

What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you - I have no fear of your femaleness. And that you burned.

“This was why [x] could forgive that shallow, glossy version of [him][that x]’d first met. Because of his money and his good family name, because of his handsome smile and his easy laugh, because he liked people and (despite his fear of the contrary) they liked him back. [He] could’ve had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.”