He was going out with the younger girl when he took the older girl out. He had liked this girl for two years and knew she liked him but he didn’t know what he wanted to do. Finally she said, I don’t know about you, you’re sleeping with the Hartley girl, aren’t you, do you sleep with her? How about you, he said, you sleep with Muncy, don’t you? She didn’t answer right away. When it came, all she said was, Do you know what he tells me afterward, he tells me he loves me, he always tells me that.
And the ending with the younger girl was just the same.
He said it wasn’t that he didn’t love her, it was that he wanted to see other places and have other experiences first. She said, All right, and pulled him down to her. No, he said, it’s the wrong time, you’ll get pregnant. She didn’t say anything, just sat up and dressed.