
Last week I wrote about my best friend in high school, Julia. So I thought about talking a bit more about Teresa, a girl who had the biggest impact on my life.
I had known her throughout elementary school, but it wasn't until latter half of sixth grade that we became good friends. I can't remember exactly how we became good friends, but I do remember us talking and playing at school a lot.
By this time, Julia had drifted away from me and was spending more time with this other set of girls who were like the "in crowd". They were into pop culture, make-up, and were always putting themselves in view of the boys.
Teresa was something of a loner for most of elementary school. She was considerably taller than the other girls, and more physical. She something of a tom-boy back then, very smart, very opinionated, and never shy to initiate something. A lot of the kids referred to her as a freak, mostly because they were afraid of her.
So I think we became we good friends because I had become a loner by then too, and I wasn't interested in the pop-culture stuff that Julia wanted.
After school, Teresa and I used to go to her house. She lived in another part of town, probably a three or four miles from my house. But since my mother was rarely at home, working two jobs, I had the freedom to go anywhere I wanted.
Teresa's mom was a nudist. When she came home from work, she usually took her clothes off. Teresa learned to appreciate nudity, but she didn't necessarily take her clothes off right away. It was mostly a thing of convenience for her. After a shower, she would stay nude until she found a reason put clothes on.
For the first several times, when her mom came home from work, she kept her clothes on when I was there. But eventually, and I can't remember how it all went, she started going around the house nude in my presence, and acting like it was no big deal. She would cook dinner in the nude, and she'd offer me to have dinner with them, and she would eat at the table in the nude. It was awkward for me to see Teresa's mom nude all the time.
Teresa's mom also was abused by her husband. She divorced him when Teresa was very little. She vowed never to let that happen to Teresa, and made it her mission to teach Teresa to be strong, independent, and tough. She apparently also taught Teresa to be sexually liberated.
She didn't actually encourage her to masturbate, or have sex, or anything of the sort. But I think she debunked all the traditional expectations of a woman's role in society. She made it OK for Teresa to talk about sex, made Teresa feel proud of her body, and made it feel normal and acceptable to feel sexual urges.
So it all started in the summer after Teresa and I graduated sixth grade. We were in her room, laying on her bed, and talking about stuff. I noticed her putting her hand into her shorts, and then pulling it back out after a few seconds. I remember thinking how strange that was, but she didn't do this all that often, and eventually I just shrugged it off.
But over time, I would catch her doing it other times, and sometimes she'd have her hand in her crotch for several seconds, obviously not just scratching, but enjoying it. I would roll my eyes, or a make a "uh" sound, and she would pull her hand back out, and then tap me with her other hand as if I shouldn't be so prude.
The tipping point came when I arrived at her house during that same summer. Her mother answered the door and let me in. She called out for Teresa and she came walking out of her bedroom, still naked. This was the first time I ever saw her nude. It wasn't what I expected, however I knew Teresa and her mom spent a lot of time nude in the house, and I knew eventually I would have to deal with it if I wanted Teresa as my friend.
So in her bedroom we just gabbed and talked like we always did. And just as always, she would casually touch herself, except now I could see her
actually touching herself. And by this time, I was used to seeing her touch herself for 20-30 seconds at a time. I used to just smile or laugh, and continue gabbing and chatting and just accepted it as part of having Teresa's friendship.
That moment Teresa asked me to take my clothes off. I didn't want to, but she insisted. I kept refusing, but the tipping point came when she stood in front of me, and at the time she was about six inches taller, and quite a bit more physical. She looked down at me with a smile and said, "Hey, if you want to be my friend, you have to take your clothes off" and kept looking right at me.
I felt that submissive streak come into me for the first time. I didn't want to lose Teresa's friendship, and I couldn't help but feel mesmerized by her serious stare. And then it was she who pulled up my top and lifted it over my head. And it was she who pushed me back on to the bed, and pulled my shorts and panties off.
She got back on the bed and pulled some magazines off her nightstand and said, "Let's look at some magazines together". At that point, I started doing what she wanted. Our friendship completely changed at that point, where the more I followed her lead, the more she accepted me as her friend, the more I felt happy.
(to be continued)