When I was a senior in high school my father, who had been in construction his entire life fell off of an old scaffolding while working on a project; the board snapped below his feet and he went crashing through the platform and fell several stories. This accident was caused by the construction company he worked for attempting to "cut costs" where ever they could; unfortunately, it looked like my dad would never walk again.
Before the accident, my family may have been considered "lower middle class," we weren't exactly poor but we weren't living above our means. Take Dad's income out of the equation, followed up by medical bills, and a pending lawsuit, our social status fell quicker than he did off that scaffolding. After months and months of falling behind on our bills the conversation finally happened.
"We've got to move." I remember my dad telling my sister and I.
"Move where?" I asked him.
"Into a smaller place. An apartment." He told me. "You and your sister are going to have to share a room."
"Are you kidding me?!" We both shouted in unison.
And to make a long story short, he was indeed.. Not kidding.
We moved into a quiet suburban neighborhood right outside the city and into a tiny cramped apartment complex. Mom and Dad had a room on one side of the apartment and sure enough, sis and I were on the opposite end of the long hallway; the kitchen, living room, and bathroom divided each side of the apartment, separating the two rooms.
This living arrangement was not ideal to say the least and it ended up lasting long after my sister and I graduated high school. It wasn't until we turned 21 that we were able to have some sense of privacy.
My sister, Mandy and I were twins, not identical; born only minutes apart from the other. When we were younger we were almost inseparable; Mandy was my best friend and I was hers. Once we reached high school things began to shift and we started to grow apart, especially socially; I'd consider myself a late bloomer. It wasn't until the summer after graduation that I really started to come out of the peak of my brutal years of puberty. I was anti-social throughout high school, kept to myself, and generally tried to stay invisible. But once we graduated I began to find my own sense of style, started going to the gym, and really started to put on some mass.
Mandy however, was the complete opposite of me. She bloomed as early as ninth grade and she flourished socially; I still remember it like it was yesterday.. Just a few months before graduation, we were eighteen years old. She quietly came into our room late on Saturday night, around 3 AM; I was already happily asleep.
"I did it." She whispered from across the room.
I wiped the sleep from my eyes and asked, "Did.. What?"
"I had sex." She said. "I lost my virginity."
I laid silently in the dark; I wasn't sure how to respond. I felt inadequate, insecure, and socially inept. Mandy and I had a certain kind of "connection" with the other, almost telepathic; we'd done mostly everything together up until this moment and I was so embarrassed to still be a virgin. Of course she knew that I was but we had never really discussed our virginity or sex until this night; well, she discussed it. I pretended to fall back asleep as she continued to tell me details about the night and who she was with.
The next morning, all I could ask was:
"How was it?"
"Not great." Mandy laughed, "It kind of hurt actually."
Mandy continued to experiment when she could with the guy she lost her V-Card to, as I suffered alone through the final weeks of school; the summer couldn't come quick enough for me. As the weeks of summer progressed I really started to come into my own and with every weight I lifted it was if something inside of me was being awakened; I could feel the testosterone coursing through my veins with every heartbeat.. And it was being pumped directly into my cock.
My confidence grew along with every muscle in my body; truthfully I hadn't even been interested in girls much throughout high school but everything changed that night Mandy lost her virginity and it wasn't long after that I lost my own virginity.
"Guess what?" I asked Mandy.
"What?" She replied.
"I did it.. Too." I told her.
"No way!" She exclaimed. "Finally!"
"Finally?! What do you mean finally?" I asked.
"I was wondering if you were ever going to lose it!" She said, "I've been waiting for you to catch up."
I filled her in on the details and she congratulated me; she seemed genuinely happy that I finally got to have my first sexual experience and I was more than satisfied knowing that she and I were back on the same level mentally and spiritually. It was the first time in what felt like years that we had been back on that mind to mind connection that was so prevalent in our younger years.