It is Saturday morning and I am lounging around my apartment. The holidays have warn me out. I had a great New Year celebration with my best friend, his wife, sister in law and her best friend. It is cold and blustery outside with flurries of snow flakes blowing around. I decide to play a game of college football on my game console.
Midway through the game my cellphone starts ringing. I look at the phone to see who is calling, but do not recognize the number. It is a local number so I swipe the phone and answer it.
"Hello?"
"Hey, what are you doing?" says a young female voice.
I recognize the voice as my best friend's sister in law. Confused by why she is calling and how she obtained my number, I answer, "Not much, just playing a game of football. What is up with you?"
"Not much here. Can I come over and play a game with you?" Lydia asks.
"Um, sure. How did you get my number?" I ask.
Matter of factly, Lydia answers, "From my sister. Well actually, she asked Dale and then gave it to me."
Dale is Lydia's brother in law. Dale and I have known each other for years and both attended the same school. We both rode the same bus to school since kindergarten. Lydia's sister married him 5 years ago. I have known Lydia and her sister for a long time also. They grew up just down the road from me. The first time I met Lydia, she was seven or eight years old. She had definitely grown up since then and has blossomed into a beautiful young girl. She just turned 18 in November and is a Senior in high school.
"I see." I reply.
She says with an enthusiastic voice, "I will see you in a few minutes."
A few months ago, I moved into my own apartment about 6 blocks down the road from the house I grew up in. It is maybe a half mile away from Lydia's parents house where she lives. I decided to quit my game that I was playing and wait for Lydia to arrive. I go into the laundry room and throw a load of laundry into the washer. The wind outside is blowing strong and making whistling noises as it blows against the apartment, windows and door.
About fifteen minutes later I hear my doorbell ring. Opening the door, I see Lydia standing on my porch, bundled up in a thick winter coat. She has the hood of her coat pulled over her head and a scarf over her mouth. When I open the screen door I feel the chilling wind hit me. Lydia rushes inside and begins shedding her winter wear.
This is the first time she has been at my apartment and it feels a little weird. The only time I have really seen her or hung out with her before this is when I am visiting Dale and she comes over. Lydia sheds her gloves, coat and scarf and reveals a red, long sleeve shirt covering her upper body. I glance at her and notice that the shirt hugs her body, showing off her breasts and flat stomach.
Her shirt hangs down over her red sweat pants that have "Alabama" written down the side of them. She kicks off her white tennis shoes with red stipes, next to the door and places her winter coat over the back of my couch. Her nose is bright red, showing effects of the cold, winter weather outside.
"Brrr. It is freezing outside." She says as she leans in and gives me a hug.
I hold her cold body close to me, rubbing my hands up and down her back while feeling her breasts press against my chest. "I know it is. You should have gotten a ride or asked me to pick you up rather than walking."
She giggles, "I didn't think it would be this cold. I jogged the second half of the way though."
Lydia looks around my living room, which is pretty bare except a couch I was given by my mom, a recliner chair, a small TV stand that hold my 25" TV and a few cheap pictures on the wall.
"Wow, this is a big living room." She comments as she walks around to the front of the couch and sits down.
As I grab two controllers and turn the game console one once more, I reply, "Thank you. It is pretty big even though it isn't a great apartment, but hey, it is my own."
We pick teams and are waiting for the game to load. I sit down next to Lydia on the couch and look at her as she stares at the TV. Her face is gorgeous, in my opinion. She has a cute little button nose and high pronounced cheek bones that reveal dimples underneath when she smiles. After staring at her face for a few seconds she turns toward me and laughs.
"What are you looking at? Do I have a zit on my face?"
She looks concerned and starts touching her face. I laugh and say, "No, you don't have any zits on your face. I was just looking at your rosy, red nose and deep blue eyes. That is all."
"Do you think I am cute?" Lydia asks out of the blue.
I start to blush. "Yes, you are cute. Actually, you are more than cute. You are very good looking."
Feeling embarrassed by her question and even more so by my answer, I change the subject. "Are you ready to get your butt kicked? You know I play this game all the time, right?"
She says, "I don't care if I lose. Want to bet on the game though?"
"Really?" I ask. "What type of bet? I know you don't have much money, so I don't want to take your money."
"How about if I win, then you have to give me a kiss, but a much better one than you gave me at midnight on New Years. If you win, then I will make you a hamburger for lunch."
"I just gave you a peck on the lips because you have a boyfriend." I answer, defending the peck on the lips I gave her at midnight.
The reason I kissed her was two fold. For one, she is gorgeous and I have a little crush on her, even though I am six years older than her. Secondly, because she was the closest to me and I didn't have anyone else to kiss for the ritual celebration of the new year, even though I suppose I could have kissed her best friend, which would have been even weirder.