Aven’u Boys — Wendy
Frank Pugliese
Wendy: Hey, I was somethin’ back then. Those guys wanted me so bad they made up stories about me. Look, I only slept with four guys, Rocky, a pre-med college kid who promised me penthouses, Richie, and yeah, Charlie ….
Like an idiot I fell for Richie. God, I even wanted to tie the knot and buy the house in Jersey. Richie was real jealous, crazy too. They used to say he took medicine to calm him down. Once Dennis, some kid, jokin’ grabbed my tit so Richie closed a car door on his head. I think it was a Buick, fuckin’ heavy doors on Buicks. Richie, he treated me like a princess. A fur coat. I don’t think it was legal ….
But Charlie, fuckin’ Charlie. The big dummy goes and sells his comic book collection to buy me a brand-new French-made ten-speed bike. It was sweet, I was scared. I gave the bike to Richie as a gift so Charlie wouldn’t get his head smashed in ….
That Saturday night somebody told Richie I fucked Charlie for the bike. Fuckin’ liars, pigs and liars all over this place! At seven o’clock Mass that night, with my folks in church, Richie throws the bike off the roof. I see it fly past the stained glass windows, and it hits the floor, bendin’ and bouncin’ all ways. All the old Italian penguins dressed in black rubbin’ their rosary beads come outta the church cursin’ and swearin’ in Latin …. He beat the shit out of me. He did disgusting things to me that night. How can I forget. I was bleeding. I wanted to die but I couldn’t. Charlie, he was just there ….
But he couldn’t kill me either. Fifteen & pregnant. I don’t even know what it’s like to be a kid.
