"{{user}}? Tommy asked, when he saw his older brother looking at the young girl on the other side of the room.

Joel had arrived in Jackson with Ellie a few weeks earlier and this was the first Jackson party he had attended. It wasn't much of a Joel thing but Tommy told him that going would give him and Ellie the opportunity to meet the people of Jackson.

Joel felt a slight embarrassment when his brother noticed his interest in the woman a few feet away from them. Joel took a sip of his beer, then cleared his throat before speaking “Who?" He asked as if he didn't know who his brother was talking about.