The clock struck 12:00 and I was finally 18. I couldn't tell if I felt any different. Then there was a knock on my window, and I realized that Harry and Veronica were smiling and waving. I opened the window, and they climbed into my room.
"Happy Birthday, sexy!" Veronica said with a melancholy look. She'd had it since her 18th birthday three weeks earlier, a sense of the weight of adulthood I assumed.
"Thanks Roni!" I hugged her.
"Happy Birthday, Stace" Harry said much happier.
"We came over, because we thought, now that you're an adult... you should experience someone making you cum," Roni said in a shy soft tone.
"What?!" I looked back and forth she didn't make eye contact, and he looked nearly giddy.
"Like, don't you want to see what getting your pussy ate feels like?" He asked.
I shrugged and looked, "yeah. I want to, but I was thinking about waiting for someone special."
"Ouch..." Harry said with a laugh, and I smacked his shoulder.
"You know what I mean."
"I think you should let one of us. I think you'll be happier if we do." Veronica didn't seem enthusiastic, but emphatic.
"Ok... how do I choose?"
She took my hand and led me to the bed, and laid me down.
"I don't want Harry to watch... if you're going to do it..." I said softly.
"Ugh, fine." He says when Roni flashes him a look. He slid through the window, and I knew he was sitting on the eve outside.
I had been naked innocently in front of Roni before, but taking off my pajama bottoms, seemed awkward now, but she helped me.
"We don't have to kiss if you don't want. It's your birthday, I want to do it however you want," she whispered an inch from my face.
I leaned forward and kissed her. Her dark lips, were beautiful, and I hadn't thought about it before, but if she was going to go down on me, I wanted to kiss her first. I had kissed before, but never a girl, it was different in such a good way.
I didn't realize while I focused on kissing her that she had brought my pajama bottoms and panties to my ankles. I felt her fingers graze my thighs gently. I had never thought about her as anything but my best friend but right now she was a sort of melancholy goddess to me.
She kissed me and then moved down my body, and I felt her lips resume on my hip, and trailing around my thighs teasingly.
Then, like I was struck by lightning, her soft wet lips met my clit, and started to suckle and lick it. I stared at the ceiling as my world changed in her mouth.
It did not take much effort from her to coax out my first orgasm, and I bit my finger to keep from screaming and waking my parents. Then I came two more times before I had to tap her hand with my free hand, and she stopped. Her mahogany skin shined from me, and I pulled her into a kiss.
"Thank you," I whispered. "Can I return the favor?"
She shook her head.
"Today is your birthday, I wanted to make it better!"
I pulled my pajamas back on as she climbed out the window, and left with Harry.
I woke in the morning, and went about my day as usual, but noticed odd things happening. All the senior girls who were older than me, looked at me with a sort of pity, and the male teachers all seemed to eye me as a piece of meat.
Mr. Jaeger, my history teacher looked down my shirt at my tits three times that I noticed. He was in his late sixties, and married but his eyes were definitely wandering.
I had my dress that my parents bought me for my pinning, something that the city does for people on their 18th birthday, to acknowledge their passage into adulthood. It was hanging in my locker.
After classes, I took the dress, and went into the locker room, and changed. There were some other 18 year old senior girls getting ready as well. You had to be 18, to attend.
As I undressed, leaving just my panties and bra on, Alison, looked at me and said "happy Birthday, Stacy."
I slid my dress on, and my strappy wedges, and walked with the girls toward the gymnasium. They were all mostly silent.
Principal Fredericks, a kind older woman, stood by the door, and told the others to go in, and kept me back.
"Has anyone told you about the pinning ceremony?" She asked me, and I shook my head. It was something you weren't allowed to tell those who hadn't gone through it before. Veronica and Harry had refused to tell me.
"We have ceremonial bracelets that you need to wear before going in." She handed me two big metal bangles. They were pretty but heavy and solid. She helped me clasp them on to my wrists. They clashed with my dress, but I'm sure this was a common issue for a ceremony shrouded in secrecy.
"When Mayor Adams calls your name, go out and stand beside him," she says opening the door and nodding to him.
"The birthday girl, and tonight's pinning honoree appears to be ready! Ladies and gentlemen, Stacy vonn Miller!"
I nervously stepped forward, through the doors, and saw that everyone was wearing hooded robes, but their faces were visible. The men wore red robes, and the women wore white or light pastel yellow robes. The ones in yellow were married, although I didn't spot that at first.
"Happy Birthday," Mayor Adams said as I walked next to him, standing on the wrestling mats piled three high.
"Thank you, sir" I responded in a soft tone. He puts his robed arm around my shoulder.
"Stacy, this town, has a tradition of a pinning ceremony every time one of our young adults turns 18, it's been going on for more than 100 years, and tonight is your turn. But the ceremony is the beginning of a year long commitment to community service, and at the end of your year of service, you can decide to stay or leave."
"What kind of service?" I ask not having heard of a service project.