Don't even ask how my wife Maxx and I ended up together, much less, married. I mean, I know the basics. We met, started dating, fell in love, blah, blah, blah. But from the standpoint of, what did she see in me. When you see an average guy with a gorgeous wife, you can tell that he married up. Well, that's me. Married up by about 2 levels or so. I'm okay admitting that, as well as the fact that my wife is exponentially more good looking than I am. Including myself, I'm sure people wonder what she sees in me.
It's very ironic that I even found her attractive to begin with, because she's nothing like the girls I used to date. Through high school, my preference was the girls who are 5'-2", 115 lbs., A-cup boobs, dark hair and killer tan. And, well, Maxx is the polar opposite. Her 155 lbs. are stretched out over a height of 5'-10" with stats of 36D-28-36. Her naturally blonde hair is below the shoulders and her baby blues really cap off her million-dollar smile. She's not fat by any means, just a very solid, athletic and durable, tall woman.
I 1st saw her during my junior year in high school. I was playing varsity basketball and my school played hers. Come to find out, she was junior on her varsity girls team. In our county, the boys' and girls' varsity play back to back each game. I was literally in the middle of the game, on the court when I saw her enter the gym. I knew right away, I liked her.
Despite the fact that we only lived 20 miles away, I only saw her 5 times during those 2 years. All 5 times were on game day. But I sure enjoyed watching her play. Even though I still didn't know her name. After each basketball season, she just ended up being a forgotten memory. I'm still not sure why I didn't pursue finding out who she was. I knew plenty of guys from her school. Turned out to be stupid move on my part.
During the summer after graduation, I bumped into her twice and house parties. It was bad timing because we were both in relationships at the time. At the 2nd party, she was by herself at the punch bowl and I took that moment to go introduce myself. We spoke for no more than a minute, congratulating each other on our respective basketball championships. Her girls team by my girls' team for the county title, and my team beat her boys team for the county title.
I felt a flutter in my stomach and really liked standing next to her. She was hot. That feeling was short lived, because her boyfriend beckoned her away. She gave me some sad little puppy eyes and a cute little wave. Whatever. I'm leaving for UNC Wilmington in a week anyhow, so I'll never see her again. But I felt sorta empty as if we were 2 ships passing in the night. We saw each other on radar, but our paths just weren't meant to cross.
Man, college was such a different world. Dorm life wasn't too bad since my roommate was pretty cool. The shower facility was coed, which was a bit different. The showers were small and there wasn't any room to get dressed. It took a couple days to get used to seeing guys and girls walking up and down the dorm halls, wrapped in bath towels. It wasn't uncommon for a towel to get yanked off, leaving somebody nude and screaming. One of the guys yanked my towel off one day, and I didn't even flinch. I just kept walking 5 more doors down to my room. I got a huge round of applause for my bravery.
I was a good athlete in high school but had no false hopes of getting any kind of scholarship. But I found out that Wilmington had a pretty nice intermural sports program, which included flag football, coed basketball and coed softball. That activity will definitely help in keeping my weight down. You'd be surprise how many guys get the freshman 15, not just the girls.
Anyhow, the coed basketball season came around and we had 6 teams. I was much better at basketball than I was at football, so my comfort level increased. During warmups for this one particular game, I saw this tall girl on the other team and it was Maxx, even though I still hadn't known her name yet. When it came time for tipoff, we were both in the starting lineups for our team. During this time, is when players will call out to each other as far as who they're going to cover on defense. All the other guys picked somebody else and I was left with her. Sweeeeeeet.
Being only 1 foot from her at tip off, I stuck out may hand.
"Hammerhead."
She looked over and shook.
"Maxx. Take it easy on me, I'm might not be very good."
I had to laugh, because we both know what show she put on in high school. The game started and sure enough we covered each other in a man to man defense. I've never guarded a girl before, so I was unsure where to put my hands. My hesitations were costing me, because she drove the lane and scored pretty regularly. They guys on the bench were giving me shit, but I just didn't know what to do. During a break in the action, my teammates grilled me good.
"Jesus Hammer, cover her for god's sake. Just pretend she's a guy and quit letting her score, you fag."
Even the 3 girls on my team got in on roasting me. So, during my next play time, I picked up the pace and she saw it.
"Oooooooo, I see somebody learned how to play ball during the break."
I just laughed and didn't let her distract me. Now, I had my hand on her hip or her lower back or my hand grazed her smooth thigh while I was boxing her out. A couple times, she deliberately backed into me, while dribbling the ball, causing her firm ass to smash against my crotch. I was afraid I was gonna get an erection. When she pulled up the front of her shirt to wipe her face, that sexy smooth tummy and pierced belly button, ruined me. It was just too distracting. She destroyed me the rest of the game.
Of course, with my dismal performance, we got beat bad. After the game I was walking out the door and heard somebody holler my name. It was Maxx and she wanted me to wait for her. Just what I need was a sore winner wanting to rub it in. I played it cool and pretended to be mad.
"No don't come over here and rub it in. You didn't play fair. You used all that.........."
I gestured wildly to her body.
"...........stuff to distract me. Not cool."
She pinched my cheek.
"Awwwwww.......poor wittle boy get butt hurt by da big bad girl beast, huh?"
God that was funny and we laughed our asses off. I walked her to her car and talked about school for the most part. I found out she lived on the other end of the dorm complex, like 10 building away. Not far, by college campus standards, but not next door either. We said our goodbyes and started to leave. She pulled her car out and around just as I was closing my door. She pulled up, so our driver doors were next to each other and spoke.
"Lemme get your number. There's supposed to be a crazy ass wild party off campus Saturday night. I'll text you the address and maybe I'll see you there."
I gave her my number and off she went. Was she subconsciously asking me on a date? Was she just being polite and really meaning just 'see you there'. God, why do girls have to play games. Why the fuck didn't I say something. That's the 2nd time I just clammed up and let her drift away. Never again. I was busting at the seams waiting for Saturday. It just couldn't get here soon enough. My roommate Todd already knew about it and had plans to attend. It was at an off-campus apartment.
I just threw on a pair to khaki shorts and navy-blue t-shirt. Upon entering the party, we saw it had been going full tilt for a while already. From across the room, I caught a glimpse of a hand waving. I craned my neck as the owner of the arm did the same. It was Maxx and she was waving me over. When I sidled up next to her, she handed me a beer and gave me a little hip check.
"How's it going Steve Nash?"
Again, we both laughed like a couple clowns. I absolutely love the funny banter that she possesses as I like girls with a sense of humor. I played it off and admitted she got me.
"Yeah, whatever. Next game? I'll show you how we do it at Smithburg."
Smithburg was the name of my town and high school and hers was Green Spring. She gave me another soft hip check.
"I'll be waiting champ. Bring the A-game."
Man did she look good. A long sleeve, but loose bodied shirt that showed some tummy. Her jeans were those ones that hug you like spandex and then she had on some big shit kicker Timberland boots. She didn't wear a stitch of makeup or jewelry. Again, I found myself so attracted to her, despite my history of liking short girls. We started drinking as the drinking games progressed. There were only about a dozen people or so, about half guys and half girls.
I hadn't been much into drinking games before, so I had no idea what was going on. Other than the losers had to drink and remove clothes. At one point, a team got beat which made room for more participants. She grabbed my arm and yanked.
"Come on bub, let's play."
I had no clue what was going on, but I let her drag me along anyhow. Once things got started, I realized that we weren't teammates, but competing against each other. Aw man, what did I get myself into. There was a ping pong table set up and it was going to be a version of beer pong but with other variations. Bottom line, once the beer started flowing, the rules changed every 5 minutes and I couldn't keep up. I was fine with the drinking part, but the rules part just didn't make sense. So, I didn't bother. It was more fun, with them laughing at me for being confused than it was for anything else. I just kept asking if they were cheating or is this really a rule.