Kids in America by Liz Prato

Author:Liz Prato
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Primary Category:Essays; Secondary Category: Cultural Studies; BISAC Subject Categories Primary: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays; BISAC Subject Categories Secondary: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors
Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project
Published: 2022-01-29T14:09:33+00:00

1985: Young Adult Dramady

This is the scene in St. Elmo’s Fire where Bad Boy Billy (played by sexy Rob Lowe) and Bad Girl Jules (played by sexy Demi Moore) are in her Jeep outside of the house he shares with his baby mama. It’s late at night and Billy’s had too much to drink. The two flirt a little—it’s obvious they slept together sometime during their recent college years—and they kiss in the Jeep. But Jules says, “Enough.”

“Says who?” Billy asks. Jules asserts that she says. He mocks her that she has any authority to decide when to stop. Jules reiterates that she has this right. Billy suggests that she wouldn’t be able to say no if his cock was in her mouth. He thinks he’s being cute, seductive, irresistible, the idea that he could take away her ability to say no.

Jules says NO again and tells him she’s serious. Billy grabs her keys out of the ignition and puts them down his pants. Jules demands them back, but he informs her she’ll have to come and get them. Jules hits him, grabs him, kicks him out of her Jeep so he’s on the cold, wet ground. And then she tells him with tears, “You break my heart.”

This experience is never mentioned again and, in the end, Billy is the one who saves Jules from her nervous breakdown. She’s lost her job, all her furniture has been re-possessed, and the stepmother Jules thought she hated has died, and Jules suddenly realizes she cares. She’s shivering in her locked apartment with all the windows open, when Billy comes to her rescue. He tells Jules what she’s experiencing, what she’s feeling, isn’t real. This is all an illusion, he convinces her. Bad Boy Billy is the one who saves Bad Girl Jules from herself.

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