This is the beginning of a coming of age story that is planned to run about 6 or 7 chapters (or as long as I care to drag it out!)
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It was a clear night with no moon, the last rays of sunset were fading in the west. There I was standing out behind our summer cottage looking at the darkening sky with my hand on my crotch. My mom was in the kitchen unpacking and tidying up after our arrival that afternoon.
It was one day after my high school graduation, two weeks after my eighteenth birthday, and one month after the senior prom.
The prom wasn't that exciting. I went with a girl I barely knew, we wound up driving around in my mom's '64 Plymouth while my buddy and his date made out in the back seat.
In those days I wore boxer shorts so any inadvertent stimulation was pretty obvious to anyone who cared to look. It also meant that right now I could feel the softness of my balls and the outline of my cock as it began to firm up under my touch.
Although horny as hell, I'd never been much of a success with the girls. Bookish, tall and awkward, nearsighted with a round face, I was nothing like my handsome, athletic dad or my beautiful mother. I looked more like my grandfather. The glasses and receding chin had skipped a generation. My luck!
When my buddies hung out recounting their sexual exploits, ostentatiously displaying the condoms in their wallets, I nodded and smiled as if I were in on the game. Oh well,
I may not have had any experience with girls, but I was good, very good, at masturbation. Not the sort of thing one bragged about. Everybody did it, but no one admitted it.
Oh yeah, my cock was hard now. I unzipped my fly and eased it out into the cool night air. Delicately I moved my fingers down my shaft, felt the rim around my circumcised head and squeezed the spongy tip.
Our cottage was part of a community that dated back to the 1920's. Everybody called it "The Island" even though it wasn't really an island. We were early this year. Most of the summer folks hadn't yet arrived. The night was quiet and cool. I could hear the sound of the waves down in the bay.
By this time I had pulled my balls out through the fly and was using both hands to caress them and stroke my cock.
My mom had always been a bit prudish. One time when she caught me masturbating she felt compelled to give me "The Talk". Her explanations were a bit confusing, but one thing I remember was that I shouldn't "touch my penis".