Tidings of Great Boys (29 page)

I looked over my shoulder. “Kaz wants to know if you do Physics tutoring over the phone. He says you can do what you want
with his body if you help him.” I paused when she didn’t look up from a Neiman Marcus catalog. “I didn’t know you were interested
in his body. Does Jeremy know about this?”

“That sounds like a jealous remark.” She flipped a page. “Ooh, nice dress. Chloe does summer so well. Which reminds me, if
we’re going on a Senior Cotillion dress safari, we’d better start soon.”

I was not to be sidetracked, no matter how tempting the bait. “Is there something going on with you and Kaz?”

She put the catalog down and rolled her eyes to the ceiling. “Yes. Yes, there is.”

I sat there, as stunned as if someone had upended a bucket of seawater over me.

Kaz and Gillian? What? How is that possible? When did—

What is the matter with you? Kaz is your friend. We aren’t… like that. If he’s interested in Gillian, it’s none of your business.

Poor Jeremy.

“Lissa. Lissa, come back to me.”

I blinked at her. My face felt frozen.

“For crying out loud, get a grip.” She was trying not to laugh and not succeeding very well. “He’s teasing you. He’s helping
me with a 3-D mold of his hand for my art project, okay? That’s all.”

“A mold. Of his hand. And you don’t have guys’ hands any closer than Santa Barbara?”

“He has interesting hands, which you’d know if you ever paid any attention.”

Of course he did. And of course I did. Pay attention to him, I mean. He was my best friend. We e-mailed each other, like,
twenty times a week.

“And Jeremy’s hands aren’t interesting?”

She picked up the catalog and flipped another page. “Write him back and tell him of course I’ll tutor him. We can start tonight
if he’s desperate.”

Hmm. Poor Jeremy, indeed. What was going on here? “He wants to know the meaning of
x
.”

“Don’t we all. Some of us wait for the universe to reveal it to us. And some of us wouldn’t know if the universe dropped it
on our heads.”

“What’s your point?”

But my friend, who usually has all the answers, didn’t reply.

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