It has started snowing, and the flakes fall gently downward so densely that it is hard to see the woods. The aroma of my coffee and the snow flick my heart and memory backwards in fast rewind to a day long ago, in a little port on the New England coast when it was snowing. For a change I was in the first liberty party of my ship, and I walked down the gangway in my dress blues and peacoat with all of the anticipation of a young sailor in a strange port on an adventure.
I wasn't a "bar" guy. I didn't drink and I didn't want to see my shipmates drunk, so I didn't go to the usual sailor dives. Instead I liked to wander in a new town and see what life was like in Connecticut in the winter.
After an hour of walking the streets and looking in Christmas decorated store windows I came to one of the old time diners that looked like it was made from the dining car of an old train. I went inside. An old gray man in a booth snorted in disapproval when I came in. Apparently he didn't like young sailors on liberty in his town. I ignored him and went to the cup-worn counter and sat. After a few minutes a young woman came from the back. She smiled and asked me what I wanted and I told her coffee and a piece of apple pie. She served them, then went about her duties. I watched her young body move under the starched crispness of her waitress uniform as she worked. In a bit she returned with a coffeepot and refilled my cup. She made fresh coffee and the aroma filled the diner along with the smell of hamburgers and onions. "So how long you in town for?" She asked.
"Just the weekend, then we go south to Jacksonville." I told her.
"Florida? I'd love to be going to Florida right now." She said.
I shrugged. "One Navy base is the same as any other."
"But the sunshine, and the warm weather. What kind of ship are you on?"
"A patrol boat. I'm Coast Guard." I said.
She smiled. "Is that like the Navy?"
"We're that hard nucleus of well-trained men that the Navy and Marine Corps form around in times of war and other national emergencies." I quipped.
Her eyes widened. "Really?"
"Just kidding."
She disappeared into the back for a long time, then came out with another piece of pie. "This one's on me." She said.
Some other customers came in and she served them and I ate my pie and drank my coffee and smoked a cigarette and she came back out after awhile and whispered "I get off in about fifteen minutes. If you want to wait you can walk me home."
I waited.
Soon an older woman, dressed in the same kind of uniform, came in and brusquely walked to the back. The young waitress went in with her and I saw them talk for a few minutes, then she came out and smiled at me and sat on the stool and said "I'm ready when you are."
The snow was deep enough to crunch under our feet as we walked along the sidewalk. Her name was Lucy. She was nineteen
and had hopes of someday going to school to learn how to be a beautician. She had moved out of her parents home when their drinking had become unbearable.
We passed the decorated store fronts again. "This is my favorite one." She said, stopping in front of one that had toy trains rolling around a track that wended around dolls and sailboats and teddy bears and toy tea sets and Hopalong Cassidy cap guns in holsters. "It always makes me think of when I was a little girl."
I opened my peacoat to get a cigarette out and she snaked her arm around my waist underneath it. She looked at me and blushed and smiled and lay her head against my arm. We walked on. I felt my heart pounding. I had never had this happenβthis sudden interest by a girl. I looked down at her. She was pretty, and had auburn hair in which the snowflakes glistened. She smelled faintly of perfume and coffee and cigarette smoke and
hamburgers and onions. The street she led me down was in what looked like the warehouse section. We came to a doorway. "I live up there." She said with apology in her tone. "It's all I can afford on a waitress salary. Would you like to come up? I'll make some coffee."
The apartment was small; one big room with a bathroom off to one side, a kitchenette and a sofa that made into a bed. She took my coat and hung it in a wardrobe with hers and motioned to the sofa and she made coffee and sat down beside me to wait for it to brew. She turned on a radio that was playing Bing Crosby's White Christmas. They didn't have a lot of television in those days. "You can put your arm around me if you want." She said.
I put my arm around her and she lay her head on my chest and I smelled her hair and I remembered San Juan. I had come in the service as an eighteen-year-old virgin. Sex was not allowed in those days. My first sexual experience was with a thirty-something hooker I met at the Texas Bar in San Juan; a "Cinco y
dos", five for her, two for the room. It had been a very mechanical experience. She undressed, undressed me, inspected my cock, lay on the bed and waited. I was new to this, and I spent a few minutes lying between her legs looking at her there. She looked down at me in curiosity. "What?" She asked.
"I've never seen one." I said. "You're very pretty there."
"Ay, mi'jo, que querido." She said, smiling. She let me look for a little while longer, until my urgent nature took over and I moved upward, kissed her breast and then with her help slid it in. It was over in seconds. She took the rubber and threw it away, rinsed herself out and lay with her head on my chest until the half-hour was up. I remember holding her and occasionally kissing the top of her head. After that night I didn't have to worry about having money. If I was broke she would go for "love".
I kissed the top of Lucy's head and she looked up and smiled. "Wait here." She went to the kitchenette and poured two cups of coffee. "Would you like some blackberry brandy in it?" She asked.
We sipped the coffee with blackberry brandy and listened to Perry Como sing "Walking in a Winter Wonderland". She snuggled, and I knew where this would wind up, but wasn't quite sure how to get it started. She didn't wait for me to fumble around. "You can get fresh if you want to." She said.
I let my hand wander to the softness of her breast under her uniform. The rigidity of my cock under my thirteen button blues didn't escape her. She touched it and my heart raced.
Then she began to unbutton buttons. When she got the front flap out of the way she found my cock with her hand and pulled it out of the fly of my underwear and hissed softly. At that point I was a mindless wreck. When she leaned forward and kissed it, I nearly passed out.
"Do you have any rubbers?" She asked.
"One, but I've had it for months." I answered.
"I have some." She went to her purse and took some out, then turned the sofa into a bed, and then came to me to unzip the back of her uniform. I unzipped it and she shrugged it off and stood there in bra and slip. She let me take them off, then her panties, then she turned around and I nearly swooned at her small firm breasts, the pink nipples, the soft contours of her middle, the soft crinkly fur of her mons. She finished undressing me and took my hand and led me into the bathroom.
It was an old clawfoot tub with a circular shower curtain rack over it. She turned on the water and adjusted the temperature and I watched the two halves of her bottom part to reveal the inviting darkness of her most private parts. When the temperature was right we got in and she closed the curtain around us and we washed each other.
If I didn't pay enough attention to one or the other of her favorite spots she would guide my hand there and make soft sounds as I scrubbed it. In turn, I had to stop her from washing my cock after only a few minutes. I didn't want to come that soon. We spent maybe half an hour in the shower, washing and rinsing and washing and rinsing until we were scrubbed of all previous sin. We got out and dried each other, then she led me by the hand back to the sofa-bed, where I sat while she poured more coffee and brandy. I watched her go about this the same way I had watched her in the diner, except this time I didn't have to undress her mentally. Her body was exactly as I had imagined it to be back then.
We sat side by side on the bed, our feet stretched out, drinking our coffee and listening to somebody singing "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow." Huge snowflakes drifted past the window.
"Did you ever eat a girl?" She asked.
"No." I answered. I had heard the other crewmembers talking of doing this, but I had never tried it.
"Would you do it to me?" She asked.
"Do you like it?" I asked.