As time went on, I began to see less and less of my almost adoptive family. My university commitments, along with Sarah's, and Lauren's work meant that I really never got to spend much more than half an hour with either of them at any one time. I'd never seen much of Alison, the youngest, as she was the one with fewest responsibilities, and was always out with friends it seemed.
Anyway, a couple of weeks went by after my outdoor 'heart to heart' with Lauren, when it transpired that Sarah and I would be at home together by ourselves that Friday night. We made an agreement that we would both be up to date with our studies, and not to make other plans. I was quite looking forward to it, as I hadn't spent any time at all with her since her mother caught me masturbating for her, and I kinda wanted to finish that episode off, as it were.
Friday night rolled around. I got back a little late from a study session at the library, my study buddy wouldn't let me leave, despite my near desperation. I dumped my bag in my bedroom, slipped off my trainers and headed downstairs.
Sarah was in the living room, on her phone. I waved at her, and she smiled back. After a couple of minutes, and half a conversation that didn't really make any sense to me she hung up.
'Hi,' she smiled at me, 'finally made it then.'
'Yeah, sorry about that. But it's done now I am all yours for the rest of the evening. What did you have planned?'
'Oh, nothing really,' she said coyly, 'I thought we'd just, you know, hang out.'
She began to blush. I knew exactly what she meant, but I was going to play with her. She was usually quite embarrassed about asking me to get my bits out, and I found that very cute, so I played it for all it was worth.
'Just hang out huh?' I put on a thoughtful face, 'sounds interesting.'
'I thought so.'
At that moment We heard the front door open, and seconds later Alison stomped in and slumped onto the sofa with a sigh.
'What are you doing here?' Sarah asked, a little angrily.
'I live here. We share a bedroom, you must have noticed me.' Came the sarcastic response.
'Not really, you're barely here these days, I assumed you'd be out again this evening.'
'Yeah, well. Kayleigh had a big argument with her mum about a fake ID or something, and now she's grounded. And because she's grounded no one else can be bothered to go out either, and here I am.'
Sarah looked at me. I guess our 'fun' was off for the evening. It was an agreement we had not to risk it when someone else was in the house, and this definitely qualified.
'So what are you guys doing?' Alison asked
Sarah and I looked at each other.
'We hadn't really got that far. Maybe we could watch a movie or something?' Sarah said and I nodded, not being able to think of anything better. A DVD was produced, I can't remember what it was called, but it was the usual slushfest that comes from a girl's DVD collection. Boy meets girl, girl likes boy but boy is a total dick. Girl pursues boy in a series of 'hilarious' stunts until eventually boy has a complete personality change and we live bored forever after.
Afterwards we threw a frozen pizza in the oven, and conversation about the movie began. Alison loved it, Sarah less so, my silence gave my feelings away on the subject.
'What was wrong with it?' Alison asked , incredulous.
'The male characters in these films are always so unrealistic. They always have huge muscles, perfect teeth and no personality. For the first hour the guy is a total douche, bullying the smaller kids and banging the cheerleaders in ridiculous sex scenes. Then all of a sudden the nerdy girl gets the guy away from his friends and all of a sudden he's a sensitive poet with a heart of gold. And what is it with Hollywood that makes them think that a girl taking off her glasses automatically makes her an irresistible temptress? Its all balls.'
'Woah, calm down,' Alison said giggling, 'It's only a movie.'
'He's got a point though,' Sarah piped up. They guy spent half the movie with his shirt off trying to get laid, and then comes out as a sensitive soul. It's quite unrealistic.'
'I don't mind him spending half the movie with his shirt off.' Alison responded. 'He should have spent the whole movie with it off frankly.'
'And that's another thing,' Sarah continued, 'Two people have sex right? How can the guy spend the whole scene with his pants on, and the girl has to give everything up. It's clearly a chick-flick right? Why do we want to see a girl with fake tits flaunting everything on the screen for ten minutes.'
'It's so that the boyfriend who has inevitably been dragged to see the film doesn't die of boredom during the screening. I agree with you though, but for different reasons.'
'Like what?'
'Well, there's the assumption that all a guy wants to see is tits, bush and the occasional explosion. And if a guy gets naked in a movie it's always for comedic effect. A guy loses his pants and big laughs follow. It's all very patronising.'
'Yeah,' Sarah laughed, 'and it's always the fat guy with the tiny dick as well, never the cute one.'
I noticed at this point that Alison had gone bright red.
'Are we embarrassing you?'
'No, well,' Alison stuttered, 'It's just, I've never seen a movie where a guy, you know. . .' She trailed off.
'Get's his dick out? Trust me, most of the ones I've seen, you wouldn't want to.' Sarah shocked me slightly with how she phrased this. I'd never known her so confident when talking about matters sexual.
'No. I've seen loads where girls get their boobs out, but never a guy.' She trailed off again. 'I've often wondered about that. Why so many films show female nudity these days. I mean even films aimed at teenagers. Is it really necessary?'