Twenty one

“Okay… he`s not that old he`s just two or three or four years max older than I am.”

I couldn’t even pretend to be calm anymore my little sister was hiring gigolos? “You know what I mean, why would you hire someone to have sex with you, period. Its a question not a nuclear bomb stop deflecting.”

“Okay look . . . I know it'll sound stupid stupid- heck it is stupid. they started calling me names.” She twiddled her fingers subconsciously as she said it and I tried my best to comprehend.

“Who is they?”

“The girls in my class, and some of the boys too. They were calling me . . .” She hesitated. “ . .Mary.”

“Huh? That`s not an insult that`s a great name, is it possible that some one mispronounce your name and they got confused?” I tried to wrap my head around it.

“No Cat. Mary as in the virgin Mary. Most of the girls in my class are hooking up with boys and rubbing it in my face like no guy wants to have sex with me or I'm some sort of freak and that I`d die a virgin?”

I controlled the urge