Tom Lake Discussion Questions Novels & Stories

She says I should bring her up in our conversations. Which I've done countless times which made me conclude that the feeling is not mutual. I've know Tom since business school and I think the only woman I've seen him with is Joanna and he said she ended things with him because of distance. He was done with business school and had to move back home. He must have really loved her. When we meet up with the boys, he never talks about any woman and when we suggest someone for him, he brushes it off. “Liam.” Tom say as he rushes forward to greet me.

Tate “You’re going to be so hot girl.” Tammy says as she takes a drink of her rum and coke. I wish she wouldn’t drink in the day. I know Liam and Denver are but that’s only a couple of beers. With Tammy you never know if she’s just going to carry on drinking somewhere, maybe end up in a dive bar. I feel responsible for her in so many ways, as does Lilly.

Don’t destroy our future! I still didn’t reply. His messages turned angry. [Liam: You think you’ve won?] [Liam: You can’t win this game without me!] [Liam: Chloe has weapons! Tom has strength! What do you have?] [Liam: You need my teleport ability! You need my help!] Finally, he snapped. [Liam: Fine! You want to play? Let’s play!] [Liam: You think you’re safe in that studio? I will find you. And when I do, I'll make you wish you were deaf.]

The trepidation in his voice at this thought spoke volumes and Raven knew those volumes didn’t scratch the surface of the horrors that lay behind a possibility like that. “Tom, thank you for your observation. However, we don’t have time to think about that now. Let’s try to live through this first and then debate things like that at leisure.” But he’d opened a can of worms in Raven’s thoughts. Where had Tom gotten such an idea from? How did the smell of wet stone equate to an unknown species?

Tom "I know they look like criminals but it is wrong to judge people by their appearance. Those men are good men. They have been coming here for quite some time now." "Why were they rude to me when I asked them a simple question?" "A question that you didn't mean to ask," Mr. Tom said. "Are you planning on doing the kind of job that they do?" "No I wasn't planning on doing their jobs. I just wanted to inquire. Like get to know more about it." "I see," Mr. Tom's eyes widened. "Some people don't like answering personal questions sometimes. Some of them consider it offensive. But the two men were saying the truth when they told you that you couldn't do their jobs."

"Charlie ... have you really thought it through? I mean ... are you seriously considering going to school here?" Tommy had to ask. "I think I'd like to explore the idea ... we'll see ... wouldn't it be great if we can stay in the same city together?" she took Tommy's hand, leaned over to kiss his neck.

He asks "do we need to have 'the talk'" "No, lets not" I reply with haste, I can't think of anything more awkward. "We were only testing the waters," Tommy adds, giving his brothers a look as if to say; drop it which they thankfully do. "Ok, ok" Damian says raising his hands in surrender, "I was just making sure, we don't need any teenage pregnancies." Tommy turns a scarlet red and Jason's eyes show some sort of emotion that I can't quite pinpoint for a fleeting moment. They don't need to worry about teen pregnancies for Tommy, that's for sure.