And Patrick smiled more. I don’t think I ever saw Patrick smile so much.
Then, Patrick pointed at me, and said something to Bob. “He’s something, isn’t he?” Bob nodded his head.
Patrick then said something I don’t think I’ll ever forget. “He’s a wallflower.”
And Bob really nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head.
And I started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn’t let me get too nervous.
He sat down next to me. “You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
I didn’t know that other people thought things about me. I didn’t know that they looked.
I was sitting on the floor of a basement of my first real party between Sam and Patrick,
and I remembered that Sam introduced me as her friend to Bob.
And I remembered that Patrick had done the same for Brad. And I started to cry.
And nobody in that room looked at me weird for doing it. And then I really started to cry.
Bob raised his drink and asked everyone to do the same. “To Charlie.” And the whole group said, “To Charlie.”
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