All characters appearing or mentioned in this story are 18 years old or older. This story is a work of fiction and any reference or description to actual persons is unintentional.
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Early December 1998
Christmas time was usually not a very happy time for me. I had more than a few unpleasant memories about the holidays so I typically tried to ignore them as best I could.
With every store shoving plastic Santa's and twinkling lights in your face though, this was often very hard to do.
My foul mood was also not lost on my friends of the female variety. It seemed that, over the last two weeks or so, I had been ignoring or been very short with more than a few of them.
"You've been a real asshole, come to think of it," Ashley informed me. We were sitting in my apartment on a semi-cold December morning, just thinking about what to do, when she informed me of my attitude.
"How have I been an asshole, exactly?" I asked her.
"You totally ignored my friend Erin the other day. She called and left a message and you never replied."
Erin...Erin...Oh, right. Erin.
Erin was a year ahead of us in high school but definitely one I remember. She was, strangely, a physical mirror of Ashley in most respects. Where Ashley was taller and slimmer, Erin was a head shorter and, while still fit, much curvier. She had two deep dimples in her cheeks that were strangely fetching as it made her look like she was always smiling. Her eyes, also, were a very deep blue compared to Ashley's sky blue eyes. And if I recalled correctly, while both had platinum blonde hair, Erin preferred a short cut versus Ashleys long straight locks.
Thinking of Erin, in particular of the short shorts and tight tops she used to wear, gave me a twitch down south that was not subtle. Especially since Ashley had her head in my lap as we were talking.
"Huh," she commented, "so you do remember her after all. At least, part of you does."
Willing my self to calm down (and failing) I tried to change the subject. "I just don't like the holidays, that's all," I told her. She sat up and faced me.
"Look," she started, "you're my friend, and I care about you a lot. So please keep that in mind when I say this.
"You're being a giant baby about all this."
"Oh, very mature," I quipped.
"Seriously," she continued. "I get that you had a rough time growing up. But so did a lot of people. Some even had only one parent, some had no parents, and some had it a lot worse than you did.
"So while I am wanting you to be happy, and not all mopey around the holidays, I am also trying to show you that it could have been much worse."
Thinking on this for a moment, I tried to see it her way. I was being a bit self absorbed lately. And she was right; a lot of people had it worse than I did.
"Is that all?" I asked.
"Almost. If Amber were here, do you think she'd be all coddling and patting you on the head, or would she kick you in the scrote, tell you to put on your big boy panties and deal with your shit?"
I had to laugh at that image. Amber, my greatest friend whom I hadn't seen in six months, and hadn't heard from in three, would not have been so coddling to me. But then again, we had a lot more history, so she could say and do those things and I'd know she meant well.
"Ok, ok," I told Ashley after a few minutes of thinking on it. "I will try to get over my shit and be a little merry."
"Good," she said, returning her head to my lap. "And call Erin. She's totally easy and fun to hang out with."
"Well, thats good to know," I said condescendingly.
"Oh, shut your hole," she retorted. "A pretty girl has to just look at you sideways and you'd shed your clothes in an instant. So don't judge."
"I'm not judging," I said. "And I'm a little more hard to get than that, I think."
"Oh, really?" she asked. She turned her face down into my crotch. I felt her hot breath through my gym shorts, steaming up my loins. Moving her head slightly, I felt her mouth start nibbling on my cock through my shorts, taking teasing bites and expelling her hot breath on it.
My member was more than stimulated at her nuzzling and was worked to erection within a minute. And then, quite suddenly, she sat up on the couch.
"See," she said, pointing to the tent I was pitching, "you're so easy even just breathing on you gets you hard."
Adjusting my shorts, I said "Just because a beautiful woman nibbles on my junk doesn't mean I'm easy."
Ashley gave me a lopsided smile. "Nice try with the whole beautiful comment, but I have to run," she said, kissing me quickly before getting up off the couch to find her shoes.
"Oh? And you're just going to get me all excited and then leave me like this?" I said, indicating my bulging shorts.
Finding her slip on shoes, Ashley stared a moment at my crotch before looking at me. "Well, if you need some relief, why don't you call Erin?"
She winked at me, blew me a kiss, grabbed her bag, and went out the door.
Inspired, I got up and started going through the messages on my machine, looking for Erins phone number.
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Two days after getting ahold of Erin, we'd made plans to meet up at a coffee shop in the evening since we weren't old enough to legally hit up a bar. It was quarter to 7pm but it was already dark outside, despite it being warm still.