Chapter 18
“So then what happened?” Katie pressed me a few days later, after I told her about how close I had come to actually consummating my relationship with Josh (and yet, so far…).
Benji, too, had been on the edge of his seat, until Kylie Minogue made her entrance in my narrative, at which point he leapt, shrieking, from his chair, dug his cell phone out of his shoulder bag, and fairly bolted out onto the sidewalk, where we had heard him make no fewer than seven phone calls, hollering down the line, “You’ll never guess who my friend met in Australia!!” We hadn’t actually “met” per se, but as she had blown me kisses and given her tacit approval of Josh, which is more than I was yet to get from even my best friends at home, I felt that Benji’s version of events was a permissible stret
