If you would like to share this book with someone else, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient, or direct them to the author's page on Smashwords.com. If you're reading a copy of this book that wasn't purchased, the author would appreciate it if you returned to Smashwords.com to purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting and supporting the hard work of this author! *** When Simon was eighteen, his cousin Haley got a boyfriend. His name was Dirk and he was tall and raw-boned, nearly rangy, with brown skin that never seemed to burn and a tangle of messy black hair. Compared to Haley -- and to Simon himself -- who were pale in every way, he looked like someone from a completely different world. He slammed doors and wore his shoes inside the house, leaving dusty tracks across the polished hardwood floors and plush carpets; he was loud and crude and swore at the drop of a hat and he treated Haley like some sort of princess, which was the most annoying thing of all. It wasn't that she didn't entirely deserve it; the Oakleys were an old family with a long range of influence.
