Stay Longer by Maria Jackson

Author:Maria Jackson [Jackson, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-14T22:00:00+00:00

TWELVE — BJ

“They’re both dumb as hell, if you ask me.” Kathy’s legs swung in the air, the chair a little too tall for her. “They weren’t in love in the first place. They barely knew each other.”

“Yeah, but the essay your teacher assigned isn’t whether they’re dumb or not dumb. It’s how Mercutio’s death affected the course of the book.”

“It’s a play, not a book. Mrs. Wheaton tells us that every. Single. Day.” Kathy rolled her eyes. I was pretty sure her sarcasm was for the teacher and not for me, though.

“The course of the play, then. What do you think it meant for the play? What would’ve happened differently if Mercutio had lived?”

Kathy leaned forward to squint at the screen as if hoping some words had magically appeared there. For the moment, the word count still rested at a big fat zero. “They still would’ve both been dumb. Mrs. Wheaton says they were only fourteen! That’s way too young to be in love.”

I had to agree with her, but I restrained myself from laughing. “Mercutio—”

“I mean, I’m sixteen and I still don’t know what love is yet. If I met some guy at a party and we hung out for one night, how would I have any clue if I had a future with him?”

At times like this, I found it was most effective to let her rant. Once she got it all out, she’d settle down and get some work done.

As I’d expected, her question was rhetorical. “A fourteen-year-old would have no idea if they were in love. Even for a grown-up like you, a day or even a month is way too fast. Isn’t it?”

Again I stayed quiet. I couldn’t have answered her question properly even if I wanted to. I knew there was something between Leanne and I after that first night. But my feelings grew so much more after that.

I wasn’t in love with her, but… I was very fond of her, to the point that it confused me. I could see myself falling pretty hard if we gave it time. And in the days since that conversation on the couch, the one where we’d kind-of-sort-of agreed we were more than fuck buddies… I found it hard to picture myself leaving her.

“Love is a complicated topic,” I said, neatly side-stepping the subject. “You’re actually lucky this teacher of yours assigned you a different one. It should be much easier to write about Mercutio than to write about love.”

“But I don’t care about Mercutio,” Kathy groaned. “Love is way more interesting. I want to write about love.”

Funny that she found love so fascinating when it terrified me so much. Being with Leanne, sometimes I did find my feet getting itchy. Especially since that conversation, I’d had wild urges to flirt with others, even proposition strangers the way I used to do.

I had to remind myself that doing any of that would ruin this great thing I was discovering. And that there was incredible sex waiting for me at home.

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