Used to Be: The Kid Rapscallion Story

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Author: Mark Bousquet
“I’m new to Vegas. I was just looking for a way to get a foothold here.”
    “And you got that from looking at pictures of Miss Cathall in her bikini?”
    “No,” Jason says smoothly, “I was looking at pictures of her in a bikini because she’s hot and I’m a guy and I’m 18 and I get distracted easily and I don’t have the internet in my apartment, yet.”
    It was Becca’s turn to look Jason up and down and saw that he had the body of a man more than a kid. “Are you an athlete?” she asks. “Baseball player at the university, maybe? Is that why you were searching that Lazlo guy? Your competition?”
    “No, no, definitely not my competition,” Jason says. “I’m … well,” he adds, scratching his head to try and look half-embarrassed by what he is going to say, “I’m kinda rich. Not, like, I’m trying to decide what yacht I want to buy, but rich enough that I can live wherever I want and goof off most of the day.”
    “So you spend it playing professional poker?”
    Jason laughs at the cover identity Francis had helped him create in an attempt to stay in the young man’s good graces. “I see I wasn’t the only one stalking someone on the internet.”
    Becca winked. “And unlike you, Mr. Kitmore, I have an office.” She licks her lips. “Want to see it?”
     
    5
     
    Blouse unbuttoned. Skirt hiked up. Bra and panties on the floor. Her back arched, her breasts pressing against her wooden desk, and his hands on her shoulders, his thumbs pressing into the base of her neck. Becca pulls him in and urges him on.
    She smiles at her reflection in the mirror to her right.
     
    6
     
    He doesn’t hold back.
    It is the first time in ages someone has wanted to sleep with Jason Kitmore and not Kid Rapscallion, and he finds this more exhilarating that he could have imagined. After trysts on space stations, with an alien princess, with Clockmaker Algebra in the White House in 1961, there was something decidedly erotic about doing it in some regular woman’s office at a library.
    He remembers things he wanted to do with Belle, things he did do with Jula, and wishes he could remember more about the time he’d spent two weeks ago at the Revolutionaries’ headquarters on the moon with Duplication Girl.
    He thinks of Frank and how he always told Jason not to have sex with people he didn’t know and trust.
    He thinks about Nancy Cathall and what she really wants from him.
    He thinks of Mrs. Overing, his high school math teacher.
    He thinks of Frank’s wife and shakes his head to clear her face from his memory.
    Almost absently, he thinks of Becca, who seems content to stick her ass back and let him do whatever he wants.
     
    7
     
    “Jason? Are you in? It’s Francis. Could you please call me when you get the chance? Don't worry, this isn’t me asking you to come back. You’ve made your decision and I respect that. I don’t agree with … sorry, that’s not what this is about. This is about a girl. I think I want my next sidekick to be a girl. Maybe then people won’t spread rumors about … well, you know how the press is.”
     
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    “Why me?” Lazlo Becker asks as Kid Rapscallion walks across the roof of a casino parking garage to talk to him.
    “Why not?” Kid replies, shrugging. It’s night but it’s still the summer, and Jason is discovering he doesn’t like the temperature regularly being on the big side of 100 degrees. He wonders why none of the superhero scientists have ever offered to sell Las Vegas a dome that would keep things cool. “That Kira girl keeps asking me. She calls the hotline — this part is off the record right now, understand? — calls my hotline five times a day asking for an interview, pitching new ideas. She wants to talk about my childhood or how I see myself as a role model or what life is like as Rapscallion’s sidekick. Finally, last night, she tells me there’s this gambling pool and if she wins she’ll donate all $300 to charity even though she’s a
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