Sunday afternoon and I was at the coffee shop waiting for Cait.
I had slept way too long that morning but then I had called her, after a quick shower and an even quicker breakfast and she hadn't answered. It kept on ringing and then it went to voicemail so I hung up, and I was sure she had changed her mind about missing me or something, or maybe I had waited too long to call and I should have called her right after I woke up or maybe even yesterday when I got her text, and I felt this huge lump in my throat that just kept growing until I couldn’t breathe and I was about to throw myself down on the bed crying and kicking and hitting the pillow and everything when she called me back, and she said “Sorry, phone was in the other room.”
And I acted cool and said “Yeah, sure,” like I was also busy with stuff, but when I had said it I realized it sounded like I didn't believe her, and I panicked and I said “I mean, it's cool, I don't care,” and I could have bit my tongue off.
So I said “I mean like… I do care. About you. But not… what… room... you were in.”
And I just fell back on my bed squeezing my eyes shut and I thought, 'Fuck, what's wrong with me?'
“You okay?” Cait said, and I said “No.”
Then she said “You wanna meet up?” and it sounded like she was trying to talk through a lump in her throat also and that almost made me howl, and I said “Yeah.”
We agreed to meet at the coffee shop, and I was there forty minutes early and I checked the time on my phone every two minutes and every time I did I felt so stupid because it had only been two minutes and I put it deeper in my handbag so I wouldn't check it again, and then two minutes later I would take it out and check it again.
And then Cait came through the door and I almost ran to her but I didn't, but when she was at my table, I got up to hug her and suddenly I was sure she was going to say 'I don't think we should see each other anymore' and I froze halfway up from the chair, but then she smiled and she hugged me and we both said “I'm sorry,” at the same time, and we sat down and she held my hand across the table and the world was perfect and we talked until the waitress came and said “Excuse me, but we're closing now,” and then I walked her to her car.
We had talked about just about everything except the thing we really had to talk about, but then on our way to the car Cait held my hand again and said “I'm sorry for freaking out like that that time,” and I said “No, I'm sorry for just doing that to you without permission,” and she said “It's okay. Now. It's just that I thought it was important that my first time with someone was with a boy. That I loved. So that it could be special. But I think I want it to be you.”
“But you said you're not into girls.”
“I'm not.”
“But I'm a girl.”
“I know. But you're you too. I mean, I still want it to be special and if it's going to be special, it has to be with you.”
Then I said “I think I understand,” but I didn't really, and I said “We kinda already did it anyway you know,” and she smiled and said “Not the way a boy would do it.” Then she drove me home.
I knew mom didn't have one, but I checked in her drawer anyway. There were other things, but not the kind Cait was talking about. But I knew someone who had exactly that.
So the next day at school I asked Lucy “How's your mom?” and she said “She's good,” and I said “Great!” and I asked her if I could go home with her after school and she said “Of course,” and at her place her mom made chicken potpie and then we had strawberry ice cream and we didn't really have any homework or any studying to do, so the three of us just watched TV all night.
I couldn’t concentrate at all about what was on because all I could think about was how I could get just a minute alone with her mom and how I was then going to ask her to borrow it, but it just didn't happen and I couldn’t think of a way.
But then Richard sent me a bunch of texts, so I told them about him and they both said “You have to tell him you don't want to be with him anymore,” and I said “But I don't really have a reason,” and Lucy said “You don't want to, that's a reason,” so I wrote 'I don't think we should be together anymore' and he answered 'Bitch!' so I wrote 'Fuck you!'
And then I acted like that made me upset and I said “Lucy, can we go to your room a bit?” and she said “Yeah,” and we did.
“What's up?” Lucy said, and nothing was really so I had to think of something, and I said “Do you think I'm a bitch?” and Lucy said “What? Absolutely not. You're the best person I know,” and I said “Maybe you just don't know me very well,” and she said “No, I do. You're a perv but you're not a bitch,” and then she giggled and I stuck my tongue out at her.
Then I told her I had to go pee and she said “Okay, I'll be downstairs,” and I said “No, can't you wait here? I want to talk more,” and she said “Sure.”
So I left the room and I made sure to just like casually close the door behind me and then I went to go downstairs and I was just going to ask her mom straight out but then I passed her room and the door was open so I thought maybe it was better to just take it, it's not like she was going to use it without me anyway, so I went in.
And the strap-on was where it always was and I had used it with Lucy's mom three times already, and the last time was over a month ago, before this thing with Cait, and I had enjoyed it and I had enjoyed the time before that too, but Lucy's mom I think still thought she was forcing me and I let her think that because I thought she liked it better then, and she called med 'whore' and 'slut' and things like that and I kinda liked that too and I came several times before she did, but I didn't let her know that I did.