The uneasy peace they’d brokered was
shattered when word got around school that Parker had “done it”
with one of the cheerleaders. The girl in question had announced
with glee to anyone who would listen that she’d got a notch on her
bedpost with Parker’s name on it. Mason, knowing the girl’s
sluttish reputation, didn’t fully believe the rumors, but thought
he better go see Parker and ask him about it, just to set his mind
at rest. Parker was evasive, and wouldn’t meet Mason’s eyes.
“Shit, man, it’s a simple question. Did you
have sex with that…that…whore!”
“She’s not a whore.”
“I don’t care what she is. Did you fuck her?”
Mason was shouting by this point.
“God damn it, Mase. If you want to know, then
yes, I fucked her. I bent her over the kitchen table and pounded
the hell out of her pussy. She screamed that I was the best she’d
ever had.”
Blinded by rage, Mason delivered a punch to
Parker’s mouth. He went reeling backward and landed on his ass,