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at the party on Saturday?” she asked me
on the way home from school, the next Monday.
    “I thought we
were going to stay out of each other’s relationships? I haven’t
asked you what’s going on with you and Ben,” I responded.
    “Yeah but…
you’re not in a relationship with her are you? I mean, you just
slept with her… with everyone outside the bedroom door…”
    Honestly, I
couldn’t meet her eye. My own reasoning over the situation had made
me ok with it, but hearing Katrina’s take on it, made me feel like
I’d done something wrong.
    Instead, I
covered my disappointment in myself up with anger. “Just leave it
alone alright. If I wanted to talk to you about it, I would have
brought it up myself,” I bit out at her before standing up from the
seat we were sharing and walking toward the back of the bus,
sliding up against the window and staring out as I chewed on my
thumbnail, bouncing my leg in agitation.
    I saw her
glance at me a couple of times. I could see that I’d hurt her
feelings, but I guess I was hurt or maybe embarrassed. I don’t
really know which one. All the constant talk about sex at school
was obviously getting to me.
    As we got off
the bus, Katrina was waiting for me, so we could walk together. “Do
you still want to come over and do our homework? I promise not to
ask you anymore questions about… well, you know...”
    “So, Ben’s your
boyfriend now?”
    “Ah, yeah, he
is.”
    “Is that going
to change things between us?”
    “I hope not,
David. But I guess that’s up to you.”
    We stood for a
moment looking at each other. We had agreed to stay out of each
other’s relationships, but it was kind of strange having other
people around that would be taking our attention away from each
other.
    “Alright. No
more relationship questions.”
    “Deal,” she
said, taking a few steps forward before turning back to me, “Are
you coming?”
    “Yeah, I’m
coming,” I said, jogging a couple of steps to catch up to her. As
much as all this relationship stuff felt like a big elephant in the
room at this point, there was no way I was going to let some guy
get in between me and Katrina. We’d been too close for too long to
let anyone come between us now.

Chapter Five

    Throughout the
majority of year ten, my time with Katrina became limited as she
spent much of her time with Ben and their flourishing relationship.
At school, they were the ‘it’ couple and seemed picture perfect,
Katrina with her long honey hair and clear blue eyes, and Ben with
his dark hair and dark features – they looked like movie stars
together.
    While Katrina
was off with Ben, I started to explore the effect I had on the
opposite sex. I wasn’t sure why, but they all seemed very
interested in getting me alone. I didn’t sleep with all of them,
but they were all very willing to get involved in a lot of heavy
petting. While it felt good, it was meaningless. I missed my
friend's constant company. I was simply filling the void.
    Eventually, it
got back to me that the girls were fascinated about the size of my
cock. There were comments about it written in the girl’s toilet
block. Suddenly, I felt like a circus act and backed away from all
of them. I went into the girls' toilets after school one day with a
sheet of sandpaper and scrubbed the comments away. Seeing them
there made me feel really cheap. I’d never once bragged about
anything I did with girls. I couldn’t understand why they’d write
things about me for the whole school to see.
    Since Ben and
Katrina were practically joined at the hip, I didn’t have much of a
reason to stay with the ‘celeb’ group. It really wasn’t that fun
watching her and Ben cozy up in a corner, so I started to choose
other things to do instead and slowly started to hang out with the
group Loren and Erin were in.
    Trina of course
noticed me pulling away, and when I explained to her that I was
getting sick of the sex obsession they all had, she completely
understood,