“Tory? No. She loved my family and they loved her right back.”
“She did. She said that your parents are drunks and druggies and that they probably don’t care if we do it in your bed when they’re home because they’re too out of it to care.”
“What did you say to her to make her say stuff like that?”
“Nothing. She even insulted your little sisters and brother.”
“Huh. I guess I really pissed her off when I dumped her.”
“You never called her. She had a hickey the other day. I saw it in history class.”
“She did not. Tory would have killed me if I’d ever given her a hickey. She thinks they’re disgusting.”
“She let someone give her one. People are saying she’s doing it with a drug dealer.”
Jude laughed. “Tory? Do you really think she’d go out and screw a drug dealer when she wouldn’t have sex with me once in two years?”
“I don’t know. Somebody sure gave her a hickey. Do you know Tony Wilson?”
“I took you to a couple of his parties. So Tory’s supposedly sleeping with him huh? Damn.”
“You mean the guy that has the wild parties all the time? That’s Tony? I didn’t know he was a dealer. I just thought he gave drugs out to people for free when they partied at his house, and let them have orgies in his living room. He’s really good looking. I can’t blame Tory for wanting to have sex with him.”
“Hey, think about who you’re talking to, the guy that Tory refused to have sex with.”
Molli bit back a giggle. “You’re good looking Jude. Tony’s just more of the bad boy type and he’s got a really good body. I’ll bet he works out.”
“I have a nice body too.”
“Yeah, but you’re kind of skinny and short. Maybe she decided she likes tall guys with muscles.”
“You’d better not decide that you like guys like him better. I’d have to kick his ass if you did. Do you think she was messing around with him before we broke up?”
“I doubt it. She was in love with you.”
“You don’t think she’s still in love with me?”
“Jude. Why do you care whether or not she still loves you? You’re with me and you told me that you love me.”
“I do love you Molli.”
“So then let Tory move on. She deserves to be happy.”
“Why does it have to be with a guy like Wilson? I bet she was screwing him while we were still together. He always had his eye on her.”
“A lot of guys look at Tory. She’s really pretty.”
“But not as pretty as you Molli.”
“Thanks Jude. Do you want to stop and get one of those hot and ready pizzas and we’ll take it to the motel room with us?”
“Sure. But we’ll get two. I can eat one by myself.”
“Okay. You’re still paying right?”
“Yeah, I might have to borrow some money from you for gas to get to school next week though.”
Molli hid a sigh. “Fine. Let’s go.”
Jude pulled into the shopping center that housed the pizza place. She sat in the truck and smoked a cigarette while he went in and got the pizza. He came back with two pizzas and the one kind of soda that she refused to drink, orange. She’d thought he knew that she hated orange soda. She took the pizza boxes from him. “Can we stop at a gas station or something on the way? You bought the one kind of soda that I won’t drink.”
“I thought you liked orange soda. Maybe it was Tory.”
“No.” Molli was thinking of that morning when she’d seen Tory select diet from the soda machine. “I think she drinks diet, so it must be your other girlfriend that likes orange soda.”
“Oh yeah. My mom always used to give her shit because she drank diet.”
Molli noticed that he didn’t deny the fact that he had another girlfriend. “How much do you think this room is going to cost?”
“Probably fifty or sixty bucks since it’s the weekend.”
“Damn. If I give you money for gas, then I really am going to have to ask my mom to send me more money.”
“You’re not giving me money for gas. I’ll pay you back.”
Yeah, she thought, like all of the other times he’d paid her back. “Let’s go.”
Jude stopped at a convenience store so she could get a drink and then headed to a motel on the outskirts of town. She thought that it looked really trashy and hardly worth the sixty dollars that she handed him. He wouldn’t let her go into the office with him and she didn’t trust him to give her back her change if there was any.
He returned a few minutes later with a huge grin on his face. He opened her door and took the pizza boxes from her. “You’ve got me all to yourself for the whole night baby. I told my parents that I’m staying at Brendan’s house tonight.”
“I can’t believe you didn’t call your parents before you rented the room. I would have been really pissed if you’d had to leave and left me at this dump by myself all night.”
“No need to be pissed.” He handed her a key on a plastic key ring so that she could open a door on the ground floor.
The room smelled like stale cigarette smoke and made her never want to smoke a cigarette again. The bed looked lumpy and there was only one pillow. Molli sat down on the bed and wondered if she wanted to take off her shoes, let alone her clothes. “How much did this room cost? Because whatever it was, it was too much.”
”It’s clean at least. The room was $50 and I paid $5 extra to get the adult channels. And I kept the other $5 because I figured we could split the cost of the pizza.”
“I can’t believe you paid $5 so that you could watch some nasty porn by yourself, because yes, you are going to watch it by yourself. You said you were going to pay for lunch and we never split anything. You hardly ever pay for anything when we go out.”
“What the hell is it with women? They want to be independent and yet they still want men to take care of them. How in the hell does that work? You can’t be equal and expect to be treated better at the same time.”
Molli sighed. “I admit that I kind of get that. I think that this whole empowering women thing is being taken too far because I think that a lot of women want to take away a man’s rights in the process which isn’t right, but it doesn’t mean that men can’t be gentlemen. You can hold the door open sometimes and you can let an old lady or a pregnant woman sit down on the bus. And there are still a lot of countries and religions that treat women like shit.”
“I don’t want to argue politics with you Mol. Will you watch a little bit of porn with me? I think it’s sexy when women get into it.”
“Ugh. That stuff does not look remotely fun for women and none of those guys are attractive. How am I supposed to get turned on when I don’t want to look at the guys and half of the women look like they’re in some kind of pain instead of enjoying themselves?”
“So you have watched porn.”
“Seneca and I were curious and her parents have a subscription to some adult channel. We snuck into their bedroom when they weren’t home and Sen found out the password. Her parents are such dorks that they used the date of their anniversary. Rain is so going to figure it out and be in their room all the time when they’re not home when he gets a little older.”
“Her parents have a subscription? Yuck.”
“It’s not like they’re that old. Not like my parents. Like your parents don’t still do it.”
“Don’t remind me. I heard them the other night.”
“Like half the people on those movies that you want to watch so badly aren’t as old as your parents are.”
“They are so not that old. C’mon Mol. I’ll turn it off if you don’t like it.”
“Fine. But I’m eating some of that pizza before it gets cold. It tastes really nasty when it’s cold.”
“Warm it up in the microwave then.”
“We don’t have any plates and I am not putting it on the tray in there. I don’t know if I can have sex wi
th you in here. I don’t think I want to take my clothes off.”
“You’re not usually so stuck up. Why are you being stuck up today? It should be a nice day. We’ve got all day and all night together.”
“I’m not stuck up. You and my best friend both live in a trailer park remember? And with the way my parents raised me, you’d think they didn’t have the kind of money that they do. The only reason they give me so much for my allowance is because they have no idea what I like anymore, so they don’t bother to buy me clothes or send any of the care packages that a bunch of the other girls get all the time.”
“I wish you’d hang out with some other girl from the trailer park.”
“Don’t you dare say anything bad about Seneca or I’ll go into the office and show that guy my ID to prove that I’m not eighteen and make him give me the five bucks back that you paid for your porn.”
“Calm down Mol. I won’t say anything bad about Seneca. You two sure seem to like each other though. Did you try anything kinky while you were watching that porn?”
Molli picked up the pillow from the bed and hit Jude with it as hard as she could. “No, and I’ll bet that Tory never tried anything like that with Rebecca either, so you can get that look off of your face. Girls have a different kind of relationship with their friends than guys do. Guys would probably be better off if they had the kind of friendships that girls do.”
“I’d get the shit beat out of me every day at school if I hugged my friends as often as you hug Seneca and I’d never live it down if I walked around holding hands with Brendan, ever.”
Molli laughed. “It would be pretty funny to see you walking around holding hands with Brendan.”
“Get that look off of YOUR face because it ain’t ever gonna happen.”
Molli laughed. “Don’t you think that it’s weird that guys get turned on by thinking about two girls doing sexual stuff together and girls don’t get turned on by thinking about guys doing the same kind of stuff?”
“It’s not weird. Guys are different, like you said. If you were going to have a threesome, would you want it to be with another woman or two guys?”
“Ugh, really Jude? You’re trying to turn me off aren’t you?”
“No, I’m curious.”
Molli rolled her eyes. “If you want to know the truth, I’d rather do it with two guys. I’m tired of sharing my man and I’m not interested in having sex with another woman.”
“I shoulda figured. You’re totally affectionate with your best friend but you don’t want to do it with her. Hey, you want to see if Brendan wants to join us?”
“Wow Jude. I cannot believe we’re having this conversation. No, I don’t want to do it with Brendan. Why would you want to let me?”
“I thought you said you wanted to. Is there some other guy you want to do it with? What about Tony?”
“You want to do it with Tory and you think that if you let him do it with me, he’ll let you do it with her. You can’t stand the fact that she wouldn’t have sex with you and might be having sex with someone else can you?”
“So what if I want to do it with her? You can’t be in a relationship with someone for two years and not want to know what it’s like to have sex with them.”
“Wanting to know what it’s like to do it with someone and doing something about it when they’re with someone else are completely different things. Leave Tory alone. Maybe she’s happy with Tony.”
“It pisses me off that she wouldn’t have sex with me and she turned around and hopped right into bed with some other guy.”
“Get over it. Maybe she wanted her first time to be in a real bed and not in your smelly truck. Can we please not talk about this? I’m afraid I’m never going to want to have sex with you again.”
Jude kissed her. “We certainly wouldn’t want that now would we?”
Molli wanted to say that he’d probably break up with her if she stopped having sex with him, but she kept her mouth shut and let him press her gently back onto the bed. They made out for several minutes, and then he reached over for the remote and turned the TV on.
Molli hid a sigh when he punched in numbers and porn came up on the screen. “Can I have a cigarette?”
“Yeah.”
Molli took a cigarette out of the pack and lit it with the lighter Jude offered her. His eyes were locked to the screen but she tried not to watch, wishing that she had brought her mp3 player so that she could shut out the fake sounding moans. She remembered that Tory had accused her of sounding like that and wanted to laugh. She suddenly wanted very badly to get stoned. If she was stoned, then maybe the porn wouldn’t bug her so much she thought.
“Jude?”
He didn’t take his eyes off of the TV screen. “Yeah?”
“Do you have any weed?”
“No. My mom caught me trying to steal a joint from her and started to hide her stash in her bedroom. Why?”
“I think that the porno might be a little bit more tolerable for me if I was high. Smoking weed kinda makes me horny sometimes too. If you run over to Tony’s house, I’ll pay for it.”
“I don’t wanna leave babe. Why don’t you go? You can drive a stick can’t you?”
“Yeah, my car’s a stick but I don’t want to go to Tony’s house. What if Tory’s there?”
“I don’t want to go there either. You think I want to see those two together? His bed squeaks really loud. You can hear it over the loud music in his living room when he’s having a party. There wouldn’t be any way you couldn’t hear it when you knocked on his front door. I bet she’s there with him right now, screwing his brains out.”
“You just wish she would have screwed your brains out. Fine, I’ll call Seneca and make her and Grant go buy some weed from Tony.”
“No, then they’ll want to hang out here. I want to be alone with you. I’ll call Brendan and make him do it. You’re paying for it right?”
Molli sighed. “Of course I am. But you’d better not think that there’s any way that I’m going to do anything with you while Brendan is around.”
“He won’t want to stay. He’s got a date tonight with a hot chick that puts out.”
Molli rolled her eyes. “Lucky him. Call him. And turn the TV down before you do. It’s really loud and annoying.”
Jude laughed. “To you maybe.” But he turned the volume down before he picked up his phone.
She got to listen to him have a perverted conversation with his friend and was even less in the mood to have sex by the time he had ended the call.
“He’ll be here in half an hour. You wanna fool around until he gets here?”
“Not really.”
“C’mon baby.”
They went back to making out. Jude had undone Molli’s bra and his zipper and was working on her zipper when the door burst open. Molli forcibly removed Jude’s hand from her zipper and sat up, reaching around to redo her bra.
Jude laughed when Brendan gave him a huge grin. “Hope I didn’t interrupt.”
Molli rolled her eyes and reached for a cigarette, not caring that Jude was probably going to bitch at her for smoking too many of his cigarettes. “I can’t believe you didn’t lock the door Jude.”
“He was too excited to get down your pants Mol. You’d think that boy never gets laid with the way he whines all the time at school.”
Molli gave Jude a dirty look. He ignored her and turned back to Brendan. “Tell me if Tory’s there okay?”
Molli gave him a look that could kill. “If you don’t shut the hell up Jude, you’re not going to get laid at all today.”
She read his lips when he mouthed to Brendan ‘Text me and tell me’ and threw the pillow at him.
“Brendan, my girlfriend is abusing me.”
“I can’t say that I blame her man. Sometimes you kinda deserve it. You got that money for me Mol?”
Molli reached for her purse and pulled out a twenty dollar bill. She handed Jude her remaining $30. He quickly stuffed it into his pocket. B
rendan raised an eyebrow. Molli said “Don’t you dare say what you were thinking Brendan, or I’ll hit you with something a lot harder than the pillow.”
Brendan rolled his eyes. “Damn Molli, I wasn’t thinking anything like that. I was thinking that Jude was even luckier than I thought.”
She gave Brendan a sweet smile. “Thank you Brendan. Jude, stop thinking what you’re thinking right now because I will steal your truck and leave it somewhere you’ll never find it if you don’t. And you know Sen’s dad will never arrest me for taking it. He loves me.”
“How is Seneca?” Brendan said. “She looks really fine this year. She still going out with that loser Grant?”
“Grant isn’t a loser. And Seneca is fine. Thank you for going to Tony’s for us Brendan, since we’re too chicken to go.”
Brendan laughed. “No problem.”
“I’m not too chicken to go. I’m just not in the mood to leave. I want to be lazy because I don’t have to get up early in the morning tomorrow and deliver papers,” Jude said.
“Uh huh,” Molli said. “Jude, give Brendan $5 for gas.”
“Mol. Come on. My truck gets like 10 miles to the gallon.”
“Then give me five back and I’ll give it Brendan.”
“It’s no big deal Molli, I swear. I was thinking about going over to Tony’s today anyway. Shayla supposedly gets even hornier when she’s stoned. I can use all the help I can get.”
Molli gave Jude a look. “Give him $5 Jude. Now.”
Jude sighed and pulled a $5 bill out of his pocket and handed it to Brendan.
Brendan laughed. “You’d better quit pissing your girl off Jude, or I’m gonna be the only one that gets laid tonight.”
“Yeah, yeah. Get outta here.”
Brendan was still laughing when he left. Jude went to the door and turned the lock. He crossed to the bed and tried to pull Molli into his arms, but she shook her head.
“No. I’m not doing anything with you until he gets back, even if the door is locked. And watch something normal on TV for a while.”
Jude let out a huge sigh. She thought he sounded like a teenage drama queen.
They sat in silence for the next half hour until Brendan got back. He was laughing when Jude answered the door.
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