During the spring of our senior year in high school, my boyfriend Troy, his best friend Eric and Eric's girlfriend Michelle sneaked away to Troy's family cabin "up north." Michelle was a foreign exchange student from France and despite the fact that she was dating my boyfriend's best buddy I didn't really know her very well.
When we got to the cabin, the guys decided that we women should prepare dinner while the men did something manly - fishing. So they grabbed a case of beer and their poles (fishing poles, that is) and off they went leaving the quaint little cabin to Michelle and me. They said they'd be back at 6:00. Yeah, right.
We talked about her experience as a foreign exchange student; how she liked America and things American and of course the subject came around to boys. She admitted that she had been sleeping with Eric and that he was ok but there was something she missed. I asked what that was and she said, "women." Well, I didn't quite know how to respond to that as I had only had sex with guys and I was a little uncomfortable with the subject. Oh, sure, I'd looked a little bit longer than I should have at girls in the school shower but I figured everybody did it, that didn't make me a dyke. Anyway, Michelle kept talking about her bisexual encounters in France and how she missed the soft, slow gentle lovemaking of another women. "Men," she said in her Parisian accent, "are in such a hurry. And American men are in a terrible hurry." I told her I'd have to take her word for all of it as Troy was only the third guy I'd slept with and he wasn't too different from the others.
I changed the subject by saying we ought to get moving on dinner otherwise our "men" wouldn't be happy. She chuckled saying, "oui, we must keep our men happy." With that we went to the kitchen which was just one more area of the one room living space of the cabin.
As we worked elbow to elbow at the small counter my mind kept thinking about Michelle and what it might be like to make it with her. She hummed a song I didn't recognize and her beautiful voice coupled with the smell of her perfume was starting to make me a little dizzy. Her arm touched mine and it was electric. There was something going on here that hadn't happened to me before. We happened to turn toward each other at the same time and our faces were just inches away. She whispered something in French, took my face in her hands and kissed me. I thought about fighting but that thought went away after about two seconds as I kissed the most beautiful, softest, warmest lips in the world. She whispered something in French again (I wished I'd paid more attention in French class) and took my hand and led me to the couch.