“What’s so funny?” Jude said.
“You don’t wanna know man.” Brendan handed Molli a baggie with several rolled joints in it.
“Why not? Just tell me since you seem to think it’s so damn funny.”
“If you insist. I had to pound on the door for like five minutes before anyone answered. I swear I heard bedsprings squeaking. Tony answered the door. He wasn’t wearing a shirt. He looked at his cousin Carl and he said ‘Why the hell didn’t you tell me someone was at the door kid?’ and Carl was like ‘I didn’t hear anything Tone, I swear. I had my headphones on and the music blasting because I was tired of listening to you and Tory have sex.’ Then Tony was giving Carl shit because he thought he was passed out drunk. Isn’t that hilarious Jude? Nah, you probably don’t think it’s funny because she wouldn’t have sex with you.” He turned to Molli and grinned at her. “Isn’t that fucking hilarious Molli?”
Molli smiled. “It is pretty funny. Admit it Jude. It’s funny.”
“I want us to be the ones making the bedsprings squeak Molli.”
Brendan said “O-kay. I think it is time for me to leave now.”
Molli laughed. “Thank you Brendan.” She almost gave him a hug but she was sure that Jude would take it the wrong way.
“No problem. Wish me luck on getting laid tonight.”
“Good luck man. Shayla’s supposed to be a hot piece of ass.”
Molli rolled her eyes. “Good luck Brendan. Be nice to her. The least you can do if she’s going to have sex with you on the first date is be nice to her.”
“I’m gonna be nice Mol. I bought her flowers. I’m taking her out to this really nice restaurant too.”
“Good for you,” Molli said. She thought to herself that Jude could take a lesson from his friend in being at least a partial gentleman.
“Just don’t be too nice to her,” Jude said. “Then she might think you want her to be your girlfriend. You don’t wanna go out with a slut. Then they think they don’t need to give it up anymore.”
Molli threw the pillow at him. “Asshole.”
“I think it would be kinda cool to date a slut,” Brendan said.
Molli picked up the pillow from the floor and threw it at Brendan. “You’re an asshole too.”
Brendan grinned. “What if I told you I thought it would be cool to date a slut so she’d lose her bad reputation?”
Molli wrinkled her nose at him. “You probably wouldn’t mean it.”
“Nah, I really do like Shayla, Mol. She’s really smart and sweet. I heard she’s got a tattoo of a cat on her pu. . .”
“Shut up Brendan.”
He laughed. “Jude told me about your tattoos. And your tongue piercing.”
“Did he?”
“Yeah, he showed me pictures.”
Molli gave Jude a dirty look. Then she turned back to Brendan and smiled. “I can’t show you my tongue since I don’t have it in, but I will show you both my tattoos and I have my belly button ring in today so I’ll show you that too.”
She lifted her shirt and showed Brendan her belly button ring, letting him get a peek at her lacy bra. Then she pulled up her pant leg and showed him the tattoo on her ankle. Finally, she unbuttoned and unzipped her jeans and turned around, holding her shirt up and pulling her panties down far enough so that Brendan could see the rose that was inked on her back and the trail of what looked like drops of blood that graced the left cheek of her ass.
Brendan let out a slow whistle as she pulled her panties back up and buttoned and zipped her jeans. “Damn Jude, you’re even luckier than I thought.”
Jude gave him a dirty look and he laughed. “I’m giving you a compliment man. Your girl is smokin’ hot.”
Molli smiled at him. “Thank you Brendan. You’re not bad yourself.”
Brendan grinned. “Thanks Molli. If you ever get tired of Jude, give me a call.”
Jude was the one that threw the pillow at Brendan this time. “Get out of here and go get ready for your date.”
Brendan laughed and threw the pillow back at Jude. “Ya’ll have a good night.” He winked at Molli and then turned and left the motel room.
Jude got up and locked the door, then came back to the bed, stripped and turned the TV back to porn. “You totally owe me sex for that Mol. You were coming on to my best friend in front of me.”
Molli rolled her eyes. “I was barely flirting with him. And why in the hell did you show him pictures of my tattoo and my tongue ring anyway? You showed him that naked picture you took of me too, didn’t you?”
Jude wouldn’t look at her. “No.”
“Liar.”
He kissed her. “I really miss your tongue ring. You should buy another stud like you had before.”
“Uh huh. I know the real reason you want me to get another tongue stud. Let’s smoke a joint. Maybe then you’ll be able to turn me on enough so that I’ll want to do it as much as you do.”
“Girls never want it as much as guys do.”
Molli snorted. “Yeah right. Guys just have to know how to do it right before girls want it as much as they do.”
Jude took the joint from her hand and lit it. “You don’t think I know how to do it right?’
She took a deep drag of the joint and blew a cloud of smoke at the ceiling. “I didn’t say that.” But she thought that even if Eduardo was a married loser, he sure knew how to do it better than Jude and started laughing.
“What’s so funny?”
“You don’t wanna know.” That made her think of what Brendan had told him he didn’t want to know about his trip to Tony’s house and made her laugh harder.
Jude started laughing. Tears were rolling down his cheeks when he said “You gotta share Molli. It’s not nice not to share.”
She took the last of the joint from his hand took a drag, and then put it out in the ashtray. She stripped and then moved to straddle him. “I’ll share your absolute favorite thing with you.”
She kissed him in a way that she hoped made him forget all about her tongue ring. He looked up at her and gave her a puzzled look.
“My body had better be one of your favorite things or I’ll never share it with you again.” She gave him a fake pout.
“Oh. Shit Molli, I think your body is my absolute favorite thing in the world most of the time. Sometimes, when we’re not together I can’t stop thinking about it.”
“Good.”
She kissed him again. They were soon making love, only having paused long enough for Jude to put on a condom.
When they had finished, Molli moved to her side of the bed and pulled out another joint. She lit it and Jude said “You were thinking of Brendan when we were doing it weren’t you?”
Molli laughed. “No way.” She’d really been thinking of Eduardo. She pondered telling him that for a minute but decided against it. Then she thought about the look he’d probably get on his face if she told him and started laughing and couldn’t stop.
Jude took the joint from her hand. “What’s so funny?”
“Nothing. I’m going to take a shower.”
“Can I join you?”
“No. The hot water probably runs out in this shithole way too fast.”
“Mmm. You’re probably right.” He leaned up and kissed her tattoo.
That made her laugh harder. She had tears running down her face when she opened the bathroom door.
“What’s so damn funny Molli?”
She wiped the tears away with the back of her hand. “You just kissed my ass.”
“That is pretty funny.”
She shook her head and then closed the bathroom door behind her. The hot water did run out quickly and she was glad that she hadn’t let Jude shower with her. When she got back out to the bedroom, Jude was passed out, snoring.
She laughed and ate another slice of pizza because she was suddenly very hungry, though it did taste pretty gross when it was cold.
When Jude woke up from his nap, he decided that he was starving.
He started to put several slices of the pizza in the microwave, but made a face and shook his head. “Between the way the pizza looks when it’s cold and the way that microwave looks, I am not eating anymore of it.” He tossed the cold pizza back into the box and turned to her. “I think I’m gonna go get a burger or a burrito. You wanna come?”
“No thanks. I’m feeling pretty tired myself so I might take a nap while you’re gone. I almost fell asleep when you were passed out, but every time I fell asleep, you’d wake me up with your snoring.”
Jude gave her a dirty look as he put on his jeans. “I do not snore. Now, my little brother, he snores. I have to sleep with a pillow over my head some nights because he’s so loud.”
Molli giggled. “He must take after you. Or you just wake yourself up you snore so loud. I’ll bet that’s it.”
“Ha ha. You want something to eat?”
“Yes please. A chicken sandwich and a strawberry milkshake. You can take it out of what you already owe me.”
“I’m going to pay you back everything that I owe you Mol, I swear.”
“I’m sure that you will eventually. Can you get a movie while you’re out too? Something funny. I want to get stoned again. Comedies are even funnier when you’re stoned.”
“If you get stoned again, you’re really gonna pass out. I want to do it again before we go to sleep tonight and maybe even again in the morning before we check out.”
“Tony gets really good pot and it makes me horny half the time anyway. Hey, do you think that he used to get girls stoned so they’d want to have sex with him before he met Tory?”
Jude made a face. “Don’t remind me that he met Tory. It drives me nuts to think that he’s probably giving it to her right now. Don’t some other drugs make you even hornier and give you more stamina than pot?”
“I wouldn’t know Jude. And I don’t plan on trying any other drugs either. That shit about marijuana being a gateway drug is such crap. The first drugs most people use are alcohol or tobacco or some kind of prescription drugs and a lot of people do what when they’re still little.”
“Yeah, I guess. I’ll get a movie. I just hope you want to screw again by the time I get back.”
Molli rolled her eyes. “It doesn’t piss you off to think that Tory’s doing it with Tony right now does it? It turns you on. You’re probably gonna go to his house and stand on his porch so that you can hear his bedsprings squeaking for yourself. And then you’re gonna come back here and have sex with me and think about her aren’t you?”
“No. It pisses me off that I took her over there. She probably would never have ended up doing him if I’d never taken her to one of his stupid parties.”
“You loved his parties. And she would have ended up with someone else anyway. So why does it matter? Tony seems to care about her, so let her go. I wouldn’t get pissed off if we broke up and I knew that you were with someone else and I sure as hell wouldn’t be talking about you with my new boyfriend. People have relationships, they break up, and they go out with other people until they find the person that’s right for them. It’s life Jude.”
“How can he care about her? He’s just a drug dealer. He wanted to screw her. She must be good enough at it that he wants to keep on screwing her. She’s gonna get wrapped up in him and think she loves him and he’s gonna break her heart. I know it.”
Molli shook her head and reached for a cigarette. “Nobody is ‘just’ anything. So Tony’s not ‘just’ a drug dealer. He’s somebody’s son, and he’s probably going to be somebody’s father someday. And I find it funny that you’re so concerned that Tory is going to get all wrapped up in Tony and that’s he’s going to break her heart. She was sure as hell wrapped up in you and I know that you broke her heart. But you didn’t seem too concerned about that when you were trying to get my panties off did you?”
“I didn’t want to hurt her. I just wanted to be with you more than I ever wanted to be with her. I had to know that I had a chance with you before I started flirting with you.”
“Uh huh. You never said a word to me the whole time I’ve been hanging out with Seneca before this summer. You heard that I wanted to go out with Ricky like everyone else did and was really disappointed when he asked Mellenda out instead of me. Boy, did she shove it in my face when he asked her out. You thought that I’d be so lonely and heartbroken that I wouldn’t care if you’d really broken up with Tory or not. And of course everyone in town knew that I wasn’t a virgin when I came to Crestview, so you were sure that you wouldn’t have the same problem with me that you’d had with Tory. Maybe I don’t want to have sex with you again Jude. Not when you come back and not ever.”
“None of that is true Molli. Well, yeah, I did hear that you’d wanted to go out with Ricky and were pretty upset when he didn’t ask you out. Maybe I thought that I’d have a better chance with you with him out of the picture, but I really did always like you. The first time I saw you, I thought that you were one of the hottest girls I’d ever seen. And I knew that you weren’t a virgin, but I didn’t think that that meant you were automatically going to do it with me. Please don’t be in a bad mood. I promise I won’t talk about Tory anymore.”
Molli sighed as she leaned over and put out her cigarette. “I’ll try not to be, but I’m not making any promises.”
“Thank you. I’ll bring you another soda and fries too, and you can smoke all of my cigarettes that you want while I’m gone.”
“I wish I’d never started.”
“Yeah. It just seems so right to have a cigarette after sex you know?”
Molli laughed. “Don’t tell me that you had your first cigarette after you lost your virginity.”
“I did actually, but I didn’t start smoking again until after I turned eighteen.” Jude leaned over and kissed her. “I’ll see you in a bit. If I can’t find a movie I think you’ll like, I’ll call you and you can tell me what sounds good.”
“Okay.”
She was half asleep when Jude returned forty-five minutes later with one bag from the video store and one from a fast food restaurant. He handed her the bags. “I’ll be right back. I have to get the drinks. I’m sorry that it took so long but I had to stop by my house and borrow the DVD player from my sisters’ room so we’d have something to watch the movies on.”
Molli laughed. “Duh, I forgot that there wasn’t a DVD player here. I guess I was too stoned to remember.”
Jude chuckled as he walked out the door. He soon came back with the DVD player and their drinks. She took a sip of her soda and then her milkshake, which was already melting. Jude hooked the DVD player up and then started the first movie. They ate and then smoked another joint. Molli thought that the movie was really stupid, but it seemed funny when she was stoned. She thought that she laughed almost as much as Jude, who she thought would have laughed just as hard if he wasn’t stoned.
They had sex again and took a shower together. The hot water didn’t run out quite as fast and they both managed to get clean. They watched the other movie and went to sleep.
The next morning, Molli woke up with Jude’s hand between her legs. She moved his hand. “Good morning to you too. How long has your hand been there?”
“I just barely put it there I swear. It’s not like I was gonna do anything really dirty to you while you were asleep.”
Molli rolled her eyes. “Sure. Do you really want to do it again before we leave? It’s not like we’re not going to see each other next weekend or the week after.”
“But it’s so much better to do it in a real bed. I get tired of doing it in my truck or out in the woods.”
“Yeah, me too. I don’t know if I really want to do it. You can get burnt out on sex.”
“Not if you’re a guy. And I thought you liked sex.”
“I do like sex. I just don’t think that you should have it all the time just because you can, or there’s nothing else to do. I like the idea of feeling so passionate that you can hardly wait to do it.”
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�I think you’ve been reading too many romance novels.”
“I don’t like to read books. It’s too hard for me to be really enjoyable.”
“You’ve been watching too many chick flicks then.”
“I don’t like those either. They depress me because I don’t know if I’ll ever find a love like that or if they even exist.”
“I love you Molli.”
“Not like the guys love the girls in those movies. I don’t think it’s possible for a teenage guy in this day and age to love a girl like that.”
“So why do you care? You’ll get married someday and I’m sure your husband will love you like that. Don’t you ever wanna do it without thinking about all of that?”
“Of course I do, but that gets tiring sometimes too. I am a horny teenager, but I don’t think that means that I can’t have some kind of passion in my life. Let’s smoke the last joint and then make out for a while. Maybe then I’ll feel passionate enough or horny enough to have sex.”
“Okay.”
They smoked the joint and had been making out for several minutes when Jude moved his hand back between her legs. She slapped his hand when he tried to move it into her panties.
He sat up and gave her a dirty look. “What the hell did you do that for?”
“I told you I don’t like it when you do that. I can’t blame Tory for not wanting you to do that to her when she didn’t want to have sex.”
“I like it when you touch me.”
Molli sighed. “Of course you do, but I don’t like the way that you do it okay? I can’t explain it to you, and I’m not going to show you how I liked to be touched down there either. I’m not going to touch myself like that.”
“Why not? Girls touch themselves all the time. And if you showed me, I’d do better next time. I like to touch you.”
“I’m okay with telling you some things I do and don’t like when we mess around, but not that. There’s a certain thing that I like and if a guy doesn’t do it when he’s touching me down there, I don’t like it. And no, I’m not going to tell you who I was with that made me like something like that either. You were doing just fine at turning me on until you started with that.”
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