My name is Peggy Larson, I am now an old lady and I have a story to tell.
One week recently, I had my great-granddaughter staying with me, I was obviously very protective of her. During her stay with me I was disappointed by her behaviour and attitude, especially when it came to how she was acting around the boys of the neighbourhood. It was when I tried to give her the benefit of my experience and tried to warn her of the dangers of becoming 'too familiar' with the local boys and lectured my granddaughter about her sexuality, that she said,
"Oh Gran, you don't know the first thing about it, you come from an age where no-one ever 'did it' and the only man you ever had was granddad."
After she had gone I sat and reminisced about my life,
"So I am an old woman who did nothing and knows nothing huh."
It was the 1950's and we lived in Backwoods Hicksville, a community made up of several farms and homesteads in the south. I was a simple backwoods girl from a remote farming community and I had fallen for a young boy who lived on a run-down farm miles from anywhere. We had attended the one room school house together and were probably destined to marry due to lack of other choices. Billy's family was once thriving on their smallholding but when his Ma died bringing my future husband into the world, it meant that his Pa had had to raise him and his two elder brothers on his own. His Pa had done a mighty fine job with the three boys having to be both mother and father, whilst pretty much detached from mainstream life.
Cutting a long family history lecture short, Billy and I decided to marry and there was never even the slightest suggestion that I could, or would, have any other choice but to join his family and become the woman of the house.
On turning eighteen, we were married one morning by the pastor in the small town and a very small reception was held in the village hall, before it was time to leave the bosom of my family and become part of his.
The day was wonderful and I quickly set about getting myself settled in to my new life.
It was only hours into my married life, that the world as I assumed it to be, changed.
Pa had taken Billy out into the barn and shocked him to the core.
"Now listen here boy, Pa started, it aint fair that you get to have a woman all to yourself whilst me, Kyle and Jake aint got no-one."
Billy was a meek and mild mannered boy and was terrified of his Pa, he just muttered,
"No Pa." in response.
"So seeing as I bring you up an all and all the things I have done for you, it's only fair that I get first go with the bitch ok?"
That was bad enough but Pa continued,
"When Kyle and Jake have had their share too, then you and missy can do whatever you want, after all boy, its share and share alike, it would be unfair for them to have to go without."
Again, I won't go into great detail of the conversation and terrible moments between me and my husband, as he explained to me how his Pa and his brothers had a right to a fair share of me. Suffice it to say, Billy had no option but to submit to his Pa's decisions and to wait until last for his new bride.
Naively I assumed I would be safe at least until bedtime, a delusion very quickly destroyed. I was stunned by the awful realisation that Pa was not going to wait a minute longer than he had to.
I had expected a wedding night to remember and here I was only hours from the reception, still only just into the afternoon of my wedding day and I was about to be defiled. Pa stood at his bedroom door, looking at me, expecting a reaction from me, and becoming a little impatient with me. He must have seen this as the most natural thing in the world and was becoming irritated at my hesitation and reluctance.
Billy stared at me, his face full of despair and dejection. He nodded for me to go ahead and in the ten or so steps it took me to cross the room to Pa and his bedroom door, my whole life came crashing down.
Taking my hand, Pa opened the door and pulled me into the room. I glanced back over my shoulder at Billy and saw that he could no longer watch and was looking at the floor.
"Now then Peggy, Pa said, just relax and me and the boys can take what we're entitled to." as he closed the door between me and my husband.
I was ordered to take off the pretty dress that my Ma had saved up to buy for my special day and hesitated at my new white cotton underwear.
"Let's get this stuff off," said Pa none too sympathetically.
Pa roughly turned me around so I had my back to him and roughly snapped open the clasps to my bra. As I instinctively wrapped my arms around my chest to stop the bra falling from my small breasts, Pa wasted no time in impatiently and roughly, yanking down my panties.
In a daze and without realising it, I stepped out of them.
I was just eighteen years old, stood at five foot 1inch and weighed around 100lbs. I was still a very fresh-faced young girl with light red hair, which was wavy, shoulder length and framed my face. My eyes were green like a lot of girls with my colouring and I sported the almost obligatory freckles on my youthful cheeks.
For weeks prior to my wedding, I had trembled at the thought of undressing in front of Billy. The thought had at once been frightening, yet also made me feel strange between my legs and made me feel naughty and warm inside.
Pa gripped my hips and forcefully turned me to face him and slapped my hands down from my breasts. I experienced the shame and embarrassment of standing naked in front of the first man ever - and it was my father-in-law.
"Oh Peggy, I'm gonna enjoy this," Pa sneered, as he leered at my pert uplifted breasts, the areola pale and barely discernible from the rest of my little breasts. The slightly deeper pink nipples were hard and erect with the shock of my exposure. Pa walked me back to the bed and suddenly pushed me. I fell back and my legs parted with the motion, my wispy little bush that would never fully grow, was bared to him.
Pa undressed in mere seconds and my first ever sight of a man's penis shocked me. It was absolutely huge (It was only a good size I would later realise but as my first ever sight of an erect penis, it did in fact look enormous). He made me shuffle further onto the bed then climbed between my knees.
"Now there Peg, don't be scared, it's only right that I had first go."
My father-in-law surprised me when he didn't lie on top of me but settled himself further down the bed. Lying between my spread knees, Pa lowered his head towards the junction of my open legs.
I had no idea what he was doing.
Pa could not believe the sight that greeted him when he parted the sparsely haired, puffy and naturally swelling lips and eased open my tiny labia.
"Oh Jesus Christ - oh fuck - oh my God," he gasped as he took in the sight of my pink, perfectly pristine and intact hymen (Pa had assumed that his boy had been 'sticking it to the bitch' and had no idea that all we had enjoyed so far, had been shy, tentative and childish kisses).
When he realised that not only was I a virgin but that I was still intact, any conscience Pa may have had over not allowing his son to take his wife first, was destroyed instantly.
'He was gonna break the bitch in'.
I lay back propped upon my elbows, gazing in a stunned haze down my prone and naked body. Pa looked up from between my spread legs, past my jutting small breasts, into my horrified, shocked and furiously blushing face.