This is a true story, and I'm so glad it is (I've also obtained the express permission (and encouragement) of the other main character of the story).
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It begins in the summer after I turned 18, at a small summer camp in southern Ohio. I was a counselor, and arrived the night before any children were due. That night, as we had a staff meeting and exchanged basic introductions, two boys walked in late. One, I can't recall well. The other, I do, very well.
I can still recall what he was wearing when he entered that room. He had boots, and jeans (the kind I like to make fun of because they're kind of girly), a gray and blue long-sleeved t-shirt, a rubber wristband, his class ring, and an ugly green hat that would grow on me before the weekend was over. The boy himself was another thing entirely. He was extremely attractive, that was undeniable. But more on that later.
I didn't consciously notice all of this right away. After the meeting, the counselors went back to their building, to play cards and get acquainted. I suppose this is when I began to notice him. He changed into basketball shorts (a lovely addition), and laughed and talked as we had been. His smile was perfected, thought for a pretty girl or a show ring I wasn't sure, it had to work wonderfully well in both places. He was intelligent, but the kind of lazy intelligence I was familiar with. I appreciated that, and his sense of humor that was dirty and cute at the same time. We got along. The conversation turned to sex, as it always seems to, and we quickly realized we were the most experienced people in the room. We traded stories, asked questions, and generally got a feel for each other. That wasn't what I was intending to do at that point, but I suppose I was, subconsciously, trying to understand this boy and what he was thinking. He had the most expressive eyes, and looking back now I can see what I didn't then- the look he had when he smoothly instructed I put my number in his phone, or when he casually asked if I was on the pill.
We never went to sleep that night, though he dozed off with his head in my lap a few times. I liked playing with his hair, and he enjoyed me doing it, and I still couldn't believe someone so far out of my league hadn't beaten me with a stick yet. I decided I'd shower before starting the day, and he commented something along the lines of, "Okay, see you in there in a minute." I laughed it off.
"You think I'm joking," he laughed. And I did. But he wasn't. What followed after I was done showering(uneventfully) is one of my favorite exchanges to date, between me, him, and another counselor, Corey.
"DUDE. I don't think you understand how close he was to COMING IN YOUR SHOWER."
"What?"
"HE WAS IN THERE WITH YOU."
"Wait, what?"
"Oh yeah, I got in there, but somebody else started coming in so I had to hide."