I'll call him Paul. He was my first real boyfriend.
I grew up in the States and my father worked for the US military. Dad, my mum and me would live in various countries around the world. I was use to it. I thought it was so cool that we had just moved to London and I was to go to school there. Because my schooling was interrupted, I was 18 when I went to the private girls school. Having single-sex schools is something they do a lot in England. We also had school uniforms, which I thought hilarious when I found out about it. Dark skirt, white blouse, black stay-ups, black shoes. Real Harry Potter stuff.
They do that a lot in England too -- in the private schools anyway. Next door, there was the boys' school. That was the original school. That is where I met Paul.
Well, I didn't meet him in school. But we Americans talk loud and it wasn't long before we found each other. His Dad worked in the military too.
Paul and I also got to know each other because we were American and also because we were older than the other students. We both missed bits of schooling because of travelling with our families. I had my 18thbirthday on the first day of school. Paul was 19. This was frustrating for both of us. I found it embarrassing. Here we both were, dressed in school uniforms. Yet we were old enough in English law to get married or to go into a pub and drink alcohol. Go figure.
I say that Paul was my boyfriend but we didn't actually do anything. I had a strict Christian upbringing. Kissing was OK, but anything more than that was for marriage -- or at least that is what I was taught.
The first term went by in no time. I LOVED being in London. The history and the art galleries and the museums. And I fell in love with Paul. At the end of the term, on the last day, Paul and I met up. I was staying in London, but he was going back to the States for the vacation break. How could we cope being apart? We walked back to my place, knowing that we only had 90 minutes before we parted. Before he went back to his parents. To fly out of the country the next day.
We got back to my place. We would be alone in the house for about an hour before my Mum got home. Not something she actually encouraged, or discouraged, but I could just tell she didn't like it when I was alone with boys.
I would normally have a shower straight away when I got home and change into normal clothes. I hate wearing the black stay-ups, but I didn't have much of a choice. You know what stay-ups are? I never saw them in the USA. They are like stockings, but only go above the knee, or mid-thigh. There is a sticky stuff that wraps around the thigh, which holds them in place. They are a lot more comfortable than tights. Stay-ups don't make you sweat between the legs, and you don't have to pull them up several times a day.
The material of the stay-ups was never quite thick enough, so that my feet ended up smelly at the end of the day. On hot days, the stay-ups seemed to hold all the heat on the inside of my thighs, so they became itchy. But as Paul was there, I didn't shower or change. I kicked off my shoes -- I hope my feet didn't smell. Paul took off his school tie -- he hated school ties. I just loosened my tie -- I had learnt from hard experience that if I took it off, it would take AGES to find it the next day when I had to go to school again.
I made us both a cup of tea. We didn't normally drink tea, but felt that we sort of should as we were in England.
Then things moved fast. I'm not saying it was unwelcome or anything, but it was just fast. Paul was not the most tactful of young men. I don't remember his exact words, but he used the word 'legal.' It was something like 'at least you are legal.' He wasn't pressuring me into doing anything, but he was just talking about stuff a lot. I had a horrible thought. I thought that if I didn't do something with him, that he might forget about me when he went back to the States.
I pointed out to him that he knew 'the rules.' Like, we could kiss, but anything else was for my future husband. He told me about guys he knew whose girlfriends were giving them blowjobs. I knew what blowjobs were, of course. I started to feel a bit inadequate. I really loved Paul and didn't want to be mean to him.
He suddenly got the message that even a hand job was out of the question. He said that he understood that, but that there was something he would really like. It wasn't a blowjob or a hand job, so that it didn't break any rules.
He said he loved me. One thing led to another but I was nervous. We went up to my bedroom and I closed the door behind us. He wanted me to take my school uniform off but I said that I couldn't as my mum could come home any minute. He said he understood but that could I PLEASE take off my underwear, just so he could see my bits. He said he hadn't seen any bits in real life before. I wanted to, but didn't want to get into trouble. I figured that if mum came home, and I had my panties off, then I could just walk out of my room straight away. She wouldn't know that I wasn't wearing underwear.
When I did the calculation of being caught or not, I acted sort of confidently. Paul sat on my bed and I just stood and pulled down my panties. They wrapped around my ankles, and then I shook my legs skillfully and let the panties fall off one foot, and then bent my leg up so that I could take them off my other ankle. He stared at them. I reached down quickly to pick them up.
I sort of put my hand at an angle so he couldn't see them properly. There was a small stain in the gusset -- the groin triangle or whatever you want to call it. It wasn't anything for me to feel embarrassed about, I would just rather he didn't see it. He asked me what color I would say they were. I said they were salmon. I instantly regretted using the name of a fish to describe the color of my panties. All girls bits smelled of salmon, or tuna. Everyone knew that. I walked over to my laundry bin and lifted the lid and dropped them inside.
I walked back to the bed. Paul watching every step I took, just staring at my school skirt. I guess he was thinking about what was underneath. I sat on the bed and put my legs up, just the way I lay on my bed normally. I bent my knees, so that my skirt rode higher up my thighs. I had never done this before.
'Oh, you don't wear tights?' he asked. I explained the whole thing to him about stay-ups.
I reminded Paul he could look, but there was no touching.