My name is Susie O'Connell. I am 18 and had just graduated from high school. My boyfriend, Corey, was 20 and a student at Caltech.
On our first date we had sex. In fact, the purpose of that date was to have sex. We came to like each other so much that we became boyfriend and girlfriend.
Corey's parents were divorced and his father lived in a mansion with a guest house. At Corey's request he had offered the guest house to us as a 'trysting place' unless he needed it for business guests (which was almost never). As I reported in another chapter I debated whether to accept the offer for some time. When I made up my mind I went to Corey's to tell him but his sister, my best friend Kaitlyn, told me he was at the hobby store about a mile away. I ran the whole way there.
The "Fly Guys"
When I entered the store Corey saw me and came over, "Susie, what are you doing here?"
"I agree to using the guest house," I whispered to him. "I couldn't wait to tell you." Then I said aloud, "I wanted to see your hangouts anyway. Can you introduce me to your friends?"
He took me over. "Guys this is Susie, she's the girl I told you about." I hugged his arm and kissed him so they would have no doubt what he meant.
"Susie: Howard, George, Travis and Sunil."
They stood there, seemingly frozen and unable to speak.
"You are a quiet bunch," I said, "Maybe you've never seen a girl before."
I made a quick decision and hugged each of them, giving them a quick peck on the cheek and saying their name as I did so. "Hi Howard, Hi George, Hi Travis, Hi Sunil. So what are you looking at?"
Corey started by pointing at a silver contraption inside the display. "We were trying to decide whether this radio control servo would be appropriate for the plane we're building."
"Corey, you never said you were actually building a plane," I exclaimed. "It's not at your house, where is it?"
"At my house, Ma'am," Travis actually spoke.
"Travis, didn't you hear Corey, I'm 'Susie', not 'Ma'am'." I gave him another peck on the cheek. I figured it wouldn't hurt to give out rewards when they spoke.
"Sure,
Susie
," he said with a bit more confidence and getting another rewarding kiss.
"I'm afraid I know next to nothing about servos," I told them. "Well, I don't even know what a 'servo' is. So I probably won't be of much help but maybe someone could describe the problem."
That started an outburst of sound as each of them started describing their own view of the situation.
"Wait a minute," I said. "One at a time if I am to understand anything you say." I gave each a rewarding peck.
"Travis, The plane is at your house, so you go first." I let each of them describe the issues with whether the servo was appropriate for their plane. I asked questions and came to understand that the servo was something to move parts of the plane from radio signals. The problems related to whether it would fit, was powerful enough to move the parts they had in mind and then the basic one of cost.
I said, "maybe hobby shops are different but at clothing stores I can buy something and if after I get it home I decide I can't afford it or that it doesn't go with my other clothes I can take it back for a refund."
That started another free for all discussion which resulted in the decision to buy four of the parts on a trial basis.
As we left the store I held onto Corey's arm as some of the boys told him things like. "It really helped for her to come." "She's more beautiful than you described." "She actually kissed you, full on the lips."
I said, "You know I'm right here, you can talk to me about some of this. I kissed Corey full on the lips because I really, really like him, well, I love him." I gave him a huge, passionate smooch. "And you should see what I can do in private! Thank you for saying I am beautiful and I am glad I could be of help."
Then I added, "Are you going to Travis' place? I would love to see your airplane."
"Sure, come along," they said in a sort of disorganized chorus.
I took, 'shotgun' in Corey's car and George and Sunil jumped in back, then Howard squeezed in. Travis had his car and, having no woman with him, had to drive alone.
"You're not like other girls." George said as we drove away.
"Oh, is that so? How is that?" I asked.
"Well, you talk to us."
"And you pay attention." Sunil added.
Not to be left out, Howard added, "and you ask questions."
"I am sure most girls do that." I smiled.
"Not with us," Sunil said somewhat sadly.
"Sunil, I bet that's not true," I told him. After a brief pause I continued, "Well I suppose most people like to talk about things they know and like. What would you do if a girl did come over and started talking to you and telling you about the clothes she just bought at the mall."
"I'd be flabbergasted." Sunil said.
All the boys laughed and George added, "You'd probably faint."
Then I said, "Well, I suppose that after much of that you would get bored and try to get away because you are not interested in girl's clothes and know nothing about it."
Sunil said, "Except George, he likes trying on his sister's clothes."
"I do not!" George said and gave Sunil a light punch.
"Boys, you are being childish." They quieted down. "My point is that if you go up to a girl and start talking about servos most girls will get bored and try to get out of the conversation. In fact that would happen if you go up to most boys. You need to talk about things you are both interested in."
"How do you find out without talking to them," George said.
"Good question," I said. "You are both people and you must have met because of something you have in common, even if it's only being in the same class at school."
"What if she doesn't like the class," Sunil said. He said it like he had a particular girl in mind.
"Well, then talk about the teacher, maybe some trait everyone knows about, I told him. "A warning, don't do anything which she might think is bragging or making yourself seem better than her. Like don't start off offering to help with homework in a class where she gets poor grades."
Then Howard asked, "So Corey what did you talk about with Susie to get her to talk with you?"
Corey answered, "Well, I was lucky, Susie started the conversation."
I jumped in, "Didn't Corey tell you I am his sister's best friend."
"So that's the secret," Howard said.
"Well, maybe part of the secret. The rest of the secret is that he always treated me nicely when I was with his sister and he treated
her
nicely too. That made me think he was someone worth talking to."
"Susie, Where do you go to school?" Sunil asked.
"I just graduated from high school. I will start at community college next year."
"Oh, a freshman," George said. "Maybe that's part of the secret, find a freshman who doesn't know you're a 'Geek' and who will be impressed that an upper classman talked to her."
"I told you it won't work to act superior to her," I said.
We had arrived at Travis' house and all piled out.
Travis took us inside and to a workshop in back. We passed his mother and he said, "I'm here with the guys and we're going to work on the plane."
His mom looked up at us and replied, "I haven't met one of these '
guys