the shirt box

[Thomas Jerome Newton]

They worked well together, Joe and Alexis. Joe had to read a great deal for his English major, often spending the entire visit curled up on one end of the natty couch with a textbook, but the lack of conversation was never empty. Alexis tinkered with little electronic bits or watched wrestling with no sound on. It struck Joe as strange the first few nights until he realized that Alexis was keeping it down for him, so he could concentrate.