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Bernadette
If I had known what kind of trouble it would get me into, I think I would have never gone to that party.
It’s been two months now, and really, it should be far from my mind, but I can remember every detail with vivid clarity.
It was the day of the party my ‘friends’ were pressuring me to go. More than just pressuring me, my best friend at the time, Savannah, had practically dragged me to her room and thrown her most revealing clothes at me.
“Come on, you’re never any fun,” she’d said. “You need to get out for once, you know, experience the world before you leave college and become a boring office worker.”
I had no intention of becoming an office worker, but that was beside the point. I had been so eager to please at the time, not wanting my friends to think of me as boring or no fun.
The only reason they thought that in the first place was because my mother was so strict about what I did and how hard I studied. She wanted me to succeed so badly, she pushed me to make sure my attention was only ever on my schoolwork. She had warned me against parties, so I hadn’t been to any before that night.
But now, I was set to graduate within the month, and time was ticking if I wanted to do anything like a normal college student before I graduated.
On any normal day, I would have refused my friends, pushed off their nagging and told them that they could go have fun without me. But they had been pestering me for weeks now about how little fun I was, how much I still had to learn about the world, and other things that I should have known were nothing but nonsensical ploys to get me to behave how they wanted.
So when they sprung the fact that they wanted me to come with them to a party that night, it should have been no surprise. And I should have known to say no, that me coming to that kind of party would only end in disaster.
But I wanted so desperately to be someone that they liked, so I said yes. I wore the revealing outfit that Savannah told me to wear, and I felt mischievous as I slipped it on with nothing beneath it.
“Ooooh, girl, you’re definitely going to get some dick in that,” said Georgia, Savannah’s roommate and another of my supposed friends as she entered the room.
I raised my eyebrows, looking at them both with confusion. I had been a virgin then and had never gotten a “dick” in my life. My mother would have killed me if I had, and I had come under the assumption that I never would until I was married.
But we’re all wrong sometimes, and that had been one of those times.
“Who said anything about that?” I asked, feeling a little cornered.
“Come on, Bella, don’t you want to experience things before you graduate?” Savannah pressed. “You just can’t graduate college a virgin.”
“Plenty of people do.”
“But not people as beautiful as us,” Georgia said, flipping her long locks of hair over her shoulder. “Just think of the shame, to graduate without being wanted like that. You’re certainly beautiful enough to get a dick down there by some hot stud. You really should consider it.”
Savannah nodded in agreement. “And there wouldn’t be so many opportunities after college, and the guys certainly won’t be as hot either. Think, Bella, do you want to die a virgin?”
I shook my head.
“Then, Bernadette Liu—” Georgia’s use of my full name made me sit up straighter. It reminded me of my mother. “—listen to us, and stop being so damn uptight!”
“All right,” I hesitantly replied, and let them finish making me up so that I could attract “the hottest guys at the party.”
You can imagine how nervous I was as we headed to the party, now that I knew that their plan all along had been to get me to lose my virginity that night. The party was at some frat boy house that was notorious for their rowdy parties and lots of drinking.
I had never really been comfortable with getting drunk, either, even though I was past the drinking age at that point, but as soon as we entered the house Savannah shoved some fruity cocktail into my hand, smiling at the boy who was manning the bar and hissing at me to drink it up.
The reason the parties at that particular frat boy house always got so rowdy was because they were especially good at mixing drinks so that you couldn’t taste the alcohol in them at all, but they were still very strong.
This spelled out certain doom for me, as I had not one, not two, but three mixed drinks.
By that point, I was feeling free and uninhibited, but I still wasn’t so drunk as to do anything too crazy or black out.
Once Savannah and Georgia noticed that I was properly inebriated, they pushed me in the direction of one of the nearest hot frat boys, whispering in my ear that it was now or never.
I was still sober enough to smile up at him and say hello, but it was clear from the way that he was looking at my body that he didn’t care about anything that I had to say at all.
