The Learning Curve: Chapter 72
Alice Brandon's House
After school, I went to Alice's house for guidance.
"So, what's the big news?" Alice asked when we were sitting cross-legged on her bed.
I took a deep breath. "Edward's parents are going out of town in three weeks. They're going to be gone the whole weekend and -"
"You're going to have sex!" Alice squealed. "I mean, you'd always planned to have sex with him, but it's so exciting now that you actually love him."
"Yeah, it is," I said, struggling to contain my smile. "But I'm totally out of my depth here, Alice. I don't know what I need to do to...get ready."
She shrugged. "You don't have to do anything. If he's worth having sex with, he won't care what you're wearing or how well you shaved your legs."
"I just...kind of want to do something special for him. He's been so worried about making it good for me. I want to show him that I feel the same way."
"Well...we could make another trip out of town. Maybe visit Victoria's Secret again and go for a wax?"
I gulped. "What kind of wax are we talking?"
Alice laughed at my expression. "I was thinking we could do your legs, and if you can cope with that, maybe your bikini line? I don't want to cause you any severe trauma."
"Have you waxed down there?" I wondered. It seemed so foreign, like something I'd see on a Sex in the City re-run.
Alice shook her head quickly. "Not all the way. God, no. I do just enough to keep it from being a jungle down there."
I laughed. "Okay, that makes me feel better."
A/N: One more point of clarification - yes, Bella is also a senior, and yes, she would already be 18 at this point in our tale.
It's interesting hearing about high school from so many different time frames. I graduated in 2006, so my experience is pretty recent, but I was also on the fringe of things, so I never got all the gory details from my classmates.