At the beginning of my sophomore year at USC, I was asked to
welcome and “sponsor” a new freshman entering the Cinematic Arts Program. Her
name was Jenny and she was a prodigy, sixteen years old, and the daughter of a
prominent film editor in Hollywood. She had been making movies since she was a
mere babe and already had her short films screened in prestigious film
festivals.
She was also the horniest and most sexually active
girl/woman I have ever known.
I had not seen her since I moved to Arizona, so I looked her
up this week during my visit to SoCal. We met for lunch in Huntington Beach,
where the National Surf Championships are being held. We figured we’d watch
some surfing in the morning, then chow down at a favorite Mexican restaurant.
I agreed to meet her in front of the Huntington Surf Shop,
across the street from the pier. I’m not sure what I expected at seeing her
again, but when she appeared in a playsuit with a neckline that plunged to her
lady bits and short shorts that caressed her little tush just so. I was not
surprised. What did surprise me was an outrageously beautiful full-color tattoo
of a mermaid that covered her chest and ended below her navel. This was a true,
bright work of art, not a sloppy, faded street tattoo from some hole-in-the-wall
shop. This was Hollywood perfection, albeit, a beta temporary tattoo that looked the real thing.
“Sparky,” she squealed and hugged and kissed me as if we
were long-lost lovers. And, well, that is as good a description of us as any.
Arm in arm, we strutted down the pier giggling like we did
in college and found a place to watch the surfers compete. With the wind
blowing, the surfing commentator on giant speakers, airplanes overhead, and the
general crowd noise, we had to lean close, face-to-face to converse. She was
wearing her signature fragrance, brown sugar, which somehow fit her fragile
5’1” thin – okay, skinny – frame. The surfing was not great as a storm offshore
was causing awkward swells and rip currents were mean.
We lasted on the pier for maybe an hour before we made our
way down Main Street to one of our favorite eateries, Avila’s El Ranchito. It
was Tuesday so the Farmer’s Market was converted into a pedestrian area.
Colorful stalls of everything from fresh fruit and produce to E-Bikes lined the
curbs. In the center of the market, a three-piece band was playing A Whiter
Shade of Pale. Jenny, a far bolder exhibitionist than me, became one with the
music and began to dance about in wide graceful moves engaging young and old
folk with her seductive smile, turns and twists. Her tiny outfit with her
high-top sneakers, I think, made people believe she was part of the act. The
band and the crowd liked her. She danced to one more tune, Hotel California,
earning vigorous applause from passers-by.
At Avila’s we shared a Taco Tuesday plate and happy hour
margaritas. We sat side-by-side like we almost always did at USC, so we could
tickle and tease each other more easily than we could from across a table. And
we did just that. It was like no years had passed at all.
Jenny's career is ferociously successful. She followed in her mom's footsteps and pursued film editing working for several of the major studios. She is in high demand cutting features as well as mini-series on the streamers. Like everyone in Hollywood, she has a couple of scripts making the rounds too. Hearing about her adventures tweaked something in my brain, and heart, so now I'm thinking about and longing for being back in the "industry" full time. Hmmmm....
Time passed ever so quickly until the afternoon wore into
the evening and we found ourselves walking along the beach at sunset. Jenny had
driven all the way from LA, so had the foresight to book a room because she was
sure lunch would lead to dinner and dinner would lead to spending the night
together. Jenny always was clever.
I was not surprised that the room Jenny had reserved had a
small, two-person Jacuzzi tub. We were salty all over from being in the sun
much of the day and sandy from our walk, so the tub became our first priority.
We sank into the hot water, turned up the jets, and took turns washing each
other – you know, feeling each other up – all over with shampoo, soap, and
smiles. Afterward, we bundled up in big, soft terrycloth robes provided by the
hotel.
We weren’t very hungry, so we just ordered a pizza for
dinner from ZeroZero39 Pizza (when in Huntington Beach, a must). Jenny decided to dash down the street for a
bottle of wine, yes wearing the robe, while I called my mom letting her know I
wouldn’t be home. This also gave me some time to think about how I felt about
seeing Jenny again.
Remember, Jenny was just sixteen years old when I was her “sponsor”
at USC. I was only nineteen yet had already developed a particular affinity for
girls younger than myself. With Jenny’s hyperactive libido and my desire for teens, we were a match made in nubile nirvana. We simply loved loving
each other. We weren’t “in love” or a couple or even an “item” to use a term of
the day. Between classes, productions, projects, other girlfriends or
boyfriends, or other life stuff that kept us busy, when we had time to be together,
we played. Oh my, how we played!
Remembering Jenny then and how we played, made me laugh out
loud, shiver, and get all goose-bumpy. I wallowed in the feeling.
There was banging on the door. I noticed Jenny’s room key was on
the table by the door, so assumed she had forgotten it because it was too soon
for the pizza delivery. I hopped up and dropped my robe to greet her buck
naked. Okay, I know, you saw this coming I am sure, but, yes, it was the pizza
guy. Honest. It was a true cliché. I’ve greeted pizza delivery guys naked on
purpose, on dares, but never by accident. He laughed and told me I was the
second one this week. Go figure.
As I said, Jenny is clever. She bought wine with a screw cap
because we didn’t have a corkscrew. We munched pizza in our pristine white
robes on the little balcony of the room that looked out over the PCH and the
beach.
It wasn’t long before we were entwined this way and that and
head over heels taking advantage of almost every inch of the California King
bed. We’d been down this highway before and knew every road sign and bump in the
road of each other’s bodies. Jenny kissed me like no other person in the world.
Her tongue was magic, with the light touch of a butterfly and the motion of an
ocean swell. I remembered it delightfully as she rediscovered me and my body. Her
mouth drifted to my breasts where she did a little lick, nibble, and tiny bite thing
that has always made me shiver. She used her slender hands and gentle fingers
to slide into my curves, crevices, and orifices with remembered practice. After
all the years we have been playmates, this seemed, again, like one of the very first
times, new and naughty.
I found myself remembering a night only a few weeks after we
met. We were exploring the merits of female 69 when Jenny asked simply, almost
in a little girl voice, “May I put my finger in your butt?” I laughed, completely
taken aback, but was amused at the question. “Sure!”
I had dabbled in some ass play before but did not become a
fan until Jenny made it playful, funny, and fun. And she was only sixteen then.
Over the years she refined the art and this night she was more astonishing than
ever.
Finally, both of us exhausted from the day and over-the-moon
orgasms, we were drifting off to sleep when Jenny whispered, “When I finish the
editing project I am working on, may I visit you in Tucson?”
“Of course, darling.”