Shades of Purple by Niki Dominique

Author:Niki Dominique [Dominique, Niki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781955062831
Publisher: Running Wild Press

CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE

The year I started high school was the year I started spending Friday afternoons and evenings with Bethany Brown. Every Friday, like clockwork. It became our routine. A bestie tradition. Sometimes we went to the movies. Sometimes we rented a movie. Sometimes we caught a bus and headed to the mall. Sometimes we hung out in one of our bedrooms and did nothing at all. I got my first real boyfriend sophomore year, and he tried to impede on our Fridays. He didn’t last long. Fridays were for Bethany Brown. Bethany Brown and me. We would hold hands as we walked home from school, practically skipping we were so giddy. As soon as we’d gotten far enough away, out of earshot from boys who wanted to steal our time and grab at our bodies and girls who thought we were too close to each other and wanted more ammunition to write smack about us on the bathroom walls, we would start talking.

We didn’t always get a chance to talk much during the week. We were busy. I was taking honors level classes and forcing myself into as many clubs and extra-curricular activities as I could possibly find the time for. On top of all that, I ran for the track team. Bethany spent most of her time reading chick lit, and chasing boys, along with playing both softball and basketball. During our free time we liked to go to the park. Bethany would read or chat aimlessly about the fine minutiae of her days- the boys she was currently into, the girl who looked at her weird, the proper way to shave one’s legs, while I spent the time sketching strangers in the park, trying to see something in them that I couldn’t see in myself. Searching. I’d spent hours talking Bethany’s ears off about my struggles with feeling aimless, with being pretty good at a bunch of things and not quite excellent at anything, with not having a passion to pursue, with my strong desire to be a success without knowing how to achieve any aspect of it.

Despite our weekend gab sessions, there were things that somehow or for some reason we just didn’t share. So, it wasn’t from Bethany herself that I heard about the boys, it was from a bunch of giggling juniors, chatting loudly while I was peeing in the girl's room. Apparently, from what I could gather, four jocks were basically rotating through her. Each one got a go at her for a month or so, pretending to be in a relationship with her until he gets tired of her, then passing her on to the next one. And this had been going on for months because, evidently, Bethany gave exceptionally good blowjobs. And since she was dealing with teenage boys, despite their best efforts, they had let what was meant to be private slip quietly out.

It had taken me longer than I’d expected to say something to Bethany. There was something painful about dealing with the experience that I’d tried to avoid for as long as I could.

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