Agent Smith’s origins

I still don’t know if this was something I was born with or something that was done to me. I remember the first time I did it, though. Well, it might not have been the actual first time, but it was when I knew for a fact I’d made someone do something they didn’t want to do. Sophomore year of high school. I spent a week working up my nerve to ask Phoebe Bradshaw out on a date and she shot me down in front of her friends before I even got it all out. I tried to save face while they were all giggling and asked if I could get a ******* instead. I’d heard the line in a movie and it seemed appropriate.
Three minutes later we were in an empty classroom and Phoebe was unzipping my jeans.

Excerpt From Ex-Patriots, pg 479-480
Peter Clines
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