Adapted from Fanciful Friends December 31
December 31
8 p.m.
The mean girls are back.
She doesn't know about the pool. She doesn't know Don brought you home.
How could you forget the other party (same house) the one Marianne did not attend.
Besides swimming in Don and Ally's pool at three a.m., I told everyone at school Marianne and Don are having an affair. Marianne has never said she knows these things I say about her. And my friends are always more interested in the mystical reality stories about her butterfly tattoo like how she hasn't been the same since George finished it. I told them it was the ink and the pattern of the colors that made the charm.
I make up more stories about the bug. It starts like this:
People, and men, especially are fascinated, the eyes on this thing, the teeth! And if you ask anybody in the Grove they would tell you the tatoo artist's shop used to sit next to South Side, the sports bar. There's nothing next to South Side now. But last year, it was the most popular place in town.
Marianne and I walk up the drive to the party at Ally and Don's and the pavement turns into sand. The sound of cars passing by changes into speedboats. The sea is everywhere now. Water rises to the steps almost to the front door, but Marianne doesn't seem worried. And there are lights everywhere. We are lost in them.
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