My Crush

By the time I finished high school I had a hard crush on the girl at the gym. She was a sales clerk at Macy's, which is where I first talked to her. She told me she worked out and I went to the gym to watch her. She talked to me but told me to look in my sandbox and stop trying so hard to get her attention. But, I kept trying to get her to pay attention to me.

After graduation, and she checked my ID, she gave me a free look. In the dressing room of the gym she stripped down to her bare feet, take a good look, now you've seen a woman naked. And she kissed my cheek and told me there was someone in her life.

I asked her to help me with a dress and let her into the dressing room. I dropped the dress, I was topless. She told me not to, nice, but I was a kid. She let me sit with her at Denny's two nights later. She kissed me, on the cheek. Find a girlfriend your age. I went to the gym to see her work out. To my immature brain she was hot, the definition of hot. Abd there was no other one, she was lying to me.

Persistence pays dividends, that was one of my father's sayings. I collected a little dividend, I snuck a kiss on her lips, in return I got silence and a finger in my face. The spell was broken, the next kiss was a make out kiss. And we got naked. Girlfriends have rules, don't get clingy.

I went to college that fall, lots of pretty girls, but I wasn't interested. I called, texted, even wrote a letter. Give up kid, find a pretty girl. But my crush wasn't on campus, she was back home selling women dresses and working out at the gym.

To bring this to a close, four long years of being separated, with intermissions on holidays. She waited for me to grow up and be a woman with her. We went to Punta Cana, had a nice holiday, spent some time at Secrets on the topless beach, made love in the room at night.

I told you it was a hard crush.