My heart was racing as we pulled up at the entrance to the path leading down to the beach. I hadn't really expected to be so affected.
Across the road was the holiday house my family had rented last summer.
Almost a year ago today I had walked down that path early in the morning, single and a virgin. In a way that would have been incomprehensible to the girl who walked down the path, four hours later I had emerged from it hopelessly in love and well and truly deflowered.
As I got out of the car the timber top rail on the fence at the start of the right hand side of the path brought back its own memory. It was that rail I leaned against to give Greg a quickie when he dropped me home late at night after we'd had to clean Kate up and put her to bed when - dazed, drunk or drugged and barely conscious - she'd found us after escaping a new boyfriend who'd slipped her a date rape drug. Kate had stolen an orgasm for herself as she leaned against Greg for support while I washed her under the shower and after we'd got her into bed he'd fingered me to two of my own while we sat pashing on the couch waiting for her mum to come home.
All the while Greg had uncomplainingly suffered an unsatisfied boner. I figured he deserved the quickie, and I quite enjoyed it myself. Anyway we had needed to get that boner under control.
Although it was just one sexual adventure of many we had shared during that holiday, I found myself momentarily tempted to create a memorial to that first summer by marking with a permanent pen the outline of my bum cheeks on the spot where it happened.
It had been a long drive from Sydney to get here and it was now late afternoon. Instead of going straight to Greg's place where I had been invited to spend this second summer, we'd come here first. With daylight saving, the sun was still high in the sky and the day still hot. Ostensibly we'd decided to drop by for a swim on the way to the house. However the truth was, neither Greg nor myself really had a swim as the first thing on our mind.
Now dressed only in a bikini and with Greg in his speedos, we walked briskly along the 50 metres of beach up to the sand dune where I'd willingly offered up my virginity as I'd lowered myself onto Greg's shaft on that first day and had shared innumerable sexual encounters with him in the three months that had followed it.
With our sex lives in Sydney restricted by the privacy constraints of my parent's house or Greg's share-house and the lack of suitable outdoor venues, the orgasm count (if I can put it that way) over the next 9 months might have been impressive by most people's standards, but it just wasn't the same.