The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by D. C. Pierson

Author:D. C. Pierson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: General
ISBN: 9780307474612
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-01-26T08:00:00+00:00

7

Christine is very quick to tell me we’re not boyfriend and girlfriend.

“I don’t like to get caught up in labels,” she says.

I am very quick to tell Eric that Christine and I are not boyfriend and girlfriend.

“Where would she get the impression that you were?” Eric says. “We just met her at lunch the other day.”

“Well, I went to this party on Friday night and she was there and we sort of made out.”

“What? Friday night? I thought you went to Outback on Friday night.”

I feel bad enough about telling my brother about Eric’s thing that I tell him about Friday night but not bad enough to tell him I ditched him on purpose and definitely not bad enough to tell him I told my brother about his thing.

“I did but then she called me and I went over. It was this stupid drama party but she was there and that was pretty cool.”

“What time did it end?”

“I dunno, I got home around one….” I start to say “You would’ve been asleep” because for anyone else that would work as an excuse not to have called them, but I can’t.

“Oh,” says Eric.

What? I’m allowed to have friends outside of him, right? Especially when those friends want to invite me to parties and make out with me.

Christine is very quick to tell me we’re NOT just friends.

“I mean, I definitely like you. I just want to take our time.”

I am very quick to tell Eric that Christine just wants us to take our time.

“Hm,” he says. “Does that mean she’s allowed to date other people in addition to you?”

I don’t know the answer when Eric asks. Christine just calls me up and gives me a declaration of who we are to each other the day after we go out for the first time, which is the Sunday after the party. We go to the movies on a school night. She drives because I don’t have a license or a car. She drops me off at home and we make out in her car for a while before I go inside.

Here’s the thing about making out: it’s awesome. The other thing about making out is there’s no talking and you don’t have to think of anything cute or clever to say, and that’s great. But there is absolutely no good way to get into it. Or at least no logical way. It just sort of starts. The first time we made out, at the party, I’m pretty sure we were talking about flannel. That is not sexy. Nothing about that says “make out with me.” And when we make out at the movies it’s all the sudden during a trailer for a new computer-animated kids’ movie about talking animals, one of the twenty it seems like are coming out this year, this one about gophers. One of the gophers has Chris Tucker’s voice and another gopher has Dane Cook’s voice and the movie is called “GoPher It!” Chris Tucker’s gopher has just

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