My Life and Other Pleasures

I must admit. I’ve had a great life. I’m 31 years old, I have paternal twins, great parents and a husband that I love to death. I’m also a bestselling author of a book on teen sexuality. The income that I receive from my book allows me to stay at home and raise my twins the way I want. My husband is a successful cardiologist that provides for me and the twins very well.

Following the success of my first book, I decided to write another. I was stumped for a subject, so I started to recall my late teen years.

I was 17 and growing up in a small town. The weekends consisted of hanging out in an empty parking lot with friends or going to the lake until I met Matt. Matt was my age. He was about 5’11” and had curly brown hair. He had a shy disposition as did I, so we got along great. We talked about sex, but wanted to wait until everything was perfect. Having moved here from Salt Lake City six months before, he was adjusting to life in a small town pretty well. My best friend Jennifer warned me about him, but I didn’t want to listen. Matt and his parents attended the local Mormon Church, so he had to be a gentleman, right?

Jennifer was the smart one of the bunch. Also the prettiest, but she never used it to her advantage. We’ve been best friends since 5th grade and could talk to each other about anything. A couple of years before, she had confided in me that she had lost her virginity to one of the local farm boys that she had dated for a while, and that it was the best thing that could have ever happened to her. We were both barely 15, and I was skeptical, so I decided to hold on to mine for a while longer until the right guy came along.

Back to 1999:

Matt, Jennifer, her latest boyfriend Phil and I were at the beach late one Saturday night slowly working on a 12 pack that Jennifer’s boyfriend had brought. “So, what do you have planned for your 18th birthday next month?” Jennifer asked. “What day is it Maddie?” Matt said with a quizzical look on his face. “September 17th and I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet.” I replied. “No shit, that’s my birthday too!!!” Matt told us. “We should do something together.” “We’ll see.” I told him and with that we went back to drinking and wading in the warm summer water.

Matt and I had a pretty normal relationship as teenagers. So I thought. We hung out together whenever we could, go to the movies, made out to a point, but I never let him go too far. I let him play with my tiny breasts under my bra, but when he reached below the waist, I would move his hand away and tell him not yet.

A few days before our birthdays, Matt and I were sitting in the park tossing bread scraps to the ducks. “Matt” I said not looking at him, “Our birthday is in a couple of days and I want to give you something really special.” “What’s that Maddie?” he asked looking at me. Still not looking at him I said, “I want you to be my first.” “First what” he asked playing dumb. “I want to give you my virginity” I said feeling the blush that was rushing to my face. “Maddie you are too cool. I know I never told you this, but I’m a virgin too. I’ve gone to 3rd base and all, but I’ve never had real sex. You just want to park at the lake and do it?” “No I don’t want car sex. “ I told him. “I want some place comfortable. I have an idea, but I’m not sure if it will work out or not.” “I’ll do you right here if it doesn’t” Matt replied with a very happy look on his face. “Shut up Matt” I said with a smile finally looking at him.

On September 17th, my parents woke me up to a special breakfast of my favorite foods, gave me my gift that was a $500 savings bond that they bought the year I was born to help pay for college. I hugged and kissed them both and then headed for school, (so they thought) I met Matt a couple of blocks away and instructed him to drive to my Uncle Robs house. He isn’t really my uncle but he and his ex-wife have been friends with my parents since before I was born.

When we arrived I knocked on the door and Uncle Rob answered with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. “Hi Maddie. What’s up?” He glared at Matt. Uncle Rob didn’t like Matt. Didn’t trust him. He invited us both in and we sat down. “I need a huge favor Uncle Rob.” Uncle Rob was a cool guy, but this request may have been pushing it a bit far. “Me and Matt want to use one of your bedrooms.” He knew what our reason was “Are you kidding me? Your mom will find 15 different ways of killing me.” I told him that I was 18 now and could do what I wanted. He paused for a minute and then walked in to his bedroom. He came back out holding two leashes. “I’m taking the dogs for a walk.