Driving into the city on a Sunday was not something normal for me. I say the city, and you think of New York City or Los Angeles, but growing up on a farm where the nearest town has a population of 350 people, then go to a place where 150 thousand people live automatically classifies that place as a city.
My girlfriend had just gotten her apartment. Janie had moved out of her mother's house to live closer to campus. She would be starting her sophomore year at the local University, so living at home would not do for her.
I call Janie my girlfriend but let me clear that up. Janie was one of the daughters of my grandfather's girlfriend. I had known her for years now, of the two daughters I was closest with her.
Many visits to her home growing up while my grandfather and her mother did the dating thing, I would stay up with her for hours at a time late into the night talking about nothing and everything. She would speak, and I would listen. I never, ever thought of making a move on her of any kind. Janie was my big sister\girl-friend.
Many of the stories that she would tell me would be about her daily experiences with boys\men. When she'd told me her stories, I would imagine that the male interest of the story was after me, not her. But again, this was the 70s, a different time. I had to act like she was helping me with my getting the girl skills when in reality, I was living my fantasies through her experiences, and on this day, making that drive to see her would turn out to be very different.
After knocking a few times, Janie opened the door, and immediately her eyes went wide, her mouth dropped open.
"David," she would yell out. "What are you doing here?!" she would ask, so excited to see me.
"Hi slut," I would respond. We both instantly began to laugh. It felt good to be loved, and I knew that in a big sister way, Janie loved me. I walked in and looked around at all the boxes asking her if I could help her.
"Of course!" she happily replied.
Helping her unpack, I kept trying to figure out how to move the conversation to where I needed it to go. I was there because I needed help, and I didn't have anyone else in the world to understand what I was about to ask. Understand? Today, looking back at that time of my life, I didn't have anyone that would want to help me, much less understand the help that I needed from her.
The day moved on, and we finally got her tiny one-bedroom apartment unpacked. We would walk to the local pizza place as I listened to her go on about her daily dramas. After picking up a pizza, we headed back to her apartment.
"So come on, spill it," she would say. Janie always seemed to know when something was up with me.
"I met someone," I blurted out.
"I knew it!" she said as she gave me that big wonderful smile of hers. Then she reached out, placing her small hand on my hand to steady me.
"Well, go on, don't be an ass. Spill it." She would say.
The next five seconds were biblical because it felt like a fucking eternity before I could speak again. Taking a deep breath, I asked facetiously, "Janie, you know I love you, and you are my best friend, right?"
Taking her hand from mine, Janie picked up her slice of pizza and started eating, all the while staring at me like she was waiting for her favorite show to begin.
"Please, please don't break my heart. I need to know that I can trust you." I would say, looking at her with what must've been the most pitiful look ever made.
"Fuck off, Davy, c'mon, really?" she replied with a stern look on her face. "Just say it, David."
"His name is Martin," I replied in a soft voice.
Her apartment went uncomfortably quiet. Yeah, the moment the proverbial pin hit the floor.
Janie stopped moving. A mouthful of pizza, drink in one hand, she was just staring at me. Then suddenly, it was like a bomb had exploded. Janie jumped up and runs to the trash can. Spitting out her pizza, she turned and looked at me. My head was racing. What have I done? It was all I could think of at that moment. What have I done?
"I KNEW IT!" Janie screamed out, scaring the hell out of me. "I knew it, I knew it, I fucking knew it!!" she said say over and over and over.
I sat there, eyes wide, mouth closed, and heart racing. I had no clue which direction this would go, but even now, looking back, I remember that feeling of Oh fuck. What. Have. I. Done.
Janie ran up to me and jumps onto my lap, straddling me and hugging me so hard around my neck that I thought she was going to kill me. She leaned back and gave me a huge kiss (No tongue, get your mind out of the gutter). I remember thinking again, ok, what the fuck? Janie just laughed.
"I always knew you were gay!" she yelled out in a loud, happy voice.
Dumbfounded with what must've been the stupidest look on anyone's face, I asked, "What the fuck do you mean you always knew I was gay?"
Through her laughter, she started to reel off example after example of situations where she claimed that I would've reacted differently in each moment if I liked girls. But the most significant example had just happened months earlier.
It was one of those boring nights that she convinced me to play a game of strip poker. Janie was always like that. She would always come up with all these off-the-wall ideas. It's one of the beautiful things about her that I loved so much. She was always so spontaneous. I had beaten her at strip poker that night, although now she was confessing that she let me win.
After she took off her bra and panties, instead of trying to check out her boobs and her twinkie, I was carrying on about how I was the best strip poker player ever, and no way could she ever beat me. Sitting there listening to her, I started to realize that I did look at her body, but I didn't look at her body. Confusing? Yes, but it made sense to me then.
Janie wanted to know everything. So I started telling her everything from first meeting him months earlier to the day before. How he was so easy to talk to and how we connected. Then how I had embarrassed myself by ogling him and how I tried to ignore him but couldn't stop thinking about him. Finally, to the events of the day before, yesterday.
How he taught me to suck his cock, how big his cock was. How I could barely get it in my mouth. How he had been so patient with me and how he taught me to get him off. How much I loved the taste of his cum and how I licked his cock and balls clean when I'd finished.
Poor Janie…
I paused, then slowly reached over, placing my fingertip on her chin to help her out. I gently pushed up, closing her mouth.
Then I continued, telling her what happened next.
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You see, after lying in Martin's arms for a while and listening to him talk, he slid his hand under my shirt and was playing with my nipple. I was lying there, eyes closed, and I could feel my heart start to beat harder. My breathing was becoming erratic, and then he slid his hand to my other nipple. He was rolling my nipple between his fingers and gently caressing my small but now swollen areola.
He started slowly pushing my t-shirt up and over my head, then tossing it on the floor. Martin would gently roll me over onto my back, then he rose onto his elbow, staring down at me. Without saying a word, he dropped his mouth onto my areola. He was taking it in his mouth, suckling it slowly and gently, allowing his teeth to gently nip at my nipple before rolling it around with his tongue.
As I mentioned before, the areola around my nipple would swell and puff up, creating a small breast, if you will. Understand that my areola is about two inches in diameter, with my nipple sitting in the middle like some prize.
At the time, I thought of my nipples as deformed because I had never seen anyone with this type of guy boob. None of my friends had them, so I thought I was odd. I would find out later that this is considered a very sexy quality. But again, I was eighteen. What did I know?
Martin must have loved them because he would take one areola then the other as if he was trying to keep them from becoming jealous of one another. It seemed like forever as he gently, slowly took his time suckling my breast. Then Martin stopped.
"This is new to me, David, but there are some things that I need to tell you," he would say. I took a big swallow, trying to get my heart out of my throat and back in my chest. I just nodded, and he continued to speak.
Martin laid out his rules for me, except he didn't call them rules. It's only now that I look back at that day that I realize that they were, in fact, a set of rules.
~~~
One by one, I told Janie what was expected of me. She sat there listening to me very closely, and when I finished, she let out a big sigh.
"Wow," was all she could say.
"Davy, he wants a girl," she said.
"But I'm not a girl," I replied, suddenly sadden by the direction of the conversation. I think Janie could sense my sadness because her whole attitude changed.
"Well, let's get to work," she said. "Is this guy important to you?" she asked.
"Yes," I said softly. "Yes."
She smiled then kissed the top of my head as she was getting up.
"By the time I'm done with you, he's going to piss himself," she said, and we both laughed.
Without going into too much detail, the rest of the afternoon was just one event after another. I had a crash course on so many things that were just so crazy to me. I was eighteen years old and didn't even shave my face regularly, and now here I was learning how to shave my legs? I didn't have to worry about my ass because other than a touch of peach fuzz, that area was smooth.