Chapter 47

“Whew,” Peter said when we finished. “I think we better stop before something starts. And I want to make sure I tell you everything that I had come to say.”

He sat back down and looked directly at me. I was nervous, but still excited by the situation.

“I didn’t know. I didn’t know that I was your first. Not that I mind, it just puts things into perspective now. I mean, I know how I was with my first, and how I thought we were going to be together forever and that there wasn’t anyone else. I also remember how hurt I was when I found out he had also been with a friend of mine, and how insecure I became, blaming every part of my body, my clothes, anything but him.”

This time he stretched out both his hands and placed them on top of mine.