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you, I’m Myles.” He smiles again. God is it hard to ignore that.
Shake it off.
“This is my other half, Stevie.” Jade gestures towards him.
“Nice to meet you, Myles.” Stevie tries to tuck his thick hair behind his ear, but it refuses to stay there.
“You too,” Myles replies.
We head back inside, everyone walking ahead of Jade and I, Stevie asking Myles questions about himself and everyone else wanting to listen to his answers.
“So,” Jade starts whispering at me.
“So,” I whisper back.
“This kid cool?” He has that same, cautious look on his face. Like some girl’s dad when she has her date pick her up for prom.
“Uh, I don’t know,” I say. “He’s Boo and Trei’s friend.”
“Oh.” He sounds slightly relieved. Jade doesn’t like me hanging with boys. He remembers what happened last time. He knows what can happen.

I spend the rest of the night squished in between Stevie and Jade. This is enough of a distraction. They make kissy-goo-goo-faces at each other the whole time, making me want to throw up.
After Leena’s asleep, we watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show . Unlike Finding Nemo and The Breakfast Club , Rocky Horror doesn’t try to fool you into thinking that this kind of thing happens. You know it’s unrealistic and it’s supposed to be unrealistic and that’s why it’s so amazing.
In the beginning, Stevie and Jade get up and start doing the time warp.
“Do you know how to do it, Myles?” Stevie asks.
Myles smiles, but shakes his head no.
Boo gasps the loudest I have ever heard. “Myles. Wait. Hold on a second,” he places his hand to his chest like he’s having a heart attack. “You’ve never seen this movie either?”
Myles smiles again. “No.”
Boo stares at him with his mouth wide open. “Sophie,” he says, “he has never seen this movie.”
Knowing that this is my absolute favorite, Boo hints in this subtle way that I should say something to Myles about how completely insane it is that he’s never seen it.
I shrug, pretending to be too engrossed.
It’s stupid that I’ve never noticed it until just now, but Rocky Horror has a lot of sex in it. Watching it with a complete stranger who has never seen it before makes me feel disgusting for some reason. Self conscious, embarrassed even.
But I seem to be the only one. So I push this feeling away, figuring I’m being ridiculous.
Tim Curry is God. He will distract me.
My favorite song in the whole movie is the last one. The one where Frankfurter is singing to a bunch of empty lawn chairs. Usually I sing along with Mr. Curry, but I don’t want Myles to think I’m weird on top of him thinking I’m mean.
When it’s over, I casually look around. No one is paying any attention to how happy the song just made me; they’re all having their own separate conversations about the movie except for Myles, who is smiling at me.
I think he noticed how happy the song just made me.
Damn it.

“Hey Myles, you need a ride home?” Boo asks as everyone is leaving.
“Uhm, sure.” Myles sticks his hands in the pockets of his jeans.
“Well, Trei and I are going to walk home, we live just a few houses down. But I’m sure Sophie wouldn’t mind driving you.”
It takes everything I have not to rip out Boo’s hair.
“I can walk,” Myles answers.
“Nuh uh, you live like, five miles from here,” Boo argues.
Myles’ blue eyes stare at me. He doesn’t want a ride home from me, I can tell.
I decide to drive him, but I pretend my bag needs a seat of its own in the passenger’s side and I make him sit in the back.
This is the first time I have ever had a hetero male alone in my car since I was with Jack. I hate it. My hands are all sweaty and my stomach hurts.
You know what, I blame Boo and Trei. If it weren’t for them telling me that I was so mean to him and Boo bringing up that I could use more friends, I wouldn’t even be in this situation.
“So,” I say like an idiot.
“So,” he says back.
“Your friends, the ones I saw you