Cr1s2y: I need to get laid
DMike32: Yeah?
Cr1s2y: Liike really rly need it"
DMike32: :)
Cr1s2y: Can I come over?
DMike32: No, parents are home"
Cr1s2y: What if I pick u up?
DMike32: No.. I'd be thrown out. Tomorrow after school?
Cr1s2y: At my parents?
DMike32: No, no license.
Cr1s2y: Okay I'll pick u up at school. Out front at 3: 30?
DMike32: Awesome
I was lightheaded as I instant messaged with Crissy; I squirmed in my chair in both anticipation and fright. Crissy knew a lot more than me. I made out with a few girls before, but this was new. We were both seniors in high school - both old for our grade - eighteen in fact.
I started thinking up a way to keep my mother in the dark. Nobody's mother wants to know that her little boy is going to go hook up. I didn't like to lie, but it came easily.
Dad called down to the basement. "Dinner!" I quickly signed out of instant messenger and bounded up the steps to the kitchen. The anxiety and excitement pushing me to bound like a kid.
That evening, as I was putting together a ham sandwich, my mother walked into. She was in her early fifties then, and she was having a rare, good day. Her blond-brown hair was up in pink curlers.
She asked, "Do you need me to pick you up from school tomorrow?"
"No," I said.
"Are you taking the bus home?" she asked.
I said, "No - I'm going to study at Nick's. I'll just walk back from his house."
"Nick? Your friend from the bus?" Mom replied.
"Yup," I intoned.
"Are you sure you don't want me to make your sandwich? It's rather sad," mom asked.
"No," I said
"Okay. Sleep tight".
The next morning, I nearly missed the bus deciding what to wear. I went to a Catholic High School and there was a dress code, though rather lax. Finally, I decided on black slacks, a white polo shirt, and a light, black jacket. My wardrobe tended towards the simple. In the bathroom, I found some cologne that my brother was given several Christmas' ago by our aunt. I snuck it into my backpack.
I saw Nick at lunch that day. I looked at him over my sad ham sandwich and asked, "Hey, I'm going home with you tonight to study. But I'm not studying, and I'm not going home with you."
He retorted, "I don't want to go home with you either," and then broke out into a wide grin. "Have something planned?"
"Yeah," I replied. "I'm going to hang out with Crissy. She's picking me up."
"Very nice" Nick replied. "Don't break your tiny dick!"
I threw the remaining ham of the sad sandwich at him in reply.
The last period of the day was German. As usual, the teacher was intermixing jokes and jabs in a mixture of English and German. If you got him to tell jokes, he forgot to teach the lesson. If he taught the lesson, it tended to be bad for your grades. Suddenly he called on me.
"Mike... how do you say... it's raining, but I will walk to school?" the teacher asked.
I startled, and nearly fell out of my chair. "Warum bin ich nach Schule?" I peeped.
"Pay attention!" he reprimanded, as the class laughed.
German class continued and I continued to get bad marks for participation. It's tough to concentrate on verb tenses when having performance anxiety.
Finally, the bell rang. I grabbed my bag and headed to my locker then to front of the school. The last tendrils of winter were still coursing through the April sun. I looked for Crissy, but she hadn't arrived yet. Fifteen minutes passed in which I tapped one foot and then the other.
Then, I saw her pull up in her beat up blue Honda Accord. I put my bag in the trunk, and hopped in the front seat.