This is a sequel to
Springtime at the Paradise
.
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"Remember that heavy petting we had last May at Loew's Paradise?" My girlfriend Michelle Hanley asked me that as we sat in one of the lounges at the City College of New York.
"Petting? I'd call what we did mutual masturbation. We both came, obviously."
She laughed at that, "Yeah, I was using a 1950s euphemism."
"It actually, I think, covered a whole range of behaviors, from fondling through the clothes to literally, as I said, jerking each other off."
"Well, with us, it was definitely the latter!"
She was referring to a stunt we had pulled off in May of that year. We had both been near the end of our sophomore terms in that spring of 1975. While giving her a tour of my old neighborhoods in The Bronx, we had passed the Loew's Paradise theater on the Grand Concourse. By that time the old 4,000-seat venue had been split into a triplex.
While we stood outside, I had explained how empty the place usually was during afternoon showings. Michelle had a taste for interesting erotic hi-jinks, and she suggested we go inside and see how much we could get away with.
It turned out that we could get away with quite a lot. There were only a handful of other patrons in the auditorium, and they all sat near the front; we choose seats in the next to last row. While
The Day of the Locust
played on screen, we indulged in that very heavy petting as Michelle had called it.
Michelle pleasured me first. While the opening credits rolled, she lifted her blouse, unhooked her bra and let me stroke her breasts. In 1950s terms, that would be "under the clothes but above the waist" - something guys of that era might consider a pretty good achievement. Then she undid my pants and took out my erect cock. She held the base and stroked my shaft with her other hand. She used some hand cream - she happened to have a tube of it in her purse.
She was definitely a girl who was well-rehearsed in wanking a guy to a climax, and within a few minutes I spurted upwards. I tried to turn and get most of it on the empty seat to my right, but some cum did splatter down onto my lap.
After that, it was her turn. She was wearing a skirt that day, so there was easy access to her crotch. She put her hand into her panties to stroke her clitoris, while I used one of mine to finger-fuck her. I was impressed at how quiet she was during her orgasm. She only voiced a slight peep; none of the other patrons further forward could hear her.
We had lost track of the movie completely, of course, and we simply left to have lunch at a place on the other side of the Concourse. Eventually we did get to see
The Day of the Locust
at another theater, but that time we concentrated on the film.
Now it was October, and Michelle had another plan, "How about we go up there again and try something more? You said it's usually almost empty on a weekday afternoon."
"All right, what do you mean, 'something more?'"
"I was thinking: if we get down and kneel on the floor, we could get with - you know, actually fucking doggy-style. We'd be below the sightlines."
Of course the horny side of my twenty-year-old self was intrigued by the idea, but I had an innate cautiousness too. "You think that is possible?"
"If the place is like it was the last time - what were there, about five or six other people? And there had to be more than a thousand seats in that unit."
I considered the layout of the Paradise as I remembered it. The balcony had become its own theater, and the main floor had been split into two. It was impossible to tell from the outside which movie was in which section, but all three were quite spacious.
Michelle knew she could easily talk me into these things, "Come on, let's try it. If it really is busier than we expected, then we'll just watch the movie and try some other time." She put her arm around my shoulders. "I'll wear a skirt for easy access of course, and I'll have a surprise pair of panties for you."
After going with her for a year, I thought I was familiar with all of her underwear. "Really, what will they be like?"
"If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise."
There was another factor that we didn't bring up. Over the summer we had gone through a rough patch in our relationship, but we had reconciled over the Labor Day weekend. That fall I was trying to regain my earlier optimism about her.
We kissed for a few moments as we sat on our lounge sofa. Then I said, "All right, I'm definitely up for this."
On the appointed day for our escapade we drove up to The Bronx in Michelle's car. As before, we parked it in a garage, but this time we walked directly over to the theater. We hadn't bothered to check the newspaper listings so we stood there for a moment looking at the marquee.
The huge theater had been built in 1929 in what was supposedly a Venetian style, but I'm sure that generations of movie-goers didn't know that and merely thought it was "fancy." The marquee was unusual in that it was flat on the faΓ§ade rather than projecting out over the sidewalk.
While Michelle looked up I took a moment to check on her. She was a fairly tall girl with straight medium-brown hair and a trim, athletic body. Today she had her steel-rimmed glasses on, although she had recently bought an alternate pair with dark rims.
She was dressed rather modestly with a pullover top, a skirt that came down just above her knees, and plaid knee-socks. I put my arm around her and said, "I see you have your Joanie Coed look today."
She gave me a pretend coy look, "Well, just because we're going to a movie, don't think you can get fresh with me."
"Of course; you know I'm that I'm the perfect gentleman."
"I'm not so sure about that; you've been getting a little forward on recent dates." She looked up again, "So, what are we going to do here?"