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"Honestly? My guess is the sy serious was going on He couldn’t tell you guys as happening until he adhed what she said, and sensed there was truth to it No, it wasn’t the whole story But at least I felt like I could breathe again

"When can we see Theo?" Josie asked "Gotta be visiting hours already, right? When do his parents get here from DC?"

"Didn’t Theo tell you? They’re not in DC anyn Service, which lobe Most of the ti diploarten in the Philippines, and attended middle school in Iceland So to prove he’s mastered American culture, that he’s even better at it than the rest of us "Two olia It’s not exactly a quick trip back They won’t be able to get here for a couple of days"

"His hed and rubbed her teet here So where’s loverboy?"

"Please stop calling Paul that"

"Why?" Josie smiled for the first time since we picked her up at the airport "He’s not your loverboy yet?"

The pacing of h I can tell her pretty , Josie doesn’t understand the need Paul and I have to take it slow She’s always gone for brief, intense ro I said, "You’ll eate--this" I led interrelationships we have, all of it

"Paul never went out with anyone before, did he?" Josie asked

I shook irls before le-second, closed-lips kiss that hardly even counts This is what happens when a guy goes to college before he even hits puberty Paul spent irls five to ten years older than hi very, very fast

Josie nodded, her expression overly innocent "And you and Paul--you’re good?"

"Yeah, we are"

Paul drove me up to Muir Woods once, where we held hands while he explained the origins of the cosmos I took hi Shohich confused him nearly asEarth for the first time We ride the bus into Oakland so we can watch ant old cinehnuts at this cool old bakeshop nearby So we have our special occasions But in some ways the best part is that Paul and I can just be Sos, I’ll paint for hours while he reads or works with equations, and by noe drift in and out of conversation easily, naturally We’re good together--better than I would ever have dreao