First times can be fun. In the dark fumbling with someone before you know much about who is fumbling with you. Potential is limitless in that moment. In those first moments only knowing them through experience of physical intimacy, but not real intimacy.
Before my freshman year in college we brought home a new set of strays from a summer spent in San Marcos. My Mom collected people or strays as I called them. I can't pull this stray's name out of the recesses of my mind. She was a little different than the normal stray, young, hurt behind all that bravado. The hurt part was normal for the strays but the young was different. She was a little older than me. Michele, Laurie, something like that. She wasn't with us long, the whys and wheres are fuzzy to me now.
In her sphere, she brought along a young man, maybe a cousin. Dark eyes, dark hair, and skinny as young men tend to be. For some reason he was staying with us also and he had decided he wanted me. Another boy with his needs and wants. He was nice, I didn't need or deserve nice. He tried to know me and I wanted nothing to do with him. Each of his efforts to interact, I met with anger, ugliness.
Sherice, yes that was the stray's name. Accosted me one day as I entered our shared bedroom. "Shawn really wants you to go out with him?"
"Sherice, not my type, he is just too, too nice, too eager just too." I exclaimed, arms crossed.
"M, please I am tired of running interference. It is one date, you can see Cyborg. And you might even have fun." Jean-Claude, boredom, kindness to Sherice, a little guilt at being so angry, made me agree to a movie.
"Come here tall girl let's get you ready!", Sherice excited exclaimed. I just rolled my eyes.
Shawn was also excited, I resented his excitement. I resented our normal friendly movie date. He held the door for me, he bought our tickets and popcorn, and he was kind. He grabbed my hand after the movie on the way back to his truck. The epitome of a great movie date...except the movie sucked
He opens the pickup door for me, "Want to go parking?", he asks.
Young, bored and in control, I said, "Sure." I figured I could get some attention, enjoy a kiss or two. Go home and tell Sherice it was as boring as I thought.
Control, so important to me then and to the me of now. I have had it stolen; reason I hold it so close. I had never had it stolen from me the way this boy, this young man stole it from me that night. I was schooled in control in a very insidious way.
"How about we drive out to the airport and watch the planes land?", I suggest.
"Tell me where.", he says with a smile, dark eyes drinking me in.
We drove out north of town, parked near the end of the runway and watched the 11:15 land. The power of the plane only a few feet over our head, the air falling back in on itself after the plane passed, the huge plume of dust and debris as the wheels touch the tarmac and then the loud boom that comes seconds later. It is exhilarating and glorious, reminds us of the power of alive.
The next moments of that night are blurry with memory, the closeness of the cab of the pickup truck, the air cool with the smell of the end of summer, the breeze blowing the strands of my blonde hair, and the heat of his hand on mine. He turns to me and lifts one hand behind my head and brings me in for a kiss. His lips brush over mine. His lips parting just slightly and inhaling my breath as he begins a slow sensual dance. He pulls my bottom lip between his, slowly tasting, sucking. He pulls back and runs his tongue in the part of my lips, I feel no hurry in him. He is enjoying the feel of me. He continues to kiss me, never increasing the pace, the tempo of the kiss, just being present.
I want more, to move this along, to establish my control. I move forward, to deepen, to push, he inches back and tightens his hold with the hand behind my head. Slowing his movement, signaling his control. He continues to suck, kiss and nibble until my lips are swollen and I am kiss drunk. He then moves his tongue between my lips, hands cupping my head, kissing me deeply and time seems to stop. The feeling of him finally in my mouth, has me hitching my breath. Again, no hurry in him, no rush, no push. Him sucking on my tongue. Drinking in my mouth. I move to drive us forward, to gain control, again to speed the tempo and he pulls back. Breaking the kiss entirely. He then just looks at me, dark eyes holding mine, keeping my head in place. Establishing, his control.