After
my abortive attempt at making the kissing after prom I didn't know
exactly where I stood with my would-be girlfriend but when I talked
to her the next day she was as warm and friendly as ever maybe even
more so. It was confusing, and not in a good way. She had told me
that the reason she didn't want to kiss me a prom was that she had
never kissed someone on the lips before and she was too nervous. I
said that was okay, but I did not think it was okay. I was thinking
how bad could it be? She did get significantly more cuddly and we
spent a lot of nights from prom till the next Thursday cuddling and
hanging out. The Thursday after prom I was at her house after her
parents eight o'clock bedtime. We were downstairs watching TV of some
sort and when that ended she turned off the TV and turned out the
lights and sat next to me in the dark. She held my hand and then
leaned in really close until her warm sweet breath was on me in the
dark. Like the fortunate hiker who stumbles upon a deer in the
meadow, I held completely still, barely breathing and trying to not
spook her and ruin the magic. She started kissing my neck, then my
ear, and when she had worked up the courage she kissed me full on the
lips. I was torn on my opinion of our first kiss, it was not the most
technically sound kiss I had ever encountered, but it was passionate
and intense and she was beautiful and I was in love. We kissed a
little more in the dark basement not quite under her sleeping parents
but pretty close. I had kissed lots of girls before but I had never
felt such a sense of accomplishment and exhilaration as I did walking
the four blocks home that night. I mumbled elated congratulations to
myself while I made goofy celebratory fist pumps and 'heck-yeah'
faces as I bad-A strutted back to my house. It took a while to get
to the kiss, and it was a little sloppy and moist when I did, but it
was the best kiss I had ever earned. That night I was all redemption
and forgotten failures. I had trouble falling asleep and I laid on my
bed in my darkened and considered how great the world and everything
in it was.
