CHAPTER 9
lessons in, and ted at turned a different creature— someone to be desired, a fetisy of anonymous lust as anyone, but it efully accepted pause. I icing o speak to me at ter recital. e stood togetage in our formal for our individual turns at t kids first, for agony is best served as an appetizer.
quot;o play?quot; Sally w.
quot;Rigin.quot;
quot;You play out of t; S inspired recital. In t follo to knoening to me play tin ; e arranged to ogeturdays. Over sand t days lessons. I usually from performances, so o a sop for an ice cream or a soda. Our conversations centered around ts fifteen-year-olds talk about: scs, and, in our case, talked about music: composers, Mr. Martin, records, ties of jazz s of nattering t a conversation, more like a monologue. I did not knoen, o dra and enjoy her company. She may well have been a lovely person.
o up took a stroll to ts resemblance to t. But t seemed perfectly romantic. ty urned on tain, anot by ters edge, cime. I did not knoed to do, o ask, o say, in o broac. Sally saved me.
quot;; save. quot;aking o t time, Ive ;
quot;Of course I do.quot;
quot;If you like me, like you say, ry to ;
I took in ion in her palm.
quot;And ried to kiss me?quot;
For t time, I stared raigrying to express some metapion. Not kno no o remember tion. Sined ed reaction, and I copied a riddle percolated t to do next. it o catcreetcar, ting tupidly staring into eaco meet my fatook apart my emoti