What Is Wrong With You?
There was this party. I was in high school, maybe a freshman but
definitely in high school because my friend Escho had a car and could get
us to parties, and since my folks had me working at the Slurp ‘N Suck on
weekends in order to teach me responsibility I could get us beer so long
as we were careful. So Escho and me are at this party out in that
neighborhood if you take Ansborough south out past the graveyard, where a
friend who knew this guy in the debate club was throwing an anti-prom
shindig. And but so I’m hanging out in the backyard, which is where I last
saw Escho looking for a surrepeticious place to puke, and there in the
grass I see this necklace. And not even like some plastic thing, or like
ten dollars at the mall kinda thing, but like a serious grownup necklace.
So I put in in my pocket and go inside and start asking around if anybody
lost a necklace, and this girl who smelled like fruit juice and stomach
acid and some kinda plasticky strawberry perfume came up and threw her
arms around me and started thanking me over and over and over, so I take
her over by the stairs out front where it’s quieter and tell her it’s no
big deal, but she talks all on like it’s her mom’s, she’d get killed if
she lost it, she made such a big deal of letting her wear it tonight,
because it’s like prom night and she didn’t want her parents to know she
didn’t have a date so she told them she was meeting her boy there because
he’s shy and this whole trip with this made-up boy and she’s crying and
shivering even though it’s not cold out at all. but then this fucking
stussy-kid comes in and starts hollering that my friend is out on the
street telling drivers that the end is near and i better fucking do
something about it, so i look at this girl and i look out and i tell her
to wait, that i’m coming right back, and i run out and fucking Escho is
laying in the street giggling and i pick him up and drag him back to the
car where he passes out in the back seat finally, and i go back to the
party, but the imaginary boyfriend girl was gone.
(12:12.05.19.2005) [/alpha] #