Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories by Justin Taylor

Author:Justin Taylor [Taylor, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780061969447
Google: ncGO-W09hM8C
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-02-09T09:42:58+00:00

So we were at Joe Brown’s, down in the basement, which was his room, drinking Judge’s beer. My phone buzzed. I almost didn’t look, since I wasn’t going to answer anyhow. It was bound to be Ma on another psycho Jesus tear or else my damn sister wanting a ride home from some party out in the sticks. But then I realized it had been just one buzz, two pulses, like, he-ey, and so I looked. It was a text from Cass: COME OVER RITE NOW.

I showed the phone to Joe Brown. “Now what do you suppose this could be?” I said.

“Shit,” he said. “How am I supposed to know what that girl’s thinking? I’d give anything to get inside her head.” This was just a little yearn, a passing thing, like a stringy cloud. And yet I could not let it pass me by.

“Well,” I said to him, “maybe you need some inside perspective. Like do something she does so you can think the way she thinks.”

“Yeah? Like what?”

“That’s easy,” I said. “I can’t even believe I never thought of this before.”

“What, Troy? What is it?”

“Well Cass’s just about favorite thing in the whole wide world—”

“Yeah?”

“—is sucking me off. So you better get to it.”

“Aw, you motherfuck,” said Joe Brown. He looked punched, then gathered himself and lunged forward to punch me. I hopped up from my seat and out of his range. We were both laughing. I hated and loved myself. I got us a couple of fresh beers. They hissed our truce. I flipped the phone open and dialed.

“Are you on your way over?” Cass said. I’d been planning to kid her for a bit, since I was already on a roll. I figured she was just looking to hook up, and there was no reason that couldn’t wait—let her get even more worked up, right?—but I knew as soon as I heard her voice that kidding was the last thing on her mind, and that sucked the kidding right on out of me. “I’m a little drunk,” I said, “over here at Joe Brown’s place. What’s up?”

“Then buy a coffee,” she said, “on your way over. And do not under any circumstances bring your girlfriend along with you.” She was gone.

“All right, honey,” I said into the dead phone. “That sounds real nice. I’ll be there just as soon as I can.”

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