5alvani

Toby had clear blue eyes and a cable access TV show. This I was certain was the central tenant to the secret power he held over women. Myself included. Toby the unlikely piper to the rest of our pack of rodents, and we followed him out of the city. Usually to the turnout at the top of the ridge, I was told. But I've never been there. Not yet anyway.

I had a plan to win the affections of my most unlikely crush. I refer to him as unlikely because after those blue eyes, he didn't exactly have a lot going for him. Oh sure, most of the girls had latched on to that story, the Big Man On Campus rumor, but I knew that wasn't true. Nobody could wear those tight pants and still allow such a rumor to persist. It simply wasn't there! Anyone could see that for themselves. No, this was simply a wan, sunken-chested little boy with piercing blue eyes and a cable access show that seemed to hold the secret to his powers. He refused to ever bring a girl on it.

I was also plotting to get on that show. Primarily so I could show up all those other hussies, but also because I wanted to know what I looked like in front of the camera. My mother was a TV news anchor ("Todd and Donna's Sunshine Wakeup Club!") and I needed to know if any of it had rubbed off on me. Not likely; I looked more like my father, the franchise food store owner, than I did my mother, the blonde hiroshima as he always called her. He wouldn't say it to her face of course, just to me in the mornings, when we would watch the show before school.