What had just slipped out of my mouth was now hanging out there like a pretty big matzah ball. Because I had forgotten that when I first met Milli, she and Tuck were an item.

Well, not really an item. If someone were in the express checkout lane at the grocery store, and the sign said 10 items or less, and they already had 9 items and tried to add Tuck and Milli, they'd have to go to a non-express lane. But you know what I mean.

I have no idea what Milli was thinking. She said she was attracted to Tuck's motorcycle, leather jacket, and reckless disregard for human life. Once, on a dare, he had chained the doors of an elementary school together, flooded it with kerosene, and set it on fire, just to see if he could find a way to put the fire out "before anything bad happened, or whatever."

No kids were actually in the school at the time. They had the day off, in observance of Mesothelioma Appreciation Day. But Milli didn't know that. She just saw a rebel who played by his own rules, and in a town full of lawyers, that was a bit of a rarity. My guess was that the whole rebel thing was the icing on the cake, but the actual cake was finally finding someone outside the field of mesothelioma law.

Whether kids were inside the school or not, I found the whole thing completely inappropriate, but they just told me to lighten up and live a little. I'm not sure if I ever learned to live a little, but Tuck did settle down over time. These days, he's a law abiding citizen who carries just a hint of his former wild side.

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