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"What a?" I ask as I pull out of the parking lot

Preston sighs theatrically "Must I spell it out for you? I have it fro the halls yesterday with a rather attractive gentleman who nobody’s ever seen before You may have even sequestered yourself in an eed, there was no evidence of untoward behavior Apparently his hair is very swoopy, which has led at least fifty-eight percent of my reliable sources to believe henews to hit ht I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired hoaret prayed for boobs and randfather prays for my eternal salvation"

I re I need to focus or I know I’ to swerve

Caution My first instinct is to say, I have no idea what you’re talking about But clearly someone saw me Many people saw me

My second instinct is to think, Justin’s heard Justin knows

My third instinct is to scream

My fourth instinct is to cry

My fifth instinct is to deny all these other instincts and say, lightly, "I’m sorry, Preston--I have no idea if he swoops your way He was just a prospective student--I’ve started showing them around, like Tiffany does He lives in California--he’s not even sure his dad is going to get the job here And even if he did…the whole question of straightness or gayness didn’t come up"

"Oh" Poor Preston looks so disappointed

"Sorry"

"It’s okay A boy can dream, can’t he?"

I want to tell hi to live up to his daydreamy kind of love

"So who saw roup Lindsay Craig thought you wereon hi was in the right place, if you knohat I oing off"

"Do you really believe in that gaydar stuff?"

Preston nods "You can tell There’s an energy that travels between you I can’t say whether it’s body language or if there’s an actual chemical reaction But you can feel it He puts it out there, you put it out there, and you can feel it"

I think about A About the way I kneas hiht away

"And has word of this spread? I ossip?"

"Does Justin even do gossip? He doesn’t strikeup to hiht you should know, she’d say, gossip’s good little helper