As thirteen-year-old, freshly bloomed teenagers, we were already crushed, but harmlessly platonic. We were inexperienced in general concerning life itself. Little did I know that Clancy had been infatuated to me at the time. When you're in the first trimester of this stage in puberty as a teenager, the thought of French kisses is disgusting. Pooh!
Our paths developed beyond high school and college into completely different, complex ways with unmanageable branches.
Coincidence or destiny? Predestined? We met again for the first time when we were over thirty. A class reunion, which I didn't really feel like going to and then only because I changed my mind on intuition, that brought us together β again. When I think about almost not going ... Phew!!
We've been a couple now for nearly three years, and for the first time since we were thirteen Clancy would see my nursery again. That only happened now because he and I had moved (strangely) to the other end of the country, but to the same town, without knowing about each other. My old hometown is as far away and professionally involved as I am, it wasn't quite easy to manage visits. Nowadays I didn't want to miss my parents' golden wedding anniversary at any cost. I have three sisters who still live in our home town and who take on all the organization of the celebration.
Now I'm 35 years old, just like Clancy, and I'm going back into my children's room for the first time in ten years. For Clancy, the 32-year gap must seem even stranger.
He had been here for the first and only time after I had recovered from measles, had to catch up on study material and was having a hard time doing it. So Clancy took heart and offered to help me.
At that time he already had the untamed, black curls that he still wears today. Clancy LeRoux. What a beautiful name! His dad was from Montreal, married a Yankee lady and then moved to the United States. Clancy speaks Quebecois very well.
Of course nothing improper had happened between us 13 year olds. Everything completely harmless and childlike. But Clancy had a crush on me very quietly, as he later confessed to me.
But in those days he was shy and easily embarrassed, so that he turned bright red. For example, induced by looking him in the eye for too long.
He had been bobbing his feet and seemed agitated. His bizarre behavior puzzled me. He hadn't even dared to kiss me on the cheek. After that one visit, he never entered my parents' house again. Simply because my presence made him extremely nervous.
"Strange!," Clancy muttered. "As if this room were a time machine, hardly changed!"
"Here! Let's sit on my bed! I have a shoebox with photos from when we just hit puberty. Also from our schoolmates, from that festival back then," I explained. I pulled the object of desire out from under the bed. Then I joined Clancy, who had already familiarized his shapely bum with the plaid bedspread.
Looking at the photos was great fun. All those hilarious hairstyles and clothes ... oh dear! Mine was a crow's nest.
Now Clancy put his strong, sinewy fingers on my hand. Like a breath of promise. He smiled and I did the same.
Suddenly the impression flashed through me like a lightning of pure high-voltage current, so that I felt the need to eat him here and now as a belle dame sans merci. Clancy was one hotshot of a candy. Tempting!
His fiery blue eyes, which looked like a pulsar, captured my gaze. I licked my lips provocatively. He noticed that very well when his pupils dilated. Cheek kiss? He could have that much better and more explicitly nowadays. Now I licked his slightly trembling lips. His sonorous sigh echoed in my open mouth.