Skype conversation, Fri. August 4, 2017. 10:30pm
Sheila: Hey, thanks for answering....
Bryanne:....oh, of course I'd answer.....
Sheila:..[[much more quickly and nervously than Sheila normally speaks]]....I guess, just an email feels too cold....i don't want to talk about us....yet....at least not until the Gloria thing is over....but I figured we should talk a bit....
Bryanne: ....no, no, I know what you mean, there was actually something, not the sex, I wanted to ask you about...
Sheila: [[exhales, relaxes]]....ok, good. Go.
Bryanne: In your email, you said sometimes you wish you could fight without being sub-conscoius....no, no, it was SELF-conscious about it, like guys do....
Sheila: yes, that's right...SELF-conscious....but maybe Sub-conscoius too.....
Bryanne:...but what I mean is, like, if you were a guy, do you think you would fight more? Like, when? Where?
Sheila: Oh, I guess...like. Well, ok, do you remember that time you changed high schools? Your senior year, I guess?
Bryanne: And that bitch was bullying me? And you and I ended up fighting her at our place?...
Sheila:...exactly....because when we tried fighting in front of the crowd it was a huge fiasco?....
Bryanne:....so, like, if we had been boys, it would have played out different?....
Sheila: Well, yeah, because to start with, if you're a girl, new to a school, and you fight with another girl in front of your locker....you know, address the whole situation Day One, like a boy would....you get a reputation for being a delinquent girl that you'll never shake....
Bryanne:....ok, I sort of get it....but I wasn't thinking of high school.....i mean now, Sheila, grown up.....do you think about fighting?....and feel like you can't?....
Sheila:.....it's not that I can't...it's, just, ...well....like, take Pete...well, Pete later....take Jack....
Bryanne: ....Jack never really fought.....
Sheila:....but say Jack went up to his family's lake home, like you used to when you were with him....and say he was opening it for the season....and say there was some squatter there or something....
Bryanne:....who refused to leave, or something??....
Sheila:....or even was leaving, but he, like, was slow about it, because he was gathering his things or something?....
Bryanne:.....oh, any guy, even Jack, would get all territorial about that...
Sheila;....exactly....it would be, like, Jack would get a baseball bat, or a rowboat oar, and, just, like, bash the guy's skull in....
Bryanne: ....but if it was two women?.....
Sheila: ....if it was two women, they would have this long staredown....both wondering if the other knows how to fight....looking at the other's hair....who's prettier.....like, a high school locker fight all over again....
Bryanne:...and you wish you could just grab the oar and bash her skull in?....but, now, that was Jack, now what about Pete?
Sheila: ....Well, take my situation....so the shoe was on the other foot.....so some old crush from New York had cold-called me in June.....I'm talking, like, with zero encouragement from me....
Bryanne:....and said, "Hey, Sheila. Wanna fuck?"....
Sheila: ...yes, exactly....and Pete saw the note, first, tho, and didn't tell me....
Bryanne:.....Pete woulda wrote back, "Sure, you can fuck her. If you can find her without me finding you first and blowing your brains out."....
Sheila.....well, yeah, something like that....instead.....
Bryanne:....instead it's the whole after school catfight fiasco all over again...
Sheila:......and all the drama before and after the fight....
[[Bryanne and Sheila are quiet, looking at each other, and looking away.....]]
Bryanne:....if we were brothers, and Gloria was a boy, and did what she did to me.....
Sheila:.... I'd be totally entitled to....expected to....what's the word?.....damn, what is it?....
Bryanne:.....make her....him...a eunuch?.....neuter her?...
Sheila: ....Maybe neuter was the word.....like a pet or something.....are you thinking what I'm thinking?....
Bryanne:.....yes....we've been doing this all wrong....well, the Gloria part.....let's write her an email, from me.....asking her to come here.....
Sheila: ....and then I'll jump her.....go, start typing....
Bryanne....ok, here goes....
From: Bryanne
To: Gloria
Date: Fri. Aug 4, 2017. 11:30pm
Subject: Can I see you?
Gloria, I've been thinking about earlier this week. How you dominated me. Or is domme the word? Whatever it was, can you do it to me Saturday. I know you're probably fighting my sister on Sunday? Sunday morning? When Pete's at church? So can you spend Saturday with me? This is so embarrassing, but there's no one else I know who can do what you do to me. Not even Reina. Please? You can be rougher than last time if you want.
Xoxo,
Bryanne
Send.
Sheila:.....well, whew....thast will....entice...her....
Bryanne:.....we should get some sleep then....or, you should....
Sheila:.....i have to be away from the house anyways.....speaking of which, Bryanne, were Gloria and I actually going to fight Sunday morning?.....did she say something to you?....
Bryanne:....well, no, i....i just assumed, I guess.....
Sheila:.....but why would you assume that?.....
Bryanne:.....Sheila, i.....
Sheila:....and why would you bring up Reina again?....why are you so obsessed with that bitch?.....
Bryanne:.....Sheila, I was just trying to be convincing....shit, do we need to bicker about this?.....
Sheila....ok, You're right....it's late, I'm tired I guess.....
Bryanne: me too.....ok, good night...kisses....
Sheila....ok, kisses....
[Both hang up.]
From: Bryanne
To: Gloria; Reina; Sherry
Date: Fri. August 4, 2017. 11:47pm
Subject: Be careful tomorrow!!!
When Sheila and I hung up, I might have slipped up a little. I told her Gloria was thinking of fighting Sheila Sunday morning. I think she's suspicious. Oh, and Saturday--she's not looking for a fair fight. She wants to bash heads.
Just be careful, ok?
Xoxoxo,
Bryanne