I’m pretty sure I could make love to you in forty-five minutes. We can see what it’s like and if it’s even worth going through relationships in the future. That way when you leave here, you won’t worry about never knowing what it’s like.” She laughs nervously, then leans toward me again. “How do you make love to someone you aren’t in love with?” I lean forward until my mouth is next to her ear. “We pretend.”
Never trust someone you stumbled upon in a dark, smelly closet. As a 17-year-old, maybe don’t have spontaneous sex at school with someone you just met and don’t know anything about… Much less when he proposes to have sex with you and tries to convince you that it could be “pretend” love-making, especially considering that you just told him you feel “sad” about having “lots of sex” but “not knowing what making love feels like.” Kinda insensitive of him, no? Colleen writes about everything except educational, sex-positive narratives. Young girls: this is not romantic or sexy or cute.
