Wolfwood leans his head back and laughs. That's a good one. It might work on some girls, maybe even Vashley, but it wouldn't be tailored to her.

"I gently knocked out some bullies when they were cornering some freshman and laid them out on the football field to spell PROM W/ME? and brought her over," Wolfwood says, "Vashley doesn't like bullies or hurting people, including the bullies, so it showed I remembered what she's told"—yelled, it feels like sometimes—"me and kept it in mind when handling them. She said yes. Then we got detention."