The sun shone into my bedroom. I didn't have the shades pulled close enough together. The light was hitting me right in the eye. I pull the covers up over my head and thought, "Oh Christ, I don't want to get up."
However, I thought to myself, "Hey, it's your sister's 18th birthday. Get your lazy ass up and start doing something. Here your 19 years old. You're going off to college in a few months, you might as well get used to it."
I drug myself out of bed, found some clean clothes and put them on. I headed downstairs to the kitchen where I found my mother.
"Nice to see you up so early." My mother said, cheerfully.
"Morning mom, where's dad?"
"Oh, he's already off to work but he'll be back in time for Karen's party," My mother answered.
I started to grab a box of cereal out of the cupboard. But I was stopped by my mother saying. "Don't you want me to cook you some eggs? It will only take a few minutes."
I didn't want to argue. I just nodded and let her go about her business.
"You can put the bread in the toaster and get a knife and butter ready. I'll cook these, my mother said."
I grabbed the margarine, we didn't actually use butter. I found two slices of whole be bread and put it in the toaster.
And moment later the bread popped up out of the toaster, signaling it was ready. I grabbed the toast and headed over to the kitchen table to butter it. Just after I finished buttering the toast my mother put a plate with two eggs and it in front of me.
"mmmmmm, this is good Mom," I said.
"Thank you, dear. Oh, Jimmy, after you finish eating. Will you run over to the store and pick out a cake for your sister? I don't want to bake, my mother asked.
"Sure thing, Mom, no probs," I said.
After I scarfed down the eggs and toast, and drank, in one gulp the orange juice my mother poured me. I let out a horrendous belch.
"Oh hunny, did you have to do that right at the table?" My mother asked.
"Sorry Mom, I'm on my way right now. And off to the store I headed.
My mother, motherly said, "Here, let me get you some money."
I wasn't going to argue.
At the store I picked out a German chocolate cake. I had them put light vanilla icing on it and inscribe "Happy Birthday Karen", on it. I asked, "how much will this be?"
"Well, I don't really know, right now. They'll tell you with the at the register," said the clerk.
At the checkout, the cashier said, "that'll be $22.95."
My eyebrows raised "Well, kind of expensive but I guess, since it's her 18th birthday it's worth it, I guess," I figured.
I threw the cake in the backseat of my real hot ride; a real cherry 1981 Mustang. I headed home. I fumbled around with the selector knob on the radio trying to find a good station. After about 10 seconds I found one and from then on the way home that was really jammin out the tunes.
When I reached the house, I heard. "Hey JT, get over here dude." It was my friend Mark. He always calls me that, "JT", it stands for my initials, "James Thompson."
It was standing up by the garage. With two other dudes that I had never seen before. "Hey man, get over here. We got something to show you," Mark belted out.
I got out of the car and walked over.
When I reached Mark, the other two guys crowded in, just like in a football huddle.
Mark reached into his front pocket and pulled out a plastic bag. "Hey dude, he whispered real lightly, you take one of these, wait 20 minutes and your dick will get so hard and stay that way for a long time." He, was of course, talking about the blue pills inside the bag.
"Where did you get those?" Inquisitively, I asked.
"Shhh, not so loud, and nevermind about that," Mark instructed.
"Hey dude! I don't need that. My dick gets hard already. I ain't no old man," I announced.
Mark gritted his teeth and growled through them. "I know dude, but this will keep it that way for a long time. Shit! One time, I took some and it stayed rock hard for almost all day. You're supposed to see a doctor if it does that but, it felt so good, no way was I gunna stop it."
I took a handful of pills, then we all backed out of the huddle. We started discussing normal things. Things like, cars, girls, new tunes on the radio, favorite rock bands, you know... Regular things.