There have been many encounters and activities over the years many with very fond memories that involved nothing more than the slightest kiss or briefest touch, others that were a lot more involved but for the life of me I can't remember a name or anything other than the sketchiest details, some through alcohol, others through selective memory.
I was pretty much a late starter, one of my first encounters I remember was a Christmas snog in the back of a mates car with an elf in between pubs, her mate seemed less impressed but I guess we were young and no lasting harm was done. Although getting into my Elf's Christmas stockings would have been better than any present.
Early years
The following all happened in the last year or so of education, I must have been 18 at the time and while I was regularly getting into pubs and clubs I wasn't so lucky with girls.
There was a nightclub in Birmingham that myself a group of friend occasionally went to, I think it was called Millionaires but there were so many clubs that I could have that confused. Anyway this Saturday night there was a larger group than normal with about a dozen or so of us, drinking and dancing and generally having a good night. None of the group were romantically attached as far as I was aware, no boyfriend/girlfriends within the group and didn't really give it much more thought.
One or two of the group drifted off during the evening chatting up or getting chatted up while the rest of us carried on having our own little party.
It came as a bit of a surprise when I got into a heavy snog with Claire. She was pretty good to look at and I had known her for a few years but had never really had the urge to lock lips or do anything else. Claire for a eighteen year old had some very impressive breasts and in the dark of the nightclub I found my hand being pulled and firmly placed onto them. The snog seemed to last for hours but in reality I probably had about ten minutes of feeling up her tits.
I never dated Claire but we remained friends and hooked up for some similar snogging once or twice over the next year. There was one time however, and I may have this very wrong, that I think I had more of an opportunity but didn't take it.
It was during the summer holidays, days were long and sometimes boring so I did a ring around to see if anyone wanted to go out or do something. When I rang Claire I got an invite to her house, nothing overly unusual there I thought, but when I got there she was resigned to sun bathing in the garden. Laid out on a towel in a small bikini.
I dutifully applied sun lotion on her back, she even undid the bikini top to avoid strap marks, she did remain lying face down so it wasn't as if I was getting a full on display but I have to wonder whether that was the first opportunity missed. Maybe not to lose my virginity but I think some direct tit fondling may definitely have been on the cards. Nothing more ever came of this and an opportunity to repeat it and find out never came up again, I guess the lesson here is if you don't ask you don't get. Trouble was I didn't learn that lesson and repeated the same mistake numerous times over the coming years.
My next encounter was another party, this one was at the local rugby club, again a reasonable amount of alcohol was involved and having got chatting with Felicity, a girl in the year but one I didn't really know, I suggested we go outside for some air as there were just too many people in the club watching and making stupid comments if you even tried to have a kiss.
We found a dark spot out of the way and quickly set about some heavy kissing, Flicky showing no objections to me slipping my hand up inside her top and mauling her small breasts, she did however block all attempts with any other touching and so I returned to her tits (over the bra but under the shirt) until she decided she had had enough and went back to the party.
I never repeated that with Felicity, she denied even having kissed me when someone mentioned it later she blushed and ran off quite quickly anyway.
Denise was the first of my American encounters. I had been on an exchange earlier in the year to New York and had made a lot of friends without actually doing anything, there was a snog with a girl called Randy but that was part of a truth or dare game on a coach driving down to Washington DC so I'm not going to really count that.
The circumstances of getting together with Denise was once again through another game of truth or dare. We were on a day trip by train, think we were going to York, and Denise took a dare. The dare was to French kiss one of the Brits and two minutes later, because we moved away from the rest of the group we were snogging in-between the buffet car and where the rest of passengers were. The highlight was probably the offer from ticket collector if we wanted to use his office for some privacy.
We didn't, and that was that. We did snog a couple more times, but Denise turned out to be surprisingly accomplished at protecting her breasts from my searching hands, she returned a week or so later and her breasts left without having had any English cajoling.
Christmas time came and went, I spent quite a bit of time working in a restaurant as a waiter, the rest of the time I was out with my friends, such a simple life when you look back on it. I had an invite to a new year's eve party and having organised a meal just before Christmas with a bunch from college I had got friendly with Sarah but we hadn't done anything. I invited her and although I ended up driving we went along, me taking my cheap champagne Christmas present from work to add to the party fizz.
Midnight came and I found myself staring straight into Sarah's eyes, ideal if the happy new year kiss is a thing to be believed in. We got a gentle tap at some point as we were still kissing about five minutes later, but the excitement and feeling that something was there fizzed between us.