Awkwardness

Yesterday, I woke up at an ungodly hour of the morning (not quite de la madrugada, but way too friggin close) to go to the breast cancer walk up at the waterloo premium outlets. I slept on the bus (which is hard to do) and when we got there, we walked around the place twice in awkward silence. Then the walk was done. (as a sidenote of sorts, they had really good bagels. They were cranberry cinammon and shaped like ribbons.) Anyway, here comes the awkward... after wasting 3 hours or so, we decide to sit on a bench until the bus would leave at 3.

So we're sitting there, and out of the blue, with no warning, my friend says, "Are you a virgin?"

And I was thinking, did she seriously just ask that so directly?

She did.

I said, "uh, what?" but she didn't get the message and just asked again. So I said, "uhm, yes. Why?"

And she goes, "just wondering."

Just wondering? Wth is this crazy wondering about my virginity? So as I'm pondering escape routes, I mumble, "you probably could have figured that out though. I'm 18, plus, I'm Catholic."

And then she gets all offended. really. What cause does she have to be offended? She goes, "don't judge me. I feel like you're judging me."

So I was like, "how am I judging you?"

And she says, "when I was 18..."

"well, that's your choice."

"so don't judge me."

"I'm not judging you."

At this point, I am frantically texting, trying to get someone to respond so I can politely ignore her and text. And guess what? She's offended by this. She raises her voice, all annoyed, and says, "You cant go 15 seconds without checking that freakin phone. You make me feel old!!"

So then she looks at her phone, and apparently has no one to text, so she calls her "crazy friend" whom she thinks has a mental disorder from being in the army. They talk for a while. I text like crazy.

She gets off the phone and stares at me. Just stares. I'm creeped out, so I say, "What?"

And she says, "Do you really think your parents were virgins when they got married?"

I cant fathom what would make someone ask this other than a scary mental illness, so I not so skillfully blow off the question and text even more frantically.

And thus, she gets more angry. "It's so annoying that you get all quiet when things get a little awkward," she says in a raised voice.

A LITTLE?