Amelia was an interesting girl. Though we've long since gone our separate ways and fallen out of contact, I can't help but remember our time together.
The younger sister of a friend of mine, I first met Amelia during college when she was still 18, but not far off 19. I, on the other hand, was several years into my 20s. Her brother, Joe, introduced us when she was having issues with her computer. Joe knew I was good with computers and asked me to take a look at things. After that night, our paths crossed periodically, and one night we met up in the dining hall. I typically take a walk in the evening and invited her to join me. One night turned into several nights as we became good friends and then quite a bit more. Amelia was also overweight when I first met her. Not significantly, mind you -- "husky" probably describes it best.
One thing about Amelia that caught my attention relatively quickly is her hair. She kept it long. Very long. I mean beyond her waist long. But she cared for it very well, keeping it quite healthy. And she wore it in all kinds of different styles, sometimes wearing it up, but tending to wear it somewhat down, but rarely just loose.
Over the course of the next couple months, we took a walk probably every night, taking the time to talk about everything from classes and current events to the quirks and traits of our roommates that piss us off. This pretty much was our dating routine for quite a while, and it suited us quite well and allowed us to fall deeply in love with each other. I didn't try to impress her in any way significant. All I did was just listen to her.
Now while we enjoyed walks virtually every night, we eventually did start incorporating other activities into our relationship. We went out to eat on occasion rather than meet up in the dining hall, watched movies on occasion, and met up in the college's game room, among other things. Sex wasn't a part of our relationship as Amelia was a virgin. Wait, no, virgin does not describe it. She was completely untouched -- never been kissed until we had our first together, never even been on a date with a guy, as innocent as you can imagine.
I was also a virgin at the time, but not completely untouched like Amelia. And given the way things in our relationship had evolved up to that point, I didn't want to push things in any particular direction. So otherwise we kept walking, talking and enjoying each other's company.
On a Saturday night several months into our relationship, we met up at the dining hall for dinner as was typical and tried to come up with an idea of what to do that night. Amelia had a particular movie in mind to rent, so we walked to the grocery store in town and rented
Chocolat
along with another movie whose title I cannot recall.
While there, "I have an idea," I said. Amelia perked up and gave me her attention. "Let's get some Chocolate as well."
She loved the idea and we bought a couple bags of Chocolate -- when you're with a woman and Chocolate becomes part of the discussion, you don't go small. Thankfully the night was cool, otherwise the Chocolate we bought would not have lasted very long along the mile-long walk back to campus. My roommate was also gone for the weekend, so we had the place to ourselves.
We watched the other movie before watching
Chocolat
. During
Chocolat
we decided to indulge in the Chocolate, feeding it to each other as we lay under a blanket as the movie played. I'm still not entirely sure how things progressed from there. Perhaps it was the close intimacy of laying together on the couch combined with the Chocolate in both our systems. I couldn't really say.
After the movie finished, I got up and took it from the DVD player and sat back down on the couch. Though the time was in the bottom half of the 1am hour, I was still wide awake -- possibly because of the Chocolate and soda we had been consuming for much of the night.
I couldn't tell if Amelia was just as awake as me as she had migrated to the corner of the couch, almost cowering into the shadow. Partly covering her face, I could still tell she had an embarrassed smile on her face. Through our relationship I had turned Amelia's face very noticeably red multiple times, yet this seemed to be one of the rare occasions she turned her face red on her own. Multiple times I asked her to tell me what was on her mind, and almost every time she refused, eventually giving in, "I wonder what you look like without your shirt."
I couldn't help but smile and silently wonder what she had in mind, "You want to find out?"
She dropped her hands to her lap and looked at me intently. "You're serious?"
"Completely."
I started to take my shirt off when she raised her hand to me, "No." She sat herself up. "I want to do it." She stood up and walked over in front of me, extending her hands, "Stand up."
"This should be interesting." I took hold of her hands as she helped me stand from the couch. I placed my arms above my head as she slowly lifted the shirt up and off my body, tossing it to the couch behind me. Her hands felt chilled as she ran them around my chest and abdomen. The smile on her face could easily have spanned ear to ear, but her face I think could not have gotten any more red.
It seemed obvious but I asked it anyway, "Enjoying yourself?"
Amelia looked up at me, looking into my eyes. I could only speculate as to what was running through her head. I leaned down and touched her lips with mine. When our lips parted company, I couldn't help but smile as well, which prompted Amelia to inquire, "What's on your mind?"
I, at least, didn't resist in answering, "Might I see what you look like without your shirt?"
"Sure," she seemed very matter-of-fact.