I was fortunate enough to have a big brother when I was growing up. Andy was two years older than me and he always "Showed me the way" in life.
I remember riding in the car the day he started Junior High at nearby Γ udubon in Los Angeles. He bravely got out of the car and just joined the legions of kids entering that scary looking school. I had to accomplish that feat myself a couple of years later and I remembered how he just walked confidently through the arched gates. I did my best to emulate him and I got through the day OK.
Andy was a good looking guy too and always popular in school. He had a girl friend in high school that he was pretty serious about and sometimes I'd catch them making out on the couch when Mom and Dad weren't home.
Me? Well, I guess I was good looking but I never had the gift of gab that Andy was blessed with. Boys asked me out and I sometimes would go but, honestly, I would have just as soon stayed home with my big brother.
When I was a senior in high school Andy was in his second year at UCLA and he'd joined a fraternity. Sometimes the guys would hang out at our house and they would get friendly with me. There was one guy in particular that I was, well, kind of "Interested" in. His name was Mike and I think he liked me too. He'd looked me up and down when Andy introduced us and my brother told him "Hold the phone Mike! She's my sister for God's sake!"
I blushed when the fellas all laughed but Mike kept looking at me with that little smile he has. I quickly left the room. Later, I asked Andy if he knew Mike very well.
"Oh...sounds like someone is interested in romance here!" He teased. I didn't say anything but Andy knew I was serious and so he eventually responded. "He's a good guy Julie. Majoring in Architecture. He's dating this Tri Delt, Andrea, but I don't think they're pinned or anything."
I looked forward to Mike's visits and I would get dressed up a bit when I knew he was coming over. The guys would chew the fat in the living room for a while and I got to hang out there with them until they eventually went up to my brother's bedroom where they spoke more...frankly.
I was just a young girl then, just turned 18 and I had virtually no experience with boys and so I really didn't know how to send some kind of sign to Mike that I liked him too. Besides he was dating this "Andrea" who was, after all, a college woman and not some silly schoolgirl like me. I guess I was pretty. Boys complimented me on my green eyes and jet black hair which was naturally curly. I had average sized boobs which I know boys are obsessed with and shapely legs. But I was just an inexperienced high school girl. How could I compete?
One afternoon my mom made me vacuum the upstairs and, with some resentment, I did so. I hustled the vacuum cleaner all over the hall and my bedroom, my parents bedroom and finally down to Andy's room. I pushed the noisy appliance over the carpet hearing the disgusting "Ping ping" of who knows what getting sucked into the the vacuum. Then, as I cleaned under Andy's bed, the vacuum hit something. I know my brother keeps his guitar case under the bed but this was something else.
I shut off the vacuum and peered under the bed frame and saw a stack of magazines and books under there. "Now what's this?" I wondered. I tugged the hidden books out and was shocked to find they were dirty magazines! Not just Playboy either. He had these Penthouse magazines that showed...hair! There were even some "Nudist" magazines with all kinds of pictures in them. My goodness!
I thumbed through my brother's hidden stash of magazines and then turned my attention to the books. They all had these really sleazy pictures on the covers and there were titles like "Mrs. Winston's Panties" and "A Sweet little Sister."
I couldn't help myself and I started looking through them. There were dog eared pages that I guess Andy had selected where particularly salacious passages were highlighted in yellow. I read almost all of them and you talk about an education in Sex!
One paragraph read: "Little Sandra knew it was wrong to do this but she couldn't help herself! She crept quietly into her brother's bedroom and then silently drew the sheet down and off of his muscular frame. There it was! His thick manly penis laying against his leg...covered with curly black hair! The pretty young sister eased herself onto the bed and, taking her brother's penis into her hand, she began to caress it softly. Her smoky brown eyes widened as it grew and grew with her manipulations. How big would it get? She wondered. Finally it stood proud and fully erect before her astonished young eyes. She knew what she was going to do next. It was wrong to be sure but she needed to do this. She lowered her face to the throbbing head of her brother's stiff cock and then closed her mouth over it and began to softly suck on it!"
Just then, I heard the unmistakable sound of footsteps on the carpeted stairway. Lots of footsteps! My God! I was caught! I quickly shoved the illicit pornography back under the bed and, having no escape route, I climbed under the bed as well.
"Hey what happened to our little 'Welcoming Committee?'" I heard one voice ask. "Fuck you asshole!" I heard Andy reply. "She's my little sister and she's not interested in a shithead like you."
"Oh no? Well why not let her be the judge? She's got that curly hair and those nice little suckable titties..."
This teasing went on for a few more minutes. The fellows had apparently gotten accustomed to me greeting them when they visited and thought I was...attractive I guess. I listened with interest as they chatted about all kinds of stuff that boys care about and then I heard one guy ask Mike about Andrea.
"So Mike...are you and Andrea doing the dirty deed?" He asked crudely. The other guys erupted in laughter at his rude question.
"Well let me think for a minute now." Mike slyly replied. "That would be, uh, none of your fucking business!" The room filled with laughter again. But the subject wasn't just dropped and I heard Mike say that Andrea had a great body but she was a "Cold Fish" in bed. I think the other guys would have been thrilled to have that kind of knowledge since it got real quiet when he said it.
Then I heard Andy ask what he meant by cold fish? Mike explained that she would just lay there say nothing while they were doing it. "Never says anything...doesn't respond to anything I say or do. She's just...letting me do it."
More silence. I could just read their collective minds. "You are screwing Andrea Martin and you're complaining about it?" Mike told his buddies there were a lot of other things he really liked about her and he didn't want to stop dating her but she was disappointing in bed. The topic finally moved to some girl named Melinda whom it sounded like they had all screwed. They all boasted about their "Manly Conquests" and finally, they went downstairs to raid the refrigerator.
My head was spinning when I heard the front door slam as they left. I was finally able to emerge from my hiding place and I tried to digest what I'd inadvertently overheard. It sounded like Mike and Andrea were pretty serious but he obviously was not happy with her sexually. Maybe I had a chance after all!
The following afternoon I was at a local market down the street from my high school and who should walk in as I was leaving but Mike! I was almost trembling as we chatted outside the store. This was the first time I'd talked with him one on one and he had this disarming way of looking right into my eyes as he talked. He stood right next to me too. I didn't move and tried to send him the message that I was interested. At the end of our conversation he asked if he could call me some time! Call me some time? Heck yes! He took down my phone number which was, of course, the same as Andy's but he put his hand briefly around my waist as he said good bye.
I knew Mike was going to call me. I just knew. A woman...OK a girl knows about these things! How exciting for me. Then I started to wonder: How does he expect me to act? I was only a high school senior and he was used to college girls. College girls who liked to have sex too! I had no experience with that whatsoever!
When Andy got home later he'd apparently talked to Mike. "So! Sounds like someone's going out pretty soon!" He smiled. "Mike thinks you're pretty cute sis."
"Really?" I replied. I wanted to pump my big brother for as much information as I could. I really liked Mike and, to have a date with a dreamboat like him was too good to be true. I sure didn't want to blow it. We talked for a few minutes and he was getting a kick out of how hard I was pressing for information.
"He likes friendly girls and he likes smart girls. You fall into both categories. Just be yourself and you'll be fine." He told me.
Well, easier said than done! How do you just "Be Yourself" when your heart is doing flip flops? Andy told me Mike was a good guy and just try to have a good time with him.
The call finally did come a few days later and Mike asked me to the UCLA Martis Gras! It's a big annual event with entertainment and rides and everything. There was going to be alcohol too but, me being just eighteen, I didn't have to worry about that at least.