"Oh, it's totally weird," Eddie agrees. "But we've already established, you're a freak, Chrissy Cunningham. A full blown weirdo."

He says it all with a smile, genuine and warm, and the words that might sound like an insult coming from someone else are nothing but a compliment from him. Chrissy is a bit weird. More than Eddie would have ever expected from what he had known of her before.

"It would have killed your social standing," he says. "But I would've benefited from a really cool new friend."