I stand, put my coat back on and pick my bag up. We make our way out to the car and, in no time, are on the dual carriageway.
Jill turns to me, “well, that went far better than I thought it would.”
“Yes, it wasn’t as awkward as I thought it would be.”
“No, I was surprised how fast you caught on. What did you think of kissing?”
“I thought there would be more…I don’t know. More to it, I suppose, it was nothing like you read in books.”
“You realize it will be different with the right person?” She looks at me for a response. “Did you get any feeling from it?”
“Oh, what like down there?”
“Yeah, did you get aroused at all?”
“Yeah, it definitely had an effect.”
The rest of the ride in was in silence for a change. There was no telling her what I would be doing to her. Last week had got quite graphic, and it seems to have had the desired effect.
I’m sitting in the canteen at lunchtime listening to Nicky and Clive talking about the girls in the café. They have realized that they are the same girls he had spoken with before. Well, if you count, “what are you looking at?” And “don’t know the labels dropped off” as a conversation.
I wait for my moment to drop my bombshell. It’s pretty funny listening to them plan a way to talk to them. I get my chance when Nicky says, “I wonder how old they are?”
“Same age as us,” I say. Boom, all three are looking at me like they don’t know me. So I continued, “one of them stopped me on the way out because she recognized me as her gran’s neighbour.”
“Please tell me it’s the one with Archie?” Nicky says.
“It’s the one with Archie,” I say.
“And?”
“And, they might be joining us for Rocky IV.”
“Might?”
“Well, nothing concrete, but they will meet us in MacArthur’s before.”
“Are you sure?”
“That’s what they said, so yeah.”
Andy then asks, “so what are their names?”
“Charlie is the granddaughter, and her three friends are Sharon, Michelle, and Karen.”
I watch the guys sitting there, stunned into silence. I’m not sure whether it’s shock or fear, but I’m finding it entertaining.
The rest of the day shoots by, and it’s not long until we are in Biology. I don’t know what I was expecting, but as I walked in, she gave me her usual smile of recognition, and everything was normal.