Chapter 145

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Becky said, "I suppose if I got a girlfriend, I wouldn't have to start birth control again."

As relaxed as I was, it took about ten seconds for that sentence to impinge on my actual, conscious, wide awake, logical brain.

"What?"

"Birth control. I won't need it if I get a girlfriend. You know, no sperm."

"You're not on birth control now?"

"No."

Julia was starting to catch up. "You told me you were on the pill with your boyfriend?"

"Yeah, but we broke up like, ten weeks ago. I don't have health insurance and it was too much of an expense to keep it up when I wasn't having sex anymore."

"You just had unprotected sex with me, multiple times over two days?"

"But it was only a couple days," Becky said. "I've missed a day of taking a pill, had sex and didn't get pregnant. If I'd kept having s