Mister Win-Win says it’s always okay to pretend… He says that’s the only way to feel happy sometimes.

You’re the sort of girl that should only have happiness, you know? Who should wake up smiling, feeling special because someone does everything they can to make that so.

She personified her name in everything she did. Even when we would row, her words were deftly chosen and spoken rather like an intricate dance. And I so loved to dance with her.

Well we can’t be having that. One person starts having fun and it turns into an epidemic. Difficult to stop that kind of thing, you know.

What in God’s name did he want me to say? That I agreed with him completely at how our kiss had been successful? That it had meant as much as a kiss I’d drop on...