“You’re not as old as we are Mel and you have plenty of time to do that when you’re ready.”
“They talk to me as if I was a child though and you don’t what that feels like.”
“They’re bitches and you can’t let what they say affect you like this.”
“Yeah right, you’re the most popular girl in school who’s dating the star quarterback, you have it made.”
She shook her head and gave me an exasperated look.
“You’re lucky I like you and you help me with math, otherwise I’d be kicking your stubborn little ass,” she said while giving me a big smile and a little hug.
Danielle was my best friend and she looked out for me like the big sister I never had.
This was the counselor’s fault anyway, I reasoned. At the beginning of the year, I was told that I had really high test scores in math and our counselor wanted to place me in a math class with the older students. Unfortunately, that also meant that I had to eat lunch with them which subjected me to this daily torment of cafeteria sex talk. Unlike math, sex was a subject that I knew very little about.
Even though they were raging bitches, Jenna and Erica were two of the most popular girls in school. Jenna was captain of the cheerleaders and Erica was her nasty little minion. Even though I despised them for the way they treated me, I also envied them because they were just so damned refined and sophisticated. They only wore the best clothes, went to the best parties, and dated the most popular guys. They were ten rungs ahead of me on the social ladder and it felt like I’d need a decade to catch up with them.
The only bright spot in my miserable existence was Danielle. Because she was the star point guard on our school’s basketball team, she was incredibly popular. Yet, she didn’t use her popularity to hurt people like Jenna and Erica did and I admired her so much for that.
On the first day of math class, we sat together and she secretly confided in me that she struggled in math and asked for my help. I guess she thought she owed me because she constantly looked out for me whenever we were together, like today, when Jenna and Erica were picking on me.
I knew that if I was going to be accepted into their little social group and be popular like they were, I had to lose my virginity. Unfortunately, that presented me with another problem. Even though they were popular; Jenna, Erica, and even Danielle had reputations of being very ummm… slutty. The guys at school had really big mouths and the minute they got a girl into bed, they bragged about it to all their friends, and within hours, everyone knew.
There had to be a way to have sex and get the experience I wanted without everyone knowing about it. This was just like one of those complicated math problems I had to solve every day. I just had to think about it for a while and then come up with the solution.
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“How was your day today honey?” My Mom said as I walked through the door.
These bitches at school were ridiculing me, Mom. How was yours?
“It was okay, I guess.”
“How did you do on that big math test you told me about?”