baby bones

found this from a few year's back. what a gem.


Baby bones didn’t eat anything. She hadn’t eaten a meal in five days. She just kept thinking about bad things. Like yesterday’s jewels and the end of the world. She thought about what it would be like to lean over and lay on top of Virginia. But then Virginia smokes cigarettes and has sex in the bed next to her and she can only lay there, listening, biting the sheets in agony, not breathing so she won’t miss a single moment.
This is something that’s much more real, much more raw, and forgive me for being pretentious. They were taking a car trip together which was really nice, at first. Then after a few days they got very tired of one another. Virginia got tired of her anyway, but it was harder for Bones. Much harder, because each passing day was like a wheel and every mile was like her face getting closer and closer to that wheel. And very soon she was going to fall into the gears and destroy the system, not to mention her body. They called her baby bones because she didn’t eat anything. It was her way to strike out against the world, and the others cared, mildly. Virginia cared temporarily, and then she got angry. She plonked sarah in front of a cheeseburger and said, God Fucking Damned it. Jesus Christ. Just eat. Then she lit up a cigarette and it burned between her fingers and she watched Bones sit there and sulk. What could be done?
Virginia was sexually compulsive but she tried to steer away from the directions of her friends, particulary short tired skinny ones with no curves and no energy for sex. She imagined. In actuality, yes, she was skinny, too skinny to be too much fun, but when she got going she got going. For Virginia, she would get going. She would be off and so far ahead Virginia would have to hire a jet to catch up. Yes, that’s right, she’d have to fly.
But of course, they had their good moments. One night at a party they were dancing and Virginia was drunk enough and Bones wasn’t, but she didn’t have to be. They were dancing so close and hot that they got a crowd, a very appreciative crowd, and Virginia and Bones liked that. Eventually the crowd asked them to kiss, and between them they raised 88 dollars, that they would split between bones and virginia if only they would make out for a minute or so. So Bones laughed b but she was nervous and she didn’t know what to say. Virginia put one arm around her friend’s waist and said, put the money on that chair. I want to make sure I get it. Then she said, we’ll be right back, and she pulled Bones away and onto the back porch, where she pushed her roughly against the wall and kissed her. Deep, hard, miraculous. It tasted like alcohol but it had the effect of speed on Bones. Then she whispered saltily in her ear, ‘I didn’t want to be payed for our first kiss.” Then they went back inside and kissed in front of the crowd, who were very appreciative, and Bones and Virginia liked that. They kissed all night long and many people speculated that they would probbably go home and do it, and Bones was secretely hoping for that too. But they didn’t it turns out, a friend of theirs drove them home and Virginia went downstairs, fell face first onto her bed and didn’t wake up till past noon the next day. And Bones sat idly next to her for a while and stroked her hair but that felt useless after a while. So she lay down next to her and whispered for her to wake up, but she was too hard asleep. So Bones fell asleep right there next to her hoping to wake up together, but Bones woke up at nine and eventually gave up, got up and made breakfast. For both of them. That got cold, so she had to start her day and they never talked about it again.