Vicky's Story - Appendix H
He was the Son of a Preacher Man
I was the oldest girl in a family of seven children. And it was not under circumstances that I enjoyed. Due to the fact that my parents couldn't seem to keep their hands off each other, my mother was always pregnant or had a baby on her hip. And somehow, I was responsible for the care and maintenance of my five younger siblings. So, if I wasn't in school, I was expected to supervise the kids, keep them entertained, change diapers as needed, bathe them, and sometimes even put them to bed.
My older brother was curiously exempt from most of these duties, as was my dad. Even though they never actually said it, the inference was that such tasks were women's work. Now that's not to say that my brother got off scot-free, for he certainly had his share of household duties also, but for changing a dirty diaper, well, if my mother was too busy to do it, guess whose job it was.
My dad was originally from Minnesota and joined the Air Force right out of high school. He served six years in the Security Force. In other words, an Air Force cop. His last duty station was Luke AFB, and when his enlistment was up, he decided to remain in the Phoenix area. And I guess for someone born and raised in Minnesota, I can understand that.
My dad had been brought up in an evangelical family to begin with, and his six years in the Air Force only deepened that conviction. He attended one of those
Mega Churches
in Phoenix. In fact, that's where he met my mother. And besides the weather, the main reason he didn't re-up when his enlistment concluded was to marry my mom. It must have been a match made in heaven, for my older brother was born about seven months after they were married. And for the next eighteen years, another baby came about every two or three years after that. My parents always said, "Another gift from God," but I always felt God had very little to do with it. For I think the source of our bountiful family lay in my parent's bed.
After the Air Force, my dad got a job as a Deputy with the Maricopa Sheriff's Office. And I'm sure the seven years spent dealing with the less fortunate citizens of Phoenix and Maricopa County only served to strengthen his commitment to what I now consider right-wing conservative evangelicalism.
When I was about five or six years old, my dad left the Sheriff's department and started selling real estate, as he couldn't afford to send us all to private school on a deputy's salary. I attended the church's school from pre-school all the way through twelfth grade, as did all six of my brothers and sisters. It was
Total Immersion
into the evangelical lifestyle. And I pretty much accepted it, at least through sixth or seventh grade. By that time, I was getting old enough to think for myself, and I began to see the utter hypocrisy of the entire culture.
When Christians turn a faith of healing and forgiveness into an excuse to hate others, they are hypocrites. When a church leader tells you to give money to help the work of God and puts it in his own pocket, he is a hypocrite. And when Christians see the sins of others as worse than their own, they are hypocrites. The Pastor of our church never seemed to shy away from the name of Jesus Christ, yet his understanding of peace, tolerance, and justice for all, totally escaped him. He may have read the Bible, but he clearly did not understand its message.
About that same time, maybe seventh or eighth grade, I became closer friends with the Pastor's son, Robert, or Rob, as we all called him. Rob was a year older than me, and we had actually known each other probably from birth. But we didn't really connect with each other until at least my seventh grade year. I think that was about the time I started to become disillusioned with the church, and Rob became my unlikely confederate. Every year we went to church camp in the Arizona mountains near Prescott. And a small group of us dissenters gathered when the opportunity arose to express our frustration with the church's dogma. Now that's not to say any of us were atheists. At age eleven or twelve, probably none of us were. But we were all seriously questioning how the
Word of God
was being crammed down our throats.
Probably by the time I was a Freshman and Rob would have been a Sophomore, we had become a little more than just malcontents. We actually began to form a romantic interest in each other. And I think our respective parents were cool with it. Little did they know what mutiny lay in our hearts. However, I can say with all honesty that our physical intimacy never moved past kissing and maybe occasional necking. That much of my evangelical upbringing did seem to hold. Rob never got past
First Base,
that is, until my eighteenth birthday.
As luck would have it, my birthday fell on a Sunday. And as was the custom in our church, everyone that arrived early would gather in the fellowship hall for a cup of coffee and well,
fellowship.
Then, when it was time for the service to begin, they would all transition to the Auditorium. Yes, we had an
Auditorium
instead of a
Sanctuary,
just one more peculiarity of America's Mega Churches.
Occasionally Rob and I would hang back, skip church, and hide out in an empty room somewhere and make out. This was one of those days. As the crowd began to head for the Auditorium, Rob looped his pinky finger around mine, which was our silent signal to hang back. As the fellowship hall slowly emptied, Rob took my hand and whisked me toward the closet, where they stored the stackable chairs and the folding tables. As we ducted inside, Rob quickly looked over his shoulder to see if anyone saw us, and satisfied that we were good, he pulled the door closed.
I searched in the dark for a light switch, and when I couldn't find one, Rob cracked the door open just so we'd have a sliver of light. Then after kissing briefly in the standing position, he put his hands under my armpits and lifting me, placed me on top of the stack of folding tables. The height of the uppermost table was about three feet from the floor. So, my feet were just a few inches above the closet linoleum. Conveniently, as Rob was taller than me, this put his hips just about in alignment with mine.
Leaning forward, Rob continued kissing me for a minute before whispering in my ear, "Vicky, I have a birthday present for you."
"What is it?" I giggled.
"It's in my pants," he said as he began to nibble on my ear.
Butterflies shot through my stomach as I knew what he meant. But since I didn't say anything, he accepted my non-response as his permission to proceed. Rob stepped back and dropped his hands to my bare legs. Instantly, chill bumps covered my body, but that didn't slow his advance up my thighs, all the way to my panties. My first reaction was to spread my legs to allow him to run his fingertips across my tingling virgin lower lips. And as he accepted my complicit approval, he pressed on the moist fabric in order to judge my wetness. Apparently satisfied that this was his lucky day, he withdrew his hands from under my dress, pushed my legs back together, and then reaching under my dress a second time, looped his fingers under the waistband of my underwear and pulled them from my hips.
Rob was about as nervous as I was. But he did manage to get my panties clear of my right foot. However, the fabric snagged on the buckle of my left shoe, and Rob didn't have the patients to deal with it. So, he left my white cotton briefs just dangling there. Then stepping back one more time, he hastily unbuckled his belt, lowered his fly, and pushed his slacks to his knees.
The closet was dark, with only a glimmer of light seeping into the room. But it was enough to see my first adult penis, fully erect and ready for action. The head of his dick was dark purple in color and looked like
Darth Vader's
helmet. Just the thought that I was about to be pierced by the
dark side
sent a cold shiver shooting up my spine, but I knew this was my ticket to adulthood, and Rob was the guy to punch it. Stepping forward to where his thighs touched the stack of tables, Rob grabbed my hips and pulled me toward him until our genitals touched. Now taking ahold of the dark knight, he rubbed his reddish-purple helmet back and forth across my virgin lips to test my tightness.
The issue wasn't really how tight I was, but my level of lubrication. And after several unsuccessful tries to enter me, Rob stepped back one more time, spit in his hand, applied the moisture to the dark knight, and then ran the remainder of the wetness up my hairy southern slit. Nervous as a captured bird, Rob stepped up to bat again and holding his freshly lubed lightsaber in one hand, placed his other hand on my hip. I wasn't going anywhere, and he really didn't need to do that, but I guess he was just steadying his target. I was scared, but I was ready. Rob and I had been making out for several years by now, and I was definitely ready.
With the dark knight now freshly lubricated, Rob slowly began his trek to the promised land. I am a fiery redhead, and the patch between my legs definitely matches the rest of the hair on my body. So, at least in my case,