As Jenny Young slept soundly in her parents bedroom, sleeping the sleep of the beautiful damned, her younger sister Becky sat twitching in the living room with her best friend Sara debating with herself in her coked up mind if Sara could handle the truth of her relationship with Jenny. Poor, poor Becky, Could she trust her friend with this deep dark secret? Or would she lose Sara with the revelation of Becky and Jenny’s perversion?
Becky mulled this not so classic conundrum over in her young, overly stimulated mind while Sara sat beside her wondering what the fuck was taking Becky so long to answer such a simple question. Her equally drugged out twenty-year-old brain was quickly growing impatient. Understandably, considering all the coke they had just consumed, Sara suddenly felt the need to push the issue.
“ What,” Sara blurted out, perhaps a little too forcefully, “ Is Jenny sick or something?” Becky shook her head as Sara spoke, half out of shock and half out of disagreement. Suddenly she realized that she might as well tell. It wasn’t like Sara was saint or anything. How the hell could she judge Becky? Becky knew some of the shit her impish little friend had done. Like that cheerleader back in high school, or that time she’d taken on those six guys at that rave in East Lansing, and that one time with her cousin Julia. Sara would not be in a position to judge Becky immoral for loving her sister a little more then normal.
And besides she loved Sara and Sara loved her. Their friendship was that close.
“ Hello?” Sara chided her again, “look, I know this is good shit, but come on, Becky, where’s Jenny been? I’ve been dying to see her since last summer.”
“Do you remember I told you Jenny was like getting serious about some guy at the fucking college she’s going to?” Becky asked quietly, with an odd smile on her pretty face, a smile not altogether intentional.
“ Yeah. Why, what about it?”
“ Well, you know, I don’t really know. I do know is that it’s not happening anymore.”
Sara looked at Becky perplexed for a moment. She had known Becky ever since elementary school and she had met Jenny shortly there after. Becky and Jenny had always been close, and not just in the usual sister/sister way. Sara had a sister herself and they got along quite well, but they were nothing compared to Becky and Jenny. Becky and Jenny shared everything.
“ Hasn’t she told you?” she asked with real concern. Jenny was her friend as well even if she was (so Sara thought) a bit of a prude.
“No.” replied Becky simply. Sara thought for a moment, fighting the drugs the raced through her brain to think clearly about this situation. And, to think, she hadn’t even heard the half of it.
“ Well, so,” she finally said, “ Maybe it was just a bad break up. She’ll tell you eventually.”
Becky continued to look concerned, though Sara had no idea why. How could she? Becky then took step two.
“I’m sure your right, but there’s something else as well,” Becky had lost the coy smile by now as she struggled to find the best way to reveal the true depth of the situation at hand. “ When Jenny came home last week she was all doped and totally not Jenny. She was out at every college party, every high school party, and every party in town sluting it up and fucking every boy who showed even the slightest interest in her.” “ Bull shit,” Sara in disbelief, “ Jenny isn’t a slut.”
“ Sara, I was there. In a week Jenny fucked at least twelve different guys.”
Sara suddenly understood the seriousness of the situation. Jenny liked sex as much as anyone else, but like the good prude she was, she kept her sex in a relationship. Jenny Young did not put out without some kind of commitment. Everyone who knew her knew that. It was gospel truth.
“Whoa,” was all Sara could come up with. Becky knew it was now time to move on to step three.
“ Yeah, I know,” she said and then paused to think for a second, “ but that’s not the weirdest of it.”
Sara looked at Becky dead in the eye then wondering what she meant by weirdest. What could be weirder than Jenny Young, party-girl slut? She was about to find out shortly.
“ I let her go, you know, do her thing for a bit and just sat back and watched hoping everything would get better, you know?” Becky began. Sara just nodded and said yeah, so Becky continued. “ So, like after this one really stupid little party that had no hot guys, no good drugs, not even any good beer she came home all fucked up and, obviously fucked.” Becky paused and lit herself a cigarette for courage. She took a good, long drag and blew out the smoke slowly.
“ Well,” she continued, “ I had left the party early ‘cause like I said it sucked, so I was home waiting for her.” Again Becky paused and took a long, slow drag of her smoke. Sara was staring at her transfixed, in a daze as the coke began to change its pace in her head. Becky looked over at Sara and suddenly realized that she’d better say it soon or just let it go.
And she knew, deep down, that she could not just let it go anymore. She had to tell someone and Sara was right here, listening intently though she had no idea what she was really hearing. Becky came to a quick decision. It was now or never.
“ Sara, “ she said firmly, “what I’ve been trying to tell you is that me and Jenny are lovers.”
Becky looked at Sara, staring her friend directly in the eye and Sara stared right back at her. Sara shocked look said it all. Becky had made a big mistake. She looked away, embarrassed, almost ready to cry when she heard Sara beginning to laugh hysterically.