"No, everything isn't okay," Kali told me. "Tommy tells me he has a room at a hotel and he expects me to go there with him after the dance." You're no... going are you?" I asked."Absolutely not! I know that being a virgin isn't that big a thing anymore, but Tommy isn't the person I want to give my virginity to." Who DO you want to give your virginity to?" I asked jokingly."I don't know yet, Ed. When I'm ready, I'll know." Yeah, I kind of feel the same way. You know, when I was dating Mindy. Caden deleted the message without hesitation and closed her phone. Tears that she hadn’t known formed began to fail. ‘I love you!’ he had shouted. Caden reached for a red pillow, pulling it under her. She let her tears fall onto it turning the fabric a dark crimson. ‘I refuse to let you regret this,’ she told herself. ‘You’re better than this, Cay. It shouldn’t take you leaving for him to realize how he feels.’ She swiped at a tear that was bothering her temple. ‘You’re no better, Caden,’. . didn't even stop.Of course, now that I'm a little older, I can look back on all that with glasses that aren't fogged by Ronnie Prater. There were fish in that lake. Lots of them. There were dozens of them my own age. But they were as minnows compared to a twelve pound Big Boob ... er ... I mean Big Mouth Bass. She put every other woman to shame. And, of course, that wasn't true either. I did actually ask Cynthia Johnson to the Prom, and we had a good time, except she tripped over her dress,. Jealousy?.. This was new, but I thought, maybe I could use it to my advantage. I told her that I would call her after.Robbie and I arrived promptly at 8 and saw Jamie, Amanda, and a third fairly masculine woman sitting at a high table. We joined them and all shook hands. Jamie introduced the new addition as her girlfriend Jessica. I had already guessed that Jamie might be gay. I had wondered earlier if Amanda was her girlfriend, figuring that Amanda was the “girl” and Jamie was the.