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Saturday, January 31st, 2023

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Saturday, January 31st, 2023

4:45 p.m

A few hours before..

__________

"Who fucked you?" Mia asks me abruptly.

And here I thought I covered up enough.

Embarrassingly I almost yell, "W-what?"

I forget how straightforward she is at times. But I suppose I can be worse. When Mia called after Leighton left, I could've sworn my heart skipped a beat.

I thought we were busted.

Makes me laugh when I think about it, actually. I feel like a teenager sneaking around with her secret boyfriend that her parents don't know about.

And since, I didn't have the luxury to actually be a teenager with a secret boyfriend nor parents to hide that secret boyfriend from, feels like I'm a kid again.

I don't think I have been for a long time.

I couldn't be, really.

"First off, your voice is different. Like the back of throat is hurting. Second, covering your neck with that ugly ass scarf won't hide the hickeys."

"Hey Alea, how are you?"

"What happened to hi, how are you?"

Mia glares at me before playing along a bit,

"Hey Alea, how are you after having dirty sex all night?"

"I wasn't— I wasn't having sex. Yes, I was indulging in activities, but I wasn't having sex or getting fucked, as you so nicely put it."

"Why— how do you make even the most dirtiest things sound so sophisticated?"

"I haven't.. had sex yet."

I'm not ashamed of being a virgin, I mean, when could I have possibly had time to do such things?
When I was in the hospital at 15? Or on antidepressants, going to therapy every day of the week during my entire adolescence after finding my mother and uncle's dead bodies?

You don't tell people that so what you do tell them is,

"I'm waiting for the right person." I admit.

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