This is but the introductory background to the story of my erotic liberation. If you want to appreciate love being the basis for erotica, read Part 1 first.
Dr. Jen.
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Sunday morning found me at my desk in my bedroom already immersed in preparing a review of my class notes for the midterms that would follow in November, and of course, doing the required reading for Monday's classes. I could hear my room-mate Laura puttering in the kitchen. Distracted, my Startac buzzed on my night table three times before I decided to pick it up.
"Hi Jennifer, it's Rob. How are you this morning?"
"Oh hi. I am good." I had hoped that our Friday evening at the university pub night had not been a one off. Things were still not liberated enough - OK, I was not confident enough - to have tried to contact Rob since our first encounter. That was not to say that I had not given him a great deal of thought and had been hoping he would call.
"Well not very well. In fact I could be a whole lot better."
"Why, what's wrong?"
"It's kind of like this. You see, I met this fabulous woman on Friday night, and I have not been able to get her out of my mind since then. So as much as I wanted to call her yesterday, I didn't want to appear too desperate. Then I thought I would wait until this morning and try to convince her to take a couple of hours out of her day to spend with me without coming across like some smitten village idiot. Which, having listened to my rambling over the last minute, I appear to have spectacularly failed at. So, this smitten village idiot was hoping you would say yes?"
"Yes, Mr. Idiot. What did you have in mind?"
"Brunch at Earl's - I can pick you up in an hour and a half."
"See you then."
I was waiting at the roundabout entrance to my apartment building where Rob had dropped me off late Friday night. I was thinking of how he had kissed me when his silver car pulled into the driveway.
Late fall in Alberta is cold and sometimes dark. This morning was a crisp sunny prairie day, so I had actually put on a skirt and leather boots instead of the normal university uniform of blue jeans and a sweater. After coming to a stop, Rob got out of the car, came around and opened the door. Uncharacteristically, I gave him a peck on the cheek and said, "You didn't have to open my door for me. I am quite a capable woman."
"I know I didn't, and I would be terribly disappointed if you were not. I wasn't being chivalrous; I just couldn't resist the view," he said matter of factly with an absolutely dead pan face. I stared at him as he put the car into drive, only to start laughing when he could no longer resist the upturn of his lips into a broad smile when he said, "Or did you just get dressed up to cruelly tease me with that fabulous bod?"
Brunch was wonderful and two hours turned into three and half as we walked through the parks bordering the Saskatchewan River, hand in hand. The warmth of the fall sun low in the sky was nothing to the warmth and excitement I began to feel for this man.
I had always thought myself an incredibly strong and independent woman, certainly never one who would allow herself to be defined by any relationship with a man; and I was not looking for a relationship. However, not having dated seriously since the winter before, I couldn't help thinking I might be ready for one with Rob when my thoughts were interrupted.
"Does it bother you being out on a date with someone three years younger than you"
"No. Does it bother you being out with an older woman?"
Well actually Mrs. Robinson, I kind of like the fact that you are older, that you are so mature, and frankly, after the third date, I am looking to enjoy a more experienced woman."
My mind flashed back to my friend Laura's silly crack to Rob as he kissed me goodnight on Friday night when she had said to my horror, "Don't get your hopes up Rob. She never fucks until at least the third date." I stopped and turned to him, still holding his hand.
"I am still so embarrassed about what Laura said on Friday. I hate to tell you, but I am not really that experienced". I mean I am not a virgin or anything, but I have never felt like I could relax and really let my inhibitions go. Perhaps it was the guys I dated, or maybe there is something wrong with me."
As the words came out, I had to stop in shock at what I had just admitted to a man I hardly knew, or for that matter, to myself. Rob's reaction was the kindest, most heartwarming thing I had experienced in years. Looking into my eyes, he responded with a soft and gentle manner.
"I have never been the wolf - seeing women as a conquest to be fucked and discarded. I am a giver. If we ever make love, you will experience just that. I will not be satisfied until I have first pleased you. And if we do make love, it will not be just once, but again and again, because I won't be satisfied unless when we stop, you are already looking forward to the next time. It will be with all of me, including my heart."
I stood motionless, letting his words sink in. As he moved closer, he took me in his arms, and I met him in this soulful kiss. Then he pulled back, looked me in the eyes and with the most earnest of expressions said, "Of course, I intend to be a great deal smarter than you after we make love."
"How's that?"
"Just because we choose to make love doesn't mean I don't get to fuck your brains out in the process."
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Tuesday night was 9:30 in the evening date for a coffee and doughnut at Tim Horton's. Same for Thursday. We talked about our classes, what we were studying. We talked geopolitics, human motivation, and about ourselves.
Rob, I learned had come from Toronto, which surprised me given here we were in Edmonton. He explained that he came from a well off family where his father and mother enjoyed the benefit of his Grandfather's wealth - who it turned out owned a number of different national brand retail outlets in North America. He volunteered he had spent the last three years of high school living with his grandfather, didn't want the rains of Vancouver all winter, and had settled on Edmonton as being as far away from home and his parents as he could get and still go to school in Canada.
I was the good Catholic girl and confessed that I had grown up with in a devout family, but that I had begun to question how my dad, as a doctor and man of science, could accept all of the teachings of the Church. The widespread abuse and paedophilia of its priesthood was only then starting to come out. I acknowledged that I had been indoctrinated as a young child with a strong sense of the immorality of premarital sex, and that it had led to many inhibitions I still felt.
As it approached 10:30 on Thursday night, he told me that he would really like to invite me over for dinner at his place. I hesitated for a moment.