Green-minded (EDITING) ✔

N I N E T E E N: The Fall

Wincing from this throbbing pain on my head, I try to get up from my bed, "This headache torments me like hell." I check my wristwatch, 5:15 AM.

"Are you okay?!" Trixie' voice thunders the room as if it's not wee hours of the morning. She's still lying on the bed, her eyes are tightly shut.

"Yeah, I'm fine 'cause I can hear you loud and clear now." I grin, my muscles are also a bit sore from the massage but I feel so rejuvenated, "It's just that my head's in severe pain."

"Do you want to take a pill?" She scrambles through her handbag, taking a bottle of aspirin and giving it to me.

I take one pill from the bottle and swallow it without water, it's small anyway. Remembering about what happened last night, I can't help but think if it's really Ashton behind it. No, impossible. I shake off the thought. This is is making my head hurt much more, just pondering about it.

"I think I've got to go. Tony must be dying to see me, you know?" I giggle, trying to make my thoughts lighter.

Trixie cracks up, "I know, girl. He's head over heels in love with you. Better get ready for some lovin' later."

"Hey, we're not in that stage yet." My cheeks are tinged with pink.

I can't describe the look of shock on her face, "What the heck? You mean.. He didn't pop the cherry yet?! You were able to stand a week in the same room with Tony-fucking-Green doing snakes and ladders, scrabble, or god forbid hide-and-seek?! You're shitting me now, right? Right?!" Her voice is shaking while her index finger's directed at me

"I'm not, Trix." I smile at her exaggerated reaction.

"That's crap, fuck, total bullsh-" Trixie's eyes widen as if her eyeballs are about to escape the sockets.

"Hey, stop cursing." I laugh at her.

"Okay. This is the last day of our trip. Make it memorable, come on now, get up and do some lovemaking with Tony. I've got to confront Ashton as well." She just said 'lovemaking' as if it's nothing.

I shake my head in disbelief, "There's no rush, sis. I'll get back to our room."

"Oh my gosh! Didn't he invite you to have sex with him yet? Maybe the rumors are true? Tony is gay!" There she goes again, saying sex casually, without any reservations, unbelievable.

"He said he's waiting for me to be ready. Sex is important for me, okay? As much as possible, I want to do it after marriage." There you go, I was able to let it out of my chest.

"Virgin Ash Mary!" That's pun intended knowing that my first name is Ash Marie, she rolls her eyes, placing her hand on her chin, "Stop your rubbish talk! Your vagina is like a seething volcano right now. The prolonged heat and lingering tension inside you need to explode. The lava, rocks, and ashes are about to rot because there's no eruption for twenty-five years. You've just got to let go, let it happen. Are you waiting to become an extinct volcano?" She's like my science teacher lecturing to me.

I shake my head at her, "You're wrong. There's always the right time for the volcano to erupt beautifully and now's not it. I'm telling you."

Trixie looks like a rabid dog, ready to attack me, "Shut up and stop talking crap!"

"You started the weird volcano talk here." I cross my arms over my chest.

"No, you started the no-sex-before-marriage-talk. That's a piece of shit to me."

"To you, but not for me. At least, I won't regret anything if I give it after marriage."

"Duh. There's a thing called divorce, you know, sometimes there's no happily ever after."