Did I ever tell you about the white sun dress and the hot buttered lobster? Well when I was eighteen, and still a virgin, I had a major crush on my best friends older brother. He was a sophomore in college and a gorgeous Spaniard, with a pretty but stuck up girlfriend. Isa and her family had invited me to spend several weeks with them in Massachusetts that summer. They were an entire family of intellectuals and everyone was so was beautiful and warm. I loved how open, and free they always seemed to be with their conversations and opinions. The house was big breezy and beautiful, with wrap around porches and led right to the beach; it was on Nantucket. I vowed that this was the summer I would loose my virginity and seduce Paolo, Isa's brother.
The family was very large, which was really cool, 4 brothers and 3 sisters some were already married or had their significant others. Paolo was in the school of Engineering but in his soul he was an artist. He was a musician and played the acoustical guitar and the pianist and a photographer and painter. His family was kind of artsy, lots of discussion of politics, religion and just anything really.
I loved the environment and I knew Isa and Paolo's mother really liked me, though I did not know why. She often stared at me when she thought I was not looking with an odd expression that I was not familiar with. She was an extremely demonstrative person and I noticed she would roughly hug and kiss anyone at anytime for any reason. But with me, she was very gentle, barely touching me as if she thought I might turn away or be harmed in some way. I loved the feel of her gentle, sweet, maternal hugs and the way she always smelled of vanilla and spices. I loved the feeling of safety that I had whenever they invited me into their midst; as though finally after a lifetime of searching, I had found my tribe.
I was already planning my trip back to hang out with them next summer. So the holiday was going well. I just had to begin working on my plan of seduction. Since early childhood I had been plagued with sleep problems, by 12, I just started running each morning to try and wear myself out and eventually I was addicted to running; the constant slapping of my feet against the concrete, the solitude, it was as though I was freeing myself from some unknown burden whenever I returned sweaty and exhausted. At the beach, with the Castillo's I continued my routine and was delighted to learn that Paolo ran as well. In fact, he suggested we run together since it was so early and might not be safe for me alone at 6:00 a.m. I was only to happy to oblige and thus we began our ritual.
I had always attended an all girls Catholic school, and had grown up in a home with an overprotective father. So I had little experience with boys and flirting. But I had girlfriends and watched television so I tried some of my notions out on Paolo. At first I thought it wasn't working. When I would look deeply into his eyes, he just turned away, when I placed my hand softly on his chest one morning to catch my balance as I was standing from tying my shoe, he moved away and once when I grazed his arm with my hand and he pulled back as if burned. All left me with the opinion that I was being too subtle and needed to kick it up a notch. When we returned from our run we always came through the garage so we could deposit our shoes in the mudroom and enter through the kitchen. This morning we had gotten caught in an early morning shower so we were drenched. As I kicked off my shoes I noticed he kept looking at my t-shirt through which my nipples were prominently displayed. I knew I had beautiful breasts, this was it, my chance. I said laughingly I have to get out of these wet clothes and took off my shirt, bra and shirt standing there right in front of him and ran upstairs in nothing but a tiny red thong. ...laughing all the way.
His dumbstruck expression kept popping into my head throughout the day and it would cause me to giggle each time. I was sitting in the yard, reading when he came over and sat next to me hours later and asked me, what the fuck was that about this morning? Surprised that he seemed genuinely angry, I stared at him and asked what do you mean? He said stripping in front of me as if I was one of your sorority sisters and not a man. I realized immediately the problem - his machismo was bruised. So I got up, walked over to his chair and knelt beside him, careful to allow him to smell my hair, skin as I licked my lips. Paolo, I think of you as my brother, it never occurred to me you would be turned on by the sight of my naked breasts. I apologize for getting you so excited this morning by showing you my wet naked body, please forgive me I said, as I kept my warm, steady gaze upon his face. I reached out to kiss his cheek and quickly darted in for his mouth when he was not expecting it. I kissed him softly and sucked in his beautiful, luscious bottom lip (something I had fantasized about for over a year) when he grabbed my arms as if to push me away and pulled me into his chest instead, taking over the kiss he opened his mouth against mine and was sliding his tongue inside when his girlfriend came over screaming, I knew you were hot for this little bitch. With a smile and a wink, I walked away saying to him - good luck with that as I motioned to his "girlfriend".
Later that day, Isa and I were kneeling on the sofa watching as whatshername put the last of her bags in the taxi and Paolo watched helplessly as she drove away. He spied us in the window and the look he gave us made us duck our heads down like children. Isa looked at me and said quietly I hope you know what your are doing. Paolo is not like my other brothers, he is quiet, moody and intense. You can't read his expressions, so you never know what he is thinking. God help you, because he looks like he really wants a piece of you; little did poor Isa know, I prayed she was right. Isa asked what did you do to him and whatshername this morning? I gave her an innocent little head shake and said, I have no idea.