They’d taken a walk in the park, the weather still mid-summer sultry. Suitably late, they’d driven to the club in her car, and had taken their tim...e drinking the red wine they’d brought and dancing to the alternative rock sounds of the club’s D.J. There weren’t many people in yet, and he’d pulled close behind her and pressed himself to her ass. ‘Go to the bathroom and take your undies off,’ he said, breathing by her ear. She’d looked at him, seen that he was entirely serious, and went to do as. "We'd been together so long we both knew what was going to happen. Jean wouldn't have stayed around laughing at me had she not expected, even welcomed, my anticipated retaliation. There was an almost languorous pace to this game that had an edge of excitement, for I didn't really know how deep it was... where we were going with it.I thought of how close we'd grown in the last months. How we'd come to share our truth about ourselves, about our sexuality and our mutual horniness. There was no. One needle for each foot. If you want to avoid one of the most excruciating pain a human being could possibly endure, all you have to do is press that button from the remote I gave you."Leah's hyperventilation returned. She felt her mind was about to shut down or explode."Of course, by pressing the button, you will offer yourself to be submerged head first onto the cold water. It is up to you how long you want to stay under. But the second you come back up for air, the needles will still be. It was just a quick peck, lasting a second, if that, but it was amazing to me. That was my first kiss. Afterwards, she leaned back, smiled, said goodnight and hopped out if the car. I was in a state of shock the whole way home.We didn't kiss again, or talk about it, until Thanksgiving in early October. We had gone up to my cottage to have Thanksgiving with my parents. While waiting for dinner, Karla and I sat in the basement watching Office Space, when finally the subject came up. She told me.