In Those Dazzling Days of Elvis by Josephine Rascoe Keenan

Author:Josephine Rascoe Keenan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 1950s, teen pregnancy, unwed mother, teen mom, illegitimate, unplanned baby, unwed mothers 1950s
Publisher: Pen-L Publishing

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“You’ve got to be kidding,” Bubba John said, staring at the buttons when he came inside to get me.

“Not in the least,” I said with a grin.

Flying down the street with one of the coolest boys in school in his red-and-white convertible brought the mauve Chevy to mind. How the lowly had risen. The wind blasted my face and decimated the curls I’d worked so hard to create with Julie’s curling iron.

“I should’ve told you to bring a scarf,” Bubba John said. “Forgot all about it by the time my old man got through wearing me out the second time for that flagpole stunt. It was worth it, though. My mama saw old lady Armstrong in Samples at the lingerie counter, buying a new set of britches, white. Miss Glovina said she’d never again wear salmon undies. I said to Mama, ‘White makes sense. She’s bound to be a virgin. No man would have the old bag.’ My old man heard me, and that’s how come I got a second whipping. You a virgin, Julie, honey?”

And so it went, for an hour, until I broke the news to him that my mama had told me I had to go out with Farrel for part of the night, to be fair to both of them.

Bubba John pouted, but he took me home. At the door, he took my hand and held it up.

“Where’s your splint?”

I got way too many adrenalin rushes these days. I’d forgotten my fake finger splint.

“Oh, I got it off early. Thought you’d never notice.”

He gave me a look but said only, “Later, gator.”

He was probably glad to be free to chase another skirt that night, maybe one with fewer buttons.

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