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 |