Chapter 1 β NaivetΓ©
I had no idea what I'd discovered.
Ricki was my first real girlfriend. She was the sweetest girl I'd ever met and unbearably cute, at least in my now distant memories. Her dirty-blonde hair, cut shoulder length, framed her pretty round face. She was a good six inches shorter than me and her blue eyes would squint just a bit as her freckled cheeks rose when she looked up at me and smiled. She wasn't thin, but she wasn't chubby either, just a little curvy in just the right places, exactly the body type that still grabs my attention today. Her lips were so soft. I remember spending endless hours just enjoying them; the way they would graze softly across mine as we would begin to kiss; the way they would glide more silkily as our kisses became deeper and wetter; the way they tasted as I would trace them with my tongue.
I'm getting a bit ahead of the story. It actually took months for me to work up the courage to kiss Ricki for the first time. I can barely imagine having that kind of patience in a relationship today. But, we were both seniors in high school, 18 but still virgins and very inexperienced. The times were different then, at least in our town. Yea, kids talked about sex, but it wasn't something anyone was actually doing, was it? In fact, we were together nearly a year before, one night while making out on an old couch the back porch at her parent's house, my hand finally wandered between her legs. I vividly remember how hot she felt in my hand, and thinking back now she must have been absolutely sopping wet because I also remember being able to feel her dampness right through her jeans.