Hunter and I have been married for twenty-six years. To an outsider, it's been a normal, straight from the rule book marriage. We met, we fell in love, we married, we had three children, a dog, two cars and a house with a white picket fence. All things the perfect, traditional marriage was supposed to have.
Appearances can be deceiving.
I was raised in an old-fashioned, ecumenical family, church every Sunday and emphasis on the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments. When I was younger, the emphasis was on not lying or stealing. As I got older, the emphasis shifted to abstinence of everything from smoking, drinking and especially sex. Planning to get married added adultery and coveting.
Throughout high school, that worked well for me and my parents. I wasn't part of the "in" group so I was spared much of the peer pressure. I was curious about what I was denied but I kept my thoughts to myself.
My parents selected an excellent, conservative, religiously founded university for me and, after high school graduation, I left home for life in an all-girls, drug and alcohol-free dormitory with a roommate expressing the same ideals my parents instilled in me.
That lasted about one week. Friday night of the first week of classes, Rose, my dorm roommate, and I went to our first fraternity party. The fruit punch was very tasty and I was feeling good about myself and the party. After about two hours, I found myself at the end of a dark hallway with a fraternity brother about two years older than me. We shared my first real kiss and within seconds the fellow had his hand inside both my pants and my panties. I managed to extricate myself from his clutches, left the party and went back to my dorm room.
I sat on my bed in the darkened room congratulating myself on my escape and questioning why, if sex was so taboo, did it feel so good when the fraternity brother touched my pussy and rubbed my clitoris?
I was still sitting in the dark when, well after midnight, Rose came back to our room. I heard her singing as she walked down the hallway approaching our room. She came into the room and closed the door. She was in a buoyant mood although she was quite disheveled. Her hair was a mess, her blouse was buttoned in the wrong buttonholes and her skirt was twisted around so the button and zipper were in front instead of the back. Her socks were missing and, when she removed her skirt, so were her panties.
"Rose," I cried. "What the hell happened to you? Are you all right?"
I wasn't inclined to use colorful language but Rose's condition seemed an appropriate time to start.
"Lyndsay," Rose happily explained as she removed her blouse. "I've just had the most wonderful night of my life."
Her bra was as missing as her panties.
"After all these years, I've discovered sex," she crowed. "It was phenomenal. I've never done anything that made me feel so wonderful. I've had orgasms playing with myself but the orgasms I had tonight were a super nova compared to a bonfire."
"You had sex tonight?" I questioned only half believing her. After all, she had the same background as I did and I escaped. Why didn't she? Her appearance and missing underwear gave credence to her assertion and I had to hear more. "Tell me more."
Rose sat on the bed next to me. I tried to ignore her nakedness as she told me her story. "The fruit punch at the party started everything. It was more than just orange juice and peach juice. It included a large bottle of cheap vodka."
"I figured it out when I got maneuvered into a corner with one of the fraternity brothers," I confirmed.
"Did you have sex too?" asked Rose.
"No," I told her. "But we're not talking about me. Tell me your story."
"Anyway, when they discovered I was a virgin, I became the focus of the party," continued Rose.
"How did they find out you were a virgin?" I asked.
"I told them."
"You told them?" I asked incredulously. "Why?"
"They asked, so I told them. It didn't seem like a big deal to me," related Rose. "Anyway, they have this long-standing tradition of celebrating virgins and I was the immediate focus of the party. We danced, drank fruit punch, and laughed a lot. They sat me on a chair in the middle of the room and asked for volunteers to induct me into their 'once a virgin' club.
"Almost every fraternity brother there volunteered. I was amazed and overwhelmed by all the attention. Someone asked me to make a choice. I chose Jason. He was the best-looking man in the room and his smile alone gave me goose bumps. Jason high fived most of the other brothers and led me down to the basement. One wall of the basement was covered with bras and panties with a sign that said, 'They came here virgins, left women.'
"Jason took me to a bedroom with a large bed. Someone had lit candles all around the room and the air smelled of roses. He closed the door, took me gently in his arms and kissed me. I almost panicked when I realized that he intended to have sex with me."
"Why didn't you leave?" I asked.