I was sitting with my friend Mary in the front room of my council house in Bradford, when I heard a knock on the door. I looked at the clock on the wall. It was 9.40 p.m. and I wondered who on earth it could be at that time of night. We were just sitting there sharing the remains of a bottle of wine and discussing what video to watch. I had put my 2 young children to bed some time earlier and they were fast asleep. Apprehensively, I opened the door and saw Sharon the young girl from next door standing there flanked by 2 other girls.
"Were having a party next door," said Sharon "and we're a bit short of girls. There's like six lads and just the three of us. We wondered if you'd like to come."
I invited them in, but with 6 boys waiting for them next door, I could see that they were anxious to get back. "I've been let down by 3 of my mates from work," she confessed. "But, I know you like a party, Yvonne, so I thought of you. And you're friend is invited too, of course."
Sharon must have been quite desperate to think of us, I thought. I'm 27 and Mary was 26. These girls were 18, but only just.
And the boys, how old were they?
I looked at Mary and she shrugged. We were a bit bored and broke and it was a Saturday night, after all. "Alright," I finally said, "maybe we can pop in for a while." The children were asleep and I could always check on them every half hour from next door.
"Where are your parents, then?" I asked Sharon
"Oh, they've gone away for the weekend," she replied.
"Anyway...thanks for coming" she said, obviously relieved that her party had been saved. "It's just that the lads were threatening to disappear down the pub unless we rustled up some more females."
"Give us 15 minutes to get ready and we'll be there" I told her as they all left to get back next door.
Well, what does one wear to go to a teenage party? We hadn't long to decide.
Mary looked at our dirty old sweaters and worn out jeans. What the hell were we going to wear?
In the end, we just wore colourful tops and miniskirts, rather like what Sharon and her mates were wearing. Well, we didn't want to look out of place and we hadn't time to mess around too much.
I must say we looked rather good as we checked ourselves in the full length mirror. We both had decent figures and the mini skirts displayed our long shapely legs in black stay up stockings and high heels. Mary had short dark hair with blonde highlights, while mine was shoulder length and sort of auburn going onto red. Although, we had always been rivals when out trying to pull a bloke, I thought Mary was quite pretty and sexy and apparently she had the same opinion about me.
As we prepared to leave the house, Mary turned to me and said. "I haven't been to a party like this since..."
"Don't even go there" I said. "And for God's sake don't ever tell anyone about this. I know we are desperate, but for goodness sake." Then we both collapsed with a fit of the giggles.
It was a miracle that we were ringing next door's bell less than twenty minutes after we received the invitation. We had quickly dressed and put on our make up. Wonders would never cease. But the thought of half a dozen young males next door had spurred us on.
Anyway, on our arrival, it seemed that we weren't a minute too soon to prevent a mass walk out by the boys. They checked us out and quickly changed their minds. We had saved the day.
We walked into the kitchen and were offered a drink. There seemed plenty of booze and it brought a smile to Mary's face. She could get sloshed for free. There were several bottles of wine and spirits and plenty of beer for the boys.
"Be careful with the drink," I warned Mary, but, I could see that she had already poured herself a generous gin and tonic and was downing it as I spoke.
"Watch it yourself," she retorted, "two drinks and you're anybody's."
We had already had a bit to drink earlier what with our bottle of wine and the last of the sherry.
Even so, I greedily fixed myself a one just as big as hers. It was alright drinking someone else's booze.
There was music and dancing in the lounge where the furniture had been pushed back to make a space, so we made our way there from the kitchen, glasses in hand. Sharon made the introductions and everyone seemed relaxed with the addition of two "older" women in their midst.
We were getting some lustful glances from the young males as they sipped their beer in small groups. They were all young, not much older than 19 or 20 I would say and two of them looked even younger than that. "My God, what are we doing here?" I thought, but well, we were here, so might as well try and enjoy ourselves.
Well, after a good half hour of music, dancing and a lot of drinking, everyone seemed in a good mood and the party was swinging along.
Then the lights were dimmed and there was a bit of kissing and cuddling going on in the dark corners.
I looked around for Mary and was shocked to see her being led up the stairs by one of the bigger youths. She gave me one of those "what's a girl to do?" looks as she allowed him to pull her up the stairs. Well she was a big girl now so I wasn't going to make a fuss. If she wanted to have sex with one of these kids it was up to her. Instead, I decided to nip back to my house and check up on my kids. As I put the key in the lock, I was suddenly aware that I wasn't alone. I looked round and saw one of the boys from the party. "I thought I'd come with you," he said, lamely. He was sort of cute, so I let him. As I turned the key in the latch, I told him. "I'm going upstairs to check on my kids. You stay down here."
As I neared the top of the stairs, I turned around to see him looking up my short skirt from below.
"I hope you've had a good look," I said, sarcastically.
"You've got great legs," he blurted out, red faced with embarrassment.
I couldn't help smiling to myself as I checked my girls in their bedroom. It wasn't every day a girl got a complement like that. (Mind you I worked hard at diets and keep fit to keep myself looking good.)
When I walked back into the lounge, he was waiting for me. Suddenly, he leapt at me, pushed me onto the sofa and gave me a big kiss. "Wow" I said, steady on. "What's got into you?" He kissed me again, more controlled, but still with a lot of passion. It was nice, so I let him do it again. "What's your name?" I asked him.
"Michael" he told me. "But, everyone calls me Mike."
"I'm Yvonne," I responded, "pleased to meet you, but shouldn't we be getting back to your friends?"
"I'd rather stay here with you," he confessed, his blue eyes pleading with me, as he kissed me again.
"How old are you, exactly?" I asked him when he came up for breath.
"I'm 18," he said.
"Well I'm a lot older than you" I told him, "I'm 25." (Well, near enough)
"You're wonderful," he whispered, "that's all I need to know."
He was saying all the right things and he was ever so cute, so we stayed there for another 20 minutes while I let him kiss me. My short skirt had ridden up rather high and he wasn't slow to try and get his hand away. "Sorry," he said looking into my eyes to see what reaction there would be. "That's all right, I'm used to it," I heard myself say. Straight away I realised what a foolish thing I'd said, even though it was the truth. (After all I'd been married and divorced, had two or three boyfriends and many one nightstands) Immediately, he pushed his hand up onto the bare thigh above my stocking tops and tried to get inside my panties.
"I think we'll stop right there, Michael, we have a party next door, remember?"
"Can I call and see you, one night?" He asked.
"Course, you can love, just don't expect too much of me that's all. As I say, I'm a lot older than you"
"Have you got a boyfriend?" He wanted to know.
"No, not at the moment, why are you applying for the job?" I said, teasing him now.
"Yes, I would like that, very much," he said, quite serious.
We went back next door and it seemed rather quiet. There was a fair bit of kissing and cuddling going on. But, where was Mary?