Part 8 (1/2)

My cousin Tana gave me a key to her apartone Her fish needed to be fed

Yvette and I eventually tried to have sex in Tana's bed It alet excited Yvette said she wanted to do it, but we couldn't make it work for some reason I was nervous and started to have perforina was slick but felt like a wall Her hye

I didn't see her for about aout without her having to tell me But I saw her one last time at a party in East Pasco It was at some DJ's house-the kind eeds and dirt in the front yard instead of grass So room stereo when I came in Everyone looked at me suspiciously since I was the only white person there Yvette ledbut I could hear her breathing hard She reached intodown my body as I stood there, surprised and unsure of what to do I touched her head softly and felt her short blunt hair until I caht before I moved out of ated my suitcase of porn to the basement, a narrow dirt-walled space that had been there since before the fire I tried to bury it under soy boxes and moldy clothes, butabout it I said it probably belonged to Mark moved out of ated my suitcase of porn to the basement, a narrow dirt-walled space that had been there since before the fire I tried to bury it under soy boxes and moldy clothes, butabout it I said it probably belonged to Mark

The Stilts

My first apart in the Tri-Cities, in uptown Richland I lived there for two short uys who had decided toin I was the only one there for the secondI remember about the Stilts was that it used to be an ar There were six rooms in each apartment, with a sh school lived there and there were always parties was at the Stilts, the cheapest housing in the Tri-Cities, in uptown Richland I lived there for two short uys who had decided toin I was the only one there for the secondI remember about the Stilts was that it used to be an ar There were six rooms in each apartment, with a sh school lived there and there were always parties

It was a period of tihost of Pairlfriend Initially blinded by my pubescent desperation, I eventually realized she was siretted all the time I had invested in her, only to have her cheat on me She instilled inpeople and then cheating on the bodies as I recorded sound bites in uy I was, how cute I was-that I played back in ood I was taking advantage of anyone I thought was as weak asout with her I was nineteen and trudging through e in Pasco I met Holly at the Palace and I was attracted by her cohness and innocence On the surface, you'd see a leather jacket, torn jeans, wrestling shoes, and jet-black hair spiked into a Mohawk But she also had the sweetest dimpled smile and she would write mushy love letters to me and invite irl when I started going out with her I was nineteen and trudging through e in Pasco I met Holly at the Palace and I was attracted by her cohness and innocence On the surface, you'd see a leather jacket, torn jeans, wrestling shoes, and jet-black hair spiked into a Mohawk But she also had the sweetest dimpled smile and she would write mushy love letters to me and invite irl

I feel bad saying this but I'd feel worse if I lied-I initially went out with her because she was very large-breasted and I wanted to feel her up A month or so into the relationshi+p, ere ready to have sex Then I learned that she was a virgin I knew from my own unfortunate experience with Pam that people usually fall in love with the first boyfriend or girlfriend they have sex with But I was such a horndog that I decided not to care The first tione I wasn't too far re After that, ould have to sneak around different places to have sex and soen Rabbit soe When I decided to break up with her a month later, I was suddenly the scum of the scene All of Holly's friends at the Palace sneered at me, called me an asshole, or just put their noses in the air when I walked by Holly ignored me as well, but she did so with a face full of disappointret

The next year, Holly went to her pro a small trailer with It felt like a taunt to see their picture-her standing in front of Chuck, his arms around her chubby waist-displayed on the shelf next to our s over a virgin

Taternuts

This is how I learned about cunnilingus froendary fryer at the saus froendary fryer at the saraveyard waiter at a place called the Top Hat It was an all-night diner in Pasco, just down the street from where the prostitutes walked around They'd sometimes come in with their johns and I had to serve them coffee and pie

On hnut shop called Taternuts The reason being, of course, because it was there And because it was open, which

A raced with aa blob of dough on a floured surface near the entrance I checked out his action over the plastic sneeze guard

”Whatcha up to?” he askeda tie and probably looked like I had been out all night drinking

”Uh, I just got off work I wait tables The Top Hat Graveyard” I hnut debris ”These cake ones are awesohtened hnuts here These are made with potato flour mix The cake ones are spuddies and the raised ones are taternuts” He folded up the flattened dough three tih into a cutter-type roller ”This is taternut dough It has yeast, so it rises in here” He opened a metal door and showed h doesn't have yeast, so it stays cake” He let me think about this ”Want a job?” he asked raveyard-shi+ft waiter to early- taternut fryer It was closer to home, there were free taternuts, and the pay was better TheK He was about thirty and built like a tight end, about six-three, 240 pounds Big K's sister was a large woman named Debra and she was real bossy soot busy, which we did a lot it seehnut-I s like: ”Shake yourself” and ”C'et crankin'!”

It was easy to get pissed at her but she kne to reat basketball coach Maybe it was the fact that she was getting married to a cop who caht about it until now: a cop hnut shop I mean taternut shop

Most of the people who came into the taternut shop were people orked a couple of miles down the road at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation Also there were lots of teachers, sundry retired folks, suits, and assorted early risers It seeular And if you were a regular that alsofro lot (even at a snail's pace) she'd shout out, ”Sedale, chocolate taternut and a decaf for Joe Quick” If a customer came in and his usual diet wasn't set up at his everyday spot theresomewhere We were a well-oiled machine

Sports were the reason I becauy as alwayssilly pranks I wasinterest in sports clinging tofootball freak in junior high Big K and I went out after work a few tiround basketball His stiff but powerful inside play reminded me of Robert ”the Chief” Parrish of the Celtics, whiledrives and hustle earned uard for the Philadelphia 76ers

So we'd be working in the midst of some mad rush and our pace is faster than the taternuts can fry in the fryer and just to keep the erated PA announcer voice: ”Sedaaaale Threeeeeeatt!” and then I would go ”The Chieeeeeeeef!” All the customers seemed used to these outbursts and even our occasional and randoh to receive tru treatment Murphy was one He was a slouched sixty-two-year-old e'd greet by announcing: ”It's the Arulars were Ray, Coach, Betsy Baker, Danny Boy, Ozzie, and Miss Missy Randos like Old Man, Big Dog, Chi Chi, and Buster

Whenever we had the dough rolling through the cutter, Big K and I had to stand on each side and gather up the uncooked taternut shapes They'd then go into the warm racks where they would rise, then we'd plop 'em on a wire tray and stick 'em in the fryer, where they cooked in the oil All the extra dough was rolled into a little football and thrown around the shop when it wasn't busy For a little joke, we'd soround where we knew that sos felt like you were stepping on a small squishy turd K and I would casually watch over our ti sounds Whenever Debra or whoever would step on it, we'd laugh and congratulate each other on our treacherous achieve this job, which I held for a year and a half, Debra started to ask ht before I started to see Daphne, and then Elvia I was getting around, as they say, and soirls would come see me at work

Debra wanted to s-tools for life-such as theout a pussy” All the photos of oral sex I'd seen init to men I had no idea that oral sex was such an equal opportunity activity The first tiht stand with a sixteen-year-old devil-worshi+pping runaway We wereher breasts and she asked: ”Will you eatI didn't even know the first step, and politely answered, ”No, thanks”

My ap to have sexual talks I think she knew so, but she never pried Mostly she stayed in her sewing roo Cole as I wrestled with my puberty (and penis) in the next rooay The Scotch-taped photo of Ralph Macchio onK was possibly my best bet for sex advice frorow yourself one of these first,” he pontificated, sticking his mustache out as far as the tip of his nose I decided to cut my losses and not explore his wisdom further

After work that day, Debra cornered me in the back room ”You want me to just tell you how to do it and save ya so funny to say, but settled for: ”Sure, if you want to”

She explained several things: the taste, the labia, the clit, the secret button, the canal She ers, the tongue, lips, teeth, etc And finally, she soberly gave s: yeast infections, periods, pubic hair in the teeth, gagging on excess pubic hair, pubic hair that seems to be either absent or shaved

I didn't ask her about how the cop did it to her Actually, oral sex ainst state law for all I knew I made a note to be careful in case it was

The results were: I loved it!

Even despite close calls with yeasty girls and others who looked like they had Ji of oral pleasure was high on my priorities list on every date It was indeed one of the ht me Thanks, Debra!

Soon after these lessons, I was preparing to quitschool It was ti up my apron and retire from the taternut biz My last day of as a tearjerker ”You were a legend in the fry zone, Sedale,” reflected Big K onup a batch and doingK splashed water on his face and wiped faux tears froonna retire your apron,fro work coh the door ”It's the Armeeeenian,” I announced

Murphy stopped for a uard, ”This is your last day, isn't it?”