I was 18, out of school for the summer and on my first job working to get money for college, when it happened, when I lost my virginity.
I was a "good" girl, in the sense of not being that type of girl if you know what I mean. You know the type I'm referring to, easy or slutty, like in being the school slut.
I was a virgin, had pledged myself to remain pure for my future husband, a good Catholic girl from a good large Catholic family. A girl very popular in school, a Catholic school, active in most of the school sports like cross country, swimming, volleyball, basketball etc. and active in FFA, 4-H, public speaking etc. I had a full schedule and with straight A grades. I even tried out to be a cheerleader but that interfered with the rest of my activities. I was accepted to one of the top Catholic colleges with full scholarships. I had it made. I was so innocent and pure to the point of being overly naive. The school, in spite of trying to teach high morel values, was still a school with a bunch of kids with raging hormones like any other school. Some of us though believed in the high moral values they were trying to teach us.
I was also a small blue eyed blond, slender to almost looking anorexic, that due to genetics and a very active life style, lots of exercise due to running, swimming and believe it or not weight lifting all of which I still do today. I live to be active and it shows in my body, a body I am very proud of.
Anyway, being a blond had its draw backs too. You know the dumb blond jokes. I think I heard them all. I was also known as one of class prudes because well you know that too, I didn't date much and when I did, the guys never got past kissing. The other thing was my brothers. Most of the guys at school were scared of them so they were a deterrent to anyone that tried to date me.
The group of kids I hung around with was, well like me. We were a tight group dedicated to the Catholic principles of remaining pure and involved in the same activities in church and school.
I had just graduated from high school and had my first real job, earning money for college. It was in a large grocery store and I started out as a stock person to learn the store and graduated to a cashier. I was a quick learner. It was fun; I loved to interact with the public. The most fun was when the store wasn't busy and I had time to talk with those checking out at the register or I when got to help stock the shelves and really interact with the other employees and get to know them. The manager was not strict in that he believed we should all have fun at work. It made for a much more happy and productive work force. No one ever had a bad word to say about work and it seemed everyone was always glad to go to work. I know I was. I was rooming with two of my girlfriends from high school, Marge and Alice. Alice's parents had a rental they were letting us live in for free. Well almost free. We promised to paint it and pay all utilities which we did. This was a trial run in independence we had convinced our parents on. You know, to see how well we would do before we left for school.
It was the area manager of product purchasing that took an interest in me. He was cute and 28 years old and very interesting to talk with. He wasn't around that much. He had some 14 stores that he was responsible for and came through only several times a month around the time or just after the store inventory that was done each month. He seemed fun and full of jokes and everyone liked him. He was a big tease. He sometimes helped in the inventory or if he had nothing else to do while he was there, he helped with stocking shelves. We all pitched in when we had to, even the store manager. I enjoyed being around him and looked forward to seeing him when he came to the store. It wasn't puppy love or anything like that, I just liked it when he paid special attention to me and teased me. I wasn't looking for a relation ship or anything like that, not with an old guy like him.
I had plans, big plans to go on to college, get my law degree and become a big time lawyer. I would be working there only 4 months to get spending money for school. Later when I did get to school I hoped I could get a part time job in one of the stores near the school.
I had been on the job for a little over 1 month when the small earthquake hit that sent everything tumbling to the floor and the store had to be closed several days for cleanup and restocking. We worked in shifts and it seemed we worked around the clock to get the store ready to reopen on Friday. Since I had worked through the night, I was to have the Friday off along with the weekend. That was OK with me. The crew was exhausted that Thursday night when everything was finally ready for the store opening in the morning and the purchasing manager, Ben, suggested we go out for pizza with the store buying. We were all for it. It would be a big celebration for our hard work.
The store called one pizza place and reserved the large room they had for such parties. We filled it and had a somewhat wild party. Even though I was too young to drink and wouldn't have if I had been with just a few of my friends, I snuck in several beers. I shouldn't have. It was easy though, poring dark beer into a coke glass. Ben was the one that did it and I let him. Those that had to work the next morning left early and I was one of the last to leave and slightly intoxicated and trying to sober up a little. Ben was still there and finally coaxed me out to my car. He kept telling me that he would drive me home and would catch a taxi back to get his car later. He talked me into it and helped slip me into the passenger side of the car. He got in to drive. I was sober enough to remember the conversation.
"Sara, can I take you on a side trip to see the city lights before I take you home?"
"Yes I would like that," I replied. I had never had the chance to drive up on some of the ridges that overlooked the town during the night to see the lights and well I was feeling good and it sounded like a good idea.
It didn't take long to drive up the ridge road into a neighborhood of very expensive homes. I thought we would park somewhere along the ridge and was surprised when we turned into a driveway and pulled up to a house. The garage door was open and he drove in and closed the door behind us.
"What are you doing?" I stated questioning him as I looked at him.
"Relax Sara; we need to go inside on the upper deck to really get to see the lights. We can see over the trees and see the whole town."
Feeling good and well I felt safe with him, I let him lead me up the stairs from the garage and into the house.
"Who lives here?" I asked. "Do you know them?"