"She's just come over from England," Pauline said. "She's only been here a week. But it's a blind date, so you can't be too choosey. She'll be alright."
"I just hope she enjoys fucking," I said. "An evening of conversation isn't my idea of a Saturday night out."
"With your kind of conversation anything can happen. Just don't start off with, 'Do you want to fuck now or later?' It's apt to put a girl off. Besides, she's only twenty."
It was a fancy dress dance. I was going as a gangster. When I was introduced to Joy I did a double take.
"What are you supposed to be?" I asked, rather tactlessly. "I've never seen anything like that."
"This is the way high school girls dress back home," Joy explained. "It was my school uniform five years ago. I hadn't got anything else to wear."
I shook my head. "Bet they don't have any trouble keeping the girls out of mischief in that outfit. No wonder they keep their virginity longer."
"Well thank you, Sir Galahad!" Joy tossed her head. "You do say what you think, don't you? Do you think of anything else besides sex?
"Not much," I admitted. "How about you?"
"We've come here to dance," Joy said severely. She danced up a storm, I had to admit. But every time I looked at her, my hopes sank lower. For a start, fancy dress dance or not she really looked like a schoolgirl, and from what I could see under that silly school uniform she'd hadn't much to show in the way of a figure. By the look of her, too, she'd never been screwed in her life. No-one would want to screw her. She wore grubby steel rimmed glasses, she wore pigtails with a bow at the end, she wore this ridiculous school uniform. And she wore braces on her teeth.
I took her home afterwards. That was part of the blind date deal. She invited me in, shyly. Begged me to come in, really. And I hadn't the heart to refuse her. And then I wondered how I was to get away without hurting her feelings.
But that school uniform!! From the bottom to the top it was a turn-off. Sturdy black shoes. Thick black cotton stockings. A gym slip, she called it, black and shapeless from her shoulders to her knees. A white long sleeved blouse under the gym slip. And more horrible than anything, as she'd danced I'd caught sight of black knickers under her skirt.
"I should never have worn this silly gym slip," Joy said. "It was winter uniform, really, and it's so hot. Give me a hand to get it off, there's a dear."
She undid the knot in the sash round her waist, and began to tug the skirt up over her hips, and then bent over. "Catch hold and haul it over my head. It's a bit tight. I haven't worn it for years."
Good Grief! I thought. If anyone comes in it looks like I'm helping a schoolgirl to undress. I could get jail time for this. And when she stood up again, flushed with the exertion, she was standing there quite unabashedly in a blouse and those horrible knickers, black things with elastic round the thighs. Wouldn't fancy my chances getting up those things in the back seat of a car, I thought, as I gazed at them with horrid fascination.
Joy struck a pose. "Sorry, I hope I'm not embarrassing you. They're pretty ghastly, aren't they?"
But there was something even more horrible. Those black stockings only came halfway up her thighs. And there were thick white garter things holding them up, disappearing up under the elastic of the knicker legs. And three or four inches of pink, naked thigh. Oh god, I thought, I must be hungry, three inches of flesh is getting me horny.
"There's worse to come," Joy announced gaily, and undid the buttons down the front of her blouse. "Here, help me off with this."
I couldn't help myself. I pulled the blouse back off her shoulders. They were bare shoulders, naked shoulders, and now that I was so close she smelt almost sexy. But over her shoulders were thick white straps, and those straps supported a garment that fitted tightly round her from armpits to waistline, buttoned all down the front and disappearing at her waistline beneath the knickers. There were bulges that suggested she might have a pair of breasts underneath
"It's called a liberty bodice," Joy explained. "I don't know why. You couldn't take a liberty with me if you wanted to."
I certainly don't want to, I thought. Joy smiled at me, her teeth flashing. "These braces are killing me, they're fake ones, but they're not very comfortable. Kind of inhibit the snogging, don't they?"
Snogging? Was that English for kissing? Was she kidding? But then she took off the braces, and took off the glasses, and smiled. And I wished I'd known all evening she had a mouth like that.