I was sitting for Steve and Pauline Anderson. They have three kids under five, which I consider very brave of her. They're a nice couple, not too much older than me, being twenty three and twenty five respectively. She's very sweet and sociable and I guess that also describes him, though sweet is not normally a word I'd use to describe a man. Let's make it nice and sociable, where he's concerned. Plus he's got a great butt, but I won't mention that.
The kids were finally asleep and I didn't expect Steve and Pauline home for a few more hours. Normally I'd be watching TV or texting friends but tonight I had a little problem on my mind. I had a little favour that I wanted to ask for and didn't know how to present the request or how Steve would react when asked. I was trying to put some sort of little speech together and I was practicing out loud and getting nowhere. Why are these things so complicated? I took a deep breath and started again.
"Um, Mr Anderson, I was wondering if you could help me out with a little problem I've got."
No. I'd already decided that I'd have to call him Steve. Make the appeal more personal, you know.
"Steve, I've got a little problem and I was wondering if you could help me out?"
Damn it! Pauline was bound to be there. I wouldn't be able to get Steve alone to make the request. Should I make it both of them or should I appeal to Pauline and see what she says. If I got her on-side I'm sure she could persuade Steve to help me.
"Ah, Pauline, I have this little problem and I was thinking you might be able to help me resolve it."
Yes, that sounded better. She loves being useful and she'd be agreeable and prepared to listen to what I say. All I had to do was sell the idea.
"This probably sounds a little forward but would you be able to persuade Steve to make love to me?"
Did that sound a bit brash, I wondered out loud? How else can I ask?
"You do realise that Steve is her husband and that wives don't normally rent out their husbands to service the itch of any tarty babysitters they might have?"
A very cynical observation in a very cynical voice and I almost screamed with shock, spinning around to look at the intruder. I recognized him fast enough. Jared, Steve's father. Only man I knew rude enough to barge into the house without knocking.
"I am not a tart," I snapped, "and I have some very logical reasons for asking. I would have explained them to Pauline. She might have had another solution. And haven't you learned to knock?"
"No. So you're not a tart and you have reasons why you should have Steve screw you. Sorry, logical reasons. Are you a virgin?"
The scepticism in that last sentence was awesome.
"Yes," I snapped, then corrected myself. "That is, no. Um, I'm not sure."
The swine face-palmed himself.
"How can you not know if you're a virgin? You do realise what happens when you lose your virginity, don't you?"
"Yes, well I was going to explain that to Pauline and see if she could help me."
"Why don't you explain it to me? Maybe I can help without you trying to seduce Steve."
"You don't expect me to talk about my sex life to you, surely? And I wasn't trying to seduce Steve. I was going to be very up-front. I wouldn't know how to seduce someone."
"As a matter of fact, yes, I do expect you to explain everything to me. Otherwise I'll run you off and finish sitting the kids myself and tell Pauline and Steve I caught you planning to seduce Steve."
"I told you I wasn't intending to seduce Steve," I groused. "I wanted them to help me."
"Well, tell me what happened and maybe I'll believe you."
I folded my arms across my chest and glared at him. He was going to insist so I might as well explain. It would be practice for when I talked to Pauline.
"The whole thing started a few months back when I turned eighteen," I told him. "Since then my boyfriend has been pushing for us to go further and cement our relationship. We've moved on to, let's say, some pretty heavy petting. That's what we were doing last night when things went wrong. He suddenly rolled on top of me and he hurt me down there." I waved a hand in the general direction of my groin to show where I'd been hurt. "I screamed and he jumped off me and then he was squirting all over the place and I was bleeding and upset and he was furious. He said that I'd ruined everything and that I didn't know what I was doing and it was all my fault and he left in a huff."
I sighed, contemplating the fiasco.
"Anyway, after he'd gone I managed to calm myself down and think about the whole thing logically. I'm pretty sure I'm not to blame for him having a premature ejaculation, but maybe I'd aroused him too much too soon. I also didn't know what the hell I was supposed to do after he jumped me. It seemed to me that I needed to know more, maybe have someone show me.
Now obviously I can't have my boyfriend show me because it was pretty obvious he didn't know any more than I did. Equally obviously, seeing I'm young and pretty with a reasonable figure it should be easy to find a man willing to show me what to do. The trouble is I don't want some guy who will show me once and then latch on to me forever after. Also I don't really want a married man because who wants a man who cheats?
That's the stage when I remembered that I was sitting for Steve and Pauline. It occurred to me that Steve is older and has some experience and would probably be a good tutor. He wouldn't exactly be cheating on Pauline if she knew and agreed, or even asked him for me. I was trying to work out how to approach Pauline about it when you turned up. That's all there is to it and I don't know why you're laughing."
"I see. It's all completely logical."