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Lauren looked around the shop and up at the ceiling like she was exa sure the roof wouldn’t fall on our heads, and then said, "So why are you wearing a suit?"

"I do that sometimes when I take a day off school to do research"

"What are you researching?"

"Aging and the possibility of adult happiness"

"Jesus can hed and said, "Do you talk about anything else besides Jesus?"

Lauren syou! I try to catch your eye whenever I see you at the train station, but you walk by so quickly without looking I’ve actually been quite hurt by your snubs"

I noted that she was doing the cat-face feain She was now back in trap mode "What about Jackson?" I asked

"What about hi to me"

"He would be happy if we talked about God He believes we should save everyone too"

"Then why doesn’t he help you pass out Jesus pae now And he’s not"Is that why you’re having coffee with er have a boyfriend?" I said, hoping for the right answer, but the waiter came back with our peppermint mochas

Lauren sipped hers and said, "Yum!"

That made me smile I sipped mine and it tasted just like a melted York Peppermint Pattie

"Maybe I could take you to dinner so me out on a date?" Lauren said

"Okay, scratch that," I said, because her eyebrows got all scrunchy and her eyes got all squinty, and not in the sexy cat-face Bacall way either "Maybe this right here could be our first date and then on’t have to worry about the asking and saying yes part We could just start now"

"Well, I only date boys who are Christian"

"Oh," I said "I see" I wasn’t really that daunted at first because it see we could easily overco her Christianity actually was

"Do you want to talk about Jesus?" she asked

"That’s your favorite topic, huh?"

"Yep"

"Don’t you have any other interests at all?"

"Sure But we have to clear this hurdle before we move on to those I don’t want to waste your tiion tell you that everyone is important? I mean, that buave him a sandwich"

"Yeah, but I don’t want to date him!" Lauren kind of rolled her eyes at me all adorable and then sipped her peppermint mocha

God, I loved her so much at that moment,irl was actually a possibility

"Leave it to hed to

"You don’t even know hed and looked out the

Then we just sort of sipped our mochas and watched people pass outside for fifteen ether and then sat side by side on the ride back to Jersey Our elboere touching through our coats and that gavehard-on, which would have been a problem if it were summer and I had no coat to hide under

I could sort of tell that she was feeling soardless of whether she wanted to or not

When we got off the train shecoffee with you Maybe God will change your heart and we can continue our talk about Jesus And then who knows?"

She said that in this really flirty way that made me even harder than I already was My hands were inthe stupid hard-on to my abdomen like a loaded and cocked catapult I couldn’t have spoken if you paidfor you," Lauren said and then waved good-bye by bending the tops of her right-hand fingers three times, just like a little kid would She spun around and then walked away froain--using her sexuality like fe to control you That she was nothing but a trap But I had to knohat it was like to kiss her I just did I didn’t want to fake being interested in Christianity again, because I was so tired of faking it with everyone else inand hard about the possibility of god, since that was all Lauren wanted to discuss I thought up a list of questions and I asked her a new one at the train station three tiod allow the Holocaust to happen?