Book 30-The Reunion

<You okay?>  -Marco
<Yeah.  Ax-man?>  -Tobias
<I am fine.>  -Ax
<That was cool!>  -Marco
<Way cool!>  -Tobias
<Let's never,
ever do that again!>  -Marco
<Ever.>  -Tobias
<Repetition of that activity would be a very bad idea.>  -Ax

<You're a jerk, Marco.>
<Yeah, I love you, too.>
--Tobias, Marco

TAP.  TAP.  TAP.
<She's not moving.>  -Tobias
<Is she in there?>  -Marco
<No, it's after midnight, so naturally she's out in the yard playing Hacky Sack.>
<Hacky Sack?>  -Marco
<Hacky Sack?>  -Ax
<Everyone shut up!>  -Tobias
<Tap louder.>  -Marco
<Gee, do you think, Marco?> -Tobias
TAP!  TAP!  TAP!
<Nothing.  Must be dreaming about...>  -Marco
TAP!  TAP!  TA-CSSSHHHH!
<Oops.>  -Tobias

And let just say that unless you have been butted down a 15-foot-high cliff by a 250-pound angry male mountain goat, you have never experienced
true humiliation.
--Marco

Rachel, her hair in two dorky braids and a goofy fisherman's cap low on her head, was staked out in Shoes and Handbags.  I was a few isles over in Hosiery.  I looked slightly out of place.  I could only hope that no one from school would spot me as I perused the racks of sheer-to-waist, sandal-foot taupe pantyhose.  That's the kind of thing that stays with you in school.
--Marco