Early June was delicious at the Academy. Exams over, papers in. Going home soon, to eager, abusively bossy parents. Nothing to occupy the mind but erotic fantasies. All those boys in shorts and T-shirts, sometimes not even T-shirts, sunning or playing Frisbee on the campus green.
That was the spring that the Academy confiscated my brand new, specially printed T-shirt, which said, "Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement."
What was the bloody fuss if an 18-year-old poetess wants to quote William Butler Yeats! Remember? Junior year British and Irish Poets? "Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop?"
They merely repeated that they would have to call my parents to come get me—pick me up with tongs and load me into the car, like the dirty like thing I was. Maybe I could get away with Dante. "Abandon hope all ye who enter here..." with a little black arrow pointing down to my snatch.
All forgotten, when a couple guys asked me to come swimming at the infamous "River Bend." Not sure about my history here, but I believe that is where the "Rape of the Sabine Women" may have taken place. The Indian burial mound of hymens of generations of Academy girls. I had wondered what I was going to do with my silly thing. How come I'd never even seen it?
SO thrilling! They probably hoped to see little me skinny dipping. Maybe gang rape if we had time after picnic.
Four of us, two nice boys, Landor Longworth and Damien Freshwater-I mean, this was an elite prep school in Golden Gnome, Connecticut. And then, there was "Dennis" Bradbury and me. Dennis's parents would not have been eccentric enough to saddle her with a boy's name if they had any idea how big her rack would be. She looked like big trouble, and I mean big, on this excursion.
"No bathing suits," Landor said. "Won't need 'em."
What did you say, Landor, you rake? What? You are openly telling me this is skinny dipping? I don't get tricked or seduced or anything? Exactly what kind of girl do you think I am?
Oh. That's exactly right.
We toiled along a country road, turned onto a path well-worn by the ancestral feet of virgins led to sacrifice, a path watered with their tears and other fluids. I like New England old-growth forests. You can tell that they are because there are no stone walls deep in the woods. This is not new forest grown over old New England farm fields. The big trees aren't only by the stonewalls, where the farmers let them grow for a little shade that wouldn't hurt the crops but make for a nice hump when Hester Prynne brought down the corn bread and herring and a nice jug of hard cider.
Ellen, you have run right off the rails. You are supposed to be telling readers about your naked pale body, stripped bare by callous boys and plunged into Connecticut's chill June waters, and you are discussing the decline of New England agriculture. If you have and readers left, that is...
I had seen it, this picturesque curve where the Housatonic River widened into a long pool hedged about by boulders baking in the sun. Every Academy girl and her buddies had snuck here to see it, but I not been "asked" here by our nasty, beautiful boys who wanted to see if I shaved my pussy. Oh, spring of love, inviting a maiden's soul!
We four stood on a rock broad as the back of a brontosaurus that had lain down in the river. "Going in?" asked Landor with a big grin, turning—of course—to Dennis. "Oh, Landor, honey, what about me? Am I just the au pair? If so, where is the baby?"
"Sure," says this tart—sorry, envy, she's a very nice girl—and she whips open the buttons of her blouse and tosses it down. Is this fucking hopeless? She's got a perfect oval face, with wide green eyes, generous mouth, straight nose, exquisite jawline, all framed in the heavy chestnut hair, now shining in the sun. The little whore—sorry, sorry—reaches behind her back to let slip the dogs of war, as Shakespeare wrote.
Would you excuse me, please? I think I will wander through the woods awhile and maybe eat some poisonous mushrooms. Maybe pick a few violets, so when I lie down to die, I can place them on my virginal bosom between two barely perceptible 32-B titties. You guys have a GREAT life. Don't think about me. Sniff.
Dennis shoos them out of her bra with a coy smile on her heart-breakingly lovely face, and they are there in the sun, swelling even as we watch. Like about a foot long each, swooping down her chest, like ski jumps, then popping out like parachutes opening. These obnoxiously perfect gourds are frosted with nipples about three inches across and so stretched that a bump is barely perceivable in the center of each one. Self-satisfied knockers... Ellen, you will stop this, right now. They are only mammary glands. You will compliment Dennis on them. You are a lady.
Oh, Dennis, sweetie, isn't it time for you to get back to the dairy barn? Milking time, you know. I wouldn't mind at all seeing you hooked up to a milking machine... Stretch out your nipples say about five inches...
And by the time you get back, Landor and Damien may have come out of their trance. They seem pretty far gone, though. I tried running my hand between their eyes and your nipples and they didn't blink.
"Oh, Dennis, I love your boobs," I purr, manifesting virtually iron discipline. I am an Academy girl; I uphold a rigid superficial standard of classiness.