It was a dark and stormy night ... oh no, wait ... wrong story. It was actually a rather pleasant spring evening, which is very rare for Houston. But then weather has nothing to do with this story, I'm just setting the scene. Cheryl and I had been married for about nine months. We lived in the typical garden style apartment complex that was common for young newly weds and struggling college students, of which we were both. Actually I was the full time student and worked part time as a drug store clerk. Cheryl worked full time as a bank teller and attended classes part time. We were both pretty busy, but still very much newly weds and couldn't keep our hands off each other every chance we got.
Not being from Houston we didn't have a large circle of friends but we were working on it. Cheryl made friends pretty quickly and would invite people over for dinner on occasion when we both had an evening at home. This particular Friday night she had invited one of the girls she worked with at the bank over for drinks and dinner. Sarah was about our age, not the brightest bulb in the box, but very sweet and to tell the truth, not hard on the eyes at all. She was about five four, small but not petite, blonde hair past her shoulders, though she normally wore it up.
She was from Jasper, a small town deep in the piney woods of East Texas and a true country girl at heart. She had moved to the big city straight out of high school and was still trying to find herself. Houston was big enough and cosmopolitan enough for her to blend in, but really her heart, her sole and her common sense were back in the woods somewhere.
She had just broken up with her second or third boy friend since moving to the big city and she was really feeling down. Cheryl invited her over for diner hoping that we could cheer her up and to try to keep her from calling it quits and head back home. She was hurt, upset and felling pretty lonely, but I don't think she really wanted the big city beat her. In her current state I'm pretty sure that's what she was thinking, but Cheryl and I both hoped she would stay ... besides, we needed the friends.
It was spaghetti night and all three of us were crammed into our apartment's tiny kitchen. I'd open a bottle of cheap red wine and poured a glass for each of us. While Cheryl worked on a tossed salad, I started the spaghetti sauce and we put Sarah to work buttering French bread for toast. As we each finished our designated tasks, we retired one by one to the dinning room, as it was, but we were still close enough to continue the conversation.
We both were trying to cheer up poor Sarah and at the same time question her as to her opinion on why she seemed to have such bad luck in love. Basically we were trying to get her to talk about the apparent failures of her love life. The theory being, that the more she talked about it, the more she might understand herself what went wrong and if possible, make corrections.
As the spaghetti sauce slowly simmered on the stove, and all three of us gathered around our tiny excuse for a dinning table, Sarah talked and talked and Cheryl and I both felt like we were making progress. It least we had her talking and trusting us and at least feeling like she had some friends she could rely on.
After several glasses of wine, I got up to boil the pasta. And while the girls set the table for diner, I opened another bottle of wine. Cheryl lit candles and dimmed the lights. We each served ourselves in the kitchen, returned to the table to continue our conversation.
Eventually, as we knew it would, the discussion came around to sex. Sarah claimed she wasn't a virgin, but you could tell from her voice that she had not mastered the art either. Her description of her love life seemed very naive and almost like she was still in high school; early high school for that matter. Clearly she was never the initiator of sex. She would "give in" because she felt she "needed to." And it was obvious to us that she considered it more of an obligation than an activity enjoyed between two consenting adults.
After several probing questions, Cheryl finally got around to, "do you touch his penis?"
"Well yes," she answered. But with a hesitation in her voice.
"Have you ever given a guy a hand job ... you know, had he come in your hand?" Cheryl asked. A shy yes was her response, but neither of us believed it.
I couldn't hold it back any longer. "Have you ever given a blow job?" I blurted out.
She quickly, almost instantly, responded "no," with a quick glance to Cheryl to check her reaction to my question. She then sort of shuttered with a "that's gross" look in her eyes.
Cheryl and I both glanced at each other and smiled. I wanted to respond, but Cheryl squeezed my hand under the table to imply that she would handle this. She looked Sarah directly in the eyes and proclaimed that oral sex was the ultimate expression of intimacy and affection between two people. It showed total trust in each other, and besides, your mouth and tongue could do things to each other that simply weren't possible through any other means.
Sarah sort of sat there with a look of disbelief on her face. We both knew what was going on in her mind and I'm sure the thought came to both of us at the same time that we need to convincer her otherwise.
I immediately agreed with everything Cheryl was saying, but I realized that it was much better to let her try to reason with Sarah, girl-to-girl. Cheryl tilted back on her chair to reach behind her to the kitchen counter. She pulled the one banana we had in a fruit basket on the counter and brought it softly up to her lips.
At first, without peeling it, she seductively kissed the bottom end of the banana. Sarah's eyes were as big as saucers, but she didn't pull away. She stared at Cheryl with the look of a school girl that had wondered into the boy's dressing room by mistake.
We both felt that we had an opportunity to make a difference in this poor girl's life. Again, I wanted to chime-in with my two cents, but I knew better. Cheryl was doing an excellent job and all I had to do was sit and watch.
A sense of sexual anticipation hung in the air. Cheryl slowly removed the banana from her lips. She turned it around and seductively began to peel it. The candle light flickered and wine was clearly taking its desired affect as Cheryl now brought the fully peeled fruit to her lips.