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Part 16 - Aftermath: Part I
Somehow I managed to drag myself into school a couple of days
that week but for the most part I was completely worthless! I
had no idea when my Mom was going to be home but I thought it
might be soon and so I was just starting to think about how I
was going to get the stains out of the carpet and there were still
beer cans all in the yard and the house was a mess! My life was
a disaster! Plus, I thought I might be out of a job because Meredith
and I had gotten into this really huge fight about my nipple rings.
She had made this little crack about kids today and this "piercing
fad" and I knew she was trying to make some kind of statement.
I knew I should have never made that little comment about her
being my "Mommy" she totally misread what I was saying.
Now she got it into her head that she had to actually be
my Mommy. It was very annoying.
Back at school, I'm walking down the hall and I see Tina talking
with some friends. Just like she has been doing, she ignores me
and pretends that I don't exist. I look right at her and I stop,
right in front of her friends and she looks at me like, 'what
the fuck?'
"You know? I thought you were my friend! I thought you gave a
shit! But you are just like everyone else, first time something
doesn't go your way, you just fuck off and leave me. You know
what I've been through, you know my life! How could you...why?!"
I just broke down and started crying. I felt some arms go around
my shoulders, but I just didn't want anyone touching me! I was
like, "NO! Just fuck off and die! I hate you all! I hate this
worthless fucking life!"
I ran out of the school and somehow made it back to my house.
It's not a short walk from the school to my house, so I had a
lot of time to regret what I had said, but what the fuck!? I mean,
am I just here for people to use me and throw me away? Is that
all I'm good for?
As soon as I get back to the house I start picking up the beer
cans and trash in the yard, it gave me something to do. The whole
time I'm crying and picking up trash and crying and slamming trash
into the bag, cry, trash, cry, trash...well..you get the picture.
Then a car drives up, I don't turn around at first. I mean the
way things have been going, it's probably my Mom.
"Hey girl!"
It's Tina and Mark! I'm just standing there holding my bag of
trash and feeling like shit and I just collapse. Hell, I don't
even know what happened! All I know is I end up in the house and
on the bed and Tina is sitting beside me brushing the hair out
of my eyes. She is like a beautiful little angel, like the perfect
porcelain doll. I don't even think about it, I just leap up and
hug her with all my might! She feels so good and she hugs me back
and we cry. Soon Mark comes back in with a glass of water and
Tina and I are still hugging and Mark sits on the side of the
bed and he hands me the glass of water.
"I must look like a basket case, huh?"
Tina just laughs. "So what happened? I heard you had like the
total freak party! Is it true what everyone says? Did you put
on this total sex show? Are you ok?" Tina asks.
"Yeah, I'm ok. I think I just have been going too hard. I
just...well...I just didn't like staying at home alone."
"I'm sorry. Is it true what everyone is saying? Did you have
this sex party?"
"Sex party?!"
"So it's not true? Whew, you had me worried."
"No, I guess it is true." I said ashamed.
She is like, "Why? What the hell Paula?! So it's true then?"
"What? Listen it's not like I wanted that to happen. God
Tina it's been so crazy over the last week or so. I just don't
even know what the hell is going on."
"So is everything true?"
"Like what. What did you hear?"
"That you let some chic pierce your nipples?"
I nod my head 'yes' and she screams! I kinda squint back away
from her and she is like, "Oh my GOD! Paula!" and then she screams
again!
I start laughing and she starts laughing and poor Mark doesn't
know what to do.
"So, let me see." She says.
I pull up my shirt and she sees the two metal rings with balls
hanging from each nipple and she puts her hands to her face and
her eyes get wider than her whole face. I'm laughing and I look
at Mark and he is just as freaked. My nipples were still really
sore and pulling the shirt up and off them makes it feel so much
better so I just pull my shirt up and off.
"I was really fucked up when we did it, but I love it! What do
you think?" I ask.
After like this big suspense pause Tina says, "Whoooaaa, it's
definitely different. Man! Your Mom is gonna kill your ass!"
I'm like, "Fuck that! What's she gonna do? Like she is even here
to give a damn."
I look at Mark and he is still staring at my tits. I'm like, "Stop!
You are going to get me in trouble again!"
Tina looks at me and she says, "That's what we came to talk to
you about. Mark and I have been talking and..."
"Yeah?"
"Well...I've missed you."
"Oh God! I'm missed you too! I've missed you so bad!"
I say desperately.
"Well, we have been talking and..."
Then she looks down and at Mark and I'm totally about to freak,
cause I have absolutely no idea what she is going to say!
"Well...we actually feel bad." she says.
"About what? I mean, no...you guys were right. I was a shithead!
I... " I try to go on but Tina stops me.
"No, just hush for a fucking second." Tina says, "I got to
thinking about it and I think that maybe what happened with you
guys was maybe part my fault too. I mean I was all trying to drag
you over and get all sexed up in front of you. I mean how could
you not start to think about it?"
I didn't say a word. I honestly couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"Well...it doesn't mean that I don't think you guys are both
shitheads for doing what you did. But it just means that maybe
I shouldn't have gotten so angry."
"Tina...I mean..I don't even know what to say, I..."
"Wait, there is more." Tina says, obviously working
through a speech that she has been working on, "I also have
been talking to Mark about...well about a lot of stuff and I told
him about..."
She looked at me nervously. I could tell she was going to load
something big on me, I just honestly had no idea what?
"Well I told Mark about us."
"What about us?"
"You know, about all the stuff we have done."
"Like, everything?"
"Well, most everything."
"Tina!! Why? I mean..I..What?" I couldn't believe she
had told him! This jock asshole now knew what before was only
our secret! Now the whole world would know! I was shocked and
afraid and angry.
"Well, I was angry at first! I mean I couldn't believe it!
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that maybe
I just needed to get all the Paula bullshit out of my system!"
"Paula bullshit? What the hell does that mean?" I said
angrily.
"What? Like you don't have some major fucking issues?! Miss
I'm gonna have a fuckin' orgy in my house and invite half the
school!"
"Goddamn it! It wasn't an orgy. Those were people I know
and they are at least good enough friends to fucking come to my
party!"
"Oh, so now I'm not a good enough friend?!"
"Well, maybe if you had been here then I wouldn't have gotten
drugged and let people fucking do all that shit?"
Tina looked at me shocked, "You..were drugged?"
I looked back at her, my anger faded with her concern. "Well,
yeah. I think it was acid. Maybe it was acid and something else.
I freaked out all night!"
"Oh god! I didn't know! I'm so sorry."
"It's cool. I just shouldn't have been drinking so much.
Listen, I don't want to talk about it. It was crazy and all that
but I met some people and they are really cool. I mean I'm starting
to figure some shit out, you know?"
"God, I'm still freaking here. I mean you got drugged and
people had sex with you?"
"Well, mostly they just tied me up and spanked me, well and
the piercing, but I wasn't really that fucked up when they did
that."
"Holy Shit! Paula this is just too intense."
"So are you guys friends again? Cause for a minute there
I thought I was going to have to break up a cat fight." Mark
said smiling, trying to break the mood.
"Yeah, I think we are done." I said smiling at Tina.
We hugged again.
"Good! Cause I have never seen a naked chick in a fight before."
Mark said laughing.
I threw a pillow at him and he and Tina both started laughing.
"Oh come off it dork! It's not like I even have anything
to look at. I'm as flat as a board."
Mark made a look and Tina could see that he disagreed with my
judgment of my body. She looked back at me and said, "Well,
normally I would be really pissed that you two are flirting again,
but that's what I wanted to talk to you about."
"Tina! You are fucking killing me here! What the hell are you
trying to say!"
She says, "OK, OK, I was getting to it! Geeesshhh, don't bust
an artery or something!
"I love you, you know that right?"
I'm like, "Really?!"
She shakes her head, 'yes' and I jump over and on her and start
kissing her and she pushes me off and she's all, "Paula! Put the
Ho-dawg thing on hold for a sec!"
I'm like, "That's Ms. Ho-dawg to you!"
Tina says, "What I'm trying to say is, I want you and Mark.
Mark knows about all the stuff we have done growing up. He knows
that you and I are way beyond just friends. So he is cool with
it."
"Yeah, very cool with it." Mark says smiling.
"Yeah, I bet you are." I say looking at Mark suspiciously.
Suddenly his lusty shit makes my skin crawl but I look back at
Tina and she is nervous and when she is nervous she gets quiet.
"So what you are saying is that you want a threesome?"
I ask frankly.
"Yeah, I think that's it." Mark says smiling his lusty
smile.
"No, that's not it Mark!" Tina says hitting him on the
shoulder, "I want us to all be open, honest and not have
to go sneaking around. I mean if you like Mark and I like Mark
and we both like each other, then maybe this can just be a us
thing."
None of this makes sense and my first reaction is to say, "This
is stupid as hell" but Tina is so god damn beautiful! I knew
I had been losing her as we got older and now that she had a boyfriend
it would only get worse. I think deep down inside I knew that
Tina wasn't like me. She wasn't ever going to want to fall in
love with another girl. But I was in love with her. Deeply in
love. I had been since the first time her parents opened the door
and I saw her peek out from behind her Mom's legs. She is everything
anyone would ever want in a girl, she is beautiful, smart, funny,
cool and popular. How I had ever been lucky enough to have her
in my life, I never knew. But I wasn't going to pass up this chance.
Not now, not ever. If the only way I could have Tina was to have
Mark, then so be it!
"Listen, I stink and I'm going to take a shower. Last one
in the shower is a rotten egg!" I scream.
I ran into the shower and dropped my shorts, leaving me totally
nude except for my tennis shoes and little white socks. Tina and
Mark came running in and both stopped cold when they saw me totally
nude. Then a smile crossed both their faces as they stepped into
the bathroom.
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