“Oh,American Piestyle.Did you and your friends make bets on who was going to lose their virginity?”
“You’re kidding, right?I wouldn’t admit to those guys that I’d never had sex.”
“You were probably captain of the football team too.”
“How did you know?”he asked with just a hint of snark or sarcasm.
“You just give off that vibe.”
“Yeah, I was captain of the football team.Which made it a double imperative that I never admit I was a virgin.”
“So, like, you never did anything?A blow job?Not even a hand job?”
He laughed, and it felt like caramel syrup on her tongue.“Yes, I got a hand job.My first one was from Sandy Holloway when I was thirteen.We were experimenting, learning how to get each other off.”
“Then you’re not a late bloomer at all.You started earlier than me.What about your first blow job?”
“That was Temperance Renshaw when I was fifteen.”
“Temperance?”She allowed himself a giggle.
“She was rebelling against her religious parents.”
“And you spread it all around that Temperance didn’t have any temperance.”
“I never told anyone.”There was a chuckle in his breath.“I wanted her to do it again and telling her secret would have screwed my chances.”
“She wasn’t your girlfriend?”
“I didn’t have a girlfriend when I was in high school.”
“Can you see my mouth gaping?”
“Why?You didn’t have a boyfriend.”
“Touché.But weren’t all the cheerleaders dying to date the captain of the football team?”
He was silent a moment longer than usual.“I didn’t like any of them enough.”
He hadn’t found a girl he liked enough to call his girlfriend?What did that say about him?She wasn’t sure.He could have been discerning.Or he could have been a horndog going after girls like Temperance who wanted to rebel or Sandy who wanted to experiment.
But somehow she had a feeling it was something more.Especially since he’d remembered both girls’ names.“What, so you didn’t want to break all the girls’ hearts?”
“My parents were fighting a lot,” he finally said.“It was nasty.Mom cried all the time.I knew they were going to get a divorce.I just kept thinking I didn’t want to put some girl I didn’t truly want to be with, at least not for the long haul, in the middle of my parents’ vicious breakup.And I didn’t want to hurt anyone when I went away to college because I didn’t plan on having a long-distance relationship.”
It was actually kind of chivalrous.And there wasn’t a lot of chivalry these days.“So what about the girl you lost your virginity to?Not a girlfriend?”
“Believe it or not, Maggie was my best friend’s twin sister.She said she wanted to lose her virginity before she went to college, and who better than the captain of the football team and her brother’s best friend?And it was perfect for me because I wouldn’t be breaking any hearts when I left.”
He had a code of ethics.It was actually quite amazing.
“But weren’t you nervous because you were a virgin?”
He laughed outright.“I was a horny teenager with a vast collection of pornography that showed me exactly how to do everything.”
Which meant he probably watched the porn actor she’d once embarrassed herself over.But she’d save that story for another time so she didn’t disturb his flow.“So you’d been getting lessons from porn stars.I’m sure Maggie appreciated that.”
“Oh yeah.”
