The Promise of Amazing by Robin Constantine

Author:Robin Constantine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publisher
Published: 2013-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

Fuknuts, cum pick up ur drums @ Andys. L

Andy’s house had been the hub of my St. Gabe’s extracurricular life. And it was one constant after-party. After school. After lacrosse practice. After games. As a freshman, I had my first beer in Andy’s basement. It was also where I got my V-card stamped by some girl who was friends with Andy’s older brother. The Foleys were loaded and spent a good portion of their time working for it, overcompensating for their absence with a rec room that was pretty much a wet dream. Plasma TV. Killer sound system. Every video-game console as soon as it came out. The bar was always fully stocked with premium liquor, although I wasn’t sure how much of that was their doing and how much was Andy’s and his brother’s.

Andy’s basement was also where Operation Amsterdam was conceived.

The name was a goof, but it stuck, because it was better than saying “selling stolen goods to finance our post-graduation trip to Europe.” We all liked the sound of backpacking across Europe, but Amsterdam, an eighteen-year-old’s version of Disneyland, was our goal. Our reward for four years of breaking our balls at St. Gabe’s.

And the whole thing had been started so innocently . . . by yours truly.

I’d met Caitlyn just over a year ago in the fall at a lacrosse tourney in West Orange. She was there watching her best friend’s brother play. I’d told her she looked bored, and she answered, “Not anymore.” We hung out on the sidelines, and by the end of the game I had her digits. We spent a week or so exchanging racy texts, then set a date to meet. This was pre-Chrysler, so our hookups were limited to whenever I could catch a ride from Andy’s brother, who was seeing someone from the same town.

Our relationship was no-strings-attached, purely physical. The first night we hooked up, we did it in her pool house.

This pool house made Andy’s basement look about as tricked out as a grass hut, and I wasted no time bragging about it to Luke. When Caitlyn texted me that she was going to Cabo with her family for winter break and she’d have to cancel our plans, I joked with Luke that we should go to her house anyway. He talked Andy and his brother into going too, because we had nothing better to do, so the four of us headed over.

We didn’t intend to take anything that first time, just hang out. I’d seen Caitlyn punch in the door combination for the pool house, and I tried it—making sure my hand was in the sleeve of my jacket so I didn’t leave fingerprints. Once inside we weren’t that careful. We drank the six-pack we’d brought with us and watched a Vin Diesel flick while the guys pushed for details of my hookups with Caitlyn. All in all a pretty boring night, and at some point, it felt wrong. We were about to leave when Luke suggested we make the visit worth our while by swiping some stuff.

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