Ethereal Love

Family Dynamic

"So, you actually punched him?" Gina giggled, even more so when I nodded, blushing.

"Well, he didn't tell me that you lived in Salt Lake! I had a right to punch him!" Nini defended herself. Gina rolled her eyes.

"He is an idiot. I realized after you left that I never told you. And I'd never even gotten your number. It didn't occur to me when we saw each other every day at camp." She sighed. Nini shrugged.

"Well, you've got it now. And I suppose I can forgive my idiot of a boyfriend since he is the reason you're here right now..." she conceded.

After Ricky had recovered from being punched in the stomach- which wasn't even hard, despite his claims that it was bruised (come on, have you seen Nini's muscles? No? Yeah, because she has none.), he'd given Nini Gina's number and she'd hurriedly said goodbye before running back into the house, up to her bedroom, and dialling the number.

"Hello?" Gina had answered, a little cautious. Nini squealed and, as soon as she recognized the voice, Gina did the same. As it turned out, Gina had lived in Salt Lake for the last 10 years, but she went to West High and she'd never really had any friends outside of the school. Ricky had met her through the camp back when he first started going, when he was eleven, and since then they'd been close friends. He'd never seen her much outside of camp, however, because despite knowing that she lived in Salt Lake, neither of them had been able to drive until recently.

After a very long, very detailed conversation on how much they'd missed each other and how long it had been, Nini had told Gina that she simply had to come over the next day, (a Saturday), and Gina agreed, deciding to ditch work because catching up with her friend was much more important.

And that was how they came to be lying on the beanbags on Nini's bedroom floor, eating popcorn and talking with Frozen 2 playing on the TV. (Nini may or may not have found a pirate copy. Don't be mad. She was a Disney freak. And she had seen it at the movie theatre and was definitely planning to buy the DVD so really, who was it hurting?) They weren't really paying attention to the movie though because they were too busy talking.

"So, anyway... okay, the reason you even came up in conversation was because, um... basically, my mom found us asleep together in my bed. Just sleeping, before you get all giggly, buts he kinda flipped and I ended up admitting to her that we're having sex and then eventually I managed to calm her down and convince her not to kill Ricky. Anyway, then I was telling Ricky how I wish my other mom was still here so I could talk to her about it all- you know, sex, and then I said that I wished I had a friend I could talk to about it. And then I mentioned you, and how I wish you were here, and he was like 'why don't you talk to her?' and then he told me you lived here, blah blah blah, and then I kinda punched him because I was pissed that he'd only just told me and I was in shock because you live in SLC!" Nini explained. Gina grinned.

"Awe, you want to have a girly talk? I'm honored! Although, I don't know how much help I'll be with the sex stuff... you know, I only really do that kind of thing with other girls. But I've made out with Ricky!" she added, and then cringed. Nini rolled her eyes.

"Nice, Gi."

"Sorry. Didn't think that one through." She felt bad but Nini just shrugged.

"Honestly, it doesn't bother me at all. Ricky had sex before he met me, and that doesn't bother me. So why would it bother me that he made out with you? Especially since you obviously didn't have feelings for him."

Gina chuckled.

"Nope, none. And it was only for a dare. To be fair, at the time he didn't know I was gay... but I did. I thought I made it obvious, too. But it didn't seem to sink into his thick skull until he caught me and my ex-girlfriend, although she wasn't an 'ex' at the time, doing the nasty in my cabin." They both laughed at Ricky's stupidity.