Page 99 of Never Have I Ever
I choke out a laugh. “I didn’t tell you guys anything. You guessed.”
She grins back at me. “And you just confirmed it.”
I close my eyes. “Damn it.”
“So now that the cat’s out of the bag, what’s going on with you two?” Gabi says.
I shrug. “I don’t know.”
She furrows her brows. “You don’t know?”
“It’s complicated,” I say.
“Ah,” Gabi says. “How well I know those words. Let it out, Rosie. Tell us everything.”
I sigh. I might as well tell them. “I asked him to take my virginity.”
“Wait, what?” Madi gasps.
“Yeah, you’re a virgin?” Gabi asks, her brows raised.
Madi glares at Gabi. “That wasn’t what I was shocked about,” she tells her.
“I was,” Gabi replies. “Look at her,” she says, gesturing to me. “That girl oozes sex appeal.”
“Uh… thanks? But technically, no. Not anymore,” I say, unable to contain my grin.
“So, he did it?” Leila asks. “He took your virginity?”
I nod. “Yeah, it was… perfect.”
Gabi snorts. “Lucky. My first time was on an old futon in his parents’ basement. He smelled like cheese.”
“Cheese?” Madi asks. “Why would he smell like cheese?”
She shrugs, taking a chip out of the bag and shoving it into her mouth. “His parents were cheese mongers. The whole house was a rat’s dream,” she says.
“Well, you love cheese,” Madi says, pointing down to her cheesy puffs. “So, it couldn’t have been that bad.”
“I love eating cheese, that doesn’t mean I want to smell it when he was deflowering me.”
Madi snorts. “I can’t believe you just used the word deflowering.”
Gabi grimaces. “Me neither,” she says, pulling out another chip.
“Okay, enough with the cheese,” Leila says, turning to face me. “So, what happened?”
I smile, remembering the gentle way that he held me and the way he stopped to make sure I was okay. It was everything I hoped for and more, and it was perfect because of him. “He took it slow,” I tell them. “He didn’t want to do it at first, he said he didn’t want to complicate things. So, he helped me in other ways.”
“What do you mean other ways? Anal?” Gabi says. Madi rolls her eyes, and Gabi’s mouth parts open. “What?” she says, shrugging. “It was a genuine question.”
“With life,” I say, instead, wanting to keep that night between Grayson and me.
“Huh?” Madi asks.
“I asked him to show me the ultimate college experience. Grayson Carter was the complete opposite of me that I could think of, and I wanted to know what it was like to live his life, to not have responsibilities, to let go, and have fun.”
“We could have shown you that,” Leila says.
