Paper Hearts (boyxboy)

The Party

Noah: 

Friday, April 17th 1989

10:47 P.M.

The door to Mrs. Perry's room creaks as we push it open. "Thanks Paul. We'll only be a few minutes."

The janitor smiles at me and nods. "No problem Noah. Just don't tell anyone it was me who let you kids in."

He walks away and all the girls giggle. "Let's do this!" Denae cheers.

Sara shushes her, putting her finger to her lip. "Be quiet! You'll get us caught!"

She rolls her eyes at her. "No one is here, Sara. It's like, almost eleven."

"Oh yeah bitch, just keep rolling your eyes back in your head. Maybe you'll find a brain back there one day."

She shoots her a glare. "Look, I know you're still mad because of that shirt thing. But seriously you have to let it go eventually."

"Ladies shut up! Let's just do the prank and get back to my house." Mama cuts in and shoves them through the door. Once inside, we all split up with our bags, filled up with the items from Spencer's. We silently get to it, setting everything up atop the desks and hanging neon pink rope from the chalkboard. Denae and Sara don't even look in each other's directions. God, girls are so weird, have they been continuing to hang out, despite bickering like this, ever since they were arrested?

Andrew nudges my elbow. "Look." He holds up the handcuffs and smiles.

I come in closer to him and speak softly. "You know, we don't have to leave those here."

He grins deviously. "They were pretty fun, huh?"

"And what about this, huh? We never even tried it out." I pull the nipple clamps out of my bag and dangle them in front of him

With wide eyes he pushes them away. "No thanks, friend. I'd sooner choke on this bad boy." He holds a red ball gag up to his mouth, pretending to close his eyes in ecstasy.

"Quit messing around you guys!" Mama yells. "I don't want to be here all night."

We laugh together, simultaneously cooing "Kill joy."

"Okay that's the last of it." Hannah walks up to us. "Let's go get some ice cream. On me."

We both look down at our bags, still mostly full. "Give us just a minute." I say, digging around for the feather teaser I had in here.

"I'm not done yet." Denae calls out.

Sara scoffs loudly, folding her bag as she walks over to Hannah.

"Hey, let's the three of us race. Whoever finishes dirty decorating first, wins." Andy says, pulling D's attention away from her.

I don't even agree to them terms before I start throwing out my bag, determined to beat them. Frantically we toss dildos and ties and lingerie around the room, meanwhile Sara and Hannah finish it off by pouring out a few dozen bottles of lube. When we're finally finished, we take a moment to admire our work. The room looks like a dominatrix's bathroom.

"Good enough for me." Mama snorts. "Who's ready for ice cream?"

We all raise our hands and start filing out. As we make our way through the hall, Sara, Mama, Hannah, and Andy sort of break off into their own conversation about what an expensive prank they decided on. Denae, seemingly left out, walks in pace with me. As we turn the corner out of the academic wing, Andy stops in his tracks. "Shit, I needed to grab my Calc book while we're here."

"Seriously?" Mama asks. "I was sort of hoping to be out of here by now..."

"Yeah, we have a test Monday I didn't study for." He turns and starts down toward his locker. "I'll catch up with you guys."

I consider following him, but the other three have already started in that direction and Denae has launched into a conversation with me, pushing ahead. She makes comments about the school at night, the past football season, and other things I don't care to talk about. After she notices I'm not listening, there's a long period of silence before she asks me: "So how long have you two been together."

"Not that long." I answer shortly.

She arches her eyebrows. "Really? Wow."

"What?" I ask meekly, passing the gym.

She shrugs. "You tell him you love him all the time, and you've only dated for short time? Kinda weird, don't you think?"

"No, it's not weird. It may seem like we moved pretty quick to everybody else, but that's just the way things happened. When you know you love someone, you just sort of know."