"When autumn touches leaves, I want to hide awhile..."
In my senior year at the Academy in Connecticut, I already was a fallen woman. Not as far as I hoped, by then, but, thanks to Brucey Knickerbocker, I was gathering downward momentum. On fall break—wow, I did not intend that neat pun-I came home to Manhattan for a few days with my parents. I did not realize, then, that my education at a New England boarding school was mom's strategy for getting me away from my stepfather, who yearned for his own personal Lolita—me, with my svelte—flat—gamin figure and cute face with the SBE—smoldering brown eyes—under feathery black bangs. I wonder why dad could not have boarded up the Hudson River in Sing-Sing?
No prospect of a date on fall break in Manhattan. I was only visiting; I lived in Connecticut at the Academy. Brucey had broken my heart for a plump burro lugging two back-breaking wine skins. And so, the weather turning chill, my fantasies warm, I asked Jill, over lunch, what the hell she did on break in Manhattan?
"I have a boyfriend, there."
Oh, can I fuck him? I promise not to steal anything.
I did not say that. I munched my tuna sandwich, staring down at the table, an ingénue trying to blink back tears at life's unfairness.
"Do you have a vibrator, honey? You never mentioned playing with your pussy."
I DIDN'T? How could that HAPPEN? I thought you were on my email master list for regular updates on my clit?
I said: "I guess..."
"You won't believe what a vibrator does, Ellen. You'll be flopping around the bed like a gaffed trout."
Sounds fantastic. Maybe your boyfriend could gaff me and you could use the vibrator.
I did not say that. Academy girls are refined. They keep their manners even when gaffed. I was about to reply, when Jill jumped up. "Class in five minutes at Scaffold Hall. Go to the Pink Pussycat Boutique. West Fourth. They're great. I know them. See you after break?"
There, now. I've said it. This saga of a first-time sex experience is about buying a vibrator. No offense, but go fuck yourself if you are rolling your eyes and snickering that this pathetic little babe is writing about her first experience with a vibrator. I did consider letting you in on my sky diving nude with my boyfriend, connected in free fall only by his dick in mouth. Or my first day at the new topless club when I did a lap dance for Bernie Sanders. You would adore to hear about the African safari when I was snatched away by sex-crazed bonobos...
I will not be diverted into explaining why I had NO hope of picking up a guy during break. I mean, you might be saying, "Hey, New York City, why not just..." Too easy for Ellen Pierce Melville.
I walked up the few steps of the Pink Pussycat Boutique on West 4th Street and stood frowning into the windows. My uniform, then, when not at the nunnery, was a dark mini-skirt to display my beautiful, long, pale legs—trying to raise the temperature in this story above zero—and a black sweater snug over my 32-B breasts, occasionally strategically padded. Flats, not heels.
Windows on both sides of the door. Through my own reflection, I could see the red leather panties and bras strung with silver chains. bikini panties somewhere between orange and pink—see-through, but less than arresting on a manikin with no pussy hair. Actually, no pussy, either. Whips, ropes, blindfolds, hard candy pink nipples, milk chocolate clits, pecker profiteroles, red ball gags, and lots of smoothly uniform dildos. Couldn't put the real dildos in the window, I guess-the dicks.
But not sure if these things are vibrators, unless dildos are vibrators. Hey, you may have gone through all this in fifth grade; you're precocious.
Very cluttered inside. Couldn't see to the back. But the door did emit a kind of mechanical raspberry, maybe a buzz, and a woman's voice called, "Hi," from the back. "Welcome to Pussy."
And then, another voice, a man's, "Hi."
Ellen, time to turn right around and get out that door before it is too late. A cute couple ready to grin and trade winks at this waif with the under-nourished clitoris. Oh, sweetie, did you discover your clitty this weekend? Does it tickle something awful?
Ellen, do you imagine for one deranged millisecond that these two bored, exploited members of the proletariat, dealing all day with middle-aged men nude under their black raincoats, have the slightest concern for your proto-genitalia? You'd better get out that fake ID pronto, or they are going to THROW you out the door-maybe down the steps.
I ambled down an aisle. Handcuffs, ankle cuffs, knives to slit you from your klutz to your gulch when you are tied up... I mean, everyone else in greater New York, no fewer than 16 million souls, probably had been through this store. But to me, it was mesmerizing.
I liked the pecker rings. If Brucey Knickerbocker had been wearing one, I would have snapped his leash onto it and hauled him straight away from that olla milk bar. I wondered what the nipple clips and a chain would do for my geometrically perfect pink nipples, which tend to protrude without provocation. I am hanging by my wrists, my nips clipped, the little silver chain dangling enticingly between my pointy breasts. Someone-I imagine a girl, not sure why—grins and gives it a jerk. My 32-Bs stretch outward, conical, and I purr: Oh my, wait till I get hold of YOUR tits, honey—or more shocking words to the same effect.
I break cover, out of an aisle, to the brightly lighted back of the store where the cash register and Mr. and Mrs. Pussy are waiting, smiling. Motherfucker, he's cute. I'm a high-school girl, remember. "Cute" is all we know. He's tall, lean, such an attractive condescending smile, and longish blond hair. Sorry, that's it, for now. You think I tried to measure his cock beneath his blue jeans?
Bad enough. Attractive young man, early 20's, keeping a perfectly straight face as he studies the 18-year-old gamin. But if I had any ideas about making HIM my fall break sweetie... Did you think my FIRST choice was an electromechanical, penis-shaped, rubberized pussy pulverizer? If I had any ideas, which, of course, I did, there was ravishing Mrs. Pussy, also circa 20, in a shockingly stretched pink sweater, adorable face. She's blond, too, course. Bet her pussy isn't.
"Can we help you?" he asks.
Me? Oh, no, I don't think so. I thought this was Darwin's Pharmacy. I need a prescription for my psoriasis. Am I in the wrong store?
I did not say that. I'm looking for a gift for a friend, Hannibal Lecter. Do you have the new Tummy Slitter?
Not exactly that, either. "Vibrator?" I glance at him, then swiftly away.