"Dammit, Zack! Get your hands off of me!" I brushed Zack's hands off of me and smoothed out my Who shirt. He looked at me gravely. "What?" I asked him, annoyed.
"I don't know how to put this exactly." He confessed.
"Spit it out, for Christ's sake!" I leaned against my kitchen counter and picked up a banana. I stared at him as I peeled it and took a bite.
"Uh... well... what is the name of the last girl you slept with?" He fidgeted with his red bathing suit.
I almost spit out my damn banana.
"Why the hell would you ask me that?" I threw the rest of it away and popped open a can of Pepsi.
"Freddy... just answer the question," he demanded.
I gagged on the Pepsi. It's not that I couldn't answer it, I just didn't want to.
"Answer the damn question, Jones!"
"Marta," I said quietly.
"When did you break up with her?" He didn't sound surprised at my answer.
"A few weeks after we slept together?"
"Was she the one who wanted to sleep with you? Or was it the other way around?" I felt as if I was on trial.
"Marta, duh."
"What?"
"Marta wanted to sleep with me," I clarified.
"Fine. So when do you plan to do the same to Katie and break her heart?" Zack said.
"Dammit, Zack, you know I wouldn't do that."
"Oh yeah? Then what was that whole Marta drama out there about? Why is she crying in your bathroom now?" He began to raise his voice.
"That's just Marta being Marta. You know what a fucking drama queen she is."
"Freddy, you know damn well that she's crying because of you. You used to care for her, and now see what she looks like. Can't you see?"
"See what, Zachary?" I hated it when he got all philosophical on me. And he hated it when I called him by his full first name.
I stifled a grin
"History's repeating itself. You're going to go out with Katie for, what, a month. Then you're gonna convince her that you two are in love. Then, she's going to want to sleep with you. And then, you'll have this all over again. Who knows? At his rate, you could have Katie and Tomika having the exact same fight in a month and a half!"
I stared at him coldly.
"Never."
"Huh?"
"Never would I brake Katie's heart. Never. She's too different from Marta and all of the others for me to give up. And dammit, Zack, I can't believe you would think I would do that to her. Just watch." I walked my way over to the door as Zack started talking again.
"She isn't like other girls, Freddy. Oh, and by the way, she's not going to get in bed with you just because you have a vintage Ramones poster that glows in the dark." I rolled my eyes and walked out of the kitchen.