Page 10 of Rue

“You put your titties online?” Geo demanded of Sailor.

She shook her head quickly.

“She won’t do it,” Davon spoke up. “Think it messed with her head that Mr Pierson asked her for her OnlyFans when wewere freshmen.”

“Who that?” Geo demanded.

“Math teacher. Algebra. She was in all his classes, even advanced. Like right off, third day, he asked her right out if she had Only Fans. She didn’t even know what it was.”

“Mr Kinnish asked some of us boys this year what girls had OnlyFans. We named a few, and he asked about her specifically, too. My girl said he mentioned it in front of Say, too, and she acted like she didn’t know what he was gettin’ at,” Marcel offered.

“He a teacher too?”

“Lit.”

“I heard him ask about her too,” Justin spoke up for the first time, his face red. “He’s such a fucking creep. It’s like, you know? The dude is, like, 5’3” and 500 pounds with these stubby little arms. What you gonna do with OnlyFans? You can’t reach your little cock! How does he even take a piss?”

“Sit’s down,” Marcel laughed. “Been in there with him, he goes in a stall and sits his fat ass down.”

“How DOES he jack off?” Phoenix asked out loud, looking supremely confused.

“Any other fools try’n fuck with her?” Geo demanded of them, forcing their attention back to him.

“I mean, there was some talk, but nothing serious, you know? ‘Man, I’d like to tap that shit’, ‘I’d fuckin’ ruin her cunt’, shit like that, but just talk. Say’s always been off limits,” Marcel shrugged. “Day’s called everyone off her, and no one fucks with her.”

“You?” Geo demanded of Davon.

“Just, you know. Not serious, I don't fuck with her. I fuck with lots of girls. I just warn the assholes off. She don't need that shit, she got enough to deal with.”

“Tha’s it? Rue, you fuck this boy?”

“No! Never. I’ve never… I haven’t… I’ve never been with any guy at all… willingly.”

Geo snorted, his eyes shining as Davon’s eyes jerked toher, filling with anguish. “We get this test, and that kid ain’t mine, I’ll kill you with that thing still in you, you know that, right? An’ if it’s his? I kill him, too. You want that?”

“Man, I swear to god, I’ve never touched her! She’s never even kissed anyone before!” Davon promised.

“That so, Rue? You ever kissed a boy?”

“No,” she whispered, unable to look at anyone anymore. “I… I thought… I thought I would date once… once my mom was gone and I was out of school and my… my gramma and…”

“Hush,” Geo called, but it wasn’t angry as he looked her over in amusement. “So you’s smart? Sellin’ schoolwork to other kids? Don't the school know it ain’t real? It ain’t theirs?”

“She’s got a system,” Davon offered when she didn’t immediately answer. “If someone is failing and they need to pass, she does ‘D’ level work, or ‘C’, or just above what they did before. That’s how I got my grade up in Economics last year. Had her help me up to a D, then a C, then a B. Rode out the B. She won’t just hand over an A paper to an F student; she’s smart about it.”

“Tha’s a lotta work to alter the way you do things,” Geo noted, still looking Sailor over as she stared at the wall with pink cheeks.

“She has a computer program,” Davon offered again. “Wrote it herself. She puts the parameters in, the subject and all that, then lets the program write it. She goes over it, fixes anything off about it, misspells a few things, takes out some commas or whatever, and adds some flavor by way of trendy slang words and all that. All depending on who needs it and how stupid they are.”

“And you pay the bills on two places, doin’ that shit?” Geo asked softly, moving closer to Sailor so he was in her field of view.

“Not really,” she answered with a shrug. “I can’t keep up, but I try. Gramma has some income with her social security, but it’s only enough for rent and nothing else.”

“What was you gonna do when you got outta school and couldn’t sell work no more?” Geo asked curiously.

“Get a job? And I still had ins with a few people at the school; I could still provide people with work if they needed it. I’d just have someone else distribute it.”

“Seems someone as smart as you could ’a come up with a better way,” Geo huffed, then stepped back. “All you fools sure she never fucked with no one?”

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