*Finishes cleaning off my screen. Breaks the seal from my morning coffee & afternoon PWA. Basking in the glow of good times*
Good and plenty of sexy time continues throughout the summer. For those of you who didn't live in New Orleans, it is a little hard to explain. You weren't limited by when the bars closed. You went out until you had enough. Nobody sent you home. Many a nights we were out until sunrise. I had an easy summer job, a bookeeper position that I did easily on a few hours sleep and feeling the effects of hangover. GB being good with numbers. The vast majority of our relationship was sexually orientated, as she didn't talk about feelings or anything on the inside. It was fun, fun, fun until our daddy took our T-bird away.
That summer, there is some overturn in the roster. Two new guys make the squad, Pete & Mickey. The girls squad changes a little too, but the change in the girls I don't remember. Pete & Mickey also join our fraternity. Also, Mickey asks that I become his big brother in the fraternity. My big brother Doug is in the fraternity and my little brother Mickey is in the fratnerity. A pleasant lineage.
Fall semester starts. I am back in the swing of things. Helping the sorority with Rush, coaching the girls football practice, attending class, and reorganizing my fraternity sports program, and becoming coach-player for our intramural football team.
Sometime in early October, Pochahontas and I have a talk. She wants to see other people. I was a little taken aback, but not as much as I thought.
SM: Do you want to break up?
P: No, I just want to date other people. You have your sorority stuff and I want to do some other things. But, I don't want to lose you.
SM: Okay. Whatever is decided must be mutual, and if this is what you want, I will go with it.
I wasn't happy about it, but I wasn't unhappy either. I guess I had so much going on that it I was able to stay busy and not dwell on it too much.
####Warning....non-cheerleading tangent############
Actually, it opened a new world for me. When my friends in the sorority find out what happened, they were happy. You mean, you can date? Sure, I said. From then on, my social calendar was full. A typical weekend for me was 3 dates, a Friday night date, a Saturday night date, and either a Saturday afternoon date or a Sunday date. One of these were Pochahontas and will still saw each other regularly, but both the weekday and weekend a frequency scaled down a notch or two. .
At this time, my status was known as a pass-around. I was basically a trusted escort. If Sue had a wedding to attend, but her boyfriend couldn't make it or she didn't have one, I was assigned to go to the wedding with Sue. A fund-raiser for Betty? Saints-Man will go with her. A family party for Jenny. Saints-Man will go. I knew how to behave appropriately given the nature of the event. I loved to dance. In all, as I was told, I was a good escort. I wasn't fragile, I treated my dates respectfully, and I wasn't a player. They didn't have to spend the night glued to my side but I was there for them. No apologies, no worrying about my
feelings . I was the guy(much to my chagrin at times) the girls trusted. If the girls got drunk when they were with me, I got them home safely with no funny business.
######Back to the cheerleading##############
I thought sexy time was going to end, but it didn't. Come to find out, my full social calendar stoked Pochahontas' jealousy. I was not playing a game and it was not intentional. I never asked about anything she did(I really didn't want to know), but she grilled me about every event. I told her the truth about everything, and quite frankly, there was no funny business to tell. Only one of these dates ever developed into a brief romance, and Laurie quickly begged off because Pochahontas was an intimidating pressence.
But it quite often put her in sexy mode. At the oddest times in the oddest places. After a particular full weekend(five dates total, my personal best), on the following Monday I was in the library studying. Now, you are not *supposed* to talk in a library, but this was a college library and people still did. I was at a table studying, and she started out nice but the grilling soon commenced. I wasn't angry with her and I didn't get my back up because I didn't do anything wrong. While she was getting a little agitated, I stayed calmed and patiently answered every question and would underline that there was nothing b/w that girl and I and it was just an event. None of these were "dates" in the conventional sense of the word. I didn't call the girls, I just knew them. I often told what time to pick them up and what we were doing and sometimes I would not talk to them(just because of scheduling conflicts) before the events. There was no sexy time, no making outs, no french kissing, just an escort.
This particular weekend's activities for some reason really got to her. I don't know why. I assumed her weekend was full, I just didn't ask and I told my friends not to tell me if they knew. I felt it was better not knowing. For whatever reason, as long as I didn't know, it didn't bother me. She asked me to go outside. I would not do it now, but back them we would just leave our stuff at the table. We get outside:
P: What are you studying?
SM: X(A variable...I forgot the subject). I have a test tomorrow.
P: How long are you going to study?
SM: Not sure. Until I know it.
P: I want you to come over to my apartment after you have finished studying and f### me tonight.
SM:

WHAT??????? (an editor's note...P would curse occasionally but I remember this specifically because this is the first time she made such a request so directly using that language)
P: You heard me. Come to my apartment after you are done here. I want you to f### me tonight.
SM:
(Editor's commentary: I reiterate, I am not then, nor am I now, a player. This exchange has caught me completely off guard. Part of me thinks this relationship is dieing out, and then a whole new twist emerges.)
SM: Well...I don't know....It is kind of late, and my class is at 8.
P: (just stares at me, not smiling, not glaring, just an expressionless look on her face)
SM: (finally collecting myself, which seemingly took an eternity) Tell you what. When I finish, I will call you. If you are still interested, I will come over. Is that okay?(even writing that now, it comes accross as asking permission and I cringe at that sign of weakness)
P: That's good.
We both go inside and she immediately collects her things and leaves. Now, I am aroused. It is quite difficult to digest the dates and events of European history 1400-present with this on my mind. I spend a few minutes calculating my final grade depending on how poorly I do on the test. AFter an hour, with probably 3.5 minutes of actual studying done, I make the phone call and she gives me the green flag.
I arrive at her apartment at about midnight. I knock on the door and she tells me to come in. What? That is odd. I do so, and there she is lying in bed. Well, doesn't look like foreplay is on the menu tonight, waiter.
I kiss her on the lips, avoiding her tongue for the moment. I tell her I need just a minute. I potty, wash my face as I am a little tired, and drink a glass of water and pour another. As I remove my shorts and revealing my tighty whities(I didn't become a boxer guy until a few years later), my anticipation for the activity is obvious. She cracks a smile, the first time all night.
As I pull back the sheets to get into bed, I behold a wonderful sight. There she is...fully dressed in her uniform. As we start the process I discover another great surprise... her tights are already gone!!!!
WWWWWoooooo-Wwoooooooo!!!!!!
I drew interest on that spank bank deposit for many, many years.
We engaged in various forms of sexual congress until sunrise, which was about 6 am. I remember this encounter being especially vigorous for some reason.
I did make it in time for my test. I will never forget my score...an 88.
I knew then that this wasn't exactly a storybook romance at this point, but I was young & naive.
*Sits back in chair, awashed in memories. Takes a nice long drink from my stein, and stretch my back*