It causes a rush, warmth running through my insides like the oncoming effect of a drug, the trickle of sweat down the back of my neck. My heartbeat starts to race and every one of my senses feels honed to adrenaline heights. The rush is added to, fed by that look, initially of disbelief, in their eyes; followed by the double take and the rise of confusion that this abnormality brings. So far outside the boxes that they surround themselves with that they are frequently prevented from accepting what they have seen with their own eyes. But what I get from my peccadillo is not all deep-seated, hot-flushed feelings ...oh, no. At skin level there's a bone freezing chill that accompanies the real fear of being caught. The humiliation of being publicly exposed as some kind of pervert, a chill that thrillingly sets fires in my libido. What would my mother and her friends say?
As I have grown older and reached into my second quarter-century, I find that more and more I manipulate the rest of my waking hours so that I might fit in opportunities to make my heart race and my mind whirl. The act of writing about it even now sparks my addiction; I desperately want to go out and ... and... just once more today? I know that I'd be being really very naughty, but once more? Maybe I'll spoil myself? Or maybe I'll let the thrill of self-denial this time add to the thrill tomorrow.
I have been the same all of my life, the bane of my mother's existence.
"You've always been like it: trouble from the word go," She used to say to just about anyone who'd listen. "Shedding clothes as if they were going out of fashion. I seemed to spend half of my life dressing the child."
But it's not as complicated as trying to find someone whom I can trust enough to be the real me with. Thinking about relationships brings memories of the anguish, bigotry and even violence that seem to have accompanied every foray of mine into those realms that others seem to find so consoling. So I think that I'll just stick with these games that I play for myself, using the unsuspecting, unwary and those busy with their own lives, as props to my little plays.
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As usual I dress myself carefully: glasses of course... the one accessory that leads them most to deny the evidence of their own eyes. I tie my long hair back, a single auburn plait and put on a layer of light foundation, no eye shadow or mascara and a harsh dull lipstick, matt and anti-sexual. I look like a librarian or junior teacher at a catholic school, maybe. A ranking civil servant? The type of person who bathes in the dark to avoid temptation? A picture painted to tell a thousand lying words.
My plain skirt hangs pleated to my ankles and the matching jacket's only embellishments are fleur-de-lis, embroidered in matt black against a background of the same colour. My cream blouse is buttoned all the way to the un-collared neck. Hidden by the length of my skirt: boots to my mid-calf, laced, square toed, two inch chunky heels, polished black. Lattice patterned hold-ups in a purple so dark that they're almost black against the creamy colour of my legs... no knickers... never any knickers. A half cup bra in a flesh tone that helps me feel naughty inside - labia damping, delightfully naughty all day.
When I was younger, I always wore knickers, getting myself off by showing them, every time as if by accident, only doing it in the direction of those whom I knew were restrained by their position. Safety was my watchword; fear dogged my every trial, Lecturers, my friends' dads, members of our congregation at church, youth leaders, people who were proud of their respectability, those with too much to lose as my earliest sex toys.
Countless erections caused, observed and then masturbated over later in the privacy of my bedroom. Trouser tents that they always tried to keep hidden, sinful evidence of their humanity, as if this natural reaction could bring them tumbling down from any position of respectability that they thought they held.