We are not allowed to have sex before eighteen. That is when we are considered mature enough to marry. The flipside of that is that women are not considered eligible to marry until they have their first child. On our eighteenth birthdays, we are dressed in a beautiful skirt and flowers, as much as we can wear, all over our bodies. I have a tight body, small waist, womanly hips, and long legs. My breasts are full but not overly heavy. I have a twin sister who looks almost exactly alike. The difference ends at the face, I'm considered very plain. I'm not ugly, but my nose is a little too long, my eyes are a little too close together, and my mouth is a little too small. My hair is a light brown and my eyes are a dark brown. My sister has black hair and eyes, her facial proportions are perfect, she is beautiful, but something went wrong when she was born. I was born first and came out screaming. My name is Callie. My sister, Fina, wasn't breathing, and it took a little while for them to get her breathing. She is considered simple, she understands what the significance of today is, but all she thinks is that she's going to have a baby after today. Well, that could happen.
The night of our birthday our parents presented us with our skirts and rings of flowers. The skirt our father tied around our waists as our mother wound the flowers around our head, wrists, ankles, waist, and other places. Earlier that day oil had been rubbed into our skin and one of our brothers rubbed a sweet tasting substance on our breasts. They grinned at us as they pushed us out the door. We met up with friends of ours who would be joining us on our adventure and grinned at us. Fina tentatively smiled back as young men from our village watched as parade through the center of town to the gardens. This was where unattached youth from our village met up to have sex. I blushed as I was appraised for the very first time both by young men and their mothers. I wandered these streets butt naked for almost eighteen years, and no one thought anything about me until I get a skirt!