i'm so traditional

I was so happy when the stick did two lines. My best friend was in my house so I showed it to her. “And the best thing”, I said, “is that we’ve done it in this really traditional way! Just like having sex and stuff."

She laughed then. Well, she said 'lol', which I think is the same.

"Cynthia", she said, in her voice she uses sometimes like she thinks I am stupid. "What is so traditional about getting yourself knocked up by some pretty little Asian boy who used to be a male prostitute. Someone you have known for like five minutes. Someone who is 12 years younger than you are. That is not traditional."

She shook her head then. “Traditional is going out with some nice boy at university, then working in crappy media jobs, then breaking up for a bit, then getting back together, then having loads of really boring “trying-to-conceive” sex and then finally squeezing out a baby and then moving to suburbia and then dying. That’s traditional. This?”

She pointed to the bedroom door. The Boy was in the bedroom. He was tired because we had been fucking all day.

“I don’t know what you call this.”

“Still.” She patted my stomach, where my ovaries are. Or maybe my kidney or liver. I don't know. "It's nice. Well done."

And then we clapped our hands in the air together and made a high five.