“Hurt your feelings, Fats?” “No, but it hurts hers. You can’t use our inside jokes with the ones outside all this, the ones like her.” “Sure you can,” I said, “they need to see—” “THEY DON’T!” yelled Fats. “They don’t need to, and they don’t want to. Some things have to be kept private, Basch. You think parents want to hear schoolteachers making fun of their kids? Use your damn head.
