Oh hell, I believe in an eye for an eye. But to me it's more important to stand up for yourself than go through all that tricky shit.

Showing the bitch you have some serious sack is an eye for the eye she took trying to show he didn't.

I respect that Bill.

Fine, you all feel this strongly that I should just tell her, then I will. I've already shown her what it's like, if only in a very pale way compared to what she did to me. I don't require an eye for an eye, what little I've done is more than good enough.

Fucking seriously. You are in high school. Kid, you have only the palest impression of what notions like being wronged and getting revenge mean. You're Little League, man. And if you're going to stay butt-hurt over getting cockteased throughout most of puberty, then I suggest opting out of the species right now, because let me tell you, it doesn't get any easier.

In four years, I doubt you'll even care what about what she did to you. And if you do? Then there is something wrong with you.

Oh hell yes.

No shit! I would never have realized that without you pointing it out to me so politely. Seriously, I'm only a kid and I only have what experience I have and I don't have to be a mega-brain to figure that out. But being the only experience I have, it is all I have to go on. I don't have your experience or perspective.

Okay. I have zip experience in this but ...

Romantic entanglements, wrongs, percieved wrongs, and outright revenge are the stuff of some of our most famous stories, legends, poems, and plays. Why should we look down on the drama unfolding before Mr. Fox? Is he not, in a way, just like all of us?

Quite simply because our most famous legends, stories, poems, and plays are about falling kingdoms and warring families. Not an ass of a teenage high school kid(and yes, Daniel, what you did makes you an ass. If you believe what you did was justified, and it may have been, then just step up and state that you are a justified ass)who allowed himself to be puppy-dog'd by another ass of a teenage kid and then decided to prove how big and bad he was by convincing another of our kind to put her relationship on hold just long enough to play arm candy to prove some point. This is not what epics are made of. This is what Lindsay Lohan movies are made of.

You were all right.

I talked with Alice and told her the truth, all of it. I also apologized for using Jael to make her jealous.

And surprise of surprises? She apologized to me for how she'd treated me all that time, and she was even honest about it.

So, yeah, now I'm satisfied and it feels good.

I'm glad to hear it.

I hope you understand how lucky you were. Glad to hear everything worked out all right.

Daniel, I'm glad to hear that, really, really glad. Sounds like you got the best possible outcome you could.

yeah. It did work out, and you're right, I was lucky. I ended up with a friend where I could have ended up with a mess. Two friends really, if you include Jael.