on the map//spencer 'spider' white

11

I sit with Darren, Quinni, and Sasha in the library. Darren is telling us what happened with Ca$h last night.

"I don't get him. I was closer to having sеx with an actual 80-year-old man than I was with Ca$h," Darren tells us. "It was perfect. The stars aligned. And then he just chickened out."

"Hey, maybe he had to go home?" Quinni offers.

"I wasn't asking him to repaint the house. It's sеx," Darren says. "We could've done the poop hole loophole in like five minutes."

"Is that a thing?" Quinni asks.

"I just made it up," Darren tells her.

"Hey, look. Maybe he just needs an incentive," Sasha offers.

"I could give him a 15% off at work," Darren says.

"I don't think that's what Sasha meant," I tell them. "Just send him a nude."

Sasha nods. "Show him what he's missing out on."

"Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You're so right," Darren says. "This isn't me. I'm being a frigid little bitch. I'm an unattainable jellyfish."

"Yes, you are!" Quinni shouts.

"I'm an A-grade dick destroyer," Darren states.

"Exactly," Sasha says.

"I'm an actual home wrecker," Darren says.

"Wait, an actual one?" Quinni asks.

"No, babes," Sasha tells her.

"But it can't just be any regular nude. It needs to be the most fuckеd good nude in all of history," Darren says.

"Oh... Like, now?" Quinni asks.

"Study can wait, Quinni sеx can't," Darren reasons.

I laugh lightly. "While I would love to help you, I have to find Amerie."

Instead of finding Amerie Spider finds me. I smile widely as he kisses me.

"I had fun last night," I tell him. "Our first official date."

"I think next time we shouldn't leave our clothes so close to the surf," Spider offers.

I laugh at the memory of our clothes almost floating away.

"We looked like wet dogs walking into Harry's," I state.

"I'm surprised they even let us in," Spider says.

"If you weren't doing anything tonight, I thought maybe we could go out again," I tell him.

"I think I can move some things around," Spider tells me. I hit him in the chest. "I'm kidding. I'd do anything for you, Rhiannon."

Miss Obah stands at the front of the classroom. "So remember, peeps, this isn't a guessing game. It's an exercise in normalizing our what? Wants and needs."

"Wants and needs," we repeat.

"That's right. I don't want to hear any shaming. Am I clear?" Miss Obah claps her hands together. "All right. Who's first? Harper."

Harper stands up and reads one of the slips of paper, "'I have to know the person properly before I have sеx with them.'"

"Very good and very common," Miss Obah says. "Sasha."

"'I can only cum to house music.'" Sasha reads.

Spider laughs. "That's Ant."

"Yeah, so what if it is?" Ant asks.