Pretty Hate (New Adult Novel) by Ava Ayers

freak out.”
    “Steph, when someone tells me not to freak out, you can rest assured that I will freak out. What’s that moaning I hear?”
    “It’s...you, Beth. I think.”
    “What?”
    “Okay,” she said and took a deep breath, “I’m just gonna come out with it. But I want to say, we will handle this, Beth. Just like we handle all the shitty things that are thrown at us. It’s not the end of the wor--”
    “Spit it out, Stephanie,” I said and rubbed my forehead.
    “Angela Jessup called me a bit ago and asked me what Billy’s middle name was. Seems she and that Hank Paulson, well, they’re going together and they enjoy porn.”
    “Porn?”
    “Yeah, you know, the porno movies?”
    “I know what fucking porn is, Stephanie! What does this have to do with me?”
    “Oh, Lord, Beth. Angela and Hank saw you in a porno video.”
    “Uh, no they didn’t. You know how I know that, Steph? Because I was never in a porn video.”
    “Um, maybe not willingly, Beth. I saw it, see it. It’s on the Internet,” she said and sighed.
    “What the fuck?” I said and opened my laptop. “Address! Address!”
    “Well, okay. Are you sure, Beth? I mean I didn’t really know it was you. There are lots of comments, all good, so, what I’m saying is, well, there is a bright side.”
    “Give me the fucking address to the site, Stephanie!”
    “Alright, it’s www.smutzoo.com.”
    “Did you say smutzoo.com ?”
    “Yeah, I’m real sorry, Beth.”
    “I’m typing it. Oh, wow. Well, there are a lot of, uh, videos here, Stephanie,” I said as I scanned Smut Zoo’s Home page.
    “Yeah, you’ll want to go to the search box for the video. There’s a title that you can type in to find your video. It’s a really popular site, they have a lot of big name porn videos, too. They get lots of traffic.”
    “Oh, that’s great. Thank you for clueing me in to their analytics. Could you please give me the title?”
    “Sure. Type in, My Ex-Girlfriend’s Barely Legal Princess Pussy .”
    I looked at the search box and shook my head.
    “You did not just say that.”
    “I did, Beth. It’s under the amateur stuff. That’s how Angela and Hank found you, it. They like the amateur porn.”
    “I can’t breathe, Stephanie,” I said as I typed My Ex-Girlfriend’s Barely Legal Princess Pussy in the search box.
    “Wait, Beth! Don’t hit enter. I’ll come over. I will just be--”
    “Holy shit!”
    “Too late,” Stephanie said.
    I looked at the video page and saw a still shot of me and Billy sitting on his bed.
    “Big Dick Rider ?” I said as I looked at the video’s submitter. “He posted this the day before he broke up with me!”
    “Oh, Beth. Don’t watch it,” Stephanie said.
    “Too late,” I said after I pushed play. “Oh my God, Stephanie!”
    The video was thirty minutes long and it was a recording of the last time we had sex.
    Billy edited the video so my ass-shaking was at the start of the movie. He then moved on to kissing and then the full-on sex. My hands shook and there was a lump in my throat the size of the “boulder of hurt” I excavated from my womb the day he dumped me.
    I watched the entire video and then read the comments as Stephanie begged me not to.
    “Maybe no one will ever see this and know it’s you, Beth,” Stephanie said.
    “You, Hank Paulson and Angela Jessup know it’s me. Big Dick Rider knows it’s me! How long will it be before everyone knows it’s me?”
    “But, did you read the comments? They had some really complimentary things to say about you, Beth. I mean, over one hundred comments and they’re all really positive.”
    “Stephanie?”
    “Yes, Beth?”
    “I am in a porno video entitled, My Ex-Girlfriend’s Barely Legal Princess Pussy , in the amateur category on smutzoo.com that Billy Rider made without my knowledge. I wouldn’t care if the Sultan of Brunei commented that he wants to give me ten grand for my performance. There is nothing fucking positive about this!