Stu nodded, his hand there, resting behind Alfie, and he felt for him, really felt for him even as the booze began to work through his system.
"You look and you want and think about what it might be, and how incredible it could be and then when I finally go the nerve up to go for it, it felt like kissing my sister, if I had one," he said, not realizing that his tense had changed and now he was talking in the first person, "And when I thought there was something so terribly wrong with me, this other person shocked the hell out of me," and he paused as he took another drink, thinking about his own first kiss that had made him realize that girls were definitely not for me.
He had a smile on his face, without realizing it, and he was looking off as he remembered.