"Then you wanna do it now?" Sholeh asked, before tripping over herself to explain that she'd only meant curling up and reading and not it-it. "Not that doing it isn't okay, but I don't think that I'm ready for that yet for all sorts of reasons, like because I'm not even sure if we're dating or, like, dating-dating and I know that wouldn't stop my sister, Z--err, that is, my middle sister, but I'm not like that. Not that that's like anything, you know? I'm not like Rilla, calling people jezebels and everything because of nail polish colors, but I'm just shy and need a long time to think about anything, especially doing it-it and I would really like to stop talking now, please, island."