Special topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl (3)

He was handsome, sure, but as Dad once said, there were people who'd completely missed their decade, were born at the wrong time - not in the intellectually gifted sense, but due to a certain look on their face more suitable to the Victorian Age then, say, the Me Decade. Well, this kid, was some twenty years to late. He was the on with thick brown hair that flyingsaucered over an eye, the one who inspired girls to make their own prom dress, the one from the country club. And maybe he had a secret diamond earring, maybe a sequin glove, maybe he even had a good song at the end with three helpings of keyboard synthesizer, but no one would know, because if you weren't born in your decade you never made it to the ending, you floated around in your middle, unresolved, in oblivion, confused and unrealized. (Pour some sugar on him and blame it on the rain.)