gods with a little g by Tupelo Hassman

Author:Tupelo Hassman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

HOW TO SHAKE YOUR HIPS

We make individual trips to the Rosary High nurse with complaints of headache or upset stomach or, in Winthrop’s case, what he insisted was “the vapors,” as he held the back of his hand to his forehead in a faint. Once in the nurse’s office, we each took our opportunity to grab a stack of the pamphlets eternally available there, Abstinence and Teens: A Hot Couple and 1, 2, 3, No! The paper is kind of heavy but the cartoons on them are in full color and the corsages I’m making, using every trick Mom ever taught me, are turning out beautifully.

Rain is in charge of cosmetics, “the Special Effects Department,” she started calling it when she began construction on my eyebrows. A process that involved tweezers and scissors and had Rain talking to herself in a mutter.

Winthrop is in charge of choreography, obviously, and I need all the help he can give. You’d think dancing would be in my bones, in my blood, but I was born with both of the left feet Mom never had.

Since we are already going as a threesome, we decide to keep bending the prom until it breaks. Rain and I are wearing matching strapless dresses, denim with bloodred ribbons that tie around the back, silver fishnets, and black high heels that only Rain has any practice walking in. Winthrop has one of Mr. Epsworthy’s suits. It’s plaid and will never button over Winthrop’s stomach, but with the same satin we are using for our ribbons, Rain and I make a cummerbund, and no one will be able to tell that a rubber band is holding his pants up underneath the satin. He’s leaving the coat open to better display this, along with the ruffled tuxedo shirt that we also couldn’t get to button all the way down.

“Maybe two rubber bands?” says Rain, when we’re testing the cummerbund.

“I’ll wear my fancy boxers, just in case,” Winthrop says, and then he stands there and, without seeming to do anything, his entire body shimmies in that dance move he’s trying to teach us and that I, for one, will never learn. But Rain and I stand up, and we do our best, like backup dancers, just glad to share a little of the spotlight that shines wherever he is.

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