" Tristan started the car, pulling carefully out onto the street now that the snow had begun to fall." You seemed so happy this last quarter," P.K. prompted." I was. I fell in love." " And?" " It didn't work out--isn't working out." Tristan shook his head. " I'm not ready." " Ah," said P.K. They drove the rest of the way in silence. Tristan thought then that he was lucky; Jonathon and Daniel didn't know how to value a silence, but P.K. made it comfortable. He was glad he was here with P.K. and not alone in the unbearable silence of snow. "