Chapter Seven September 1986 Beck Oh man, this girl is something else. Labor Day weekend, Janey blew her birthday money in a major way, treated me to a trip to the Bahamas … Paradise Island. It was my first time out of the country. Good thing I didn’t need to get a passport on such a spur of the moment thing. It was a whole weekend of s*x and coke, which is so easy to get there. We hardly left our hotel room. I’m still crazy about Janey. Hell, she even charmed my parents. Well, Mom’s easy, but Dad’s not and even he was like, “She’s a keeper.” He never said that about any chick I’ve been with. Beck was really on top of the world most of the month. Janey just knew how to do the coolest things to keep him enticed. For instance, one night he came home from work, pulled out The Ramones’ fir

