Here I was, nineteen, and still a virgin. Well, technically, I suppose I'm eighteen, but my nineteenth birthday is closer than my eighteenth. Nearly, anyway. All right, so I'm eighteen and still a virgin. My exact age doesn't matter. It's the virgin bit that irritates me.
Mind you, Brian, my current boyfriend, is quite willing to change that status, but where he's concerned I think not. He just wants get a notch on his bedpost (or any bedpost for that matter) so that he loses his own virginal status. He's a nice enough guy but really, just as a friend. It wasn't that I was planning on dumping him for the first attractive man to come along but I was keeping my options open. (And my legs closed, for the time being, irritating though that was.) If this meant he dumps me for someone more, shall we say, outgoing then sobeit.
Right now I was home alone and taking advantage of it. My parents had gone out for the day and I was in the backyard, delightfully naked and private, getting a start on a decent tan before the really hot weather began. I was also hopping in the pool every so often to cool down and get a bit of exercise. I'm an excellent swimmer.
I was doing a few lengths of the pool when I thought I heard someone calling to me. Just my imagination I was sure as the side-gate was locked and so was the front door. Still I pulled over to the side of the pool and looked around.
There was a man standing on the grass next to the towel I'd been lying on. I had no idea how he got there but he had no right to be there. He was looking towards me with a slightly irritated look.
This man, whoever he was, looked like a thug in a suit. A very nice suit, I was willing to admit, but he still looked like a proper thug. Suit or not, if you met him in an alley you'd pass him your wallet and start running. Looking him over I couldn't decide just what made him look like a complete thug. He wasn't ugly, or beaten up, or tattooed, or anything like that. He just seemed to radiate danger and thugishness. Quite perplexing, it was.
"Do you turn deaf when you're swimming?" he asked. "I was asking if you're Meredith."
"Ah, yes, I am. What are you doing here and how did you get here?"
"I stopped by to see your father. I would have called but I was in the area and dropped by on the off-chance he was home."
"That doesn't explain how you got here," I pointed out.
"By car," came the bland reply.
"I mean in the yard," I told him, knowing full well that he knew that was what I meant.
"Through the gate which you failed to lock."
What a whopper. I made doubly sure the gate was locked before I stripped down. I gave him a nasty look to show I wasn't deceived.
"Do you mind hopping out of the pool so we can finish this conversation without having to yell?"
"I'm not exactly dressed for visitors."
"I know but it won't embarrass me. I've seen women before."
Maybe he had but he hadn't seen me naked before. There again, perhaps he's assuming that I'm wearing a bikini. Maybe hopping out naked would embarrass him. That silly thought was father to an equally silly deed. I heaved myself up and out of the pool and walked over to him, letting him get an eyeful of everything I had.
The rotten man just smiled and looked at me, plainly enjoying the view.
"So what did you want to talk about?" I asked him, trying my best to act blasΓ© and not blush.
"The initial subjects that come to mind are 'are you a virgin' and 'are you going to resist when I make love to you'? I'm going with yes and no for the respective answers."
I hesitated for a second matching his answers to his questions. Yes, I was a virgin, and no, I wouldn't resist. . . Was he kidding?
"Wrong," I said quickly.
"You aren't a virgin? You present yourself as one, you know."
"Yes, I am," I said quickly. "What do you mean I present myself as one?"
"When you walked towards me you didn't show the self-awareness of a woman who has had at least some experience. That aside are you saying you will resist when I make love to you? Why would you want to do that? You know you're curious."
"Even if I was curious, which I'm not saying I am, I wouldn't want my first time to be with some old man I don't even know."
"Didn't I introduce myself? I'm Paul. Calling me an old man is a bit of a low blow, don't you think? Now you know who I am and have to concede I'm not really old so that removes both your arguments."
"It does nothing of the sort. Besides, I don't want anyone to make love to me right now."