Old conversations
An old conversation from, like, probably before I started this journal, or maybe during its early days--maybe it's already posted here, I dunno--that I chose to post for two reasons:
!) I'm going through an old e-mail account and found a buncha stuff.
@) Jay showed up at my front door the other day, new hair style but old goofy grin.
A conversation within a conversation, to
dayofglory, in which there was a point, and it was mostly sex as a plot device, but I got sidetracked and gave an anecdote.
June 2, 2004
[We were working on a story and needed a male's point of view--we were 14 at the time--and were looking for candidates to ask. My obvious choices were my friendbrothers.]
Jay is here this minute, outside, and I could ease it into a conversation I guess or have my mom do it for me. Seriously, we were outside one night, just the four of us (Tan, Me, Jay and Mommy) and we well, here's the convo:
Mommy: Peanut, get off the car.
Me: Tan's on the car too! Here, you can lay next to me.
Jay: *giggles*
Tan: *Gets mad* Jay hurry up and sit down!
Me: What time is it?
Mommy: *Gets a cig* Past your bedtime.
Jay: Tan has a phone, ask her what time it is.
Tan: I'm right here. *Grumbles while leaning over me to talk to Jay* If you didn't always lose your phone--
Jay: For your information, someone stole it this time.
Mommy: Someone stole your phone? How does someone steal your phone?
Me: You're thinking of all the paranoid people like Ed who clip it inside thier flies thinking 'black people won't dare'.
Tan: It's 2:17 am.
Mommy: It's 2:17 am, Jay.
Jay: It's 2:17, Peanut
Me: Yeah, I got that. I'm not going to have to relay messages all night am I?
Mommy: You wouldn't have to if you hadn't sat there.
Tan: blahblahblaha'Vida
Jay:*Giggles* blahblalbla'Vida?
Mommy: Who's 'Vida?
Me: Clarinet.
Tan: His girlfriend--
Jay: Ex-girlfriend.
Me: Could've fooled me.
Mommy: She's still your friend?
Me: Yep.
Tan: *Snorts*
Jay: *star gazes*
Me: Why?
Mommy: Just that in my day after you broke up keeping a friendship wasn't the next step. You like her, Jay?
Tan: *Chokes*
Jay: Yes
Mommy: Do you love her? If you hadn't broken up would you have lasted?
Jay: Yeah.
Mommy: So why did you break up?
Me: Yeah, I thought you were still going out with all that cuddling.
Tan: *coughs* Randa*Coughs*
Jay: Shut up, Tan!
Mommy: *Smacks him with shoe*
Tan: *Laughs*
Mommy: Who's Randa? Jay, are you workin' the streets?
Jay:No Mrs. Mary!--
Me: Cymbal
Tan: Girlfriend.
Jay: She is not my girlfriend!
Mommy: So which did you lose your virginity to? *takes a drag*
Jay: 0.0
Me:*Laughs so hard after watching him that me and Tan are rolling, actually rolling* Mommy, you're embarressing him.
Tan: *nearly falls off of the car* Mrs. Mary, oh--
Jay: Mrs. Mary!
Mommy: Jay! Which one?
*Countless minutes later*
Jay: Neither.
Me: *Impressed*
Mommy: When?
Jay: *Thinks* The summer after eigth grade.
Me: *surprised*
Tan: was it ------?
Jay: Nods.
Tan: *Laughs*
Me: *Disgusted*
Mommy: Was she pretty?
Jay: *Shrugs* She was a'ight...straight.
Mommy: How well did you know her?
Tan: blahblah...blah
Mommy: How does she know more about this than you seem to?
Jay: I tell her everything.
Me: *feels miffed* *elbows Tan*
Mommy: Well, then. Tan. Are you a virgin?
Tan: *Does her signature scoff/bark/laugh/bansheescream thing*
Me: *Chuckles*
Jay: *Literally rolls of the car*
Me: I think he broke something.
Mommy: JAY! --At least it's not the car. Get up, it's immature people like you--
Jay: No,it's just, *laughs some more*
Me: Well, Tan, you never answered.
Tan: No.
Mommy: Peanut, are you a virgin?
Me: *Very indignant* YES!
Tan&Jay: *snicker/cackle* That's right.
Mommy: Just didn't want you feeling left out. I'm proud of you.
Me: I'm fourteen!
Jay: And I was 'fourteen!'
Me: You were a boy largely ruled by hormones. And I am a girl with ethics--
Jay: And a mom who would kill her if she tried anything.
Tan: Even though we all know how it feels *Whispers* And it feels good.
Mommy: *hits Tan. Then hits me for letting her mumble* If it makes you feel better, I'm not a virgin.
Me: *Blinks*
Of course, now I realize why Jay had laughed so hard. Five months earlier Tan had come out to us even though we had known for quite a while before it was casually placed. Then Ed's story about his first came out in the open and it was very educational as well, though I had been really hungry before that and all of a sudden beans weren't so nice and Ed combed my hair in my lapse of alertness.
.....
It's really sad that I only learned this stuff from three years of fandom abuse. It's kind of sick, too.
....
Jay's back.
Sorry if I missed the point of this but I gotta go again.
~'My
Oh, the good ole days.