“Yeah, first time I’ve shown up to one of these…” “I’ve never seen you around,” she said, smirking and with eyes crinkled. Dozing off at a pool table, half-drunk with a cheap light beer in my hand, the girl of my dreams tapped me on my shoulder. I’d find her at that party, or more aptly she’d find me. With a half-hearted “sure” I sealed my fate. Anyways bro, gotta get ready for Reese’s thing. Plus everyone gets laid at this sleazy campus. “Look, moping around isn’t getting you anywhere. At least he had a story he could laugh at. I didn’t find it amusing, his attempts to comfort me only made me feel worse.
You know what I got out of it? HPV,” my friend Eduardo said with a rousing laugh that drew the attention of everyone at the cafe. It was awkward and fumbling and we kept clacking our teeth together. An older quirky party girl who would show me the ropes. My first time was the quintessential fantasy.
