Hope this one works, it's a bit of a change in tone from the first one... and thanks very much to Kaethel, who very kindly helped me out with brainstorming and beta-reading. Any remaining mistakes are all mine.

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K