storm was fourteen years old , beautiful , and more charming than the law allowed . `` i ... want you to help me understand why tony would phone me out of the blue like this . like maybe you 're close , but have n't quite gotten there ? '' im not with him because hell be five years older than me when we meet , so he needed to leave five years ahead of me . as if to prove her point , the wind howled around the hangar . 