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When I was 17 and a virgin, I was in love with a beautiful punk
boy who was living on my friend's couch. Stitch towered over me
with his long legs and tall blue-black mohawk, a grifter Ichabod
Crane with eyes so aqueous blue I couldn't meet them without promptly
melting into waves of panic.
Every day after school that spring, I would drive over to my friend's
house and chain smoke with a shaking hand as Stitch watched the
trashy afternoon TV shows. I would have to stop my car on her
street, sweating and ill to my stomach at the thought of seeing
him. We hardly spoke, really, even when he came over to get fed
by my bemused parents and watch Harold and Maude in my bedroom,
his feet hanging off the edge of my girlish bed. He was quiet,
a blank canvas upon which I threw my stories of changelings and
angels. I almost believed his body ended at the waist. I knew
he fucked. I knew it. But I couldn't even begin to think how.
The punk house, as it came to be known, was a servant's house
behind my friend's mother's house. It inevitably smelled of cigarette
smoke, cheap beer, and boot rot. Stitch has found his way there
from the Midwest, and his accent was sweet and quiet.
"Let's go out, Stitch," Id say.
"No, thanks, I'm on vacation," he'd murmur. Or, "Saved by the Bell is on. Maybe later."
He was so beautiful, I can't tell you. He had this strange energy
around him that attracted people in ways I felt, at seventeen,
I never would. He was free of parents, of high school, of applying
to colleges, of everything that made my life overprivileged and
embarrassing. I wanted to not care about anything; I wanted to
be him. If I couldn't be him, then perhaps I could fuck him. That
was good enough for me.
One night we were alone in the punk house, silent as usual. He
had shown me the picture album he carried with him everywhere
in his travels; he showed me pictures of tripping teenagers brushing
their teeth, smiling boys with studded jackets knee-deep in snow,
Mardi Gras pictures blurry with Hurricanes, and a black and white
picture of a cat, heavy with fur and licking between her toes.
This was his cat, he told me. He'd had her since he was a little
boy, and when she died, he took her ashes and made them into a
tea and drank them.
How Zen, I said. He nodded. I wanted to ask him more, about his
family, his travels, what he was trying to find or get away from,
but I was afraid to, as if polite interest would let slip all
my secrets - the panic attacks, my constant eyeing of his elegant
fingers, the things I dreamed up during my required senior government
class.
He sat there on the punk house couch, picking his nails with a
knife. I sat next to him, my body curled in on itself facing the
other direction - legs askew in an Indian style, arms knotted
up across my chest, smoking cigarette after cigarette. I could
feel the saliva building up in my throat, threatening to gag me,
to escape into words I didn't know how to begin saying.
I knew that it would be as easy as my body shifting towards him,
that one second spent leaning and he would meet it. Or he wouldn't.
I wasn't sure which terrified me more.
The dirty zebra-striped couch shifted under me as I put my combat
boots on the floor, my knees toward him, and then he was there
kissing me with his wide pink mouth, his square white teeth rolling
my lower lip. I was trapped inside this dark wetness in his head,
this licking honey. He was kissing me like a girl, I thought,
like a girl! All those years I had thought I was dry and wrong for not liking
the teenage tongue-first makeout sessions; here he was kissing
me like I would kiss myself. I moved farther into his kiss, his
bony arms around me, those long narrow fingers crawling up my
back and percolating the prickly swell, the rush of wetness.
He smelled like cigarettes and unwashed hair, and his skin, as
I licked along his harsh jaw-line, was salty. I moved onto his
lap and held onto those bony wrists, bit his sly collarbones and
his feline ears. His scalp was just beginning to grow baby fuzz,
and his mouth was so strong and hungry, it was going to eat me
like fruit unless I did something first.
I was afraid his kiss would undo all my secrets, that I would
spill words into him with my breath, all my fears that he wouldn't
remember me in six months, in a year, in another city or state,
that I was another dot on his map, but I never had the chance
because his mouth was attached to me, his skeletal hands everywhere,
cupping my too-full breasts and my ass and suddenly growing nails
to scratch me with.
And he was no longer a strange angel, a sexless creature. The
faded black jeans he wore, soft around the knees, did nothing
to hide his erection. The chain connecting his wallet to his belt
loop chinked together and pinched my inner thigh. When I put my
hand down to move it, his was already there on me, gentle, moving
the chain, stroking the ripped tights still covering me, and instead
my hand was on his dick. He pushed his hips right up into my hand,
and I thought I would fucking come right there. This boy, this
unreal beauty, was underneath me and wanting me?
I reached behind me and caught his hard wrists in my hands, put
one on each side of his head behind him on the creaky black wicker
of the couch. He allowed this for a minute or two, and then I
found myself under him, flipped like an egg, a crab with my legs
scrabbling for air, and him in between them. My hands were above
my head, now, mashed against the wicker armrest, the smell of
ancient pillows and sticky saliva and his warm hard sternum full
in my nostrils.
He was pumping his narrow boy hips into me with a surprising energy.
Kisses were replaced by panting noises, and then in my ear: "You're
a virgin." Not a question, but a statement. I nodded anyway.
"Let me give you head," he said, "Please."
Even before he said anything I would have had sex with him right
there, in someone else's house, on a couch funky with teenage
fucking, the windows half-broken and the door to open at any second.
I had never allowed any of my previous boyfriends to go down on
me for fear of losing control of my body; the frightening release
of orgasm eluded me at the hands and mouths of others for years.
Who's to say if I really trusted him more than the others, or
if I was older and more ready for sex, or if I just wanted him
so badly I would have risked anything, even my own humiliation,
to be part of him for a second.
Kissing my ear and its cheap silver rings I had poked in myself,
Stitch teased the skin around my waist, puckered by the elastic
of my tights. He helped me take off my tights; they were tossed
out of sight, another relic of the punk house. He felt the soft
fuzz of my belly and brushed against the tips of my pubic hairs;
then it was my turn to thrust my hips at him. I made little impatient
noises and dug my fingernails into the space between his shoulder
blades. He laughed and skooched down, kissing my stomach and breathing
on my panties.
Then Stitch was licking the cotton and slipping his tongue slyly
into the leg holes. One finger found its way into my panties right
by the crease of my pelvis and traveled perilously close to the
edge of my labia. I was too deep inside my head to even make a
noise by then. One finger trickled between my labia, then two,
then three stroked me like a wave. He removed his hand, licked
his fingers looking at me intently. The elevator drop of fear
and lust and the last seconds before everything changes. Then
Stitch began fucking me with his mouth.
He was hunched between my legs. He kept looking up at me, smiling
with his eyes, sometimes stopping to make little kisses at me
that made me giggle. His response would be little bites all over
my cunt lips and my inner thighs and finally one last tweak on
my clit. I was grabbing his hair by then, the stripe of dyed black
hair that remained soft as fur despite his habit of tormenting
it into spikes; when I let go, it fell over his left eye, the
right bald and strangely vulnerable with one throbbing vein in
his temple, which I petted like a child.
He dipped his tongue between my labia, kissing my vulva like he
had previously kissed my mouth. He sucked one lip into his mouth
and rolled it around like sushi, then the other one, then his
tongue was inside of me, fucking me hard, his nose rubbing my
clit, his fingers pressing on the sensitive muscles in the bridge
between front and back. I opened my legs completely and hooked
my ankles over his shoulders, locking him into me.
He was meticulous, licking me up and down from the place where
my labia met my mons to the perineal ridge; then he settled on
the clit, the fingers of one hand working my cunt, and the other
adding pressure near my asshole. Stitch made a little pocket out
of his mouth, sucked my clit into it, and flicked in conjunction
with his finger fucking.
I was feeling too good to be surprised he knew my secret pulse
points, and too young to know about the G-Spot he was working
from both sides of the sticky walls inside my body. I thought
about how good it felt when I fingered myself, the soft envelope
of velvet that suckled at my finger, and I felt beautiful that
he was feeling the same thing and that he was giving me this pressure,
this heat building that was accompanied by his fingers thrusting
in me like a cock, this wild motion I was making that he could
barely keep up with. I went deep into myself and came with a low
moan and muscle shudders that continued for another minute or
so.
When I had finished convulsing, Stitch covered my half-naked body
with the warm length of him and kissed me. His mouth tasted of
my cunt, his tongue was warm from being inside of me. I was still
twitching, tiny currents running down my legs just when I thought
they'd subsided. His hand was gently resting between my legs,
soaking up the shudders he stirred up and soothing me with its
weight.
"Sleep," he said, "Sleep." |