Just where the long trailing branches of a graceful weeping willow tree overhung the path beside the water, I paused to enjoy the view and the cool of the willow shade. I sensed a movement beside me. It was a girl.
"Hi, Jack," she said. "You all alone down here?"
"Yeah, I, ah...,"I stammered.
"I seen you at school." I had seen her a few times on the college campus, and once or twice at church. She was about my age, maybe a year older. She was wearing a sling skirt and a peasant blouse with a frill around the low-cut top. It did nothing to hide her breasts. It made them more prominent. The way they swung under the light cloth, I didn't think she was wearing a bra. Her light brown hair hung free down her back.
"I'm Heidi."
"Hi, Heidi." I didn't know what to say to her.
"You're staying with the Hochstetters. My daddy knows Mr. Hochstetter."
I was living in a rooming house near the campus. Mrs. Hochstetter was my landlady. She had a daughter named Lena, a lovely blonde a bit younger than I, and still in high school.
"Yeah, I am." I wanted to make some sort of casual conversation, but I didn't have anything to talk about.
Heidi took up the slack. "You got eyes for Lena? She's so cute." That much was true. Lena was truly beautiful. Heidi went on, "I bet you'd want to fuck Lena."
Her bluntness shocked me. "Maybe. I don't know. She's too young for me anyway. She's still in high school." I really hadn't thought about Lena in that way. It was a bald-faced lie, and I wasn't a very good liar.
"I guess you don't know much about girls, Jack. High school girls are hot. They all fuck. All of 'em. So do the college girls."
This was growing uncomfortable. This predatory hot-pants girl was talking about sex and about fucking, and I was struggling to keep up my innocent appearance. In my first college semester, like all boys, I naturally wanted to appear older than my years; to seem mature and knowledgeable. But I also wanted not to ruin the reputations of Lena and Karen, the only two girls I had had sex with.
"You never had a piece a pussy yet, have you, Jack?"
I mumbled, "Nmmmnnd." I couldn't admit I had been fucking Karen and Lena both, all in one afternoon.
"You'd like a piece of pussy." She exuded confidence. And sexual heat. Even though she was barely older than I, Heidi was assuming the role of the older, experienced woman.
"You'd like a piece of my pussy. I reckon you're ready to learn about fucking girls." She cuddled against me. "I'll show you how to fuck a girl. And a girl's got to get fucked. It don't matter, a girl's got to have it. Some girls wait too long before they get their cherry popped. Karen's older than me, and I don't think she's ever been fucked. I know she's let a bunch of boys feel her up, but she don't never let them fuck her. What's she want to keep her cherry for, huh? What good's a girl's cherry except to get it popped?"
She didn't know. I could hardly believe that Karen had kept her sex life a secret from all the other girls in the town. Or maybe just from Heidi? Karen didn't go to college. She worked in her mother's flower shop.
"I made Tommy use a rubber every time he fucked me. The other boys too. I ain't ready to get knocked up," she said. "Pregnant," she added.