I wanted, needed to see her so badly that it woke me up at night.
Mike Mullinthe pre-friday world of school, cell phones, and refrigerators dissolved into this post-friday world of ash, darkness, and hunger.
Mike MullinSo I thought I’d feel different afterward, after the visible neon sign proclaiming 'virgin' had blinked out on my forehead. I’d spent years obessessing about it, so it seemed like somthing should have changed. Maybe it would have if I’d still been at Ceder Falls High School surrounded by the gossip and the braggadocio of teenage boys. But on my uncle's farm, nobody noticed, or at least nobody said anything. The next day, like every day, we dug corn, chopped wood, and carried water. And it didn’t really change much between Darla and me, either. Yes, making love was fun, but it wasn’t really any more fun than anything we’d already been doing together. Just different.
Mike MullinThen, we waited. Waited for the noise to end. Waited for the house to fall on our heads. Waited for something, anything to change.
Mike MullinI hate to disappoint, but I just lay there, curled in a ball, shaking in pure terror.
Mike MullinThe next few hours were, well, how to describe it? Ask someone to lock you in a box with no light, nobody to talk to, and then have them beat on it with a tree limb to make a hideous sound. Do that for hours, and if you're still not bat-shit crazy, you'll know how we felt.
Mike MullinMaybe we were ghosts of a sort, spirits from the world that had died when the volcano erupted.
Mike MullinI didn't say anything - just held up my hands and shuffled backward toward the door. Antagonizing a little old lady holding a shotgun seemed like a very bad idea.
Mike MullinI'd never heard any noise quite so welcome as the click that a shotgun made when it wasn't killing me.
Mike MullinBut even more than I wanted to check out and give my emotional wounds time to scab over, I wanted to live.
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