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SARAH MLYNOWSKI

ten things we did

(and probably shouldnt have)

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For Farrin Jacobs,

brilliant editor and true friend.

Contents

THE MORNING AFTER

I bolted awake. A siren.

The police were outside my house. Ready to arrest me for underage partying, excessive flirting, and an overcrowded hot tub.

But wait.

My brain turned on. No, not the cops. Just my phonemy dads ringtone.

Which was even worse.

I rummaged around the futon. No phone. Instead I felt a leg. A guys leg. A guys leg flung over my ankle. A guys leg that did not belong to my boyfriend.

Oh God. Oh God. What did I do?

WEEEooooWEEEooooWEEEoooo!

Upstairs. The siren ring was coming from upstairs, the main level of Vis house.

Maybe I should just go back to sleep... No! Phone ringing. In bed with not my boyfriend. I managed to get myself out of the futon without disturbing him andum, where were my pants? Why was I in bed with a guy who was not my boyfriend without any pants?

At least I had underwear on. And a long-sleeved shirt. I looked around for some pants. The sole item of clothing within grabbing distance was Vis red dress that I wore last night for the party.

That dress was trouble.

I ran up the stairs bare-legged. At the top, I almost passed out.

It looked like a war zone. Empty plastic cups littered the wooden floor. Half-eaten tortilla chips were planted in the shag area rug like pins on a bulletin board. A large blobpunch? Beer? Something Id be better off not identifying?had stained the bottom half of the pale blue curtain. A white lace bra hung from the four-foot cactus.

Brett was in surfer shorts, face-planted on the couch. He was using the purple linen tablecloth as a blanket. Zachary was asleep in one of the dining room chairs, wearing an aluminum foil tiara on his lolled-back head. The patio door was openand a puddle of rain had flooded the carpet.

WEEEooooWEEEooooWEEEoooo! Phone was louder. Closer. But where? The kitchen counter? The kitchen counter! Nestled between a saucer of cigarette butts and an empty bottle of schnapps! I dove toward it. Hello?

Happy birthday, Princess, my dad said. Did I wake you?

Wake me? I asked, my heart thumping. Of course not. Its alreadyI spotted the microwave clock across the roomnine thirty-two.

Good, because Penny and I are on our way to see you!

Terror seized me. What does that mean?

My dad laughed. We decided to surprise you on your birthday. It was actually Pennys idea.

Wait. For real?

Of course for real! Surprise!

My head was spinning, and I felt like vomiting and it wasnt just because of the many, many, definitely too many glasses of spiked punch I had consumed last night. My father could not see this place. No, no, no.

Oh God. Id violated 110 percent of my dads rules. The evidence was all around, mocking me.

This wasnt happening. It couldnt happen. I would lose everything. If, after last night, I had anything left to lose. I took a step and a tortilla chip attacked my bare foot. Owww .

Mother friggin crap.

Thats great, Dad, I forced myself to say. So... where are you exactly? Did your plane just land?

Please let them still be at the airport. It would take them at least an hour to drive here from LaGuardia. I could make this house look presentable in an hour. I would find some pants. Then I would toss the bottles and cups and cigarette butts and vacuum the tortilla chips and maybe the bra, maybe even Brett and Zachary

Nope, we just drove through Greenwich. We should be in Westport in twenty minutes.

Twenty minutes?!

There was groaning from the couch. Brett flipped onto his back and said, Its eff-ing freezing in here.

April, theres not a boy over, is there? my dad asked.

I sliced my hand through the air to tell Brett to shut the hell up.

What? No! Of course not! Vis mom is listening to NPR.

We just passed the Rock Ridge Country Club. Looks like were making better time than I thought. Well be there in fifteen minutes. Cant wait to see you, Princess.

You too, I choked out, and hung up. I closed my eyes. Then opened them.

Two half-naked boys in the great room. One in a tiara.

More half-naked boys in the bedrooms.

Empty liquor bottles and trashed cups.

And Vis mom nowhere in sight.

I was a dead princess.

number one
lied to our parents

THREE MONTHS EARLIER

How would you like to finish high school in Cleveland? my dad asked me out of nowhere during Christmas break of junior year.

Fine. Maybe it wasnt completely out of nowhere.

THREE MONTHS, ONE MINUTE, THIRTY SECONDS EARLIER

April, can you sit down? We need to talk to you about an important issue.

This should have tipped me off that something disconcerting was about to take place. But at the time, I was too busy multitasking to pick up on the signals. It was Thursday night, nine fifty-five, and Marissa had just dropped me off before my ridiculous ten oclock (even during Christmas holidays) curfew. I was standing in front of the fridge debating between grapes or an apple for my evening snack and contemplating if tomorrow night was finally the right time to have sex with Noah.

I was leaning toward the apple. Even though what I really wanted was chocolate fudge cake. But since Penny didnt eat junk food, especially chocolate junk food, the likelihood of finding chocolate fudge cake in our fridge was about as high as finding a unicorn in our backyard.

As for the other thing... the one that made me want to jump on my bed and hide under the covers... it was time. I loved Noah. He loved me. We had waited long enough. We had planned on doing it over the break, but my brother, Matthew, had been here until this morning. Tonight, Noah had a party he had to go to with his parents and on Saturday he was leaving for Palm Beach.

Tomorrow was the only time. Plus, my dad and Penny had a dinner party in Hartford, an hour away, so that would leave me an empty house from about six to midnight. Sex would not take six hours. Would it?

I guessed it would take thirty minutes, tops. Or an hour. Or three minutes.

I was ready. Wasnt I? Id told Noah I was ready. I had convinced myself I was ready. Ready to have sex with Noah. Noah who had dimples when he smiled. Noah whod been my boyfriend for over two years.

I grabbed the apple, rinsed it, then took a large bite.

But was it a bad idea to do it the night before he left for a week in Palm Beach? What if I freaked out the next day and he was at the bottom of the country?

Youre dripping, my stepmom said, eyes darting back and forth between the offending fruit and the white-tiled floor. Pretty please, use a plate and sit down? Penny was obsessed with cleanliness. The way most people carried around a cell phone, Penny carried around hand-sanitizing wipes.

I took a plate and a seat at the table, across from them. So whats up?

And a place mat, she added.

Then came my fathers contribution: How would you like to finish high school in Cleveland?

The question did not sound like English. It made zero sense to me. I wasnt going to Cleveland. Id never been to Cleveland. Why would I be going to school there? Huh?

My dad and Penny stole quick glances at each other and then refocused on me. Im starting a new job, he said.

The kitchen was suddenly a hundred degrees. But you already have a job, I explained slowly. He worked for a hedge fund right here in Westport, Connecticut.

This is a better job, he said. A very lucrative job. Very.

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