Hi, the events in this story happened about 30 years ago. It is by far the most perfect seduction I ever experienced. I can only hope that each of you has had at least one experience of this perfection in your lives. The young woman in this story is now happily married. This is the story of how she "almost" lost her virginity. Noelle, if you read this story, I apologize for anything in it that I remember differently than you.
This story has the advantage of being largely true. I figure about 90% is completely true (from my best recollection), 5% percent is mostly true and 5%, well 5% I completely made up because it made for a much better story. At least the first 10 paragraphs are completely true and anyone who worked with us would recognize it immediately.
I'm writing it down because this story runs through my head on a nearly daily basis. I seduced scores of women when I was single and have been happily married for 30 years, but THIS is the story that haunts my dreams. Perhaps the telling of it will let me "put it to bed".
What am I doing with this young woman? How did I get here? I'm on an airplane heading to Washington DC with a woman 13 years my junior. Sure, she's 18 and therefore she's 'legal', but she's just a kid in a lot of ways. She wants me to go with her, but her parents would never understand- hell, I don't even understand exactly how this all happened. What am I doing?
The Beginning-
I was 31 years old, recently graduated from art school and recently divorced. Without going into too many details, my first wife fooled around with, and ultimately left me for, her boss while I was busy studying. In her defense this guy, Malcolm, was extremely fun and dynamic while I was pretty boring working on school work until at least 1am every night. Unfortunately for her, Malcolm also turned out to have substance abuse problems- both alcohol and cocaine. She divorced him right after she had his child and she later apologized and told me that she had been foolish for leaving me.
I was still licking my wounds from the divorce and had a waiter job at a great Deli in the San Fernando Valley. The food was amazing- the best corned beef brisket you ever wrapped your lips around, steaming hot matzo ball soup, a huge selection of bagels and the cheesecake was to die for. At the time, the crew really felt like a big extended family. We used to sit around after closing for a couple of hours laughing and talking. The comradery fed my recently damaged soul. It was an amazing time for me.
I was 6 feet tall, 170 pounds and in great physical shape at that time- running 50-70 miles a week, playing a lot of racquetball, and spending most of my spare time on my motorcycle or in the ocean in my kayak. I had long auburn hair that I kept in a ponytail- as was the fashion at the time. I got a nickname of "CB" amongst the waitresses and female staff. Since those actually ARE my initials it took me a while to catch on but one of the hostesses eventually confessed that they were really calling me "Cute Butt".
Noelle-
Young hostesses and cashiers came and went month to month. They were usually very young and very cute, but I never had anything to talk with them about because of our age difference and education level. The deli didn't hire anyone under 18 for legal purposes, and for most it was a first job. One day a new hostess was hired. As per usual, we all went up and introduced ourselves and I found her name to be Noelle.
She was- by her own estimate- 4 foot 11 and 1/2 inches tall and- by my estimate- as cute as a button. After her height, the first thing I noticed about her were her eyes. They were a bright jade green and sparkled with little copper flecks and she made great eye contact. She smiled a lot and when she did the sides of her eyes crinkled in just the right way. She had reddish brown hair, freckles, beautifully full lips, B cup breasts and just enough baby fat in her butt that it jiggled deliciously when she walked away from you.
During slow times at the deli I took time to hang around the front and chat- just to be "friendly like". She was remarkably intelligent and amazingly well read for someone so young. We had many wide-ranging conversations about life, told jokes and laughed a lot. I learned that Noelle was born to Catholic parents and had attended Catholic schools all the way through high school. She was the eldest of 8 brothers and sisters.
I had always heard that Catholic girls can be wild, but she appeared very prim in her dress and manners. She said the nuns at her school were strict and she had worked hard to stay in their good graces for her parents' sake. I kept my speculations to myself. After all, the difference in our ages was absolutely ridiculous (right?) and I took turns lusting after her and castigating myself for it. I would never have the nerve to ask her out, so I put it out of my mind- well, mostly.
Her whole red headed family came into the restaurant on several occasions while I was working, and I got to meet her folks. Noelle's mom had been a baby-making machine from an early age and really seemed proud of her brood. Her parents were only a few years older than I was, which made my attraction to their daughter even more outrageous.
The Question-
Noelle and I worked together for a couple of months and kept up our chat sessions from time to time. Her eyes always looked right at me- sometimes it seemed she looked right through me. One evening near closing time she nervously confided,
"I've never had a real kiss."
After a pause, she looked right into my eyes and continued in a clear but quiet voice,
"I'd like you to be my first. I want you to take me someplace romantic."
I was thunderstruck, dumbfounded, gob smacked. What the hell does a normal guy say to a request like that without sounding like a creep? How do I not sound too anxious? How do I encourage her without scaring her off? How do I play these cards just right? Should I just fold and tell her no? My mind was churning and I'm sure my face gave it away.
Remembering back to my first kiss and early sexual experimentation, with all the fumbling and groping in the dark, the urgency and the embarrassment, I couldn't imagine that these had been good experiences for the young girls involved. Of course I couldn't say no. Instead I determined to make this different for her than it had been for me. All these thoughts took no longer than about 10 seconds. It must have seemed like an eternity for her. She looked quite serious.
I smiled and It sure felt like I was blushing when I replied,
"I'd like that."
Sounding perhaps just a little anxious, I asked,
"When?"
She smiled and said her parents always expected her to come home right after work, but she could probably tell them she was going to a girlfriend's house for an hour or so next Friday night after work. I said,
"OK, It's a date."
I remembered that I hadn't had to lie to my parents about a romantic interlude in over a decade which brought back some crazy memories of early interludes with girlfriends.
I wasn't working on Friday, so I showered and dropped by the deli for a Matzo Ball soup and a cream soda about an hour before Noelle got off work. As I walked in, she was busy seating a customer but when she saw me her beautiful mouth erupted into a huge smile, crinkly eye-corners and all.
I was really anxious but couldn't figure out exactly why. I'd kissed tons of women- hell, I'd even been married for 4 years. It felt like I was stealing candy from a baby- which in some respects I was- even though she was legally of age. I was aware that it was a huge thing for her to ask me and I wanted to treat her with more respect than she'd ever experienced. I resolved to make it slow and comfortable and fun instead of fast and grabby and scary. I practiced some lines I would use to assure her.
She went to punch out at about 10pm. I was finishing my cream soda as she passed the counter where I was sitting. She reached out her hand and lightly traced my shoulders with a finger as she passed. Nobody noticed but I jumped a little. I paid and went out to my car.
Noelle approached about a minute later, got in, looked at me and just said
"Hi."