I really flushed then, my ears went bright red. My eye twitched, it caught me completely off guard. Testing me. She had managed to do it. It touched on some things sexually I was not prepared for. I was almost thrown back.

She read me immediately. "It takes the boy right out of commission, well most of them anyway. So sign me up for poor girls birth control? That what you want?"

I simply said, then, taking the paper, "OK. here, I'll sign it."

"Why are you so flustered about this. I thought this would be, like a normal adult conversation."

"I'm not..." I slid the paper to her across...