Jo Ann was a considerably more fulfilled girl now than she had been some weeks ago, when she had first decided to venture into the world of sex. She had given up the idea of making money sexually, not because she was any less of a whore, but simply because she didn't like the idea of asking for money when she was getting as much from all the sex as the men she had been with.
She felt satisfaction, to a certain extent, knowing that her sexcapades had borne some interesting side effects. Chris Weller was now doing well in school and had stopped drinking. Joe Cortone had stopped fooling around with the faculty, and as a result Kathy Selden was fairly miserable, which made Jo Ann very happy, since she wasn't too wild about Miss Seiden to begin with.
Rita, her husband, Andy Marker, and Don had a regular date with Jo Ann on Wednesdays from now on. It became known in Jo Ann's home as her babysitting night, which was fine with her parents because the Elgieses never stayed out too late, and Jo Ann always came home in plenty of time to get some rest.
Charlie Marker shaved his beard and had his hair cut, and he looked almost as good as his father so that on some weekdays, when she had nothing better to do, Jo Ann balled with Charlie. Even the school janitor always managed to smile at her whenever she went past.
Dean Joseph kept her in his class for the rest of her stay at high school, and even kept her after class once or twice. But she wanted nothing more to do with the dean, No one caught on to what she was doing, and at no time did Jo Ann ever have reason to regret having become sexually astute. Later in life, she would, in fact, be glad.