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Authors: Alycia Taylor
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kept her picture on his refrigerator
seven years later. “What ya looking at?” His voice
startled me. I turned around and he was leaning in the doorway. He looked so
damned hot in just his shorts. I was no wonder I was turning into a pervert.
“Just looking at your pictures,” I said. He came
over and glanced at the fridge like he hadn’t seen
them before himself. He pointed at one of him and Emma on the beach. He
couldn’t have been more than seven and Emma was about four. They were super
cute and since they were wearing beanies and you couldn’t see her hair, they
almost looked like twins.
“That was our first trip to the beach. That was
taken before Emma ran into the ocean and my mother screamed bloody murder while
my dad fished her out.” He was smiling at the memory, but his eyes looked sad.
“When was this?” I asked, pointing at the picture of
him and the girl.
“ Winter formal, sophomore
year,” he said.
“Is she someone special?” I asked him. The microwave
dinged and he avoided my question by taking out the bag and dumping the popcorn
into a bowl.
“Grab us some waters and let’s go back in the living
room. I’ll tell you why I keep the picture.”
I got the water and followed him in. We sat back
down on the couch and he handed me the bowl. I took a handful and popped a
couple in my mouth and waited. Finally, he said, “The picture being on the
fridge is not about her. I mean, she was a nice girl…my first real
girlfriend….”
“What’s her name?”
He laughed. “Whitney, but it’s really not about
her.”
“I believe you. I as just curious
what her name was. She’s pretty.”
“Yeah, she is. I saw her about three months ago, I guess.
I ran into her at the store. She has a baby and another one on the way. She
married the guy she started dating after we broke up. She seems happy, so
that’s good. But, the picture is about me…and that year…and all the things that
changed after that.”
I took a drink of my water and said, “Tell me about
it.”
CHAPTER
TWO
ALEXA
“I told you I was on the wrestling team. I was
really good, but no matter what I did, it didn’t seem like I could put on any
bulk. The other guys were always bigger than me . Then
one day, Whitney and I were hanging out at her house and her older brother came
in. He’d been away at college. She introduced me to this guy that looked like
the Incredible Hulk. After he left the room I asked her if he was always a big
guy. She said he was kind of skinny in high school. She showed me a picture and
he’d been even skinnier than me.”
“He was using steroids?”
“Yeah, but she didn’t seem to know
that and I didn’t know yet. He was home for spring
break, so I spent as much time at her house as I could. I kept bugging him
about his work-outs and his diet and one day before he left to go back to
school he finally said, “Kid, you’re not
going to get a body like this just eating a high protein diet and working out.
I take a lot of supplements.” I was relentless and he finally let me buy a
few doses of his stack and he showed me how to order my own online. They were
legal steroids and I always took them by mouth. But I was under eighteen so it
was illegal for me to order them and there were rules through the school about
not using them…legal or not. It would be like taking your mom’s Xanax. The
prescription is legal, but if it showed up in your pee, since it isn’t your
prescription, you’d be in trouble.”
“So it showed up in your pee?” I asked him.
“Eventually. But first, my teammates were noticing my weight gain and how I was finally able
to build muscle. They asked me about it and since I still thought I was all
that, I told them. They all started ordering it. A parent from a different
school saw how different we looked from the year before and raised his
suspicions. The school gave in and tested us and “Boom,” I
was caught “cheating.” My whole life changed after that. I
seven years later. “What ya looking at?” His voice
startled me. I turned around and he was leaning in the doorway. He looked so
damned hot in just his shorts. I was no wonder I was turning into a pervert.
“Just looking at your pictures,” I said. He came
over and glanced at the fridge like he hadn’t seen
them before himself. He pointed at one of him and Emma on the beach. He
couldn’t have been more than seven and Emma was about four. They were super
cute and since they were wearing beanies and you couldn’t see her hair, they
almost looked like twins.
“That was our first trip to the beach. That was
taken before Emma ran into the ocean and my mother screamed bloody murder while
my dad fished her out.” He was smiling at the memory, but his eyes looked sad.
“When was this?” I asked, pointing at the picture of
him and the girl.
“ Winter formal, sophomore
year,” he said.
“Is she someone special?” I asked him. The microwave
dinged and he avoided my question by taking out the bag and dumping the popcorn
into a bowl.
“Grab us some waters and let’s go back in the living
room. I’ll tell you why I keep the picture.”
I got the water and followed him in. We sat back
down on the couch and he handed me the bowl. I took a handful and popped a
couple in my mouth and waited. Finally, he said, “The picture being on the
fridge is not about her. I mean, she was a nice girl…my first real
girlfriend….”
“What’s her name?”
He laughed. “Whitney, but it’s really not about
her.”
“I believe you. I as just curious
what her name was. She’s pretty.”
“Yeah, she is. I saw her about three months ago, I guess.
I ran into her at the store. She has a baby and another one on the way. She
married the guy she started dating after we broke up. She seems happy, so
that’s good. But, the picture is about me…and that year…and all the things that
changed after that.”
I took a drink of my water and said, “Tell me about
it.”
CHAPTER
TWO
ALEXA
“I told you I was on the wrestling team. I was
really good, but no matter what I did, it didn’t seem like I could put on any
bulk. The other guys were always bigger than me . Then
one day, Whitney and I were hanging out at her house and her older brother came
in. He’d been away at college. She introduced me to this guy that looked like
the Incredible Hulk. After he left the room I asked her if he was always a big
guy. She said he was kind of skinny in high school. She showed me a picture and
he’d been even skinnier than me.”
“He was using steroids?”
“Yeah, but she didn’t seem to know
that and I didn’t know yet. He was home for spring
break, so I spent as much time at her house as I could. I kept bugging him
about his work-outs and his diet and one day before he left to go back to
school he finally said, “Kid, you’re not
going to get a body like this just eating a high protein diet and working out.
I take a lot of supplements.” I was relentless and he finally let me buy a
few doses of his stack and he showed me how to order my own online. They were
legal steroids and I always took them by mouth. But I was under eighteen so it
was illegal for me to order them and there were rules through the school about
not using them…legal or not. It would be like taking your mom’s Xanax. The
prescription is legal, but if it showed up in your pee, since it isn’t your
prescription, you’d be in trouble.”
“So it showed up in your pee?” I asked him.
“Eventually. But first, my teammates were noticing my weight gain and how I was finally able
to build muscle. They asked me about it and since I still thought I was all
that, I told them. They all started ordering it. A parent from a different
school saw how different we looked from the year before and raised his
suspicions. The school gave in and tested us and “Boom,” I
was caught “cheating.” My whole life changed after that. I
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