These are just some things that for reasons that will become obvious I can't share with anyone around me, well I can share them with one person but he's the one I've already shared these things with.
I'm now 28, blonde, slim, thought of as attractive and 1.7m tall.
I was a late bloomer, not late physically but mentally and emotionally I didn't really have much of an interest in boys till I left school and went to college. I'd had what I thought was a normal middle class upbringing but on reaching college I quickly discovered it had been more sheltered and perhaps privileged than most. There had been no real expectations on me by my family and I'd been more interested in my horses than boys or for that matter the world outside school and my friends.
College was just the expected route but I had no real ambitions or direction at that point.
Leaving home was a shock in many ways, I was in halls and while it was exciting to be away I missed home, my family and my horses. Through the friends I made there and student life I discovered boys but still had limited experience with them till I met my future husband Craig who was studying engineering at a nearby college. He was the first to really pursue me and I'm still not sure if he became the one because I was in love with him or because he was just so persistent.
My first experience of sex consisted of the usual (or what I thought was usual) awkward fumbling in the dark of a halls room, problems with a condom and much discomfort before an uncomfortable night squeezed together on a single bed.
I decided on teaching as a career and Craig graduated and entered a job in his field. From that first night on we were a couple and our families came to expect us to get married so we did.
Everything was... normal. There wasn't that much passion there but I had no experience to judge it against. We moved into a home in a small village which was mainly funded by our respective parents and his career continued while I completed college and teacher training.
Which is where this story really starts.
I started work teaching at an infant school with a large class of 5 to 7 year olds and the normal feeling of being slightly out of my depth that accompanies that. The work was hard but my colleagues were nice and I quickly adapted.
At first there wasn't much socializing as I had Craig to go home to but gradually his career took off and he was expected to work for extended periods overseas or sometimes in South London where accommodation was provided for him during the week. I was left at home on my own with an empty house in an area I had no friends or activities outside work. Naturally I started accepting invitations if any of my colleagues had anything going on of an evening and gradually came to accept that arriving to face the kids with a slight hangover was not going to be the end of the world.
I was still the 'good girl and nothing out of the ordinary had happened till the night of Russell's birthday.