I took a few steps into the room, and I guess that I must've had a slack-jawed look on my face. In the background, I could hear the cheering of some of the other students on the floor; obviously, they knew what Sheila had done. "You two have fun" was the last thing I heard, before someone pulled the dorm room door closed.
I'd stopped short, so my roommate took a couple of steps to come over to me, reaching up, putting her arms around my neck, and pulling me down into a long, soft kiss. When we finally came up for air, I managed to get out, "Does this mean . . .?" but I couldn't even finish the sentence.
"Yes, it means exactly that, it means you're going to hold me, every night, and we're going to make love, we're going to make love right now." I don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful smile on Sheila's face.
"And I see that was on your mind, too, considering what you bought." I had a bag from the convenience store, with a box of condoms inside. She pulled it out, and giggled, "Looks like you were planning on a
lot
more than once," since I'd gotten the 24-count box. "I thought that you might, but just to be certain, I bought some myself," and then she pointed to the package on her desk that I hadn't noticed before.
With that, Sheila started pulling my jacket off my shoulders. I'd been so completely surprised that I hadn't even realized that yes, I was supposed to undress her, too. Then, after she got my jacket off of me, I figured out what I was supposed to do, and put my hands on the hem of her sweater. She just smiled at me, and then raised her arms above her head, a silent signal for me to pull her sweater off of her. The t-shirt she had on underneath the sweater came with it, and she was standing there, giving me permission with her lips and her smile and her eyes.
Next, she started unbuttoning my flannel shirt. It was the middle of February, and cold and just generally nasty outside, so I had been bundled up. That Sheila had been fairly heavily dressed wasn't any surprise; that was normal for her in cold weather. For a moment, I wondered why, since she'd obviously planned this, she wasn't in some sort of lingerie, but quickly realized, that wasn't really her, wasn't her personality or wardrobe. She wanted to make love with me, but there was no fakery, no pretentiousness, she was just being herself, and that was all I ever wanted.
I'll admit it: I was clumsy as heck. I knew, intellectually, what I was supposed to do, but this was my first time, first time ever. After she pulled my flannel shirt off of me, I reached around, and tried to unhook her bra, but it was like it was soldered together. She kept smiling at me, and then said, "Here, let me do it," before reaching around behind herself, and unhooking it in one quick motion.
How the heck do bra manufacturers make things that only women can unfasten?
Sheila wasn't wearing shoes, just socks, but I still had my winter hiking boots on, double-knotted as always, and I realized that she'd have as much trouble with them as I had with that infernal bra of hers. I was just so elated that she could see, from my expression, that I wasn't pulling away at all when I sat down on the bed to untie and pull off my boots, and, with that, she finished undressing herself.
I'd seen my share of porn - and maybe a couple other guys' shares as well! - so I knew what a nude woman (supposedly) looks like, but the sight of Sheila, a real woman, absolutely destroyed all of the images I'd seen of other women on the computer screen. Yeah, I had a really good monitor, but on my roommate, I could see the imperfections, the hair, all of the little things that differentiate a real woman from porn models.
And her scent! The only thing I had ever smelled while looking at porn was the Lay's Salt and Vinegar potato chips on my computer desk. But Sheila was alive, a living woman, hitting all of my senses. Seeing her, sitting beside me now, pulling off her socks and her jeans, all the time with her eyes fixed on me, her smile beaming, was intoxicating. That last moment, as she raised up a bit to pull off her panties, was like heaven to me.
In all of this, I'd never have guessed, we kept looking at each other's eyes. Oh, sure, I had to look at her body, a real woman's body as I had never seen before, but always it was a glance, always I had to return my gaze to her wonderful eyes.
Sheila's eyes! They were this hard to describe hazel, sometimes more brown than green, and sometimes more green than brown, eyes that can look into your soul, but, oh my God, eyes that just captivated me, eyes that smiled with her.
Her lips! They were soft, without lipstick, tender and just drew me in to kiss her. I could kiss her forever. The touch of her lips on mine, on my cheek, on my neck and my chest, pulled me in so deeply to her. This was a feeling I'd never had, something so far away from porn, something completely alien to my knowledge and even my imagination.
Her touch, her fingertips on my cheek and my shoulders, teasing, caressing, both hard and soft, gently pulling me in, stoking the fires within me.
How long we sat there, naked, but still side by side, just exploring each other with our touch, I couldn't tell you, was it minutes or was it years. Her fingertips, sliding down my neck, into the notch of my collar bones, like nothing I'd ever known before. Finally, as my fingers worked their way down, between her breasts, toward her belly, she laid back on the bed, not completely down, but propped up on her elbows, and my fingers slid further down, over her hip bones, then slightly down her thighs, still so afraid to move toward the center. Finally, achingly slow, I touched her pubic hair, surprised by how soft it was, compared to my own coarse thatch.
I knew what I wanted to do, thanks to a solid porn education, and I slid off the edge of the bed, to kneel between her legs. Sheila was - I thought - a virgin, as I was, but at least she understood what was coming next, enough to allow me to go forward, as I kissed her pubic hair, lightly at first, before I realized that I had to part her soft hair with my fingers and my tongue.