"Hello?"
"Hi, Miss Jessi."
"Hello."
"Hey, you wouldn't happen to have any straight pins and some rubbing alcohol, would you?"
"No, ummm...why?"
"Well, I smashed my finger and I've been draining it and now it's all full again."
"Ed, that's disgusting. Why don't you go to the doctor?"
"Don't want to."
"It could get infected."
"That's why I keep draining it."
"Do you want to bring your finger here? I'll see what I got."
"Yep that would be great."
"Okay, I'll see you in a bit."
"Okay, bye."
I hung up the phone and shook my head, laughing to myself as I went into the bathroom and grabbed my make-up bag.
Ed is my best friend, I've known him since I was sixteen years old. He was a senior in high school when I was a junior. I met him one day when I decided to skip school and so did he. We were parked right by each other and as I got in my car he spoke up.
"Hey, where do you think you're going?"
"I don't know, but I ain't staying here."
"Yeah, me neither."
"Where are you going?"
I moved to the other side of the car so I could get a better look at him.
"Don't know either."
"Oh by the way, my name's Jessi."
"I'm Ed."
"That's great Ed, wanna hang out, since neither one of us knows where it is we're going to go?"
"Sounds great, but don't we still need a plan?"
"Naw, c'mon. We'll take my car."
We ended up at a restaurant in the next town and over breakfast we discussed were to go next. We spent the day mainly just hanging out at the lake and from there built a very good friendship.
I heard a knock on the door and I laughed again. Ed would do some crazy stuff, but I never thought I'd get a phone call asking if he could operate on his finger in my house.
I opened the door and let him in. He went straight for the kitchen while I let my dog outside.
"So, what you got for me?"
"I couldn't find anything really. Got this pair of tweezers, do you think that'll work?"
"I don't know I'll try it."
"Here's some peroxide too."
"Thanks."
I left the kitchen, my stomach wasn't made to watch people poke themselves. I heard him hissing as he worked on his finger and in a short while he called to me.
"Okay, I'm done. You got any band-aids?"
I walked back in the kitchen and looked at his finger. He pulled his hand back when I touched it and I gave him a, don't-be-such-a-big-baby look.
"It hurts."
"Yeah, but I don't think it's infected."
"Me neither."
"Ummm...I don't think I have any band-aids. But I'll look."
I jumped up on the counter and opened the cabinet. I don't know why I throw things up where I can't reach them, but I do, and if I had any band-aids they would be on the top shelf. I looked around and couldn't find any.
"I don't see any."
I turned my head and looked down to see Ed looking up my skirt.
"Got a good view there, Ed?"
"Yeah, but if you could spread your legs a little more."
I laughed and moved off the counter.
"Miss Jessi's not wearing any underwear."
I smiled, he'd called me Miss Jessi ever since the first time I met him. I was the only one he ever did that to and I had always enjoyed it.
"I never wear underwear, Ed."
"Oh yeah, I didn't know that."