The Romance

Preface

This is another romance story which I seem to be stuck on.

I am not a paint by numbers, where someone has established a framework of themes. I like to use varying colors of words and varying themes. Some of the stories have complex set ups like in "Happy Birthday Connie" and some less so. After all, variety is the spice of life

"The Romance" deals with two people we might consider old fashioned and boring, but they represent people who do not have the problems of the progressive culture of today.

The Romance

Tom and Mary did not know each other. Tom and Mary had never even seen each other. Tom and Mary would meet, and it would be very interesting.

Tom

Thomas Wilson was the average 18-year-old, all-American boy. He lived in an all American, small town, with his normal, all-American mother and father. He went to an all American, high school, where he was an average, all American student.

There was one thing where Tom was not average, he was a virgin. There was nothing else unusual about him. He was a nice looking, young man. He didn't drink, smoke pot or fuck the girls in his class, so I guess that he wasn't normal after all.

This all American, guy was frustrated, because everyone knew he was, just average. Only one person knew that he was a virgin though, and that was his closest friend Bob, who was average too.

These two horny guys wanted to get laid in the worst way, but it had just never happened for either of them, they were not gay. It was not that they didn't try to get laid, it just didn't seem to be in the cards as they say.

Mary

You know how this is going to start don't you.

Mary was a nice, well, normal girl and so on. She was normal in every way. She was rather attractive at 5 ft 6 inches, blue eyes, that smiled at most everybody, slender, but not skinny.

Some would even say that she had a nice ass, if they bothered to look, with medium sized breasts, a little puffy if she was aroused and you were paying attention.

The problem was that all those average teen age boys wanted a

porn star

girlfriend. The average teen guy wanted to marry a virgin, but they were doing their level best,to make sure there weren't any female virgins left to marry. Mary however was still a virgin,

Actually, most porn star women have artificial tits, so the joke is on the guys

So, why am I even mentioning these two sickeningly average people? Because they are, and we are, for the most part, average. So, let's be them for a little while.

Tom and Mary graduated from high school with average grades, and went to the expected college, so they could do all the things they were not supposed to do. Like going completely nuts, trying to do everything they were not supposed to do, at home.

Fortunately, Tom and Mary had better sense, and got their education and degree, without getting VD, or pregnant, or both. But something happened while they were in college, that would be important in their future.

Tom and Mary met at one of those college mixers, sometimes known as "the auction", where the students milled around, getting drunk, trying to find someone horny enough, to fuck. Like anyone walking and still vertical. Well, I guess you didn't have to be vertical at that.

Tom and Mary were average, and didn't see the plus side at the auction, so they both gravitated to the bar. Yes, there was actually a snack bar in the building but that was not where the "auction" was.

They each found themselves wondering why they were there, and about to leave, when they literally bumped into each other. After apologizing to each other they paused, realizing that they were not average, but looked interesting. They struck up an acquaintance. However, nothing happened, and they both graduated.

Both Tom and Mary came from small towns, which were bedroom towns, for Springfield. (There are many Springfields in the US so don't try to figure out which one. It isn't important to the story.)

About a year later, Tom and Mary happened to see each other,at some civic function, in Springfield, and seeing a friendly face, they spent some time talking, about what they were doing,and where they worked. They both seemed to enjoy the others company, so they traded phone numbers.

About a month later, Tom was sitting alone, in his small apartment, considering abusing himself again. There was absolutely nothing to do in Springfield.

Then he thought about Mary, that he had seen the other day. She seemed like a nice girl, and she wasn't intimidating by being gorgeous. But she was nice. So, he gave her a call.

"Ring", " Hello," said a friendly voice. that as he thought about it, really was kind of nice. "Hi," he said, "this is Tom, you know from last month." "Oh, hi Tom. How are you?" "Well," Tom said," I was wondering if there was someone I know, who would like to get out of the house, and see beautiful downtown Springfield."

Mary said, "you silly thing, we both know Springfield is kind of boring, but I might like to get out, so when did you want to do that?" Tom said, "now would be good," hoping she would say yes. She said, "yes that would be nice." He got her address and picked her up at 2

There really wasn't much to do, or go to, that they both hadn't seen before, so Tom said, "Let's go to the zoo." "Well," Mary said, "OK, it

has

been a long time since I have been to the zoo"

(That, was an understatement. "Why would he come up with that?" She had

never

been to the zoo, with a man or anybody else, for that matter.)

Tom, for his part thought, "

why in the world did I suggest that?

I wouldn't be surprised if she thinks I am crazy."

Later, they strolled through the zoo, not really seeing the animals, but just talking about nothing, Tom thought this was nice. There was no pressure to talk about anything.

As they walked along, somehow Tom found himself holding Mary's hand, and not knowing when that happened. It felt natural, like he had known her for a long time. He was amazed that she seemed to be OK with it.

Mary, for her part, was thinking along the same lines. Usually, she was nervous around men, but this was so relaxed, so average, that it was just nice. Time seemed to vanish, and they found themselves sitting on a bench, at 4 in the afternoon.

When Tom realized the time, it was after four. He decided to see if he could prolong the time with her, by asking if she would like to get something to eat. Her answer was, "That would be nice". They went to a special pizza place, that had an outdoor garden, where they lingered for a while.

Mary had never been to this place before, and thought it was kind of romantic. "What is wrong with me she thought?"

By eight, Tom decided not to wear out his welcome, so to speak, and took Mary home. It was eight, after all. Where did the time go?

Tom got Mary home and said, "Would it be OK if I call you tomorrow?" She said, "if you want to, that would be nice." She thought to herself, "Everything has been nice today."

Then Tom did something that was unexpected, to him and her. Instead of trying for the goodnight spit swap, many men tried, he leaned over and kissed her lightly on the ear.

Do we see some redundant words here? Well that's nice.

He also took a deep breath of her scent, then he walked back to the car, before she could notice the swelling in his pants.

Mary's response, when she got inside was "WOW. He kissed my ear for God's sake and then took a deep breath. I wonder why?" As she got ready for bed a little later, she noticed her panties were wet.

Well, as the old saying goes, "time marches on". Tom and Mary began dating, even though they did not call it that. It was just time spent together, but it was notable, because they were not intimate. There were times, however, that Tom had to put on clean shorts when he got home. He thought that Mary never noticed but she did. He didn't know that she had to do the same thing.

Eventually they decided to get married, but they had to wait till they could get vacation. It would be 10 months and 5 days, from the stroll in the zoo and the wedding day.

Tom began to worry because he was inexperienced (being a virgin) and he did not want to spoil

the moment

when they first came together. He had been told many times, by guys that had taken a virgin, that it was painful for the woman, and there was going to be blood on the sheets.

He couldn't bear the thought of doing that to her!

For Mary's part, she was apprehensive about the wedding night but thought that was the way it was, she just had to suck it up and get past it.

Sorry for the suck it up slip. Guess I was thinking about something else.

It's my story and I will tell it the way I want.

She had seen a movie one time when the groom took the bride in a very rough manner and then took the bloody sheet to show to the wedding party, as proof that she was a virgin. That seemed to have not been uncommon in European upper-class society. Many times, the bloody sheets were stained with blood of an unfortunate chicken.

Tom and Mary were intelligent, if nothing else, and they came to the same conclusion, that it would be wise to study up on the issue. Neither one knew what the other was up to.

These days you can see anything on the internet, but that does not mean it is accurate. Tom and Mary had their work cut out for them.

They discovered that porn sites were worthless, because it is all fake. And the methods described were probably not very practical or accurate.

When it came to sex, being virgins, Tom and Mary only knew what they had learned from high school, the movies, and other unreliable places. It was assumed that when you got married, you obviously knew the facts of life and were ready to go. That idea is ridiculous

As they both studied about sex, they discovered that this most private activity, was more complicated than they thought. They had not realized it could be the source of the most intense aspect of their life, or the source of the most traumatic events of their life.

So, the search for the truth was on.

Tom and Mary were almost totally ignorant about their bodies. I know, men like to look at women, with as few clothes as possible, but Tom had not really seen a pussy, up close, and Mary had never seen a cock, up close. Tom had seen all kinds of pictures of breasts, but didn't know the first thing about how to treat them. They didn't know the art of touching and caressing, that adds so much to sex.

From reading the sex experts" how to books", they did learn that the first step was to warm up the bride. That was a terrible way to put it, because it sounded like warming up the car on a cold morning.

Tom stumbled across a web site that seemed to know a reasonable way to get her attention. Tom learned that careful attention to lots of little things was important. Like comments about how she made him feel and how much he appreciated her, for things other than a great ass and tits. In fact, the use of the words tits and ass made those body parts to seem like items in the meat counter.

There were so many things a guy could do for her that stimulated him too.

Tom had never heard, that a simple light touch on her arm, hand, back, neck, or kissing her lightly on the ear or neck, touching her face and simply smelling her hair (not perfume but her) could be erotic.

Fortunately, these facts could be safely tested during the courtship and Tom tried to practice a lot.

The slash and burn many guys used, were not good, and the sad part was, that girls were so used to that approach, that they missed the benefits of foreplay.

Another thing that Tom didn't understand, was the approach from the rear, touching her back, hips, arms, neck and ear. The nibble on the ear and neck, coupled with burying his nose in her hair to get a whiff of her essence. She was his woman she smelled great. Don't think that she did not know what he was doing.

She looked forward to the sound of his deep breathing.

This early practice in light touching and kissing would become important later.

Right now, the main thing Tom needed to know was, the initial approach and not the more direct things,involved in stimulating the erogenous zones. He would learn how to stimulate those areas when the time came. Then he could practice that too.,

Mary, for her part, was both excited about what was coming and apprehensive about some things. She already was learning the touching stuff, because Tom was practicing, practicing, practicing all the time.

She especially loved it when he came up from behind, pressing himself against her kissing her ear and neck and taking a big deep breath of her scent.

She could also feel, many times, his cock pressing into her. Tom probably didn't think of it but maybe he did. Whatever, it was preparation for later.

One thing that Mary was concerned about, was when her girl friends in high school, had talked about sucking cock. She was not convinced about that. Having never even touched a cock, and no real way to practice it, she would have to hope that Tom could help her on that.

The next item she was concerned about was the wedding night, like what to wear? Since both were virgins, this could be a big issue,

Mary had never been naked with a man before, and she wasn't sure what to do. While she was looking for her wedding dress, one of the older women at the bridal shop, realized that Mary, needed some advice and decided to make some suggestions, for both the bridal gown and initial wedding night attire.

Wilma, the sales lady, tried to steer Mary in the right direction. It was difficult, because Mary's mother and Toms mother and all her friends, had all kinds of suggestions to offer.

One of the most disturbing things was the tendency of more modern girls to expose as much of themselves as possible and not get arrested.

Wilma was a steady hand here, realizing that Mary was, not only more conservative, but the wedding day was not a time to cheapen the goods. Showing everything you have,is not a good approach.

Wilma was able to guide Mary to a dress that was beautiful, showing how desirable Mary was, but creating a tantalizing mystery of her assets. The fan dancer only shows the minimal amount of skin, just enough to keep everybody paying attention. Imagination is a powerful thing.

When it came to the bedroom scene, it was going to be a similar situation. It was not a time to just strip and flop down screaming "come and get it" for Mary. That would be a bad approach for Tom also.

To Tom, he was going to be approaching his virginal wife for the first time and the brute force approach was probably more than he would want. A more relaxed approach was the best way to go.

Tom would be presented with the woman of his dreams waiting patently for him to take her. What a wonderful thing it would be for him and her to slowly reveal the bride in her moment of seduction.

She would be the seductress reeling him in at her whim. The idea that the groom must claim his bride by force is so wrong. This was their party their way.

The mothers can do what they need to do, organize the event but not interfere with the consummation.

Who needs the most help on the wedding night? Obviously, it is the groom. He simply cannot mess this up even though we all know that men are completely in control of nothing.

So, it was imperative that Tom hit the books to figure out what to do, to make it all work out. You do not want to fuck up the first night. Sorry about the f word. Tom was going to have to learn what all the equipment is, and how it works, He is a virgin too.

The first thing Tom needed to do was learn the names of all the parts. You would think that this is simple, because everybody knows what everything is called. That is decidedly not true, at least for Tom and Mary.

Oh yes Tom did know what the guys called everything but that might not work for Mary. After all she was a virgin

and had never heard any of those words. She was totally ignorant of such things.

Most people knew the technical words like penis, vagina, breasts, and so on, but who used those words in everyday talk. It was cock, pussy, tits. It was to the point that a few years ago there was a theatrical piece called "The Vagina Monologues" which among other things gave a list of names used for the female vagina.

This play was performed by young women in colleges but also in high schools. But Tom did not feel comfortable with using those terms around Mary.

Usually, when people use these words, it is in a disrespectful

base

way. (There is a word not used today. "base" used to mean low, crude even sinful way)

Tom wanted to use words that were more positive.

Now guys used the word cock all the time and that seemed positive to him, and I guess it is OK. Most people today do not know where the word came from. On the farm a rooster (male chicken) was called a "cock" and the female was a hen. Thus, the term "he is the cock of the walk." Most chicken yards had one rooster. So, cock it is.

Mary was dealing with the names too. She had heard those same words as Tom, and she wasn't fond of them either. Most of the reference to her sexual parts were used in a demeaning or derogatory way. She did not like the words tits or boobs, or ta tas and such like. Everybody had their favorites.

Of all the names Mary had heard, the one she preferred was pussy. The origin of the word pussy, applied to human female parts is not clear and just seems to be acceptable to most people today so Mary was OK with that.

There is another issue that Tom and Mary had to address and that was certain words that were used that indicated passion, rather than, exact, correct information.

The best example of that was the word fuck. Possibly the most used word in the American English language. It probably came from ancient Latin "future" and old German ficken/fucken meaning to strike or penetrate and the slang to copulate.

It has been used in writing since the 1500's. Today its meaning can vary from vulgar to indicating intense sex. The old German word fucken meant to copulate

So, Tom and Mary would probably use a different word in a different way indicating that they wanted to engage in intercourse but what would that be? They would think of something.

Now that Tom and Mary have come to grips with those issues, they had to deal with being intimate.

Mary, had a little help from her friends, but some good advice from Wilma and a few select older women. She was instructed in the nuances of the wedding night. The seduction was to be carefully planned. Some would just start ripping their clothes off, but Mary wanted it to be more, well seductive.

One of the older women advised her to change into her seductress outfit, in the bathroom not in the middle of the room, putting on a show Her bedtime attire should not look like a stripper's outfit but a demure hesitant virgin, which she was.

Then ask Tom to please not shock her by being naked when she returned. She would have one request, and that would be to leave your shorts on, because I want to take them off myself. That all by itself, should give him a huge hardon.

Excuse me...erection. When she comes out approach slowly, letting him take it all in. (That one old lady must read a lot of romance books or have a talented husband) When she approaches stop when she is within arm's length, and say, "would you like to help me with this?" That will blow his mind. Then when you are down to the last item, stop and say, "let me help you with those."

From that point on you are on your own. I do not know how far you will get, but what's to lose. Some people have great imaginations!

That was a lot to remember but Mary would try.

Tom's Idea About the Wedding Night