"Coming of Age" stories. Cutesy tales of gawky, clumsy kids fumbling their ways through sexual rites of passage, only to emerge as better, wiser, more sensitive young men and women.
Such utter horseshit!
Let me just say this: For improbability and depravity, my "coming of age" story takes the cake walking away.
It took nearly three years of persistent nagging for my therapist to pry my story out of me. But when I finally did open up and told her just a fraction of what'd happened, she didn't know what the fuck to say. It was like I'd hit her between the eyes with a five mega-ton dildo! It's bad, let me tell you, when you can shock your therapist into speechlessness; it automatically puts you in the outer 3% on the weirdness curve.
Of course, she didn't believe me at first. But after she confirmed the basic facts by reading the police reports and digging through the newspaper morgues, then I think she started to believe me. That's when the grilling really started, her trying to get me to fess up all the juicy details. By the time I unloaded the whole story on her, she looked at me, slack-jawed. And what was her response? She said I needed counseling, for crissake! I said, "Hey, Doc, what the fuck you think we've been doing here for three years -- electrolysis?"
She knew she was way in over her head. I don't doubt she even discussed me with her other pinhead colleagues.
Anyway, she spent the next three sessions making me go back over all that crap again, making me re-live every goddamn thing. It turns out, see, I'm cursed with this uncanny memory for details. Once something's in my head, it's virtually impossible for me ever get rid of it. Alzheimer's may be my only fucking hope.
Anyway, my counselor tells me I should try putting it all down on paper. "Good therapy," she says, "purge your demons." She suggested I think of it like I was a soldier coming off some traumatic mission, who needs to debrief himself to get his peace of mind back. The difference, though, was my debriefing - if that's what you want to call it - was about ten years after my battle was over. But, what the fuck, I tried writing it all down, half a dozen times. But I always wound up chucking it in the trash. "Approach-avoidance", she called it, due to my "ambivalent emotions."
But maybe this time I can get through it. Just try to bear with me.
I was eighteen when it all went down. Until that point, I wasn't exactly sexually experienced. Oh, I'd made out with a few girls, did a little light petting. Got my lower lip snagged once on a girl's braces. That was pretty much the extent of it.
Then I met Audra.
We were both in our senior year of high school, sharing some of the same classes. She'd already been accepted to Sophie Newcomb in New Orleans where she was planning to major in Microbiology. I was planning to go Texas A&M to study Chemical Engineering. Audra and I were both looked on by our classmates as egg-headed geeks.
She was slender, had sandy blond hair, slim hips, cute butt, smallish breasts, and she wore glasses. She had a little overbite that I found sort of sexy. Audra first came across to me as very proper and a bit reserved. But she seemed to enjoy our being together. She laughed at my jokes. We started dating.
We were both insecure -- I doubt she was any more sexually experienced than I was. We helped each other overcome our shyness. We went on a couple of movie dates, followed by trips to the neighborhood ice cream parlor. She wore L'Air du Temps, a perfume that I found completely intoxicating. I was thrilled when we'd walk along, holding hands. I fretted the first time I put my arm around her, flop sweated over our first goodnight kiss, and projectile sweated the first time she let me cop a feel.
From there we spent many a thrilling hour after school, before her parents got home from work, making out. I still remember transitioning from feeling her up outside her clothes to putting my hand under her sweater, releasing her bra, and caressing her naked breasts. My God! What a thrill! She had wonderful, delicate pink nipples. They were very sensitive. I gave them a lot of attention.
We grew gradually bolder, until finally we'd lie on her parent's bed, both our tops off, our jeans unzipped and down around our thighs. She had this sexy flat belly, sensuous hipbones, and a delectable innie belly button that I couldn't resist tonguing. I remember the first time she let me get my finger wet, and the first time she jacked me off. She looked at my cock the whole time she stroked me, with this ultra-serious expression, like she was waiting for the teacher to hand back our test grades. She was oddly technical in her sex talk:
"Do you think you'll ejaculate soon?" It wasn't that she was impatient. It was more that she had a novice's lewd interest in male physiology.
"Yeah, pretty soon," I murmured, near swooning.
When I finally spurted into the air and all over her hand, she looked pleased, like she'd just made a very good grade. In my mind, she was making straight "A"s.