it was a game they would both lose . `` you 're in the navy , too ? '' `` he took me to the pack . he tells himself it 's just a summer thing . `` tell them the story about the rats . '' i had n't forgotten about it , really , but it was n't at the top of my priority list . but instead of thinking with her head , she 'd let her too-hungry body lead her down a road that was going to go nowhere but misery . they love , and they get hurt . 