“You want to know what happened? YOU happened Rush. That's what happened.”

“Things happen in life and you can’t control them. It sucks and you have to move on.”

“I laughed. “I’ll pass. I happen to be interested in someone I don’t really see as the guy in those posters.” He hesitated a moment, and then said, “Thank you.”

“Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.”

“And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want”

“He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.”

“Was it possible I’d labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn’t overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I’d labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn’t make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.”