Jim, I just got finished tellin you the only person I'd maybe wanna date isn't into that. It's not his fault he doesn't feel the same. Not my fault either. But it does make me wonder how I read things so wrong. So takin things extra slow seems like a good plan. I'm not mortally wounded or anythin, honest. It stings some but I'll get over it. Just . . . needed to talk to my best friend.


[He gave Jim a slight smile and a pat on the shoulder. Then a squeeze to the shoulder. The man didn't always help, but sometimes you just wanted someone in your corner.]


No beatin people up, ok? There's a reason I never said who I was talkin about.