This story is about my reunion with the girl I had a crush on for six years in primary school. Her name is Jade. Though I am young, I am pretty sure I am recounting the sexual experience of a lifetime. Everything my sex life can only go downwards from here, so I had to capture the memory in a story. I'll tell you what happened.
Last summer I turned eighteen and graduated from high school. I worked hard and got good grades, enough to be accepted into one of the country's best computer science programs. Now, I live in a remote village, and I was faced with two options: sit in a train for four hours--two to university and two to get back home--a day, or live in a messy dorm. Between the two-hour train ride and a messy dorm, I chose the train, at least until I could afford an apartment.
After one long, particularly stressful day I was glad to be back on the train, not even too fed up with the long wait ahead of me, as it gave me a chance to recuperate from all the lectures, instructions, and assignments. Tired, I clambered onto the train, glad to find a pair of unoccupied seats during rush hour. In the few minutes before departure, the train filled up even more. I put my bag in the seat next to me so that the seats next to other people would be taken first. It was selfish of me, yet I was just not in the mood to have some stranger sit next to me. Of course, if there were no other available seats on the train, I would have given the place up, but after the day I'd had, not gladly, and not before I had to.
So, I was relieved to hear the conductor's whistle and see the platform slowly moving backward from the window. I took my bag onto my lap and dug in to find my headset, so I could watch a few episodes of the series I had downloaded on my phone. Unfortunately, that left the seat next to me unoccupied.
Panting, someone dropped into the chair next to me. They must've been running to catch the train just in time. Berating myself for not staying patient a little longer and keeping my bag in the seat, I looked up. My dark mood cleared in an instant.
I now praise fortune that I took my bag from the chair at the moment I did, for the girl that sat next to me was extremely attractive. She had long brown hair flowing over her shoulders and a cute face. She wore a leather jacket opened over a white, revealing tank top, tight jeans, and a pair of black, block-heeled suede ankle boots. And I knew her.
"Hey, you're Jade, right?" I said, a little hesitantly. A girl as hot as she easily made me overcome my weariness.
She looked at me with confusion all over her face. "Yeah," she said, slowly. "Do I...?" Then her face split into a smile. "Jamie? You've changed so much!"
"It's James now, but yeah, you too! How've you been?"
"Even the name's changed," she chuckled. "I've been great, thanks. I'm studying biochemistry at university now, started a few months ago. What about you?"
"Computer science. The different faculties are probably the reason we haven't run into each other before."
I used to have a huge crush on Jade when we were in primary school together. Of course, I had no idea how to talk to girls back then, and so I never did. I had no idea how to even deal with the fact that I had a crush, and, as it usually is when you're young, I was too embarrassed to talk about it.
After we finished primary school, we had to go outside our village to receive an education. With different schools in different directions, our class split up, everyone going to a different school. After that, Jade and I weren't in the same school anymore, and our ways split, with her unaware of my feelings for her. In primary school was the last time I ever saw her, even though we lived in the same village.
Things change with time, however. After quite a few failures at high school, I figured out how to talk to girls and not embarrass myself (at least, not too much). I'd had a few girlfriends, nothing that lasted longer than a few months, but the experience helped.
We talked with familiarity as if we were lost childhood friends, rather than 'two people who used to know each other from the distance of the classroom.' We shared what was happening in our lives, but soon the conversation turned to past times. We brought up memories, discussed who we stayed in touch with, and gossiped. It was actually a really fun conversation, and I could tell Jade thought so too.
I did get a little distracted sometimes, though. We sat turned in our seats, facing each other, and Jade had her legs crossed over one another, a boot, dancing merrily as she bounced her foot in the air, invading my leg space. Not that I minded, but it took quite some effort to keep my mind on the conversation with her, hot as she and her boots were.
I've had a boot fetish for as long as I can remember. Mind, I didn't always recognize my attraction to boots as a fetish, but it has always been there. It was Jade who almost always used to wear boots when we were younger. That clothing style was probably why I developed a crush on her in the first place. It was happy to see she hadn't abandoned that stylistic choice.
I would have wanted to fuck her even without her boots adding to my arousal. I am not your typical, good-looking guy, but different people have different tastes, so I knew I was the type some girls liked. I could only dream that she wanted me a tenth as much as I wanted her.
The two hours evaporated in what seemed like an instant. Though I am not that good at picking up a girl's signals, I was almost certain I recognized a few. Our train ride together was almost coming to a conclusion, however, and I desperately wanted more from this reunion than merely a fun conversation. I was becoming desperate for an opportunity to make a move, and with only ten minutes before our ways would part, I decided a poor move was better than none.
We were in the gossip deep end, on the subject of romance, or what passed for romance in primary school, when I interjected into the conversation, "you know, I know of someone who used to have a crush on you, Jade."
She grabbed my arm and shook it, "who? Tell me who!"
It would be so lame to make her guess, I thought. Just tell her! "You have to guess."
"Was it Mark? Benjamin?"
I shook my head.
"Henry? Joe? Raymond?"
I shook my head again. "Come on, Raymond and I weren't close at all, how am I supposed to know if he did?"
She looked at me, her face blank, deep in thought. "Tell me. I give up."
"It was me!" I said, spreading my arms like a showman. Silence. She stared at me. My stomach sank. Did I really screw this up? I wondered inwardly.
Then she burst out laughing, grabbing my arm for support as she doubled over. "You had a crush, on me? That's got to be the best thing I learned this afternoon." And there were quite a few things she learned, considering how we gossiped.
"Of course I had a crush on you. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who did, just the only guy I know of."
"That's not true, but a very sweet thing to say," she smiled.
Unable to think of anything to say, I just stared into her green eyes, completely transfixed, my mind empty of things to say. Jade looked back at me, and I blushed. I should have kissed her then, in the middle of the train. When she spoke, I was both disappointed at the lost opportunity and glad that I had something to respond to.
"So, I'm assuming you still live at home?"