Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Author:Rita Mae Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Literary, Family Life, Lesbian, Fiction
ISBN: 9780804152761
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2014-06-25T07:00:00+00:00

The rest of that semester we spent in bed, emerging only to go to class and to eat. Faye made her grades because it was the only way we could be together, and she stopped drinking because she found something that was more fun. Chi Omega began to think Faye had died and gone to heaven. Tri Delta resorted to sending me urgent notices in the mail. We were eighteen, in love, and didn’t know the world existed—but it knew we existed.

Not until February did I notice that people on our hall weren’t speaking to us anymore. Conversations stopped when one or both of us would amble down the brown halls. Faye concluded they all had chronic laryngitis and decided she’d cure it. She hooked up a Mickey Mouse Club record to the ugly brick bell tower that rang class changes. Then she announced to our dorm neighbors that at three-thirty the true nature of the university would be revealed via the bell tower. As soon as the record blared across the campus Dot and Karen ran in from next door to giggle at Faye’s success. Just as quickly they turned on their heels to walk out when Faye bluntly asked, “How come you two don’t talk to us anymore?”

Terror crossed Dot’s face and she told a half truth. “Because you stay in your room all the time.”

“Bullshit,” Faye countered.

“There’s got to be another reason,” I added.

Karen, angered at our bad manners in being so direct, spat at us gracefully. “You two are together so much it looks like you’re lesbians.”

I thought Faye was going to heave her chemistry book at Karen, her white face was so red. I looked Karen right in the face and said calmly, “We are.”

Karen reeled back as though she were slapped with a soggy dishrag. “You’re sick and you don’t belong in a place like this with all these girls around.”

Faye was now on her feet moving toward Karen, and Dot, the picture of courage, was at the door fumbling with the knob. Faye shifted into overdrive and roared her engine, “Why, Karen, are you afraid I might sleep with you? Are you afraid I might sneak over in the middle of the night and attack you?” Faye was laughing by this time and Karen was petrified. “Karen, if you were the last woman on earth, I’d go back to men—you’re a simpering, pimply-faced cretin.” Karen ran out the room and Faye howled, “Did you see her face? What an insipid asswipe that creature is!”

“Faye, we’re in for it now. She’s gonna run right to the resident counselor and we are gonna be in real fucking trouble. They’ll probably throw us out.”

“Let them. Who the hell wants to rot in this institution of miseducation?”

“I do. It’s my one chance to get out of the boondocks. I’ve got to get my degree.”

“We’ll go to a private school.”

“You can go to a private school. I can’t even pay for my own food, Goddammit.”

“Look, my old man will pay my way and we can work part time to pay your way.

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