The story I’m about to tell you is a true one and took place not so long ago. Before that time I had never had much luck with men, they all seemed to think they owned me and I never truly felt that they cared for me, they just wanted me in their bed and rarely took the time to talk to me except to tell me what they wanted, never caring or listening to what I had to say, and on top of that most of them weren’t even any good in bed so there rarely was anything good in those relationships.
Then it was about 3 weeks before the weekend I’m going to tell you about that Sara, one of my dearest friends, came to visit me and the first thing I noticed was how joyful and happy she seemed, far removed from the Sara I had seen only four weeks before. After she had heard of my latest misadventures with a prick called David she told me about this club she had joined. After seeing how happy she was and hearing what she had to say about it I felt I should give it a try. Sara then called her group leader and asked if he would take me into his group or if he could recommend a good group leader for me. After a short time Sara hung up the phone and gave me an e-mail address she had written down and told me I should write a letter about myself including what I had done and learned during my life and also sending 3-12 pictures of myself along with the e-mail.
Being only 19 years old I felt I couldn’t know all that much but Sara told me that didn’t matter as far as my acceptance into the club would go, they just needed to know as much about me as I was willing to tell them. When I asked her what kind of pictures they wanted of me she told me just to send any pictures I wanted, they were only needed so that the group leader would recognise me when I came to see him. She then told me that she was moving to another country because that’s where her group was located and when I asked her about it she told me that most groups were small and since a group leader decides how large his group will be there might not be any openings here, but since the club operates in many countries there should be a seat for me somewhere in the world, but if I didn’t want to travel all over the world I could join as a long distance member, I would be missing out on much but I'd still be a member.
After Sara left I just sat there thinking about what she had said and how I should join. What little she told me about the interview with the group leader I must admit made me a little scared, but thinking about it the reasons for it all made a certain kind of sense to me and I felt I could do it. Before I went to bed I finished writing a rather long letter about myself, picked out 7 pictures and e-mailed it all.
Two days later I had a reply. I was surprised because Sara had told me it might take a few months to find me a group, the reason for this quick response I found out later, Sara had talked to her group leader again and he had wasted no time to interview me.
Now here I was, shaking like a leaf in front of his hotel room getting up the courage to knock on the door. After a few moments I took a deep breath and knocked on the door. The man who opened the door had on a robe and apparently was just out of the shower. When I saw him I was sure I had made a mistake and gone to the wrong room, he was about 5’ 10”, slightly overweight and with a kind face but he looked like he was only 20 years old, I had expected a man between 30 and 40 (I found out later that he is 32 years old and he often has this problem of being asked to show his I.D.)
I was about to excuse myself when he asked if I was Linda, Sara’s friend, shakily I said I was. He then told me his name and that he thought I had decided not to come, I tried to apologise for being late but he understood my fear of coming to see him and told me I had nothing to fear. He then led me to the bed, where I sat down, and handed me two printed pages and told me these were the club rules and if I didn’t want to join after reading them we’d need talk no more about it and I could go home, he then sat down by his laptop and started to work on something there.