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asked.
    I remembered something.
    â€œI should check my messages,” I said, pulling out my cell phone.
    â€œSure,” Mike said obediently, as though we were already an old married couple.
    I pressed the message button and listened to my friend’s voice.
    â€œHello, Cammie? I just wanted to tell you something,” she was saying in a breathless voice. “I…I don’t know how to say this…but…well, okay, here it is.”
    Janine’s voice paused. I knew what my friend was about to say before I even heard the words. I felt my heart beat furiously with a mixture of fear and unwanted envy.
    â€œI have something to confess. I told Sarah Walker about you and Mike. I didn’t mean to, but she kissed me and the next thing I knew I was telling her everything!
    â€œAnd there’s something else I have to admit. I guess that makes two things I’m confessing, right?
    â€œSo here’s the second one. I…well, I’ve never actually slept with anybody, Cammie. That’s right, I’m a virgin. It’s all been a big act, my stories about being so experienced.
    â€œWhen Sarah was feeling my breasts, I couldn’t help it. I just had to tell her that, too. I thought she’d laugh. But she was really, really nice and totally sympathetic!
    â€œSo here I am now at her house. It’s extraordinary. I mean, outside it’s just a trailer in a trailer park. But inside! There’s velvet and candles and marble. And she has the most wonderful family. And I’m so bummed because they’re going to be leaving town! I wish I’d gotten to know Sarah earlier.
    â€œAnyway, they left for a while earlier this evening, but now they’re back, lavishing me with attention I never thought possible and I’m so sorry I called her trash. Oh, I’ve only got a second more to talk. They’re about to come get me.
    â€œI’m all ready for them. I’m in this amazing white gown Sarah gave me. She’s going to walk me down this red corridor to a black chamber. Cammie, this is the coolest moment of my life. I’m about to lose my virginity! I’m nervous, sure. But Sarah tells me I’ll be over the threshold in no time. And I can’t wait to find out what’s on the other side.”

The Orifice
    The first time Maureen and Tom got pierced together was right after she got him to ask her out. They were both seventeen.
    Getting Tom to ask her out was the biggest triumph of her four years at St. Sebastian Catholic School. Maureen knew she was pretty in a wholesome kind of way, with auburn hair and an athletic figure. She didn’t have any trouble getting guys.
    But Tom was in an entirely different league from her. He was the school’s perfect stud: rich, straight features, an easy way around other guys. Girls did anything to get him into bed.
    Tom was headed for prelaw at an Ivy League school while Maureen was headed for the state university. His family lived in Ashford Hills Estates, the only neighborhood in town where you had to pass through security to enter. There was a wall between them—of class, of expectations, of possibilities.
    But it was when she saw him in church one Sunday that she knew she could have him. He was kneeling a few rows away from her, and she watched how he looked at the statue of Christ. It was the same way she stared at it, with longing and shame.
    Afterwards, Maureen pulled her courage together and walked up to Tom.
    â€œHi,” she said, “I think we’re in the same class at St. Sebastian.”
    â€œOh, right,” he said.
    â€œDon’t you love this church?” she asked. “It’s so beautiful. And the statue of Christ must be one of the best anywhere.”
    Tom nodded. “It’s cool, yeah,” he said nonchalantly.
    Maureen smiled. “Ever wonder how it would feel to be pierced like that?”
    Tom swallowed hard. He didn’t answer. Maureen moved in