Chapter 3

Benjie and I kept a standing Wednesday appointment for sex, with an additional Saturday appointment whenever I ran out of weed. I was earning enough to start buying lunch and saving up for a Christmas present for Kevin. I was thinking of getting him earrings to commemorate how we’d started dating. Unfortunately, the weather kept getting colder, and both Kevin and Benjie stopped going barefoot. In fact, almost no one was barefoot at school by Halloween, which made my school days much more boring, even if it was probably good for my grade point average.

On the bright side, the government offered to pay the full value of the Thibodeaux’ old house in Louisiana to use the land for President Gore’s wetland restoration initiative, which meant that Kevin would be living up here permanently.

To celebrate, I offered Kevin my anal virginity. My parents had stopped trying to press the issue of church after the two weeks I couldn’t take my earrings out, which meant that I had the run of the house every Sunday morning. Kevin arranged a week to fake sick. On the appointed day, I got out of bed and texted Kevin as soon as my parents left the house. We would have just over two hours. I had read on the Internet that a hot bath would relax your muscles and make taking a dick up the ass easier, so I ran a bath in my parents’ whirlpool and turned the jets on while I waited for Kevin to show up. To make sure I was in the mood, I ran the bathroom fan and smoked a joint. It felt incredibly luxurious, and I decided that I was going to make this part of my Sunday morning routine.