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Chapter Two


Ronnie had just set up us the bomb. I mean said that Anita might be pregnant. Of course this creates one of those moments where everyone is still. The two boy toys are, of course, shocked but then Anita brings it back around to how Ronnie is a bitch and hates her.

"I'm not sure," I said, and I gave Ronnie the glare she deserved. "I was going to wait until I was sure before I told any of you guys. But I had to tell someone. I thought, hey, I'll tell my best friend, but I guess I was wrong."

It continues with Anita blaming Ronnie for being jealous of all the men in her life. This is apparently a bad thing. But then again, Anita is, theoretically, living out every straight woman's fantasy. Lots of hot guys wanting to have sex with you. Who wouldn't be jealous? To me, at least, it's a perfectly understandable reason on Ronnie's part. It also doesn't help matters when Anita, who flaunts it at Ronnie, makes it seem like she's the victim. It's not her fault that all these guys are attracted to her and that she has awesome sex at least twice a day with Nathaniel.

Nathaniel then bitches at Ronnie about how she's always calling him "Anita's little stripper", "pet stripper", "you're damn cute for a walking, talking, beefsteak" and that Ronnie doesn't see him as a real person. He's a twenty year old stripper, boy toy, submissive, practically a slave guy who has no real life outside of Anita. Yeah, there's a real person for you.

They bring Ronnie's boyfriend into it, threatening to tell him that she's jealous of Anita's boyfriends and that she's had lovers in the triple digits. Personally, I think when Ronnie was exaggerating when she said that. But in Sexville that is Anita Blake land, who knows, she could be right. Ronnie gets upset about this, naturally.

The final blow is when Anita says, "How would [Ronnie] like it if she said stuff like that [the stripper stuff] to Louie"? Ronnie says it wouldn't apply because Louie wasn't a stripper and an ex-prostitute.

This is a bad thing for Ronnie to call Nathaniel. Never mind the fact that he is a stripper and an ex-prostitute. And seems to have come to terms with being a striper and an ex-prostitute. He shouldn't get mad but shrug it off. By letting him get mad about it, Hamilton proves that he's not over it, and instead still defensive about his past.

Nathaniel, meanwhile, says that the reason that Ronnie calls him names is because she wants him for a fuck as opposed to Anita who... doesn't. And that she's not committing because she'll never know how good Nathaniel is in bed. Ego much? But actually, as he goes on to say, it's because she'll always be wondering how everyone else is good in bed.

Of course, this is right.

It goes on for a bit, Nathaniel accusing her of fucking everyone she sees. And that Ronnie wanted to feel him inside of her.

Now, admittedly, I don't know much about sex, but I'm pretty sure there's more to it that the penis in the vagina bit. I would think that would be the smallest part of sex and instead it would be more the touching and things like that.

But apparently I'm wrong.

I'm learning SO much about sex from this book!

After this lovely bitch at Ronnie fest, Nathaniel gives her the number to his shrink, after telling her that she needs professional help. Of course, she's grateful for his help and leaves apologizing profusely. See, what she needs is help to come to terms that her best friend has a harem and needs to feed off of sex and that one of the guys in her harem is completely and utterly submissive to her to the point that he'll do whatever she wants. Oh yes, she needs therapy she does.

They talk about the baby that might exist for a bit and if they should abort it. Nathaniel apparently has some experience with such things. There was this girl, you know, who he worked with *wink wink, nudge nudge* on the streets with, you know. She had sex with him twice, once to see if he liked it and once for him to get better at it. Because having sex twice with a girl makes you automatically better at it. But this is a small point. She was Nate's first crush and she died horribly. Anita hugs him.

Both boy toys then support her saying that it's her body and she can do whatever she wants with it. Very supportive of them. Feels like a pro-choice ad. It really shouldn't feel like a pro-choice ad.

"It's your body," he said. "I respect that. I'm just saying that we have more than one way to go here, that's all. It has to be mostly your choice."

"Yes," Micah said, "you're the woman, and like it or not, the final choice has to be yours."

"Your body, your choice," Nathaniel said," But we need a pregnancy test. We need to know."

My name is Laurell K. Hamilton and I approve this message. But really the worst part about it this is that, they would say the same thing if Anita wanted to cut off her own leg.

They continue to be supportive and then go get ready for the cocktail party at Jean-Claude's place. After discussing that they're going to get a pregnancy test. Or two. The party is apparently for a circus thingy of vampires (for some reason I can't find the reference) and all the Master of the City vampires in the state are coming for a visit. Obviously this is supposed to be the Plot here. I think we'll have to wait and see.