My family and I had come back to my mothers' hometown after my dad had lost his job. He was going to open his own garage and used car lot. Mom was going teach in the junior high. I was playing football that season. I had turned an ankle in practice on Wednesday and was on crutches on the sidelines.
The cheerleading squad came running across the field in their little short skirts and this was the first time I had had a chance to do more than glance at them. Some were tall, some were short but there was one that took my breath away. She wasn't any prettier than the others but something about her just made me want to grab her. I couldn't take my eyes off her. She finally saw me watching her and smiled at me and waved. I waved back and turned red but I couldn't keep myself from watching her.
After the game as we all left the field she came beside me and ask, "How did you hurt your foot?" I told her I had turned it during practice. She stayed beside me talking until we got to the field house and told me she would see me later, as she left to catch up with the others. I forgot to even ask her name. I found it in a picture on the bulletin board.
Patty is a dark complected, smooth skinned person with dark blue eyes. She is about 5'6" and weighs 115 lbs. Her jet-black hair hangs down to her shoulders in big curls. Her long legs are the prettiest I have seen. It is hard for me to keep my eyes off them.
I am 6'2" and weigh 192 lbs. My skin is tanned and my eyes are a light green. I have been told I was handsome a few times but I know I am only average in looks. I am a shy, quite person and I don't like to talk much but I do like to listen to others.
Patty and I starting talking to each other when we would meet in the hall at school and on the field. We started dating about three months before I graduated. She asked me out the first time and as I look back on it, I think it was because my dad had opened his garage and used car lot and I had a car to drive.
We would go to the mall and drive around the little drive-in that was still up and running. I think she just liked to be in the spotlight. It was around this time that she started talking about getting married and "The Wedding".
She would never let me touch her in the way couples touch and hug and kiss. I did not kiss her until we had dated for two months and then it was a closed mouth kiss and lasted maybe ten seconds. Anytime I would try to hug her she would squirm away and shake her head and say, "No."
After I graduated I started working in my dads garage and decided I liked it and would get some schooling in mechanics.
During the next year I fell deeply in love with Patty.
Patty graduated and started going to the local junior college. I knew I loved her and I told her all the time. She would tell me she loved me but she did not want to do anything until after we were married. She would tell me, "We are going to wait until the wedding."
We were out one night, parked at the drive-in and I was trying to hug her and kiss her and she kept turning her head and slapping my hands.
I said, "Patty, we need to talk about us. I am not sure you love me and this may be a mistake."
Patty said "Bob, I do love you more than anything but we are not going to do anything until we are married."
I said, "Did you ever stop and think we may not be right for each other. You have never given me a proper kiss or let me touch you in any way. Do you realize that I have only touched your hand and your back when we did the little short hug. I want and need more than that. I want to give you deep kisses and touch your breast. I want to feel your legs. I want to caress your body and run my tongue into your mouth. PATTY, I want to make love to you. We don't have to go all the way but we do need to know if we are comfortable with each other."
She looked at me like I had slapped her and started crying and told me, "If that is what you want, you can take me home right now."
I said, "Baby, why do you want to wait until we are married to do anything. We can hug and kiss and feel of each others body without going all the way."
She said, "You just want to stick your thing in me and shoot all that old nasty stuff in me and on me and I am not going to let you do it. Until we are married that is."
I said, "Well, Patty, I am a twenty year old virgin and I don't want to wait for another year to lose that. I think this is a little ridiculous to not kiss, hug and do some of the things that couples do."
Patty said. "Take me home. I am mad. I cannot believe that you could suggest that to me. You are crazy if you think I am going to do any of that before I am married. TAKE ME HOME."
AS I drove her home I tried to to talk to her but she sat by the door with her arms crossed, looking out the window.
I said, "When can I see you again?"
As she got out out the truck and slammed the door she said, "I will let you know."
I didn't hear from her the next week and I had to leave to go to Atlanta for a three months mechanics course. I wanted to call but I wanted to give her some time to think about everything. I didn't want to upset her any more than she was already.
I bought a cell phone to take with me so mom could call and we decided I would turn it on only when I was in the room at night. Mom would call every night between six and eight. The second week I was there the phone rang about seven fifteen and I said, "Hello, Mom how are you?"
There was a moment of silence and this voice said, "Why didn't you tell me you was going to be gone for three months? Are you coming home at all during those three months? You don't love me. Do you?"
After I got over my shock I said, "You said you would let me know when you was ready to talk and I haven't heard from you either."
Patty said, "Well you should have called and you would have if you loved me."
I didn't say anything.
She screamed, "Well, are you going to tell me you love me or not?"
I said, "Patty, I am not going into this on the phone. Call me when I come home and we can sit down and talk this out. I will be home in a little over two months."
She said in a much nicer tone of voice, "Bob, I love you and I want you home with me. I miss you and we need to talk about some things I want to do for the wedding. OOH it is going to be so nice. Bob, can I call you every night? I want to see you so bad. I really have missed you. I don't know if I can go two months without seeing you."
I said, "What have you missed about me? You sure didn't miss my kisses or my hugs. I think all you miss is me carrying you all over town."