Andy to Amy

"Why are you staring at my knickers?"

I jerked upright. God, I really had been staring at her knickers - not the ones she was wearing, sadly, but a pair on the floor, presumably yesterday's pair. They were perfectly normal white knickers with little pink flowers on them and a tiny satin bow on the front - unremarkable in every way other than they were right there in front of me and, as she had noticed, I couldn't tear my eyes away from them.

'She' was Nikki and 'I' was, and still am, Andy. At least most of the time. Sometimes I am Amy, but we'll get to that. The day in question was an early summer morning and I was sitting on the floor at the end of her bed. She was sitting opposite me, and we were supposed to be studying for a biology test that we had coming up, but it seems my mind was wandering. I can't recall what the card game was, as it was an awfully long time ago but I do recall that I was 18 and Nikki was as well, and we were sort of girlfriend and boyfriend. I say 'sort of' because all we did was kiss occasionally and sometimes hold hands. This was the 1970s, after all! We were both very naive about sex, although we knew the mechanics from biology lessons at the school we both went to.

In truth, we were each other's best friends and had been so since I had moved to the area with my parents when I was around 6. We had played doctor a few times when we were little, and she had more recently read some porno mags with me that I had found in a bag under a bush in the woods that we used to play when we were kids and which we still liked to walk in, but that was as far as our sexual experimentation had ever got. We certainly never `did' anything or even talked about sex but then no-one else in this small rural corner of England was doing anything either.

Not that I was completely naive, you understand. I had discovered masturbation at an early age, and when I say 'discovered' I mean that someone had shown me, but that's a story for a different day! But once the path to ecstasy had been revealed to me I never looked back.