"It's been a while since I tried. Maybe he's gotten less jumpy," Alana shrugged, picking up a stack of photos to thumb through. "And yeah. Raleigh sophomore year, Johnny last year. Raleigh was just fun, but Johnny ... if things had been different, that could have been a whole big feelings thing."

She drew out the word "feelings," as if to emphasize what a ridiculous concept it was.