He is silent all the way to the car and I don’t know what to say to him. It’s as if I have just met him for the first time today and I suppose, in a way, I have. I’m in awe of him. To tell the truth I’m slightly scared of him, of the confidence and self assurance, the edge... and frankly I am freaking out about where and how he got them. Where has he been and what has he been doing? That boy, Ariel, who probably wasn’t a boy at all, had been wearing... well he hadn’t really been wearing very muc