I pulled up outside her house and Maria climbed off the pillion. Her racquet was slung across her back and she reached behind and pulled it over her head.
She was smiling; in fact she never stopped smiling except of course when I tried to put my hand up her dress. Then it was, "Please stop; I don't want you to. Why do you always have to spoil everything by being dirty?"
I had no wish to spoil anything, I just wanted to put my hand between her legs and feel her pussy. Even when I put my hands on her tits she said, "You're doing it again and I've told you not to touch me there."
She turned and smiled then blew a kiss with, "See you Friday."
I watched her run to her gate and then along the path towards her front door. A leggy, skinny, churchgoing virgin who happened to be my girlfriend.
How she ever got to be my girlfriend was a mystery to me. At the tennis club we had drawn each other in the mixed doubles and a couple of Cokes later we were 'James and Maria'.
Each night in bed I would fret about it. I knew what was going to happen. They would start asking, "When are you two going to get engaged?" and then, "Have you fixed the date yet?"
Every time I tried to grope her she would say, "I keep telling you, I don't want to do it until we're husband and wife."
During the marriage ceremony I would be the only virgin in the congregation; that is apart from Maria.
I often pleaded, "Why me God? Why won't you let me feel just one little pussy?" All my mates were shagging their brains out, or so they said, and all I did was pull my plonker. I wanked so often I knew eventually I would have to wear glasses. I could go through a box of tissues in a week. The one condom that I possessed was so old I could have sold it on eBay as a collector's item.
Why wouldn't she let me feel it? I wasn't going to damage it or push it out of shape or something.
Of course I knew what one looked like; I'd seen enough porn on the Internet. The porn ones were hardly pretty; great big, squidgy things you could paddle in. They had to be to take some of the cocks. I'm six feet tall and on the Richter scale I reckon mine is an eight. That's after comparison with the other guys in the shower or peering over at someone else's while at a latrine. Well we all do that don't we?
The point I'm trying to make is that after comparison with porn studs, I am merely average. Surely the producers must realise what it's doing to men's confidence?
Inexperienced wives who see porn for the first time probably think that all cocks are supposed to be that size and therefore think that their husbands are underprivileged.
Consequently I am of the opinion that woman should be banned from watching porn altogether and millions of men would be greatly relieved. I feel very strongly about it.
I just wanted to have my own pussy to play with, but of course it had to be attached to a female. I wanted a tiny sweet furry little thing that opened like a flower when I kissed it.
I wanted to say to it softly, "Hello little pussy, you belong to me and I'm going to look after you. I'm going to play with you and stroke you and make you go all soft and wet. And when we get to know each other better, I'm going to introduce you to a friend.
You're going to get very fond of him and he'll visit you occasionally, well quite often actually, and he'll pop in and check that everything's okay inside. So you have to trust him and let him do his thing which I know will be lots of fun for both of you."
The likelihood of that ever happening was remote because my very existence was total shit. Whoever said, "Life is a bitch and then you die," was talking about me. It wasn't even as if I was repulsive to girls. They would say hello and often walk along with me, but then they would always ask about Maria.
I was sure that I could probably have dated some of them but I was lumbered with a girl who thought that sex was just for making babies.
At that time, I was about to leave college to try to find a job. With my meagre qualifications, what was I going to say in the interview?
"Got a degree?"
"No."
"Any experience in IT?"
"No."
"Ever fucked anybody?"
"No."
Prospects of landing a job; nil.
Added to which I was totally broke and my only asset was a three-year-old moped that I would still be paying for when I was seventy years of age. I didn't smoke, I couldn't afford to drink much and my tennis club subscription was two months in arrears.
My Mum and Dad were great and they had helped me out as much as they could afford, but Dad had a basic job and they had their own lives to live. They were actually proud of me although I could never understand why.
On the other hand, Maria's parents were shining examples to the rest of the local community. He held an executive position with an insurance company and she was involved in just about every local organisation. They were staunch churchgoers and their darling daughter Maria sang in the choir. She was their only child and they treated her like she was a princess. In their eyes she was perfect.
Mrs Anderson was quite pretty. I figured she was close to forty and had nice dimensions. But she was always dressed like she was going to a wake. If she had raised the hem of her dress twelve inches and worn a blouse instead of those drab knitted things, she could have turned a few heads.
Mister Anderson always wore a suit with a waistcoat no matter what day or occasion it was. He had inherited his grandfather's gold watch and chain and was never seen without it. At every opportunity he would lift it from a waistcoat pocket, flick up the lid and announce the time.
He was a councillor and was jointly involved with his wife in the local community. He even sat on the tennis club's executive committee although he never played because he had a suspect heart. He was several years older than his wife.
When Maria took me to her home for the first time, their suspicion of me was palpable. Mrs Anderson even took me to one side and said warningly, "Our daughter is very precious to us so we don't want you leading her astray."
That really pissed me off. Not because of her mistrust of me but it suggested that they didn't have absolute confidence in their daughter after all. The fact that their mistrust of me was justified was irrelevant.
She had nothing to worry about because the vault of the Bank of England was more accessible that the inside of Maria's knickers.
My life continued in its downward spiral, but God must have been listening because one day he answered my prayers.
He said, "James Davies, I have to admit that I have made your life unbearably shitty and you've accepted it like the wimp that you are. Things will now get better for you, but don't push your luck."
He may not actually have uttered those divine words but as things turned out, he sure as hell could have said them.
Mister and Mrs Anderson had enquired about my religious beliefs during our first meeting and my reply had been vague. I said I wasn't sure what I believed in and I didn't go to church. They both tutted reproachfully and insisted that I must join them one Sunday morning.
Fortunately I always played soccer on Sunday mornings and I said I couldn't let the team down. With reluctance they accepted my excuse and I expressed my sincere disappointment that I would be forced to miss such an uplifting experience.
I managed to continue avoiding any of their boring functions for a while; but then they played their trump card. The church was putting on a religious play and Maria was starring in it. It was an evening event and as she was my girl friend, they said I would have to go to support her. There was no way out of it.
My life had already reached its absolute nadir and I was masturbating so often I was worried about repetitive strain injury. I had a girlfriend whose vagina was still in its plastic wrapper so how much worse could life get?
The play was to be performed at the local church hall and I said okay I would see them there. But they wanted to make sure that I went; so I was told to ride my scooter to their house and then accompany them in Daddy's car.
The car was a huge Mercedes of indeterminate age and the inside of it smelled like an embalming parlour. Maria left early for make-up or something so it was just the three of us in the car.
As it was a special event, Mr Anderson swapped his suit for a dinner jacket and his wife wore a dress with sequins all over it. For a welcome change, her dress was quite short and I found myself admiring her legs.
Mister Anderson explained that there was a problem with the front seat adjuster and it wouldn't push back. Because of my height I endured an uncomfortable journey to the hall and I had difficulty in hearing their conversation because my knees were blocking my ears.
The play was even more boring than I anticipated and had an incomprehensible plot. Maria pranced around the stage like a prima donna and whenever the audience applauded it was the closest she could come to achieving an orgasm.
Eventually the torture was over and the audience mingled at the temporary bar which served only soft drinks. My misery continued while I listened to their discussions about the merits of the play.
The cast had to stay behind to remove their costumes and make-up so a mini-bus had been hired to drop them off at their homes.
When the three of us got to the car Mrs Anderson said, "Harold, you can't make James sit in the front seat again, he'll finish up deformed. He'll have to sit in the back with me." So I climbed in beside her.
There was a long delay to get out of the car park. The cause of it was a stretch of road works across the entrance where single lane traffic was controlled by an automatic light. We joined the queue of cars exiting both left and right, and they all had to wait until the traffic was flowing in their direction.