A First Time for Everything

Julien stopped in the woods to catch his breath.  This one had been close…they’d almost caught him in the act.  It was a good thing she had that ladder, otherwise the rosebush beneath her window would have stung quite a bit.  As he stood there, bent at the waist with heaving lungs, he thought back to his first encounter with the “other lover”.

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He was fifteen years old, and was ready to jump at any chance to pass.  He didn’t care who or how, but he needed to feel a woman’s touch, in a bad way.  It just so happened, though, that his oldest brother was willing to take him along to a gathering, where he was sure to find a prim, proper lady of breeding willing to give him what he wanted.

Sure enough, the night came around, and while he was standing on the balcony sipping a glass of illegally-gotten brandy, the most beautiful woman he had ever seen appeared below, her dress shimmering silver in the blue moonlight.  Entranced, Julien tore through the house only to come to the ballroom and find her dancing through the far doors with the Prince.  Heartbroken, he moved back up to the balcony where he watched the horrific display for half an hour before draining his now eighth glass of brandy and stumbling out the back and into the woods.

He heard the bells chime midnight , and started cackling wildly.  He was in the woods, DRUNK, with no idea where he was…and now there was a sound behind him.  It sounded like a woman running.  Next thing he knew, there was a flash of white, and the beautiful woman was flying through the woods toward him.  Unable to stop, she plowed into him and they fell to the ground.

Without hesitation, Julien pulled her into his embrace.  She responded quickly, and soon they were deep into the throes of passion.  Then, as quickly as it had started, it was over and they lay panting in the brush. 

A noise caught his attention, and as he listened, Julien realized that it was the Prince in the lead of a search party.  Looking down at the heap of rags that were once the beautiful woman’s clothes, he panicked and fled into the trees.  He watched as the Prince came upon the sleeping woman.

“Cinderella!!!!”  he cried as Julien inched away as carefully as he could.

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As he thought about it, Julien laughed.  He was much in the same situation now – naked in the woods with a search party in hot pursuit.  He scrambled to put on his trousers, and in the process, the dogs caught his sent and started baying loudly.  The smile turned to a gasp as he stumbled forward, hopping his left leg into his pants, and took off again.  If he’d done it before, he could certainly do it again…