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"Okay, sweets Well, drive safely and call ain
I’d decided to have Jeff just drop me off at hoht after I left, so I hadn’t bothered to pick up Alex I’d thought we could ht, and then that stupid Victoria had gone off and ruined everything
Just then, I heard two vehicles pulling up I didn’t have any of the lights on, so I walked up to theand peeked out Scott was helping Gunner out of the truck, and then it looked like Gunner was pushing Scott away Jessie walked up and grabbed Gunner by the ar Gunner up toward the front door I was just about to open the door for the to Jessie
"I’m really sorry I’s your first, Jessme"
Her first? Her first kiss? Her first love? Her first crush?
"Drew, you’re really drunk, and you need to sleep this off before you talk to Ellie Do you think she’s asleep?"
"Shheee’s probably at my Graaaammm’s house," he said with a slur
"Oh, okay Well, you can ht?"
"Don’t worry, Jess on yous I wuv my wife very hed "Drew, I know you better than that, and I kno much you love Ellie Just do me a favor Always be honest with her, Drew Honesty is so i on the door, I jumped back
"Jesus, Gunner, be careful," Scott said
Gunner started laughing "Don’t worry, Jessinity to behind the barn at sixteen, I’ll be sures to be honest and tell her it was yous"
I threw my hand up to my mouth Oh My God No!
"Nice, Gunner Really nice, you asshole You make a lousy drunk," Scott said
"Fuck off, Drew," Jessie said
I stepped back away fro He slept with Jessie? She was his first? That rabbed the door, and opened it as fast as I could I stepped back when I saw Gunner co into the house When he landed, he hit his head on the tile floor
Oh shit!
"Motherfucker! What in the hell just happened?" Gunner sat up and grabbed his head
When I looked over at Jessie, I saw she was looking atdown her face as she held her hand up to her od, Ellie…"
Scott helped Gunner stand up, and then he asked where our bedroom was I told him and then turned back toward Jessie
"Was he your first?" I asked
She nodded, and I sucked in a breath of air Fuck
"Ellie, it wasn’t anything like that I ether We were friends…almost like brothers and sisters even"
"Uh-huh…brothers and sisters who sleep together?"
"Drew and I started talking about it ere behind the barn one day He mentioned he’d never had sex, and I couldn’t believe it I irls around here loved it whenever he ca themselves at hi led to another, and we--"
I shook my head "I really don’t want the details of the first time my husband ever had sex" I needed air, so I walked out onto the porch
"Of course I’ to either one of us We were curious, that’s all I’d heard o on and on about it, and well…I wanted to know I begged Drew I told hi to be with anyone, I wanted it to be with one of my best friends"
I spun around and looked at her "Funny because irls want it to be with someone they love!" I shouted at her
"I know, Ellie, I knoasn’t a norin when I started school, so…I guess you could say we both used each other" She looked away "Believe me, I think back to that afternoon, and I wish I could take it back I wish I would have saved myself for when I met the man of my dreams But I can’t take it back, and I’ll never experience that ical moment…ever I cried afterward, and I told Dre stupid I was for talking hi how I’d never get ized to me for five years after that Every tiot od No wonder he wanted to ether so special "That must have hurt you for him to say he fucked you behind the barn" I walked closer to her and took her into"He didn’t mean that, Ellie He doesn’t have a " She pulled back and looked at me as she took a deep breath "When he cae, we started dating It was for a very short auilt I don’t think either one of us wanted to date each other It ard Maybe ere just trying to make each other feel better I was actually totally in love with one of his friends," she said with a laugh
Do I really want to hear this?
"We only lasted for a month and a half"
"What happened?"
She looked away and then back at me with a weak smile "U…uether onna puke