She watched him carefully light up a new cigarette. It was a filthy habit, and she was glad she'd decided not to go that route back in junior high. She wondered briefly if Alfie would have agreed to be her boyfriend had she had smoker's breath and figured that the answer was probably 'no'.
"You remind me of myself." It was getting hard for Laney to word things like a grown up. She usually did poorly in English -- and every other class, for that matter, but English especially. Her words were, for probably the first time in a while, carefully executed and thought over as she spoke to this stranger now.