A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O'Brien

Author:Darcy O'Brien
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media

“You in love with him?”

“I don’t think I’m in love with anybody right now. We’re lavaliered though. I think I want somebody more intellectual.”

“Listen. We could go to a movie tonight.”

We went to see Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in Daddy Long Legs. Linda leaned over and told me that she had gone to a movie with a guy once who had made a hole in the bottom of the popcorn box and put himself through it, and when she grabbed for popcorn she screamed and slapped him. After that we giggled every time we ate the popcorn, and we held hands for about the last fifteen minutes of the movie. I had borrowed Jerry’s car. I didn’t have a license but he had given me the card. I drove out into the desert, asking Linda questions so I could listen to her voice. I liked her voice so much that I had telephoned her often just to hear her say hello. Then I would hang up. She didn’t know this, of course, and I was smart enough not to tell her. Now I felt I could listen to her voice forever as we drove in the dark. I told her how much I admired her essays in English class and she said they weren’t as good as mine. I told her she had wit and sophistication and that she didn’t walk like the other girls. She walked like a model or a person with dignity. She asked didn’t I know that a lot of people hated her.

“Some people say you’re a bitch,” I said. “I don’t think so. I think those people are inferior.”

“I hate them,” she said. “I hate them so much I’d like to see them die. Don’t you hate some people that way?”

“I don’t think I hate anybody. I’m not sure.”

“That’s remarkable,” Linda said.

I pulled off the road and parked in the desert. I started to say something but Linda told me to kiss her. We played with each other’s tongues and pressed our teeth together.

“That’s the first time I ever kissed a Catholic,” Linda said.

“Was it nice?”

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