ghost. You guys okay?”
“She just realized what a man slut Rocko is,” Sam said, walking into
the kitchen area.
Julianna put her bags down at the end of the counter. “I thought
you knew that? You said you just wanted to have fun with him.”
Heather looked down at her lap. “I know what I said, but I
thought, I don’t know, since we’d been seeing so much of each other-”
“What?” Julianna asked. “You thought he wouldn’t let other girls
suck him off when he’s all coked up?”
Heather’s face fell. “I know it sounds stupid.”
“I told her if she didn’t like him, she wouldn’t be so upset,”
Sam said, taking a pizza out of the oven.
“That smells burnt,” Julianna said, crinkling her nose.
“It’s fine,” Sam said. “I like it crispy. You don’t have to eat
it.”
Heather interjected. “So what am I supposed to do, stop liking
him?”
Julianna took off a silver ring and rolled it back and forth on
the table. “Probably. Unless you’re willing to share him?”
“Maybe a little,” Heather said, “but not with the Tri-Delt twins
and their whole pledge class!”
“Ouch,” Sam said. “Tough competition.”
Heather looked at Julianna. “Sam told me you’d know what to do.
She said you would understand.”
Julianna turned to Sam. “Why would you think that?”
Sam shrugged. “I don’t know. Cause of Charlie?”
Julianna felt her face go hot. “That was completely different. Charlie
was supposed to be faithful to me. We were in a relationship. I didn’t know he
was going to fuck around behind my back before I started hooking up with him.”
“I know the situation isn’t exactly the same,” Sam said. “I just
meant you’d understand how she was feeling.”
Julianna took a deep breath and clenched her jaw. “Heather. I’m
sorry you’re hurting, but you need to get over it. Rocko isn’t good enough for
you anyway.”
Heather’s eyes darted around the apartment and she spoke
quietly. “So you don’t think that maybe if I was better at stuff he would want
to be with me?”
“You mean better at sex?” Julianna asked.
“Yeah.” Heather brushed her blond bangs out of her eyes.
“Blowjobs, whatever.”
Julianna sat back in her chair. “Unfortunately, I don’t think it
would make much of a difference in this case.”
“Why not?”
Julianna blew air out her lips. “Jesus. I don’t even know where
to start.”
“Cause he doesn’t want a relationship first of all,” Sam chimed
in as she wrestled with the dull pizza cutter.
Julianna nodded. “And he’s on drugs all the time, right?”
Heather shrugged. “Sometimes.”
“Have you ever tried to give a blowjob to a guy who’s high on
coke?”
“At this point, I suppose it would be naïve of me to say no.”
Julianna smiled. “Right. Well you know how you have to suck for
so long your jaw basically comes unhinged and sometimes nothing even comes of
it?”
Heather swallowed.
“The point is,” Julianna said, “technique isn’t really a factor
in that situation. That’s why he’d happily let a whole sorority pledge class
slobber all over his dick. Cause he’d get just as much out of it.”
“Julianna’s right,” Sam said. “And even if you thought you could
trust him to change, you can’t trust anyone he hangs out with.”
Heather pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her chin on
them. She stared straight ahead without saying anything.
“I’m sorry if you don’t feel better,” Julianna said, “but that’s
the truth.”
Sam nodded in agreement as she put some pizza slices on a plate
around a big blob of ranch dressing.
Heather cleared her throat. “Okay. So this is my fault. I
shouldn’t have let myself develop feelings for someone so clearly bad for me.”
The girls nodded.
“But,” Heather continued, “will you still teach me what you
know?”
“Me?” Julianna asked, knowing full well that she was talking to
her.
“Yeah,” Heather said. “Sam told
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