As was the case in the story, "Our Wedding Day", this is a true story.
I had seen Kesia around the boarding house I lived in on many occasions over several weeks. She had moved from Pueblo, Colorado back to Denver and smack into my life. She was 5'6 1/2" tall, 37D-26-38, with bright brown eyes. Her hair length was to the bottom of her shoulder blades, and was a light brown with slight auburn highlights. Her face was very attractive. Not supermodel beautiful, but she turned many a head as she walked past.
I was raised in the country in southern New Mexico. I had few social skills, so I was extremely shy and I was too embarrassed to approach as lovely a lady as Kesia.
One day, I was confiding in another person that lived in Marvelle's Boarding House that I really wanted to get to know Kesia, when he suddenly cleared his throat and nodded in the direction behind me. I turned and came nose to forehead with my dream.
Oh God, I was embarrassed!!
Looking down slightly, I gazed into the very depth of her eyes. I remember the reflection of my face in her glasses, and in her eyes. Sort of a double whammy. If I could have gotten under the carpet, I would have, but the floors were wood. She wore a very stern face for a few seconds (it seemed like hours), then her face seemed to kinda melt into a very broad smile.
"Then why don't you ask ME, instead of TELLING him?" she asked in a mock stern voice.
My heart was beating so hard it hurt. I couldn't breathe, and my lungs burned like someone had forced gasoline down my throat, and lit a match. My face was scorching the skin off, my ears were roaring, and the outside of my ears were melting. I wanted to run, but she was standing in the only doorway in the room. I could tell she was enjoying the discomfort I felt. She just stood there like a queen.
After a few minutes of basking in my heat, Kesia reached out and took my hand. It felt like 10,000 volts shot through my whole being.
She led me to a couch in the in the "gathering room", sat me down, and then sat next to me so close I could feel the heat emanating through her clothes.
There in front of almost all the residents of the house she asked, "Is there something you would like to ask me?" I felt as though I would faint.
It took some doing, but I managed to muster the courage to ask, "Can I take you out to a movie?"
Yea!! I told you I was exceedingly lacking in what it took to make a woman swoon.
With that she leaned over and ever so gently gave me a peck on the cheek. My first kiss by someone other than my mom. There went the heat in my face again! She then got up and said she would go change and then we could leave.
"Shit!! How am I going to get us in?? I'm broke." I didn't realize I was talking to myself out loud. Every body laughed and took up a little collection. It was enough to go see a movie and get a meal after. I was in heaven.
Ok, of all the great blockbuster hits circulating theaters in mid 1969, which did we see? That's right!! Planet of The Apes. How did you guess? That's how unbelievably back I was. Later Kesia said it was the cutest date ever. How embarrassing!! I didn't loose anything there except my "cool card". We were both "gentlemanly" that night. I saw her to her door, and got a "real" kiss goodnight.
Well, I did have DIY sex that night.