She told me not to talk to you about it, to let you work through it on your own.”
I chuckled, a self-depreciating, mirthless chuckle, “And you decided the first thing you’d do was bring it up?”
She smiled at me, “I’m fourteen bro. Sex vedio I swear to god if you don’t stop playing with his fucking head I’m going to come over there and rip your tonsils out through your asshole!”
I looked at Re, who was still sitting in the chair, chewing her nail and doing what I guess was her best attempt at looking innocent. A thought occurred to me then…
“Roo, maybe we could go visit a friend? Could see her easy smile…
“Come home soon Jakey…”
Again, I nodded, feeling better, “I’ll see you soon. To make love to her and to never let her go…
But I knew that wasn’t going to happen. She had been crying. My dad and I had just moved from a tiny one bedroom house and into the trailer he had bought. Then my mind flashed back to something different… something I was ashamed of…
I found myself nibbling at my own lower lip, trying to work up the courage to say something, something important, something that needed to be said. “Yes. Wakey!” She screamed. “I just see the two of you. Don’t pour gas on the fire.
