Look, I was young, just another horny teenage boy looking for sex. My friends all bragged about screwing girls in our high school. I was a fish out of water, a bird without wings. I was a virgin. Before my senior year, that had to change.
The only girl who had approached me as more than an awkward nerd was Alexis my next-door neighbor. We grew up together, played together from kindergarten until now, late summer heading for our senior year. She was in the Harry Potter club. I was in the computer club. Alexis wasn't sexy. She wasn't beautiful. She didn't have the body of Heidi Klum. Alexis was a very ordinary looking friend until she wasn't.
She wasn't because Alexis wasn't at all how I described her. Unbeknown to me, she had grown up. Alexis was almost eighteen and had filled out without me noticing. Maybe it was that she didn't wear much makeup that gave me the impression she looked ordinary. Upon further review, she was cute, not beautiful but cute. Alexis had a button nose, wide blue eyes, and a killer grin. I wondered if she noticed I also had grown too, matured and was horny. It was time to find out. That was the hard part. Asking a girl for a date was like having a root canal.
Stuff happens and sometimes it is as good as getting a driver's license. On this Saturday morning, I was mowing my parents' lawn. She was jogging and stopped to talk. "Derrick, I was thinking, she said. "My best friend is having a party tonight. Would you like to go?"
"Ah, you mean together?" I stammered.
"Of course, silly. It will be fun."
"Okay. What time?"
"I'll pick you up at eight."
"Okay," I said as enthusiastically as a son agreeing to wash the family car. I had never been to one of the drinking parties that were rumored to happen on the weekends. On the other hand, maybe the party was just a bunch of kids watching a movie. I had ten hours to let my imagination get carried away,
The party wasn't what I had imagined. There were a dozen kids. Everyone had a date. A huge seventy-five inch smart TV was showing a movie downstairs in the rec room where couples were making out. Upstairs a smaller, but not small TV showed music videos. A couple of the guys were drinking beer. One couple was sharing a joint. The more the girl inhaled, the more she giggled. It could have been funny but it wasn't.
Alexis could see that I was uncomfortable and out of place. "Come on Derrick, loosen up. This is a party. We're not taking finals."
I chuckled and said, "I'm okay with finals. I'm not really good with parties."
"Do you want to leave?" she asked.
"No. No, I'll be okay."
"Maybe a beer will help," she suggested.
"I don't know, maybe." So Alexis trotted off to the kitchen and brought us both a bottle of Bud.
"Let me warn you, Derrick," she said after a couple of sips. "Beer makes me crazy. Just one bottle and I'm like Jekyll and Hyde."
"You mean angry and mean?"
"No, unpredictable. Let's go outside by the pool and finish our beer. There isn't anyone out there and you can relax."
We took off our shoes and dangled our feet over the side of the pool, drinking beer, and talking about nothing important until the unexpected happened. A group of kids bursts out of the door yelling like the house was on fire. Splash, splash, splash! In seconds they were all in the pool, some with suits, some without. One of the guys called out, "Hey, Alexis get in here!"
She grabbed my arm saying, "Come on, let's join 'em."
"I didn't know this was a pool party. I don't have a suit."
"Forget the suit. You don't need one," and she threw her clothes on the pool chair behind us. I only got a glimpse of her naked body when she jumped in.
I watched the water fights and guys playfully dunking girls for awhile when Alexis tugged at my feet. Come on Derrick, get your butt in here."
If I was tense before, now I was flat out scared. When I heard someone shout, "Hey, nerdy, you got a problem?" it provided the motivation I needed. It's one thing to be bullied at school but not with friends at a party. It was time to be sociable. Embarrassed and naked, I jumped in not knowing what to do next.
Alexis swam up to me and gave me a hug. "I knew you could do it, stud." At the word, "stud," she slipped her hand down to my crotch grabbing hold of my cock. "Hmm," she murmured, "that's a nice one."
A compliment is a compliment no matter what it's about but this was Alexis, my next-door neighbor, the girl I grew up with. She wasn't Gloria the high school slut. I needed time to let that sink in. It wasn't long before the reality of the moment became clear.
A little past midnight, the party began to break up. Alexis and I had a second beer but neither of us was drunk. In the car on the way home, Alexis began to talk. "Hey, that was a great party. How about you? What did you think?
"Yeah, it was good. I'm glad I went."
"You looked tense the whole time." She parked the car far away from any streetlights. "You know, Derrick, what you need is a blowjob."
I turned to her as if I hadn't heard what she said. She stared at me with her puppy-dog eyes looking so vulnerable, so innocent. "It will help you relax. I should have done it before the party," and she reached over and unzipped the fly on my cargo shorts.
I didn't object. Except for a few stains on my shorts, I came out of that situation unscathed. Obviously, I now saw Alexis in a different light. Next, I needed to work on my self-esteem.
We didn't see each other for a couple of weeks after that. Eventually, my curiosity got the best of me and I rang her doorbell. Alexis' mom answered the door and said her daughter wasn't home. "She's out shopping. Maybe you can catch her at Walmart."
So that's where I went pretending to have accidentally bumped into her. "Hi. How're things?" It wasn't a great line but it had to do for the moment.
"Good," was her short answer. "Look, I gotta go. I'm in a hurry."
She passed me in the hall several times at the start of school but didn't stop to talk. Finally, I sort of blocked her way and said, "What's goin' on?"
"Why didn't you call, Derrick? I thought we were friends."
Silence. Pretending to be innocent, I took a deep breath and said, "Yes, friends, neighbors, and maybe more."
"It's the maybe more I wanted to talk to you about."
"Okay. How about a movie?"
"A movie? That's the best you can do? A movie?" she mocked. "Look, I've got a better idea. Let's hang with my friends at Sommer's Park tomorrow afternoon. Pick me up at four," then she marched off to class. I slithered off to lunch feeling like a little boy whose mother just told him to behave.
The weather was good, not too hot, no rain when she hopped into the car. Alexis had brought along a large picnic basket containing sandwiches, chips, and beer. Volleyball was already in play. No one hid the fact that beer was their preferred drink. A few smoked pot trying to conceal the obvious. The picnic turned out to be much more fun than the pool party, that is until the cops came. No one was arrested, just told to go home.
It was dark and we parked a block from Alexis' house. I had her bra off totally amazed at her perky tits and erect nipples. My pants were around my ankles and my cock stood up like a soldier at attention. Her hand caressed it as if it was her favorite doll. I thought she was going to give me a blowjob, then she said, "Let's finish this inside. My parents aren't at home."
We drove to her house half naked. She took me into her bedroom where we laid together on the bed picking up where we left off. This was my moment. Finally, I was about to get what every boy wants.
"Give me a moment," I said. "I need to take a pee." Two beers were two too many in this case.
I didn't have to go far. She had a bath attached to her bedroom. It took some time. Too much time. You can't piss with an erection. When I finally finished emptying my bladder, I caught a glimpse of a thin transparent package of pills on the sink. Half of them were used. I had seen the same package in my mom's bathroom. It dawned on me that Alexis was on the pill.
When I finally got back to her, she was dressed and handing me my clothes. "Maybe this wasn't the right time, Derrick," she said, and I was shown the door.
Could it be that Alexis was a virgin and decided to stay that way? I said to myself. Or had she gotten cold feet? Or was Alexis thinking I wasn't the guy she wanted for her first time? I had these thoughts and others while driving home. Maybe it was just that I screwed up. As a consolation to the aborted tryst with Alexis, I pleasured myself imagining what could have been.
The year crept along slowly as it does in your senior year waiting to escape to college. I dated a few girls, none as special as Alexis. None gave blowjobs. Only a few let me play with their tits. Gloria even liked being fingered and I was sure I'd get laid by Gloria. But she wasn't the slut everyone talked about. It must have been her big tits that started the rumor.
Then the unexpected happened. Alexis called. She was in tears. "Derrick, can you come over? I need to talk to you."
I put on some clean clothes, brushed my teeth and combed my hair and was almost out the door. Back to my room, I splashed on a healthy dose of aftershave. The stubble on my face would have to wait. Anyway, it gave me a more manly look.
Alexis lived five doors down our street. I was there in less than five minutes with a heart-thumping as if I'd just run a marathon. Alexis was at the door with mascara running down her cheeks. She said nothing, turned, and sat on the living room sofa. I followed. The silence was deafening. "He dumped me," were her first words. I kept my mouth shut.
Finally, I asked, "Who?"
"Ronnie Singleton. He's dating that slut Gloria. Why not me? I did everything that Gloria does."
"What do you mean, 'what Gloria does'?"
"We did it; you know we had sex."
I swallowed hard. "I went out with Gloria. It's just an awful rumor about her."
"What do you mean, Derrick? She doesn't put out for every guy?"
"Not with me. Gloria is really a nice kid. Sure, she didn't mind me feeling her up, touching her pussy and French kissing but that's about all."
"She didn't give you a blowjob or let you fuck her?"
"No."
"Then maybe I'm the one who's the slut." She wiped more tears from her beautiful eyes. "I did it before with Ronnie last spring break. Ronnie was my boyfriend. We did it in his car. He was my first but after we broke up the first time, I dated other guys."
"Did you have sex with them?"
"I can't talk about it here, Derrick. Let's go somewhere more private."
"Where would that be?"
"The sharecroppers' cabin in the woods in the back of my parents' place. No one else knows it's there."
She wiped her face and led me through a forested area behind her house. The cabin had seen its better days. The roof had gaping holes and all the windows were broken. The door was nearly off its hinges and squeaked when we went in. The place smelled musty, maybe from mildew or rotting wood. There was some furniture, an old table and a couple of chairs as well as a cot with a stained mattress that reminded me of pictures I'd seen of Auschwitz.