It's their last year of high school.
Helen is convinced that her year will be perfect with her perfect grades, her perfect boyfriend, and the perfect plan for her future.
Sofia, on the other side, has decided to live only for today.
When they g...
Jamie was still in football tryouts, so I sat down on the bleachers and waited. I took out my diary and wrote down:
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I took out my phone and googled "jesse have mercy".
Apparently, Jesse was a character from Full House – a real Casanova.
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I thought about it a moment, then I crossed out tomorrow and wrote down this next week to it.
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"Babe!" Jamie was a few feet in front of me. "I'm gonna take a shower, be right back."
"Okay," I said smiling and threw him a kiss.
"My folks are home, should we go to your place?" He asked as we were walking hand in hand to his car.
"I'd rather not. Amanda isn't working today, and I don't think there's anything edible at home."
"Let's just order something to eat."
I smiled at him. "Sounds good."
We were watching a movie in my bed when Jamie started kissing my neck, then my mouth. Blindly I closed the laptop and put it next to me on the nightstand. With his hand on my thigh, he pulled my leg over his lap so I ended up sitting on top of him.
I was distracted by the kiss and how his face felt under my fingertips, that I realized too late he had unbuttoned his jeans.
"What are you doing?
"Uh – like – I thought we were going down a road here."
"A road to –"
"To sex, yes. Why do you think I asked how long your Dad is gonna be gone?"
"Jamie, I –"
"I mean – Helen - we've been dating for a year and we haven't had sex yet! Don't you wanna sleep with me?"
I shook my head confused. "Of course, I want to have sex with you. I just didn't expect it to happen tonight."
"Okay," he said, looking at me impatiently. "Then when?"
"I don't know, Jamie," I said irritated. "Maybe when we're not surrounded by pizza boxes, it's not a school night, I'm not on my period and don't have a thousand other things on my mind. There are a thousand reasons why –"
"It's the first day of the school year. What could possibly be going on in your head?"
I buried my head in my hands. "It's not going to happen tonight, Jamie."
He nodded resignedly, then got up.
"Are you leaving?"
"Yeah."
I bit my lip in an attempt to keep the tears from filling my eyes.
