Ed the courageous one. He took his cue, when the others hunkered together. Came over and sat down at the desk next to me. His weak chin and fruit-punch-red lips. “Kaui,” he said, like it was a word he had practiced in the mirror. He hunched closer and nodded. “I’m not buying Call of Duty, either.” “Oh God, Ed,” I said. “I’m not going to let you touch my vagina.”

