Oh, Dakota

33- Heart Vacancy

“You did what?!” Both Marnie and Nikki screeched at me on Monday morning at my locker.

I flinched at the unnecessary volume of their screeching and then continued to shuffle through my locker for my books for my morning periods. “Why are you screaming?” I wondered with a small laugh.

“Because I’m pretty sure that you just told us that you had sex with Braeden,” Marnie ranted. I took a small moment to smile to myself because I was so happy to have Marnie back as my friend. I mean, I knew that things weren’t going to be the same as they were before, but they were as close as they possibly could be, and it felt nice to be able to talk to her again.

“Which is also what I heard,” Nikki piped. “So we clearly must have misheard something there.”

I shook my head at them both. “Nope, that’s exactly what I said.”

“You’re not a virgin anymore?” Marnie wondered with wide eyes.

“Can you lower your voice?” I hissed. “We don’t need to publicize my sex life, you know.”

“How did it even happen?” Nikki wondered in confusion, obviously just as dumfounded as Marnie seemed to be.

I laughed at them both because they just looked so ridiculous and confused, and then I shut my locker. “Nikki, you have a boyfriend, I’m sure you know exactly how it happens.”

She rolled her eyes at me as we all started walking down the hallway together with me in the middle of both of them. “I didn’t mean it in general because yes, I do know ‘how it happens’, I mean like, how specifically did it happen Saturday night? I know for a fact that you didn’t just invite him into your pants without anything happening prior.”

“Every detail,” Marnie nodded in demand.

“Okay, well we were on his trampoline and then we were making out and-“

“Did you have sex on his trampoline?” Nikki squealed, interrupting the flashback of Saturday. “Because that is so romantic! And surprisingly exhibitionist-y of you.”

“No,” I laughed. “Just listen. So we were making out and then he was like ‘we need to stop now’ and I was like ‘let’s do it’ and then so he carried me into his house into his room and we did it in there because we needed a condom, which I obviously don’t carry around with me and he had some in his room so yeah, and then it just happened.”

“What about his dad though?” Marnie wondered as we stopped outside Nikki’s first period class, since that one was on the way to both mine and Marnie’s first period classes.

“He was on a weekend long photo shoot over in Florida somewhere,” I explained. I mean, I didn’t know where Braeden’s dad was until after the fact because it never even crossed my mind that he could be in that same very house as I was in bed with his son, but luckily, that wasn’t the case. I doubted that Braeden would have let things go so far if his dad was actually home anyway, though, so that was good.

“How was it?” Nikki asked me excitedly.

“Painful and awkward,” I admitted with a shrug. “But it was also kind of nice, I guess.”

“So, is his thing big?” Marnie wondered invasively.

“Why would you ask me that?” I squeaked with my face burning just a little bit in a small blush.

She shrugged back innocently. “I’m just asking. Is it? Like, on a scale from a tooth pick to the Washington Monument, just estimate.”

“The Washington Monument isn’t really an accurate way to compare that kind of stuff,” I informed her with an embarrassed eye roll.