No, no, no! - JohnD (2 min.)

Prompt: No, no, no! 05/30/09

I had nothing to say to Betty. She’d been talking for 12 minutes non-stop. I knew because I kept looking at my watch over and over during those 12 agonizing minutes. I was thinking about going out with the guys: my friends, my buds. That’s what I really wanted to do.

Betty and I had been together for a year and a half. It was our senior year in high school and I’d grown tired of her.

There she was rambling on about something, and I hadn’t been listening to a word.

“Well?” she finally asked.

I didn’t know. I didn’t know what she’d been talking about. She glared at me in disbelief that I wasn’t answering her.

I didn’t like the look she was giving me, so I said, “No!”

“No?” she demanded.

“No, no, no!” I screamed, wondering what I was saying “no” to.

“You're saying ‘no’, you don’t want to have sex with me tonight, after you’ve been pestering me for sex every day for a year and a half?!”

And then she left.