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“This isn’tnaive,” I tell her “I know for a fact that he and Margot haven’t done it”

“Ho do you know ‘for a fact’? I’d love to hear this”

“I’h more She doesn’t understand; she only has a little brother She doesn’t kno it is with sisters Margot and I, we made a pact, back in middle school We souldn’t have sex until ere married or ere really, really in love and at least twenty-one Margot ht be really, really in love, but she’s not o back on her word With sisters a pact is everything

“No, I’d really love to know” Chris has that hungry glint in her eyes, and I know she’s just getting war to let you,” I say

Chris rolls her eyes “Fine But there’s no way they haven’t boned”

I think Chris talks like that on purpose to get a reaction froive her one I cal aboutsex You know I don’t like it”

Chris takes a per and starts to color in her thu such a scaredy-cat Seriously, you’ve built it up in your head to be this huge, life-changing moment, but it’s actually done in under five, and it’s not even the best part”

I know she’s waiting for nore her and say, “I think permanent marker is toxic for your nails,” to which she shakes her head at hould it be like? To be that close to a boy and have hi back Would it be scary only for a second or two, or would it be scary the whole time? What if I didn’t like it at all? Or what if I liked it too uy and a girl have been dating for a long ti on the floor of the library, our backs against the wall of the reference section nobody ever goes to It’s after school, the library’s eets Cs and Ds in che him study

Peter looks up from his chem book, suddenly interested He tosses the book aside and says, “I needti like that”

“How old are they? Our age?”

“About”

“Then irl and the guy But if I had to put uy isn’t either”

“Who are we talking about here?”

“That’s a secret” I hesitate, and then say, “Chris thinks there’s no way they haven’t She says it’s i to her for advice? That girl is a train wreck”

“She is not a train wreck!”

He gives ot wasted on Four Loko and she climbed up on Tyler Boylan’s roof and did a striptease”