This is a work of fiction, and even though high school is mentioned, no sexual activity takes place before the protagonists are seniors, and over 18.
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"Thank God for Massengill," Julie thought, as she slid into the bathroom stall at the McDonald's off the exit, to douche herself clean. "There's no way I could come home like this, and break Mickey's heart."
"Oh, God, why did I do that?" condemning herself, but, deep down, she knew why she did it. Rick was just so handsome, so suave, and he just swept her off her feet.
"It was that first kiss," she thought, strange, tilting her head up to kiss a man. Mickey, her husband, was a strong, powerful, virile man, one who could still send shivers down her spine, even after twelve years of marriage. But with her 6'1" height, and Mickey being only 5'9", she was the one who had to bend down when they kissed. Boyfriend and girlfriend ever since their sophomore year in high school, lovers since their senior year, and married right after graduation - and just five months before their daughter was born - Julie was used to kissing a shorter man, even though she'd have thought the idea horrid before she met Mickey.
Both of her parents had been tall, and Julie grew up quickly, and gawkily, towering over all of the girls her age, and the guys as well. Girls get taller than guys in elementary and junior high school, but when puberty hits, boys shoot up faster, and normally quickly surpass the girls. She had gotten teased, some good-naturedly and some not, by the other girls, and not a few of the guys, as the crane who'd be stuck with a munchkin guy. Julie was smart, intellectually, and knew that there was absolutely nothing wrong with a woman being taller than her man, but faced with all of the insecurities of adolescent girls, in her heart she thought that was just plain wrong. Having the figure of a toothpick didn't help matters, and starting puberty a bit later than her friends just compounded the problem.
Julie never had a boyfriend, had never been kissed into her sophomore year. At least she was looking like a girl now, her figure changing as puberty struck her, late but fast once it happened. Her butt went from just plain skinny to still-skinny but definitely feminine, and, with her long legs, it was higher up than most girls. Still, Julie had a negative reputation, and even guys who might have thought she was starting to look cute had second thoughts about wanting to date the Stork.
It was in her sophomore year that Mickey had transferred into her small-town high school. He was squat but muscular, the perfect build for an offensive lineman in high school, and he quickly earned a starting spot at right guard, even as a sophomore himself, with his quickness and strength, and his ability to get underneath leverage against defensive lineman. Only 5'7 as a sophomore, he was an impressive 190 lb, with all of it muscle.
Mickey hadn't paid any attention to the Stork the first few weeks of school. Football practice started two weeks before school began, and two-a-days in the August sun were no fun at all. Even eating his parents out of house-and-home, he was losing weight in practice, and only made it back to 190 five weeks into the season.
It was one of those stupid games that high school kids play, at the Tanner's house one evening while the parents had conveniently absented themselves. Spin-the-bottle had quickly moved to Seven-Minutes-in-Heaven, as Mickey and the Stork got paired off, to raucous laughter, in the basement closet. Julie was absolutely mortified, and Mickey wondered about the insanely tall, skinny chick, but, anxious to make new friends in the school, went along with it, even gallantly standing and taking Julie's hand to pull her to her feet after the bottle he spun pointed clearly at her. She had been wearing a red Cardinals t-shirt - their school teams were the Cardinals - and her face was almost indistinguishable from the color of her shirt.
The guys were laughing and the girls giggling as the pair were locked in the closet. Some louvers in the bottom of the closet door provided just a hint of light, so at least they could see each other, if barely more than silhouettes.
"We don't have to do anything," Julie had demurred, shaky and unsure of herself, excited but still half-terrified. She had never pictured her first kiss as being in a darkened closet, and she knew how boys had avoided her in the past.
But Mickey was undeterred, and simply said, softly enough that only Julie could hear him, "Kiss me." He'd never spoken to the Stork before the party, and really only barely then, but he was strong, sure of himself, almost cocky in his attempts to overcome his short stature, and aggressive.
"Are you sure?" It wasn't the right question to ask, but Julie asked it anyway.
"Yes, kiss me," he replied, as he put his hands up to her face and drew her down to his lips.
Julie's first kiss, with the short football player, had been the heaven that the seven minutes game promised. He was slow and patient with her, but she could still sense the tension in his body, and after the first couple of kisses they were both feeling it, desperately and eagerly. All too soon they heard a girl shout from outside the door, "Thirty seconds! Y'all better get dressed now!" to a bunch of squeals and laughter. They didn't have to get dressed, as no clothing had come off, but when Mary Tanner threw the door open, Mickey and Julie were still locked in a deep kiss, to the whoops and hollers of the other teenagers.
From that evening on, Mickey and the Stork were an item. She was his first girlfriend, and he her first boyfriend, and if the odd height difference had drawn some comical jokes, Mickey's stature on the gridiron quickly made up for his lack of stature in the height charts. The Cardinals were 5-0, with a strong running game, especially to the right where Mickey was the team leader, even as a sophomore, in opening up holes for the fullback and halfbacks. His toughness in the scraps that teenaged boys got into simply cemented his reputation, and all of a sudden the couple didn't look quite so comical after all.
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"Kiss me." That was all that Rick had said that evening, as they were both leaving the hospital. Julie was a registered nurse, and as she was leaving her shift, at 7:30 PM, from the neurosurgery intensive care unit, Rick, the tall third year medical student leaving with her, and as they were waiting for the elevator, with no one else around, he looked down at her and said, "Kiss me."
God, he was good looking. Clearly younger than Julie's thirty years, somewhere around 24 she guessed, he had the palest blue eyes, a real contrast with his tousled dark hair. And he was tall, somewhere around 6'6, with a two-day stubble beard. He was thin, certainly thinner than her muscular husband, though he still had a hard, tough look about him.
Why did she kiss him, why did she do as he asked? Julie never really knew, but she reached up, put her hand behind his neck, and gently pulled him down into a brief, but still sweet kiss. Her lips remained closed, but Rick could still feel a hint of promise in that kiss.
"Happy now?" she asked him, somewhat defensively, realizing what she had done. It was like an electric current had gone through her, making her tingle at the unexpected, unfamiliar sensation of reaching up to kiss a man.
"Very happy, but not happy enough." As the elevator chimed its arrival at their floor, Rick took her by the hand, and pulled her not into the elevator, but through the door to the stairwell. With the solid thud of the door closing behind them, he pushed Julie up against the wall, holding her hands up and flat against it, as he kissed her again, this time passionately, insistently, hungrily. His need was rising within him, and Julie felt the heat of the moment, not only from Rick but from within herself as well.
When he released her hands, her arms shot around his neck, and his hands snaked their way to her waist, then up, barely underneath her blue scrub top. No man other than Mickey had ever touched her like that, and she was on fire.
"We can't," she managed to get out, half-breathlessly, feeling the heat in his hands along the bare skin of her ribs as his hands had risen, pulling up her shirt. And then her next words sealed her fate, "Not here."
Rick was an accomplished cocksman, and he knew women all too well. "Not here" were words of surrender, weak words, words which gave consent if only there was a private place.