I swear, it didn't start out like this. A month ago, I was a normal girl with a boyfriend at a different college. The most scandalized my family ever got was when I told them I still hadn't decided my major. But last Winter Break was different... totally different.
You have to understand.
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Okay, I'll start at the beginning. My mom and dad split up when I was five. I don't really remember it that well, so I don't think it really bothered me when my dad started dating. A few years ago, he sat me and my sister down in the living room with this really serious expression and told us that things were getting 'serious' with this lady named Diane who lived down the road. He explained that he'd never brought her over because he wanted to make sure it was right first -- he'd had a strong feeling about it for a while, but he hadn't wanted to rush things. We were both like, 'Sure dad, that's great, can we leave now?' not realizing that we actually already knew Diane. More specifically, we knew Diane's son, Jason Hanes.
God. Jason Hanes. All the girls I know in the neighborhood used to lose their fucking minds over that guy. He was a few years older than us, so, at the time, I never paid much attention to it. Martin and I started dating at the end of high school, so I wasn't really doing a lot of looking around. All I knew was that he was a lifeguard at the local pool during the summers, that he went to the local college, and that my friends would basically cum in their panties just talking about him. The first time I saw him -- like, really saw him -- was the first time he dropped off Diane for lunch. He was heading to his job and basically only stopped in to say hi.
But from that moment on, I knew I was fucked.
I think what did it for me in particular was his shoulders: he has these broad, muscular shoulders, that make you just want to press your face against them, plus a wide chest you just want to stroke with the back of your hand. Or maybe it was the hair: Jason has this lush hair the color of black coffee, long enough on top that strands of it fall over his forehead for him to sweep ahead. Or maybe it was his voice: soft and deep, smooth like the silt at the bottom of a cold river. Just hearing him speak made you feel like you'd been dropped into a pool of ice water -- I'm shivering all over, just thinking of it...