The Fixer: New Wave Newsroom by Jenny Holiday

Author:Jenny Holiday
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jenny Holiday

Chapter Six

Jenny

Well, I’d finally gotten my money’s worth from the dress, I thought, grinning as I picked it up off the floor of Matthew’s room and shimmied back into it while he slept. A slice of bright sunshine razored into the room where the curtains stood open a few inches. There were no clocks of any sort in his room, so I had no idea what time it was.

But I did know that I had to pee something fierce—not to mention get that sponge out. (Please let the sponge have worked.)

But no. I wasn’t going to think about reality yet. Sponges and Nessa and Royce and the art building and graduation and Dad—none of it. When I reached the door to the bathroom, I pretended it was all those things and pushed them away as I straightened my arms to open it.

What if I just decided to ignore reality for a little while? I had never done that. I peed and got rid of the sponge. I didn’t even say a prayer for its efficacy, because I decided that anxiety was part of the reality I was now officially on hiatus from. I gave myself a quick glance in the mirror, but who cared what I looked like, right? Reality: not interested. See? This was fun.

The one reality I couldn’t escape was my morning breath, so, lacking a toothbrush, I swished with water as hot as I could stand and hoped for the best. Given the…amazingness of last night, I was pretty sure Matthew wasn’t going to care.

Besides, I thought, unable to resist a little skip as I padded back down the hall to his room, I had learned that there were plenty of other places he could put his mouth. My face heated as the parts in question jumped to attention. My attraction to Matthew had been well established before last night. It was, in fact, why I had thrown the sponge in my bag when he called and asked if he could draw me. I hadn’t assumed it would happen, but a part of me had hoped it would.

And when it had…dear God, I’d had no idea.

I had been thinking of my virginity like a cast that had come off. I didn’t want it anymore, and sex was what I had to do to saw it off. It wasn’t that I’d been expecting it to be unpleasant. I just hadn’t known it was possible for someone to be so tender and deliciously rough at the same time. So solicitous yet ravenous. My whole body tingled from the memory. My poor, poor body had had a taste of what was possible and, I feared, was never going to let me forget it.

I stood with my hands pressed against another door, the door to Matthew’s room. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew one thing with certainty. This time I didn’t want to push anything away. I didn’t even want to fix anything. I didn’t want to talk about what he was going to do after graduation.

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