Everybody has their first times. For most of my peers, it was with a girlfriend, or just some chick at a party. But for boys like me -- awkward, gawky, cute and complete buffoons -- first times are perhaps even better than a fumble in the back seat of a beat-up car past 11 on a school night.
I was a late bloomer. But by the summer of 1990, I had come into my own physically. Much of my chubbiness had disappeared into a taut physique. And for the first time in my life, I looked good in form fitting pants.
I was still shy -- a complete bumbling idiot in truth -- with girls my own age, even at eighteen. Sure, some started to pay attention to me, but my ego, after years of abuse and teasing, was so fragile that I'd never venture to pursue anyone. I was too used to being hurt.
I was young, rich with deviant fantasies and a sex drive pushing the limits of decency, but with no prospects beyond videos and magazines. Then came spring break, 1990. While most of my friends got opportunities to head out to orgiastic beach outings, I was stuck working at a local video store for extra pocket money.
It wasn't bad work, really. The store was locally owned, so the atmosphere was laid back and fun. Plus, being a movie buff, I got to shine with the customers, people who would specifically ask to see me for suggestions on their weekend rentals.
I particularly made a splash with a very nice couple in their late 40s who were regulars on Saturday nights just before closing. Martha and Manny were especially fond of the adult section -- the area of the store cloistered behind jutting walls and a small curtain that most of the hoity-toity customers in my town refused to be seen. But Martha and Manny were quite fond of xxx movies, and came to me regularly for advice.
Somehow, I fooled them, or so I thought, into thinking I was some kind of porn connoisseur. Nothing could probably be further from the truth. I had rented a few movies since I got the video store job. The owner gave a blind eye to my rental habits: Two popular, mainstream movies with a unidentified tape sandwiched between the two. As long as it was back by the next morning, the owner could have cared less.
Martha particularly stirred my teenage desires. She looked much younger than her video account stated, with sand-colored blond hair, hazel eyes and freckles. She wasn't thin by most standards, but certainly far from fat. Taller than most women I knew, Martha was robust and ample in all areas, and she was especially fond of wearing thin summer dresses that revealed her legs.
That spring break I was somewhat down. Pretty much everyone in town my age had taken off for the beach. And in a high school that counted no more than 500 kids, meaning Gannis Falls was practically deserted that week.
In consequence, the store was empty that Saturday night, and I spent most of the time watching movies and cleaning shelves. Then at nearly 10 p.m., Martha strolled in wearing my favorite blue flowered summer dress that allowed the generous swell of her cleavage to bunch up above the neck line.
"Hey sweetie. I'm so glad you're here," she said, her voice like honey pouring down my body in tingly waves.
"Hello Martha. Where's Manny tonight?" I asked. We had long since done away with the last name formalities.
"Oh, one of his jobs sent him on a week-long assignment to New York. It's just little old bored me."
"What can I do for you?" I said, glancing away from her eyes as nasty fantasies of Martha alone in her house naked and sweaty bounced into my head.
"Well, I'm needing some suggestions on a good movie," she said, her voice softening and her eyes twinkling. "Something loud and with lots of variations." Translation: A porno where the girls are screaming while getting fucked in strange positions. I giggled in my pretend-not-to-be-innocent way as my mental file went through some of the boxes I read from the night before. See, I don't go back there during business hours. Wouldn't be proper for the son of Marion Trent Harwood, Sr. and Lisa Corry Harwood, lifetime residents of Gannis Falls, to be seen gawking at porn videos.
Still, I managed a suggestion. A video of girls being pummeled by hydraulic machines fitted with dildos and phallus objects. No couple action, but I was always fond of watching girls have authentic orgasms on videos. Girls in traditional videos always seemed to act their enjoyment while the guys got to spill their pleasure. I was much more turned on by the exhibition of womanly pleasure.
She emerged from the back room a little later. By then, I had already locked the doors and began my closing duties, but let Martha browse undisturbed. She handed me a video box, a brunette on the cover sitting naked atop a saddle in obvious rapture, a dark circle censoring the space below her navel, leaving the rest to the imagination.
"Is this the one?" she said. I nodded, trying very hard to keep my crotch from swelling too much.
"There's no couple action in it though. All the girls are alone in it," I said. She laughed and said it would be perfect since she was as well.
"Is that going to be it for tonight?"
"No. Can you come with me in the back for a couple of other suggestions?" she said. Her voice belied no hint of teasing or flirtation. She seemed to ask with the air of a customer simply needing help. In hindsight, she had to know that an 18-year-old surrounded by rows of porn videos was about as sexually volatile as dynamite.
I followed, feeling my face flush in embarrassment. Sending Martha and Manny back to the adult section was one thing, joining one or the other physically there was completely out of my realm of possibilities.
We browsed the walls, with Martha picking up boxes here and there and asking me about the movies. I answered as truthfully and candidly as I could, all the while concentrating on the chilled air from the air conditioning to keep my penis at bay. The worst I could imagine was to spring a hard on in front of a customer. To make it worse, Martha moved closer to me every time she bent over to grab a tape, even bending in front of me once so the crack of her bottom nearly rubbed perfectly against my crotch.
My mind was too naive to translate these gestures as signs of any interest in me sexually. I thought there was no way, a married lady, a customer, especially with someone who just recently gained any sort of muscle and girth.
Eventually, she chose three more movies, and we went back to the front. As I checked them out, she asked something more with that same honey covered voice of hers.
"I need another big favor from you as well. Is there any way I can get you back at my house after you close? Manny bought a new TV and hasn't hooked the VCR to it yet," she said. My eyes bugged from my head, and I stuttered.
Martha smiled and said, "It would be a big favor. I don't know how to do it."
"Sure. I'll be a little bit though."
"That's fine. You just come right into the garage door, don't worry about knocking."
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Needless to say my imagination went into overdrive, as did my hormones. There was no way, I was convinced, that Martha meant anything more than the obvious: For me to hook up her VCR. There was no way. Yet the remote possibility was like some radioactive nugget in my brain that fueled my cock to rock-hard status.
I pulled up to her house sometime later. Martha and Manny lived just past the town's borders in a three story house that was formerly the town hall of Gannis Falls. The duo were renowned for restoring the structure, and even used some of the rooms as a bed and breakfast.
But the house was far from any other home in Gannis Falls. I pulled up the driveway, the brakes on my 1978 Oldsmobile squeaking in protest to its incline from the street. Martha was already at the garage door, inviting me in as I approached.
"You're such a sweetie for coming by, Scott," she said. I was completely 'awww shucks ma'am' attitude, blushing as I gauged the surroundings. Her house was indeed beautiful, filled with very cool old movie posters. Manny was a former movie producer and director before he and Martha retired to Gannis Falls. Occasionally he would shoot commercials to make extra income, which was why he was in New York that particular week.
She showed me the entertainment room, as she called it. It was perhaps the biggest room in the house, and nearly a mini-movie theater, with a large plush couch in the center. A massive big-screen television sat atop an equally expansive entertainment center. Martha wasn't lying. It was a complicated hookup.
We chatted idly as I clicked and rummaged and strung wires here and there, partly fumbling as I went along and hoping for the best. Martha lounged on the sofa, her dress creasing up her legs to expose her inner thighs. I tried but couldn't help it as my eyes stole peeks; she seemed oblivious and instead leaned back in an exaggerated stretch as she thrust her chest out, letting her breasts bunch against the thin material.
"Boy, this is so good of you. I'd be bored out of my mind tonight without the VCR," she said. "But I have no idea how much to pay you for the home visit."
"Please, this is no problem. I'm not charging you anything," I said as sincere as possible.