the fairy | john bender ✅

twenty eight

"What would I do for a million bucks?" Andrew questions aloud. "Well, I guess I'd do as little as I had to."

"That's boring!" Claire exclaims.

"Well, how am I supposed to answer?"

"The idea is to like search your mind for the absolute limit. Like, uh, would you drive to school naked?" she asks.

"Um-would I have to get out of the car?" he laughs.

"Of course."

"In the spring, or winter?" Andrew questions. The two drag on, making Julian go into a daze, sitting between John and Allison. He leans against the chair behind him, too tired to care anymore.

"I'd do that!" Allison butts in, forcing Jc from his mind. "I'll do anything sexual, I don't need a million dollars to do it either."

"You're lying."

"I already have...I've done just about everything there is except a few things that are illegal. I'm a nymphomaniac!"

"Least you ain't into necrophilia," Julian mumbles.

"Oh, but I am!"

"And now I have that image. Great," he grumbles once more, rubbing the tiredness from his eyes. "Your parents aware? Or do they not give a shit?"

"I don't think that from a legal standpoint what he did can be construed as rape since I paid him," Allison continues. Julian can she's swimming in the attention, might as well let her.

"He's an adult!" Claire exclaims.

"And married!" Allison adds on.

"Do you have any idea how completely gross that is?" Claire asks, her face contorted in disgust.

"The first few times-"

"First few times?" she cuts her off. "You mean he did it more than once? Are you crazy?"

"You're asking someone who screwed a shrink," Julian points out.

"And you fucked a guy."

"Not yet," he lets a moment pass before asking, "Have you done it, Claire?"

"Didn't we already cover this?"

"You never answered," Bender tells her.

"I'm not gonna discuss my private life with total strangers."

"It's kind of a double-edged sword, isn't it? If you say you haven't, you're a prude. If you say you have, you're a slut! It's a trap. You want to but you can't but when you do you wish you didn't, right. Or are you a tease?" Allison questions.

"She's a tease," Andrew agrees.

"Just forget it," Claire tries to brush it off.

"You're a tease and you know it, all girls are teases!" he goes on.

"She's only a tease if what she does gets you hot," Bender adds.

"I don't do anything!"

"That's why your a tease," Julian clarifies.

"Doesn't it bother you to sleep around without being in love. I mean don't you want any respect?" Claire sidetracks, placing the attention on Allison.

"I don't screw to get respect," she explains. "That's the difference between you and me."

"Just face it," Julian speaks, "you're a tease!"

"I'm not a tease!"

"Sure you are! You said it yourself sex is a weapon, you use it to get respect!" Bender twists her words.

"No, I never said that, she twisted my words around. I don't use it period!"

"Oh, are you medically frigid or is it psychological?" he questions more.

"I didn't mean it that way! You guys are putting words in my mouth!"

"Just answer the question," Julian puts it simply.

"Why don't you just answer the question?"

"Be honest."

"No big deal."

"Yeah, answer it!"

"Answer the question, Claire!"

"Talk to us!"

"Come on, answer the question!"

"It's easy, it's only one question!"

"No!" she screams. "I never did it!"