I guess I should probably start by pointing out that the following picks up a little over a year after the events of "A First Timer's Tale". If you didn't read it already, don't. No, seriously. Just don't. No reason to inflict that tale of some awkward as hell first time tail on yourself unless literary masochism is your kink. Just skip the next two paragraphs.
If you did read it, I won't apologize. You brought it on yourself wanting to hear about a real first time the way it really happened. About all you really need to know is Wendy and I mostly stayed together from just before Halloween when the events described there occurred through the whole year until about two weeks before Christmas the following year. I say mostly because starting around July, she broke up with me seven times for about three days each before we got back together.
And yeah, we fucked some more. We didn't really get just a whole lot better at it, but we were both young, stupid, and inexperienced enough that we thought the selfish approach to using each other's bodies to masturbate was good sex. Anyway, I'm not going to bore anybody with a step-by-step "Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra for Dummies" with ninety-nine percent of the pages missing which would pretty much be what we did, but will pick up at the next interesting thing that happened to me.
Oh, before I forget. All participants in sexual behaviors are over eighteen. While the events described did happen, I can only give my side of the story and it's not much more trustworthy than any eyewitness account. Although, names, locations, and identifying marks have been altered slightly to blah blah blah.
Enough of that happy horse shit. Let's get it on.
*****
"Fuck!" I turned and punched the metal door hard enough to leave a dent.
Wendy had just broken up with me for the eighth, and what I figured would be the final, time. That wasn't why I was pissed, though. I'd known it was coming. And, frankly, I just wasn't as heavily invested when we got back together after the seventh.
I was pissed at the campus cop who'd walked up on our argument and assumed I was the bad guy, almost drawing his gun while not listening to what I was trying to tell him, and allowed Wendy to make it to her car.
I was pissed as hell at Wendy for getting in her car, drunk as she was, and taking off on the icy roads. It was only divine intervention that kept her from slamming into anything as the car spun completely around in reverse between two rows of parked cars in the dorm parking lot. It was only the intervention of the City of Lubbock who put a median right there that kept her from crossing into the oncoming lane as she spun twice coming out of the Coleman Hall parking lot onto Nineteenth Street.
Mostly I was pissed at myself for letting the situation spiral so completely out of control.
Back in my freshman fall semester, in addition to Wendy, I'd picked up a stray. Paul was from Germany, but for some reason had come halfway around the world to study Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University. And, odd as it may sound, TTU was his first choice. Go figure. Any road, he and I had almost the same class schedule, so we just kind of naturally gravitated towards each other.
Paul and Wendy weren't each other's biggest fans, but they mostly got along with only the occasional joking gibe of "Slut Boy" and "Shrew". In retrospect, though, I think they mostly got along because when Paul went out with us, he never stayed with us, and we never took him home.
I swear to God, all the man had to do was say "Well, hello there. What's your name?" And faster than anyone would believe who wasn't there to see it, he was gone with a giggling gal tucked in tight up under his arm. Sometimes one under each.
One time, they dragged me to a dance club. They were always doing that although I hated it. Mostly because I sucked at dancing and looked like a fullback trying to juke a pursuer. But, this was one specific time when Paul spotted his prey before I even had my billfold completely tucked away after being shaken down for two hours worth of my paycheck.
"Well, hello there! What's your name?"
I glanced up to see a girl wearing what looked like Saran Wrap and not much else leaning back against the bar eyeing the newcomers. As I watched, she gave him the once over and I guess didn't like what she saw.
"I don't think so." She said and turned around.
Holy shit! I mean, Paul struck out sometimes, sure. Not often, but I'd seen it happen. But, even when he did, the gal usually walked away giggling with her friends and smiling over her shoulder at him.
"Wow!" I muttered. "Is it just me? Or did it get cold in here?"
Wendy just looked on with that sardonic smile where it looked like only the left corner of her mouth worked.
"So," Paul said. "Does this mean a blowjob in the parking lot is out of the question?"
"Holy fuck!" Wendy gasped.
I groaned and looked behind me as the bouncer with his arms crossed to push up his biceps and make them look even bigger tracked his head around like a tank turret. Oh, well, if we got kicked out, at least I would escape the torture of the dance floor.
Saran Wrap Girl turned back around and gave Paul another look. Then a slow smile spread across her face.
"Not necessarily." She said and took him by the hand. Paul gave us the coded wave that said we didn't have to worry about him, he'd find his own way home.
"Uh." I said brilliantly. "Did what I think just happened actually just happen?"
"Oh, my God." Wendy laughed. "If you think Slut Boy just struck again, then I think so. Don't ask me how he did it, though."
"Say, Wendy." I turned to her with a grin.
"Don't even, buster." Wendy said. "We came here to dance. Maybe in an hour or so if you're lucky."
I wasn't. Not that night. But, I was explaining Paul.
That was Friday night. I didn't see Paul again until Wednesday when he came strolling into our five hour monster calculus class that met every morning at seven-thirty, thirty minutes late for a test. Wearing the same clothes he'd left the club in.
"Dude, can I borrow a pencil?" Paul asked as he slid into the desk next to mine reeking of sex. "I haven't been back to my dorm."
"You're shitting me." I whispered as I dug in my backpack. "All this time?"
"Wasn't much out of the question." Paul yawned.
And then proceeded to blow the curve on that test for the rest of us.
I think the only reason I didn't hate Paul was because I had just a teensy bit of carefully hidden hero worship. Maybe it was the thick accent. Maybe it was because he adopted the George Michael look like it was his own personal brand. I don't know. All I know was he was the unquestionable top of our classes and didn't miss too often when he set his sights on one of the fairer sex.
Any road, normally Paul was with us for no more than about thirty minutes before he was off to carve another notch in his belt buckle. Until that fateful night.
The fall semester of our sophomore year had closed and the vast majority of the over twenty-thousand students had scattered like dandelion fluff on the West Texas winds almost as soon as they laid their pencils down after that last final. Paul hadn't gone home, but was staying over in the dorm along with about a hundred or so others for the month and a half break.
Wendy and I had a rare day off at the same time from Sam's Wholesale Club where we both worked, and the three of us had gone to the South Plains Mall to do a little Christmas shopping. The plan was to get something to eat after shopping and then see if we could find a dance club open.
I figured it was more likely Paul would spot some quarry at the mall and disappear. Wendy and I would go fight over dinner. And then we would go our separate ways. Probably for the last time. I'd felt the storm building almost since finals and she'd been even snarkier than usual with Paul on the drive over.
"Well, hello there! What's your name?" Paul's battle cry rang out almost before the inner door of the mall entrance could have closed behind us.
I often wonder how different things might have turned out if it had been any other girl when I glanced over to see who he'd set his sights on.
I grew up in a small town thirty miles north of Lubbock where I graduated in a class with forty-six other people. (There were only slightly more than two thousand people in the whole town.) Through the summer, my classmates had moved on with our new lives, moving off, heading to college. Even though I still lived out there with my mom and sister to give them some security after Dad split, my life was pretty much happening in Lubbock between school and work and Wendy.
I don't know what the odds would have been that we ran into one of my old classmates in the only mall for a hundred miles in any direction, there's just too many variables, but it hardly matters since we did.
Worse, it was Missy Johnson. The girl I'd had a secret crush on almost since I'd first thought I'd figured out the difference between boys and girls and decided those differences were interesting. I'd all but forgotten her as we hadn't seen each other since the night we turned our high school tassels a year and a half earlier and I'd had my plate full, what with discovering the real differences between men and women with Wendy and just what could be done with them.
To say Wendy wasn't thrilled when Missy bounced over to press her big boobs against me with a hug would be like saying water is a little damp, although I didn't recognize it at the time.
Whether fortunately or unfortunately, the explosion was diverted for awhile when I introduced Wendy as my girlfriend and Paul as my friend and Missy hugged both of them as well, then went back and hugged Wendy again and then a third time. The look on Wendy's face was priceless as Missy squished against her and effused how wonderful it was I "finally" had a girlfriend and how glad Missy was to get to meet her.