now , your uniform is in your cupboard in your room . surely that snapping , snarling tone was n't his . from the top floor of the black oak oil building , he could practically see all the way to fort worth . `` i 'm still trying to grasp the fact that we 're in college , '' i replied as i opened the car door . besides , there was something about how he asked fine . there was something-she paused , thinking it over , something suffocating me , or taking all the air away . 