John was the typical high school loser, and he knew it. There were a variety of reasons for his lack of popularity, but he knew insufficient confidence was at the top of his list. He was a little less than average height, scrawny, and as far as he was concerned, not particularly handsome. He had friends—other high school losers—and they were all guys. Because most of all, John was shy.
Girls made every guy nervous at his age, and he knew that, too. But John was afraid to talk to girls even if he wasn't attracted to them. Girls were just a different species, and it might as well have been an undiscovered one. He had hoped he'd grow out of this nervous phase, but even at 18 and the oldest senior in his class, he was still the most socially awkward.
For the millionth time, John pondered these problems as he sat alone in his room on the first day of an extended weekend. It wasn't actually a weekend--he had just gotten home from school—but he considered it so because the rest of his family had gone away to visit family for the week, leaving him alone, which is how he liked it.
He was supposed to be staying with his aunt who lived across town because his parent's didn't want him to be alone all that time. Not that they didn't trust him, but they felt bad about leaving him all alone while they had their vacation. But John had too much homework and too many tests this week to skip, and so it was his choice to stay. And his aunt respected his desire to be alone, so she promised she wouldn't tell if he wanted to be in the empty house all week, which of course he did.
After all, since John couldn't get girls, the only way he could get off was to masturbate. And when you live in a house with parents and three bitchy sisters, finding time to masturbate wasn't easy. John would be sure to take advantage of these lonely evenings in his own way.
In fact, as he walked to his parent's bedroom, John was ready to release some of that pent up energy already. Even though he was old enough to but all the porn mags he wanted, John liked sneaking his father's magazines every once in a while. For years, when porn was unavailable to him for purchase, the only way he could get it was to sneak one of his old man's Penthouse or Hustler mags from under his parent's bed. So now, checking out those same pages was kind of like visiting an old friend.
John reached for the small stack and took the top two. One was one of the classics that had helped him through those tough years before he had a computer with Internet access in his room. The other, however, was a brand new issue, and John's eyes lit up with excitement. Already flipping through the pages, John rushed back toward his room.
But he never got there. As John passed through the living room on his way to his bedroom, he saw a car drive past through the big picture window. John lived near the end of a dead end street, so traffic was unusual, and he looked up to see who it might be. He recognized the car immediately. It belonged to the girl across the street, which John had been crushing on, some would say obsessing over, for some time now. Her name was Katie, and she had been gone for a few days, and John was more than happy that she was back just in time for his vacation from the family.
He stopped in front of the picture window and watched, knowing that the sun and shadows at this time of the day would keep her from seeing him from all the way across two yards and a street. He watched as she got out from the passenger side, and her mom got out from the driver's side—apparently mom had picked Katie up at the airport. Together they pulled Katie's luggage from the trunk, then headed inside.
She was a hundred feet away, but John had seen more than enough to be turned on. Without even thinking, he dropped the old magazine and plopped the new one on the table in front of the picture window. Flipping through the pages of ads to get to the good stuff, John felt himself stirring quickly to life.
He passed a pictorial full of college girls wearing cheerleader outfits (usually just the tops or just the bottoms, of course) and was trying to stop to turn back when he caught a glimpse of another pictorial that simply blew his mind. The young woman in these photos was strikingly beautiful, but most importantly, she could have been Katie's sister. From their bodies to their facial features, the model on the pages and the girl across the street were so close John new he'd have to go out and buy his own copy of this issue ASAP.