Sherwood Forest

Runaround Sue.

The cliffs by my house were about 80 feet at the highest point, but where we hung out the most was about 40 feet up. There was a little crevice you could jump over if you were brave. It was only a couple of feet wide, but if you fell the fall would have been fatal. I fell from about ten feet below there, and was lucky to only break my arm.

Next to the crevice was a curved indentation into the rock. You could rest there comfortably with the edge behind you. I slept there many times, and passed out there many more.

The first time I hooked up with a chick for real was in that curved indention, laying on a bed made out of our coats.

More Catcher in the Rye.

Her name was Susan. She lived down the road past the church. She was short and chubby, was a year younger than me, and had a big mouth. She was a pretty bad person all around, and was abusive to me most of the time. She cheated on me the whole time we were together. She had her issues.

We hooked up the night we met.

One day about a month after I started dating her I went to meet her in a close by neighborhood. She wasn't where she was supposed to be, but I saw a group of her friends out walking. I went to ask if they had seen her.

One of the girls was an older girl that I kind of knew from school. Her name was Regina, and she was kind of hot. Tall and thin, the opposite of Sue.

When Regina found out that I was Sue's boyfriend, she started hitting on me. She said that I was good looking, and out of nowhere asked if I wanted to hook up with her behind a stack of milk cartons next to a grocery store. She promised that Sue would never find out, and all the other girls promised the same thing.

To my credit I turned her down. I said that I wanted to be loyal to Sue.

"You might as well. She's cheating on you right now with my boyfriend," Regina told me. She told his name; it was a kid that I kind of knew from school, too.

"If we have sex we can get back at both of them," Regina explained.

"So you weren't really going to keep this a secret, were you?"

She admitted that she wasn't.

"And you don't really think I am good looking, do you?" I asked.

She admitted that she didn't. It was all about revenge.

Again, to my credit, I turned her down.

When I found Sue later that day we got into a fight and broke up.

A week later at school the principal came on the morning announcements and solomely informed us that Regina's boyfriend had been killed the night before. He had been fighting with someone over a girl, and the other guy shot him.

I never found out anything more than that.

I hooked up with Sue a couple of more times, but things kind of went down hill from there.