1 post tagged “prince”

Tell us a little something about your first girlfriend/boyfriend.

Wanda. Fourteen. Five foot two? Nineteen eighty five. Leopard print pants. Feathered hair. Brown eyes. Didn't like her own nose. Her body was beautiful, but now that I think about it, she was fourteen and I was fifteen, so yikes my memory is soiled. We used to walk all over town together, my arm around her waist, smoking from a shared pack of cigarettes. I remember the curve of her back and the sway of her hip. She thought, and this will make you laugh and laugh, that I looked like Prince. I laughed but I was secretly flattered. Come on people, this was nineteen eighty five. Asshole stepfather, a fat bastard who lay on the couch all day long and bossed her mother around. She couldn't stand him, but her real father was even worse, a crazy guy in coveralls who lived at the edge of town. Once she caught sight of him on the street and we had to hide behind a church for half an hour. In the evening we would lie under a chestnut tree and laugh, smoke, make out, talk shit and make out some more. In her bedroom we shut the door slowly so her mother wouldn't hear. She let me take off her shirt and then we would press our bodies up against each other. She made me turn off the light first.This was as far as we were going at fourteen and fifteen, or at least as far as she was willing to go. Her mother would knock on the door constantly and ask if we wanted any snacks. She hated the town we lived in and wanted to move to Halifax. Developed a crush on Brett Michaels, and when I saw that Aryan bastard on an album cover, I knew my days with her were numbered.

I haven't seen her in seventeen years.