An occasional series of short erotic stories about having sex for the first time... some are funny, some are sad and some have strayed into the realms of the taboo or the unusual...mostly the stories are about people and relationships rather than just sex although there are explicit sexual descriptions in some if not all of the tales. So be warned!
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JUST ONCE!
Justin's Story
I have always been a wimp.
Right from the time that I started school I was that skinny kid with the round National Health glasses, the buck teeth and the legs like matchsticks with huge knobbly knees, who sat in the corner of the playground just watching the other children running about and having fun. I liked reading and I liked drawing but I wasn't very good at having fun.
I came from a nice middle class family, my parents were both doctors, but we were as broke as a joke because they both worked as volunteer refugee workers for some missionary society which itself was cash poor and paid the self-sacrificing idiots that worked for it less money than the Department of Social Security forked out in benefit, but we did get a free London house for the family to live in. Another joke. The 'family' consisted of me and my older sister Jennifer, Great-Aunt Dulcie my mother's aunt, Mother and Dad...except my parents were never there... they were always off somewhere in Africa, or India, even bloody Malaya... but never seemed to be at home when we needed them as kids. I don't remember them ever being home at Christmas after I was about seven and the six weeks home leave that they took in the summer we spent at Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk in a bungalow loaned by my father's boss the Reverend Angus Bright.
The house we lived in was a huge run-down old former rectory in Finchley. It was cold and damp in the winter with no central heating just a gas fire in the sitting room and another in Auntie Dulcie's downstairs bedroom, none of the upstairs bedrooms had any heating at all and the top floor attics had no electric lighting. In retrospect, I guess that it wasn't that bad we had lots of unoccupied furnished rooms to play in and a bloody great jungle of a garden at the back with a big old oak tree and a treehouse which had been put up sometime before the war and Dad had made safe for us to play in.
I always found it difficult to make friends although my sister Jenny was continually filling the house up with chattering and giggling girls in pinafore dresses and navy blue knickers, from her school who teased me but in general treated me with less contempt than the local boys who found me a convenient target for their bullying until the penny eventually dropped that I had nothing worth stealing and I learned to keep my emotions to myself...if they couldn't make you cry then eventually they would get bored and go away. I was one of those unfortunate kids that Auntie Dulcie described as an 'emotional fountain', you could pinch, punch or kick me and I would just flop down and take it like a good little wimp but taunting and spitefulness was almost guaranteed to produce a bout of tears and an asthma attack even when I was nine or ten.
I liked reading and had a good clear voice and so I was the poor sod that the headmaster would make stand at the front of school assembly and read the bible lesson on Monday morning. Old Dr. 'Wacker' Allen, was a spiteful sadistic bastard who took pleasure in tormenting the boys in his care and was not content with sniping remarks directly to me about my not getting picked for any of the house sports teams, or the fact that Auntie Dulcie kept me in short trousers a year after most of the other boys. If that wasn't bad enough one morning he chose to castigate another boy, David Gorham, by comparing his poor reading ability to mine in front of the whole assembly. Gorham was a popular boy, captain of the school football team and something of a school hero and the headmaster's vicious remarks brought down a shit-storm of hate and bullying for the rest of my time in junior school.
I finally managed to escape the clutches of headmaster Dr. Allen. Both Jenny and I had won scholarships to Grammar School and the Girl's High School respectively. As I got older things got marginally better, my buck teeth receded although I was still stuck with those awful wire spectacles and I remained skinny and wimpish to look at but by age 16 stood 5'9" but still hadn't started to shave on a daily basis. The consolation, I told myself, was that my poor eyesight and intermittent asthma would probably exclude me from having to do National Service. As it happened the final recruitment intake was in 1960 two years before I was due to be called up anyway. It probably saved me another period of bullying although I would have given my right arm for the opportunity to do military service under my own terms just to prove to the world that I could 'be a man' the same as everybody else. It became a bit of an obsession and I even went down to the Army Careers Office but the sergeant on duty never even bothered to put my name on a form after I told him about the asthma and showed him my 'excused sports' chitty from school.
Growing into a young man presented its own set of problems with the onslaught of puberty and the male hormone stampede. In common with most teenaged men I started to take a serious interest in the opposite sex only to discover to my dismay that the opposite sex were not particularly interested in me. In fact of the dozen or so girls that I plucked up the courage to ask out on a date not one actually accepted the offer. Several just laughed in my face.
I would sometimes try to get my sister who was a real good looker to meet me in coffee bars for a drink just so that I could be seen out with a bird. In truth, I preferred Jenny's company to most of the brainless airheads that I knew anyway, but it didn't solve my unrequited sexual urges.
The nearest that I came to getting into a girl's knickers was on the same day that I received the official letter from Cambridge University to confirm that I had been accepted to read Archaeology and Anthropology. Her name was Karen Haslet and we had met a couple of times at the Brunswick Bowling Alley, where I had been working part time on the cash desk. In honesty, I think that she felt sorry for me when I asked her for a date although I had never seen her about with a guy and she wasn't particularly good looking, but she had nice legs, neat tits and didn't seem as obsessed with 'Top of the Pops' as most of the other girls who hung out at the bowl. If a sympathy shag was all that I could get then I would have been overjoyed with that or even just a bit of a fumble behind the church hall.
She agreed to wait for me when I finished my shift at eight o'clock and I took her for a milk shake at the Golden Egg diner and then said I would walk her home. As it happened she lived a couple of streets from me and as we passed my house she spied the old treehouse.