ME VERSUS WENDY
The amazing thing about Snapchat, when it first came out in 2009, was that it was custom-made for "sneak-sexting" with someone. What I mean is, it made "sneak-sexting" a thing. If you were sexting with an actual boyfriend, where you wanted to look back later at your sexts, as a way to pinch yourself and say "Am I actually dating X?", well, by definition, you wouldn't do that on Snapchat--you couldn't look af it later. So there were only two types of "couples" on Snapchat--teens (and, uggh, tweens) whose parents checked their cellphones, and "sneaking" couples like Scott and me. Scott wasn't my roomate's official boyfriend--they hadn't "done it" yet--but he was "off limits" to me. Which is what made our sexting and phone sex so exciting. We were both doing it behind Robin's back.
Having phone sex. But no actual sex. Why was that? Freshman year at Northeastern, there was a guy who wanted phone sex but not actual sex. My theory at the time, which turned out to be correct, was that he hsd a small dick. As in, less than three inches. But that's not Scott's deal--he's Snapchatted me his wide dick. Does he have performance anxiety? I want to confront him, but I don't. The phone sex, and the sneaking around Robin, is still exciting.
One day, Scott and I are on the phone. We've both cum, but are resting so we can cum again. We're asking each other random questions about each other. He asks me if I've ever been in a fight with a girl. He's probably looking for some made-up lie. For some reason, I tell him a true story that happened to me in 2005, when I was 18.
Although my parents both had good jobs growing up, our neighborhood in Massachusetts was a bit rough-around-the-edges. It wasn't a cookie-cutter cul de sac. New houses were getting built in between and around older decaying houses. Which meant people who took the train every morning to fancy jobs in Boston or who worked in the industrial parks in Natick or Framingham were mixed in with the "townies" who started landscaping or plumbing are heating/air conditioning businesses out of their homes, driving to jobs in white vans they parked evrry night in their home driveways. In elementary or middle school, we didn't think much of such social stratifications. But by high school, where you needed to decide if you were going away to college or not, understanding such social niceties became unavoidable.
My senior year in high school, 2004-05, a new girl moved into the neighborhood, about 5 or 6 houses from mine. Her name was Wendy. She had a very pretty face, and pretty much the fanciest hair style (coloring, layering) I had ever seen in a girl my age. She also wore what seemed like expensive outfits and boots. When we would take the school bus home (ughh, how I dreaded thr school bus as a high school senior!) I would stare at Wendy's boots. Then her clothes. Then her hair. Then her face. Our eyes would meet. Is she staring at me? Is she challenging me to a fucking staring contest? That bitch! Who does she think she is? We never spoke. Just day after day of these wordless staring contests on the bus.
As the school year went on, I gradually learned Wendy's story. No wonder her clothes were so glamorous--she was 19 years old. She had gotten pregnant a year ago by a guy, now 22, who grew up in our neighborhood. They weren't together anymore--they never really had been, except for the hour or whatever it took them to get pregnant--but her parents had rejected her for getting knocked up before finishing high school. The baby's paternal grandmother, who was my neighbor, took Wendy in. Wendy delivered the baby, she and the grandmother were raising it together, and now Wendy was back in high school to finish her degree. So, shit, Wendy was a mom.
So it made sense, a little at least, that Wendy never spoke to me, or anyone, on the bus. We must all seem like little kids to her. We're all looking for dates to the school dance on Friday; Wendy's already had unprotected sex, taken a pregnancy test, seen the dreaded '+' on the stick, run away from her parents, gone thru 9 months of pregnancy (including the getting-fat part--gross), delivered a baby, nursed a baby, changed a baby's stinky diaper 200 times, gotten up at 3am with a hungry baby. And then gone back to high school.
So what did a girl like me and a girl like her have to say to each other, anyways? So we just stared at each other on the bus senior year. I was outta here anyhow, once my Northeastern acceptance came thru in April. So long, suckers (including you, Wendy).
The summer between high school graduation and going away to Northeastern was like some not-quite-a-woman-but-MOST-DEFINITELY-NOT-a-girl 12-week interlude to blow off some steam. I got totally horny for a 21 year old pothead type in our neighborhood. Our "fooling around" actually was surprisingly tame (hand jobs, mostly) considering how horny I was. He was too much in love with pot to ever pay too much attention to a girl. The perfect summer fling. But I ended up walking into and out of his place that summer. In, out, in, out. And Wendy could see. And started to notice.
And one humid summer evening, as I was returning home on a walking path, she was standing there. In boots, as usual. Hands on hips. Total attitude. For the first time ever, I heard her voice. "Another booty call, Bella?".
"What business is it of yours, bitch?", I impulsively blurted out.
The universe, at that moment, was conspiring to loosen all of my inhibitions. The stars were aligned. I had just had mediocre casual sex. A pretty girl in badass boots was blocking my way home. The first words said girl ever stooped to address to me were kinds personal. We had just discovered that we clearly were "sharing" a booty call partner (so much for an unplanned pregnancy scaring Wendy off of sex).
But on top of all those, this was the clincher. The meaning of all those school bus staring contests became blindingly obvious--Wendy had been challenging me.
All that remained now were the fighting words. And they came quickly.
"Get out of my way, Wendy."
"Make me. Bitch."
And I just lost it. My hands went for Wendy's styled, colored hair. Win or lose, she wasn't getting out of this fight, I decided, without me doing at least $50 worth of damage to her hair. I felt punches to my face, my sides, my back. Good, keep doing that, punch my back you stupid GED teen mom. That doesn't hurt at all.
I think during our fight, I actually did call her a teen mom. Out loud. More than once.
And I think it actuslly worked. In hurting her. Because even though it was my first catfight ever, I won. I never let go of Wendy's hair once. Within a minute, I was dragging her along the ground by the hair, kicking her in the belly. I aanted to keep going, but then I felt bad that she had a baby at home. So I made her give. And I walked home. And I kept doing that booty call for the rest of the summer, hoping each time that she would stop me on the way home. But she never did.
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Scott must have like my story. "Tell it to me again," he begs.
To be continued.....