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Carolina pulls the sheets up her chest before sitting up while I tug on my briefs.
“Oh my God!” she suddenly gasps, her hand flying to her mouth.
My attention moves to what she’s looking at.
Blood on the sheets.
It’s not a lot, but it’s there.
“It’s fine,” I say gently. “I’ll throw them in the wash. No big deal.”
“What … what about your mom?” she stutters out.
“I’ll do them myself. She won’t even see, and if she does, I won’t tell her it was you.”
She nods.
I bend down and kiss her forehead. “Like it never happened.”
“Like it never happened,” she repeats.
I just took my best friend’s virginity.
And now, I’m supposed to act like it wasn’t the best fucking moment of my life.
4
Carolina
College—SophomoreYear
“Pretty, pretty please come out with me tonight,” my dormmate, Margie, begs.
I open my mouth to tell her I’ll pass when my phone beeps with a text from Rex.
My Main Man—I didnotput this as his name:Sorry, Lina babe. I’ve already made plans. We’re going out tonight for Nigel’s b-day. I can come by later if you’re awake, or tomorrow night, I’m all yours.
His response shouldn’t piss me off as much as it does, but tonight’s the second Friday he’s hadother plans.Sure, expecting him to hang out with me every weekend isn’t fair, but damn it, he should hang out with me every weekend.
Call me codependent; I don’t care.
Rex has always been my security blanket.
I was here without him for a semester last year while he deferred, undecided on his major. Undecided meaning, he spent that semester arguing with his parents. They wanted him to go into law or politics. He didn’t. It’d always been the plan for the Lane boys to follow in their father’s footsteps. Kyle, his older brother, sank half of that dream when he dropped out of school to become a police officer.
His drop out pushed their pressure onto Rex.
I can’t picture Rex as an attorney or in politics.
It’d bore him to death.
His parents eventually grasped there was no changing his mind, and being obsessed with their image, they found him not attending college more embarrassing than him majoring in computer science.
He now attends Iowa State with me.
Having him here has been a relief. My first semester, I was either driving home to Blue Beech regularly or he was making the two-hour trek, so we could see each other.
Him being here has helped with the loneliness of my college life.
