Author's note:
A re-edited and slightly improved version of the story originally submitted for Valentines 2021.
Made extra long in honor of
Omenainen
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"What? I can't do that! I won't!"
"You don't want to take my virginity?" Lena looked down at herself. "I'm not attractive anymore?"
She looked almost the same as when we broke up four years before. Faint lines now fanned from the corners of her eyes and bracketed her mouth, but she had the same sweet face, thick chestnut hair and expressive dark eyes as when I saw her profile picture online. She might even have lost some weight, though it was hard to be sure the way her huge boobs dominated her frame.
"You're as beautiful as always," I said, "But didn't you sayβ"
"βthat if I still wasn't married when I hit forty, you could take my virginity. Yes. Exactly."
"We'd just watched that movie! I thought you were joking. And your birthday's what... November 14? So that makes you... only 39. And a quarter. As of Sunday, I mean."
Lena shook her head, smiling. "I always liked how good you are with numbers." She picked up her wine from the coffee table. "Besides..." She took a gulp and made a face. "...what's the difference?"
My unease grew. Once we had arrived 17 minutes late for a play and Lena almost hyperventilated with panic. She was fastidious about anniversaries, appointments, and schedules. She also did not drink.
I took the wineglass from her and set it down.
"Lena, you're worrying me. Please tell me what's going on."
We had dated for half a year. Lena was smart, sweet-natured and pretty. She had a large patch of a light brown birthmark on the left side of her neck she was self-conscious about. It didn't bother me, but she wore turtle-necks and high collars and kept it caked with concealer.
She was shorter and rounder than I liked. Small wonder with the amount of food she cooked: the first time she invited me over for dinner she had prepared shish taouk, kofta, fattoush, kibbeh, and a syrup-drenched nammoura that nearly sent me into diabetic shock. All of it was superb, but enough to feed eight and clearly designed to impress.
And that was the problem. It took a while, but eventually I realized everything Lena did was orchestrated to show what a great wife she would be. Her careful choice of clothes, the lavish home-cooked banquets, her spotless, elegantly decorated home, how she theatrically doted over every baby we passed whenever we went out.
"Lena," I said, "In four years, we've exchanged nothing but happy birthday emails. Now out of nowhere you invite me over for one of your wonderful meals and suddenly want to go all the way?"
She shrugged, avoiding my eyes. "Well, why not? It's too late for a husband and kids. I've been saving myself all this time for nothing."
"Not for nothing. You stuck to your principles. What you believe in."
Her mouth tightened. "What my family believes in," she said. "Stay pure... no man will accept a defiled wife. Be a dutiful daughter. Stay at home until marriage."
"But you moved out and came here."
"Yes, when I was 33. I begged Pappy until he relented. He knew how much the job here meant to me. And I'm only two hours away."
"So now you're giving up? Maybe kids are out of the picture, but you're great, Lena. You'll meet someone."
Lena slowly shook her head, shoulders slumping.
"I'm tired of it. Tired of searching through the guys online and meeting the ones my parents find. Even when one seems promising and I do all the right things, it still fizzles out. Like it did with you. Except with everyone else, it usually ends the second I tell them I won't sleep with them. I'm tired of being the dutiful daughter. Doing everything expected of me. Time to live life my own way now. Whatever that is."
I didn't know what to say. It was a Lena I'd never seen. I guess a lot can change in four years.
Lena straightened and wet her lips. "So... will you stay the night?"
"Even if you're not married," I said, taking her hand, "you should do that with someone special."
"You
are
someone special. My first real boyfriend. The first guy I ever fooled around with. I've missed that. I've... missed you. Anyway, we already did everything else, so why not?"
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One night after dinner, two months after we started dating, we were sitting on Lena's couch watching some romantic comedy. When the credits rolled, she suddenly slid to her knees on the floor, unzipped me and took me in her mouth.
I was too shocked to protest. Seeing chaste Lena stroking and licking then bobbing with her sweet face and soft eyes looking up was surreal. Until that night, we had only kissed. She had refused even to let me touch her through her clothes.
Even more surprising, Lena was good. Very good. Yet she said she had never done thatβor anything sexualβwith anyone before.
She brought me to a rocketing orgasm, eagerly continuing her incredible technique even when I groaned I was coming, and swallowed the vast quantities I blasted down her throat.
I collapsed on the couch, trying to quiet my heart and regain my senses, wondering whether my prostate would ever recover.
Lena looked up, innocently. "Was that okay?"
Smoothing her hair, I laughed. "That was the best blowjob in the history of blowjobs, Lena. But what... why..."
She smiled sweetly. "I know it's hard for you that I'm saving myself. I know it's hard to wait. So, I think I should start relieving some of your frustrations."
Lena wore a satisfied little smile the rest of the evening. She shrugged coyly when I asked how she had learned such oral mastery.
But it was just another milestone on her internal "land a husband" Gantt chart. I assured her it wasn't expected or necessary, but she seemed to genuinely enjoy doing it and was so happy afterwards.
We were together every weekend. During the week Lena devoted herself to her job, working ridiculous hours, plus taking night courses to advance her career.
Every Friday she invited me for dinner, cooked a massive meal while refusing to let me help or clean up, then was under the table with my cock in her mouth before we'd even finished the baklava.
One night we were kissing when Lena guided my hand to her breast. Tentatively, I stroked and massaged her through her top, enjoying the weight and surprising firmness of her boobs for the first time. Soon Lena laid back, sighing while I caressed and squeezed, then giggled and stroked my head when I leaned close to nibble her ear and kiss her neck. Lena self-consciously pushed my head away if I went near her birthmark, so I kept to the other side of her neck.