I wanted so
badly to lie down next to her on the couch,
to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fxxk,like
in those movies. Not even have s=x. Just sleep together
in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the
courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and
she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was
endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed
on the botton bunk, thinking that it people were rain, I was drizzle
and she was a hurricane.
-John Greene