Chapter 6

Saturday night, Erin arrived at our house for dinner, as is standard for sleepovers between Erin and Kate. I ordered a large pizza (vegie), salad, and bottle of soda for the girls to have after I left on my dinner date with Tony. The girls, as well as Erin’s parents, knew that I was going out on a date that night and the girls would be on their own for the rest of the evening until I returned. I wasn’t worried about leaving them for that period. They were both responsible kids, and Erin’s parents were home 2 doors down the street in a case of a real emergency.

Kate and Erin had been friends since kindergarten. Unlike some childhood friendships that whither in middle school, Kate and Erin’s friendship seemed to grow even stronger during the middle school years and continued into high school.

Erin had blossomed into a beautiful teen – so striking with her red hair, freckles, infectious smile, and large blue eyes -- that I had difficulty not staring at her. I had what could best be described as a girlish crush on Erin, which only grew in intensity as she matured in her teenage years. I hoped that Kate didn’t notice that I acted differently when Erin was visiting our home, how many times I looked over at Erin with a longing that I really could never fully explain. Thus far, however, it seemed that Kate had not picked up on my lust for her best friend.

Kate was pretty (dirty blonde hair, blue eyes, and coloring like mine). She was popular with her classmates. She had not yet begun dating, but I realized that it would be only a matter of time that she had boys flocking to her.

A quick word about these sleepovers. The sleepovers started over the summer when they were 13 and continued generally uninterrupted from there. Originally it was once a month, but this past year it became a regular alternating sleepover between the two houses each Saturday night, suspended only during family illnesses or vacations.

After dinner with the sleepover family, the girls usually watched a movie in the living room. In the past, I joined the girls if the movie was interesting. I know Erin’s Mom (and sometimes her Dad) did the same at Erin’s home. I knew these regular sleepovers wouldn’t last after the girls started dating boys, but for now this was what the girls looked forward to each weekend.

The two girls would share Kate’s bed at our house and Erin’s bed at Erin’s house. Ever since I had seen Kate jilling on the upper landing on Wednesday night, I wondered what happened during these sleepovers before the girls actually went to sleep – was anything sexual was going on between them after they got undressed and went to bed behind the bedroom door.

I discovered the joys of masturbating at about the same age that these sleepovers started. Although I had never jilled with a friend (remember I was the good girl), some of my friends in college admitted that they masturbated with other girls during their high school sleepovers, and even played Truth or Dare sex games at sleepovers. Since Kate obviously knew how to pleasure herself, did she and Erin do that separately, or side-by-side, or even to each other during these sleepovers? Was their obvious friendship also cemented with some sort of sexual bond?