And here we go again.....
Of course there is some reluctance and doubt in my mind about this. There always is, but only at first.
I've heard the message over and over again; "good girls don't do this kind of thing", or rather, they don't let guys do this kind of thing to them.
I consider myself a "good girl" - I don't think anyone would consider me a slut, and yet here we go again.
I happen to glance out the window to my right. Snow is coming down, heavy now. The light in the room is soft and dim. Early morning light.
Snowfall always inspires my nesting instinct, and I'm burrowed in deep. I lay on my tummy and the thick flannel sheets tickle my nipples and cheeks and feel soft and comforting on my legs and ass. I gently move my naked body around and focus on the sensations. Ummmm - I treat myself to a sensual stretch and then run my hands all over my body embracing my full curves and soft skin.
The snow and warmth and flannel snd early morning light have me feeling natural and earthy.
Of course I'm makeup free, and my hair is a messy explosion, but that only adds to my mood of blissful natural nudity. Don't get me wrong, I clean up really nice and am a head turner when I'm dolled up, but I always feel most sexy when I'm all natural. And I feel sexy and all natural now.
I don't think he really cares how I look or feel one way or another by the way. But I do.
Junie is not here.
It's Thursday and so she's already left for her work/study apprenticeship in Cambridge. But I'm not alone. I know her boyfriend Mick is stirring now in her bed on the other side of the waist-high dressers we use in an attempt to separate our dorm room into two mini-rooms.
June, or Junie as everyone calls her, is soooo innocent.
I remember the day Junie breathlessly told me about her "big day", as she refers to it.
"It happened!"
She giggled through the hand covering her mouth because she was so excited but also a little embarrassed. She attacked me with the news just as I came back to campus after a weekend at home. I had hardly made it through the door when she broke right into her story.
"We finally did it!" Her pretty face beamed with excitement.
I play along. "No way!" I didn't have to ask what had happened, I knew. "Tell me more......"
"Well I thought it was gonna happen Friday night, but Mick was a little drunk and his....um...thingy wasn't really working right and so um....we kinda fell asleep together, but then you weren't here...um well....you knew that already...so anyhow we woke up Sunday and he was DEFINITELY ready then, and then we did it!"
"Wow Joon - was it awesome? Did you just love it?"
It was my turn to giggle from nervousness now.
"Well, it hurt a little at first..." she blushed, her rosy cheeks even rosier than usual. "I don't have anything to compare with, but it, um I mean he......I mean his thingy felt a little big and I,... um...I had a hard time....um....oh, God...um...fitting him in me? I mean is that normal?" She looks at me with some confusion in her eyes.
That was back in September, not long after they discovered each other on the bus on a school "fun day" trip to Providence and immediately began spending a lot of time together.
I'm not that much more experienced sexually than Junie, or I should say I wasn't until she started her Thursday lab gig in October, which is also when Mick started sleeping over on Wednesday nights,
My only experience until then had been with Dave.
Oh Dave, poor Dave. Such a sweet guy. My boyfriend since high school. The first guy I ever let feel up my tits, although a lot of other guys had tried to. The first dick I ever held in my hand. The first guy I ever made love to, in that awkward unsatisfying high school way, in my families' closed up lake camp on a warm autumn day in October a year ago, three days after my eighteenth birthday. We continued having nervous awkward sex together when we could, which wasn't very often, until we both started our freshman years, me here at B.U. and Dave far off at Loyola.
College so far has changed both of us, but not in the same way. I've become more mature and worldly, exploring Boston, embracing new ideas and getting to dress and act the way I want to, not the way my parents expect me too. Dave on the other hand went backwards, retreating into video games and pizza, and hardly ever leaving his dorm room other than for classes.
I've moved on from that relationship. I just can't take the needy, hopeful texts and phone calls. I want more from a guy now. I just haven't had the heart to break the news to him.
So although I'm in a relationship, I'm really not. Unfortunately, Dave doesn't know that yet.
Mick is not innocent. He's older than Junie and I, not only because he's a sophomore, but also because he's lived life in a way we haven't. He was kind of a high school fuck-up, more interested in his band and his partying until he graduated and realized he didn't want to end up like his burn-out friends. He ended up having to take a year off and work in a factory while he lined up SATs and college. During the factory year he was also playing one-off gigs around rural Maine.
The factory and the gigs - and the older women he met there - transformed him into a guy who looks like every other hot college guy but who is a lot more than that. Just as smart and handsome, but without the stupid middle school mentality,
He's also six feet tall with an athletic build, a cute face and an intelligent and funny demeanor. Maybe that's why I don't resist.
I hear Mick moving around the dressers and coming over to my side. I feel his presence. I can't pick up his sexy guy smell yet but I know I will soon. I remain face down motionless in my flannel cocoon, waiting.
It always starts this way. Wordlessly, without even an acknowledgment, a good morning, or even eye contact.
I feel my messy curls being moved to the side to expose the back of my neck. He doesn't ask first. He doesn't get consent like the college tells us we need to do. He doesn't even try to. That fact alone fires up the sexy feeling in my core. I'm a feminist for sure, but I'm also a sensual woman who apparently loves men too.