Jason And Marceline – Jerry Spinelli

Which is what happened. Some days. The best day of all being the Friday after Thanksgiving. We were with each other from ten in the morning till nine at night, most of it at the mall. I bet we did a hundred kisses that day. We’d look in a shoe shop, kiss, look in a girls’ store, kiss, buy a donut, kiss, take a bite, kiss… But most days we couldn’t be together that much.

And when we did see a lot of each other, we were usually in school. Now, for a lot of people, that’s no problem. It’s not unusual to see a couple trading spit in the middle of a hallway. But Marceline, she couldn’t handle school hallways. So, if anything was going to happen at school, it was going to happen in a deserted cranny somewhere. We went looking a couple times, but by the time we found a cranny she approved of, the bell was ringing for next class.

What all I’m saying is, we carried your basic liplock about as far as it could go. I knew it was time to move on the day we were halfway through a kiss and I suddenly realized we both had our mouths open. Not much. Not gapers, like you see some kids in the hallways, two pythons trying to swallow each other whole.

But still: open. Damn, I’m thinking, what do we have here? Should I or shouldn’t I? There was a lot to think about. Starting with, did Marceline realize her mouth was open? I mean, maybe she was like me, just getting into it and relaxing and having a good time, and her jaw just sort of slacked open without her even knowing it. One thing I did know—I wouldn’t try to take her by surprise, not if I wanted to come back out with a complete tongue.

But, man, it was tempting. Just knowing it was there… open. And anyway, what if—what if—she did know? What if it was an invitation? Well, I had to find out, I had to know for sure. I started dragging my tongue up from its cranny. It didn’t want to come. No way did it want to meet up with another tongue. Well, I could be stubborn too.

Pretty soon I had it straightening out, crawling past the molars, past the fang teeth, up to my front teeth, even a little past my front teeth, right out to my lip line… nothing, nobody there. Just then the kiss ended, Marceline pulled away, and there I was, with my mouth open and the tip of my tongue peeking out. It shot back like a turtle into its shell.

I prayed Marceline hadn’t noticed.

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“See?” I said. “See what?” said Marceline. “They’re laughing at us.” “Not to mention giving us the finger.” “That’s right. Great way to start off ninth grade. Laughed at and fingered in the first five minutes.” She pulled out her sunglasses, shook open the arms. “You could be on that bus. Laughing at me.” She slid the shades on. “No,” I said, “I wouldn’t. And you know why?” She stared straight ahead.

“You wanna know why?” Her head swiveled slow and looked down on me—down more than usual, because the sidewalk sloped toward the street, and she was on the high side. The shades owled at me. She didn’t speak. “Because,” I said, “it wouldn’t bother you.” Her head swiveled away. “Should it?” “Yeah, it should, yeah. When people laugh at you, it’s supposed to bother you.

If I was on that bus, I’d laugh at me too. Who walks to school when they live far enough away to take the bus? It’s crazy. I deserve to be laughed at, and it bothers me, yeah. I’m not the one that’s unusual. You are.” “Guess I’m just a freak of nature.” Another bus went by. More laughing faces. I wished she would take the shades off. “Marceline—” I held my arm out, stopping her—“tell the truth.

If a whole busload of kids came along, and the bus stopped, right here—right here—and everybody on the bus—everybody—crowded at the windows and started laughing their asses off and pointing and all—at you—you mean to tell me that wouldn’t bother you?” She pushed my arm out of the way with her trombone case and moved on. I took this chance to slip around to the high side of her; now my eyes were almost even with hers.

I nudged her. “Huh?

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