Author's Note
: The first ten chapters of this story were written four years ago. That's why some details may seem dated. 2018 was a different time, you kids wouldn't get it.
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CHAPTER 1
THE GOOSE IS LOOSE
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She was confessing her love to Ryan Gosling tonight.
Gabrielle had decided. It would be a first. After all, everything was safe and slow. He was standing there, listening, handsome, dashing. She was lying in her bed, eyes closed. She could rewind and rephrase whenever it would sound too silly, not quite right. The Gosling of her dreams wouldn't mind.
She had no idea how to do it. She didn't know how to segue from the more traditional conversation with Ryan the old friend, which she had started half an hour ago, a straight lane of casual chitchat with its array of stock replies collected over the years, situations without a need for a beginning or an end.
But she had decided. She would venture aside, away from the usual pull; she would try branches of pickup lines, body language, hints, anything she could think of; let them spawn in excitement, die in confusion while overlapping like only thoughts could.
So, as she was running out of reasons to just hang out with him, Gabrielle focused...and launched a rambling.
Hi
So far so good.
Ryan did not react.
She went a little farer to see if it was still good.
One first timeline forked to another, wider, slower; parts crumbled back to friendship, or hit the wall of lust and she crossed a third, unless it was a slightly better version of the first. Wherever she was, she had still no behavior to imprint on his face, no words to put in his mouth. Gabrielle couldn't put much thought into that, embroiled in convoluted speech.
She didn't know. What people would say to her feelings tested for the first time. Except a "Bitch, calm down" that she'd heard once before (in school) and would rather die than hear again.
That Gabrielle was a virgin was a given. 19-year-old virgin is something people can almost read on your forehead. It was only natural that her fantasies were at ground level. Unknowing. Ryan could just stand there, this vague image waiting on loop. One which had been dancing in her head and burning in her loins since she had finished watching
Lost River
with her sister.
Despite gradually realizing, to their gradual outrage and disappointment, that he wouldn't appear at all in the movie, being only the writer/director, Gabrielle and Sophia had swooned in duet for two hours in front of the TV.
"We've been duped!" they had said.
"Bamboozlement!"
"Chicanery!"
"You misread IMDb, you idiot!"
"I always thought he was in it."
"He did a whole movie on his own though, he's like so crafty..."
"Yeah. Is there anything he can't do?"
"Good movies apparently. This is even worse than
The Gods Forgive
, Jesus Christ..."
"Shut your mouth, philistine."
"So dreamy."
"So dreamy..."
They loved watching movies and series together just for this: the couch, a blanket, pretty boys and popcorn; with a side of dangerous excitement, remote in hand, sweating bullets, as they had noticed how parents had a definite tendency to show up right in the middle of a sex scene. Because of course, everything they watched was R and TV-MA, almost a seal of quality. This even before any of them were of age. And those moments they shared were worth the risk of being grounded for six months (then), or being super awkward (now).
It was going nowhere fast. Gabrielle couldn't resolve herself to ask him on a date. As it would have indeed sounded like
Would you go on a date with me?
Too blunt to be realistic. Like all the possibilities she came up with. And just telling him
I love you
was out of the question. Instinctively she knew it was to be sneaked into.
Into what?
Creating romance was a subtle ritual she didn't have the key for.
"I love you," she whispered like an actress rehearsing.
I love you
, Ryan replied exactly as her, exactly as she had planned out. No surprise there. Mirror image. Nothing interesting.
It's been okay for a first try
, she thought. And Ryan would still show up tomorrow.
Time for the usual pull that bypassed the seduction phase. She rolled over under the covers. She took her oversized shirt off. And things kicked off.
Gabrielle really liked the
The Notebook
version of Ryan. His appearance adapted accordingly.
Her hard-beating heart switched to another thrill, easier, but same rhythm it turned out. Her words gathered to another straight lane she this time knew just well. The declaration of love cooled back to a declaration of lust, a part she was definitely skilled at.
But unnerved by her little experiment, she decided to rush it. Not complicated when it's a pull.
A bulge in Ryan's pants ballooned cartoonishly, made her feel powerful, desirable, noticeable. To her it was as important as the neatly defined muscles under his shirt. And then she let her own horniness take over, she created this world where being horny was a gift you gave to the boy you liked.
Ryan took it as elegantly as gladly.
And thus arrived the logical conclusion, so unrealistic but so good for that very reason:
The words, "Please take me," and the pulling aside of the sheets in a very theatrical movement, exposing her naked body to the cool air, offering it whole to her imaginary lover.
It felt electrifying on her skin. Her nipples hardened so fast it almost hurt, and sent weird tingles through her chest.
Her penis twitched in response.
Now free of all layers of fabric and with no one to see it except her dreams, the cock towered over her in the darkness of the bedroom.
Uncut, straight, stiff as a flexed muscle, pointing way past her navel, the fourteen perfect inches, carrying half a pound of balls, had been hard all evening. As soon as the film had started. Gabrielle had to hide it under a blanket--which Sophia did not notice or pretended not to, she was classy like that.
She could feel its musky heat close to her face. It was difficult to find a reason not to kiss it.
With two fingers, she delicately pulled her foreskin back. The flared head popped out, greedily embraced by a soft breeze which always made her sigh. When the most intimate part of her body was laid bare for any of the stares she could imagine, sticking out in its oversensitivity, Gabrielle felt naked, obscenely naked. And it was the deepest sensation reached in her nights.
She basked in it.
But her little scenario was only halfway done. She reached for her cock. She was ready to be seen in the throes of sexual pleasure.
Gabrielle masturbated everyday now that she had a penis. Two or three times in a row. Sometimes five. Or six. She realized it was a lot and sometimes wasn't sure whether it's because she loved it or needed it. So pretty boys were a good excuse not to think about it. Ryan most of the time, although daydream could also bring TimothΓ©e Chalamet, or Hugh Jackman, Michael B. Jordan, or even the full lineup of BTS when she felt greedy.
But tonight, before she grabbed herself--half of a split second before--she saw something. An appearance. Gosling beside her bed and...someone. Someone from the film. This blond actress. Well, usually she's a blonde. Gabrielle did not stop in her momentum. She wrapped her hand around her throbbing shaft grotesquely jutting out from her hips and started pumping away. The flows inside her body turned everything, Ryan or this girl, into blurry shapes.
Sasha Rohan her name was. Weird. Girls never made her swoon. Pretty boys did. Sure, girls sometimes made her stare but... stare casually. Like girls do with other girls.