'By accident' that would be his excuse, an excuse that was as flimsy, sheer and see through as the knickers he was holding. If it got to that point anyway no excuse would truly work he would be caught red handed and very red faced. Mark held the knickers in both hands staring at them as if he had discovered a wondrous treasure of the ages instead of a pair of blue knickers that belonged to his best friend's mother. The noise of good natured laughter from down stairs broke his trance and Mark looked over his shoulder guiltily. He turned back to the knickers and for a moment, for a fraction of a second he came close to placing them back in the drawer, closing it and heading downstairs. Instead he bunched them into a ball and with a hand that shook with excitement and nerves he pushed them into one front pocket of his jeans before pushing the drawer shut and heading back downstairs.
Mark was certain that everyone would know what he had hidden in his pocket, that just one look at him would be enough for his own mother to know that her son was perverted. In the kitchen his mother smiled at him over a cup of coffee, his best friend's mother, Karen barely spared him a look as she grabbed two slices of cake off the work surface and placed them on the table, one in front of his mother the other in the vacant space that she quickly filled.
James stood by the back door, his foot tapping impatiently waiting on his friend he sighed when he finally caught sight of him "well it's about time,"
Mark walked briskly through the kitchen, hands in his pockets hiding the bulge of the knickers in one pocket as well as the bulge that pushed at the buttons that made up the fly on the jeans, "Sorry," he mumbled as he approached James.
"What did you do, shit out a new continent?" James said as he pulled open the back door.
Karen gasped at the profanity from her son's mouth, had he spoken a moment sooner she would have spat coffee out over her guest, "James! Watch your language."
James held his hands up placating his mother, "Sorry, sorry. I forget that when you were eighteen you never swore."
Karen put down her coffee cup and stared darkly at her son, "You are never too old for a spanking you know."
James opened his mouth the words stuck in his throat, the look his mother gave him made him ponder his response, it would not be beyond her to attempt a spanking in front of Mark and his mother. The risk was too great he swallowed his witty reply then simply said with a sigh, "Sorry." Before pulling the door open and walking through.
Mark followed quickly behind, he turned, smiled and said a very quick goodbye to both the women at the table, his eyes catching the green ones of Karen and for a moment he found himself wondering what it would be like to be spanked by her then he found himself wondering what it would be like to spank her. He turned quickly as he felt his cheeks start to burn and followed his friend out into the summer day.
It was the fourteenth day of August, nineteen ninety two and Mark and James were two young men filled with the excitement and dread of starting University. For both of them it would truly be the first time they had left home and what made it worse, though both would deny it even under pain of death, they were both going to separate Universities and would miss one another terribly. James would be off to Wales, his once rather worrying interest in the insides of animals had cultivated into a love of Veterinary medicine, while Mark was off to London to study his lifelong love of photography. As they walked down their home street James waffled on about what he had recently discovered about his University which tended towards the girls there, how promiscuous they could be was high on the list they were both eighteen and still virgins.
Mark found his thoughts drifting here and there, a few choice words from James and Mark knew when to laugh, when to smile and when to look as interested as possible all the while he was building up an image in his head of his neighbourhood, a week on holiday here and there was one thing but going away for months at a time...he felt his stomach flip at such an alarming length of time. What was worse and he really found he felt shameful and guilty about it was that he would be away from Karen, a woman who had always been friendly and nice to Mark and a woman who Mark had longed to bed since he discovered the wonders of masturbation at the tender age of thirteen.
"Enterprise to Mark," James delivered a stinging punch to Marks upper arm, "Are you listening to me or not, I'm trying to work out how many girls I'm going to bed within my first term, your mind is required."
Mark rubbed at his numb arm "What makes you think you are going to get even one girl in bed while you're there, so far your hit rate is as high as mine at zero."