I felt sick to my stomach. No, lower—a burning twisted through me, making me squirm on the bed. This was it, then? This was what men fought wars over, what women left home for? This was The Big Thing? The forbidden-to-me-until-now s-e-x?
There was nothing fun about it. I felt like I was about to have diarrhea.
Brendan smiled slyly at me. I bet he couldn't believe his luck. He leaned in, mouth partly open, spit glistening on fat lips—I couldn't help it. I leaned away.
"Where are you going?" He was still smiling. He wasn't quite as handsome up close.
"Er—sorry." He put his hand on my knee and ran it up my thigh. Back and forth. Back and forth. I stopped myself just before I flinched. No one had ever touched me there. It was foreign.
"Okay, how about this?" he said. "Take off your pants and lay down." I raised my eyebrows at him but he laughed. He looked better when he was laughing.
"I want to make you feel good."
I stood robotically and pushed my jeans around my ankles. This was hella weird, but I was determined. I was pushing 19 and a sophomore in college. I wasn't leaving this room a virgin. I sat down and laid on my back, knees a few inches apart. My head sunk down through the pillow. I could feel the firm mattress beneath. Brendan gently pushed my right leg off the mattress. I wrapped my toes around the wooden bedframe. Cautioning me with his eyes, he moved my panties aside with two fingers.
God, I wondered what he saw there. I didn't want to look. I felt hot and tense. It wasn't pleasant. He exhaled quietly.
"I'm gonna eat you out, okay?" I couldn't speak, so I just nodded. I closed my eyes against the view of the hotel ceiling.
I felt his breath blow against me, hot as a heater. He kissed the hinge of my inner thigh. One side, then the other. I tried not to picture what he was seeing—or worse, what he was smelling. Pillow-soft lips pressed against my vulva, mushing unromantically against the fleshy folds. It didn't feel like much of anything, and I wondered if there was something wrong with me. All my girlfriends said they loved oral.
A tongue emerged, powerfully muscled and slick, tip poking insistently at my clitoris like it was trying to wake it from a nap.
"Ouch," I said. The slug—his tongue, what I pictured to be a slug—pulled back at the sound. It brought its flat surface up against me, licking gently, slowly, from entrance to bud. And several times. I ached painfully as blood rushed to the site of contact.
I guess it could have been worse.
"Better," I mumbled. I heard a muffled chuckle.
Brendan pulled carefully at my folds, displaying my clitoris to the open air: vulnerable, splayed open like a frog's heart on the dissection table, sweating beneath a heat lamp. My muscles knotted.
Two cushiony lips enclosed 8,000 nerve endings and began to suck.
"Oh, wow!"
I sounded surprised to my own ears. This was nice—like a massage. He suckled me this way for a few minutes, and honestly, I just lied there like a dumb star fish. Feeling my heart beat. Feeling tickles of actual pleasure.
He spread my legs further apart with the flat of his hand, and my knees curled up to the sides of my chest without protest. I wasn't tense anymore.
And he licked it. Just licked it; nothing fancy. He could have been eating an ice cream cone. His tongue softened, molding to the counters of my body. It slid easily over me, sometimes slipping unexpectedly out of place. I was too wet for him to gain traction, but I didn't feel embarrassed. There was no room for embarrassment. For all I knew, he found my hotness hot.
"That's really nice," I sighed. My breath caught on the last word.
Brendan shifted suddenly. He slid his forearms beneath my thighs and pulled them to his shoulders, pushing his face determinedly between my legs. His tongue slipped inside me, and my first thought—I swear to God—was that he was a very brave man. He moved in quick thrusting motions, flicking past nerve endings I didn't know existed. I sucked in a great breath.
"Fuck, that's good!" My voice was loud. It didn't sound like me. But I didn't feel like me anymore. I wasn't watching myself—I was fully centered in my body, completely unself-conscious.
Brendan came up for air with a gasp. I throbbed in his split second of absence, but then he dived back in once more, lapping at my clitoris with renewed vigor. He pulled back his arm and reached toward me.
I made a sound somewhere between a gulp and a groan. His middle finger snaked its way inside me, jerking quickly in and out, pressing up against a spongy something deep within.
I wanted to grab his arm and yank it up my vagina.
"God that's fucking p-perfect!" Were my eyes about to pop out of my head? I felt like they were. His shoulders shook with the speed of his turbo-charged finger. And his tongue—that glorious piece of flesh—how did I ever liken it to a slug?—that tongue darted over my clitoris with such perfect rhythm that I could almost no longer feel it. But the numbness was of no consequence; it would be temporary. We were finally getting somewhere.
I was getting somewhere.