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were lying in our
beds saying nothing, I could sense she wanted to talk to me some
more. I told her “I can feel it – go ahead.”
    “Are you sure you're okay
Addie?”
    “Yes, I'll be fine. I'm just
hoping no one else finds out or that Logan doesn't blab it to his
friends.”
    “I don't think he ever
would, he has to know what he did was wrong and if he told anyone,
the truth would come out.” Nic explained.
    I got all choked up, but
after I got control of my emotions I said, “Maybe this is from the
consequences of my actions, you know what comes around goes
around.”
    I could see the outline of
Nic as she sat up in bed “Are you kidding me, you didn't deserve
this and it wasn't your fault. You were unfortunately in the wrong
place at the wrong time.” I sucked in a deep breath and attempted a
little humor. “Well, I am a hussy! After all, I go around kissing
other people's boyfriends; just give me a “Red Letter” on my
chest.”
    Nic started laughing “It's a
scarlet letter.”
    “Whatever, I am damaged.”
     
    The next night her mom
dropped us off at McDonald's. It was right across the street from
Montrose Swim Club which had a miniature golf course. We were kids
always looking for something to do. We got to McDonald's, ate and
hung out for a bit, saw some kids we knew, chatted and then walked
across the street to go golfing. The guy in charge wouldn't give us
a discount, we were supposed to get a discount when my mom worked
there but he never gave it to us before and he certainly didn't
give it to us this night either, even though, we were very
charming.
    I thought I was bad at
putting but Nic was worse. We had fun though, we always do. As we
finished up, we decided not to let our balls go into oblivion on
the 18 th hole. We pocketed them instead. As we were walking back to
drop off our putters, we ran into Declan and his girlfriend. So we
gave our putters and golf balls to them – that'll teach the guy for
not giving us a discount!
    As we crossed the street
back to McDonald's we were trying to decide if there was anything
else we could do before calling Nic's mom, when a pickup truck
pulled into the Mickey D's parking lot. It was Ben and a couple of
his friends. I knew Ben vaguely but Nic knew him pretty well from
the camp she volunteered at last summer. They yelled for us to come
over, told us they were having a party, they were just here to pick
up dinner. We jumped into the back of their truck without saying a
word to each other.
    They were kind of gawky, but
respectable. “Before we take off” Nic announced, “You've got
to promise to drop us back off here by 11.” Ben promised. However,
when we got to Ben's the only people there were Ben's older sister
and her boyfriend. Another thirty minutes went by and still no one
else came, so I guessed they weren't really having a party. It was
just us and them.
    It was all right though,
kinda fun, us kids were in the basement while his sister and
boyfriend kept to the kitchen upstairs. The boys were pushing
drinks on us the whole time, Nic and I kept saying no, although we
kept thinking about it. Like we wanted to get drunk at this sort
of “not” party. We broke down and had one drink which we called a
social drink. The boys started doing whip-its, Nic and I had never
even heard of them. The gases to make whip cream supposedly gave
you a quick buzz that went away rather quickly, hopefully,
undetectable by parents, as the effects didn't last. It took some
coaxing but Nic tried one and then so did I. Right after though,
Nic attempted to do the stairs and didn't quite make it. Then we
both finally agreed to another beer.
    One of Ben's friends came to
sit next to me on the couch. We made small talk, and then he
scooted closer and put his arm around me and planted a kiss right
on my cheek. I pushed him away and told him to get lost. He placed
himself in front of me and tried kissing me on the lips. That was
all it took, I freaked out and I don't remember