Had a thread like this before and my "first love" is still the same.........

The first one where I realized those pangs that were difficult to deal with happened at age 13. Lynn was a PK (preacher's kid) and lived in a different suburb of Columbus and we had met several years before at various Youth Group functions and summer camps. That was really the only times we saw each other, but you remember how quickly things happened as a kid? We hit it off right away.

Lynn was a "tomboy" and loved doing all the things that girls didn't always do. Her Dad retired from the ministry to open a camp that the churches used for summer camps WAY out in the middle of nowhere. Her family stayed there all summer and returned to town in the school year. We'd been seeing each other and were an "item" at camps and weekend functions, but neither of us ever really noticed or thought of it that way......we were buddies. Then in the summer when I was 13, her Dad asked my parents if I could work for him for a month or so at the camp. We talked it over and I was allowed to go. He paid me for the work and Lynn and I got to spend a lot of time together....lots of laughs and lots of fun. But we were both still ignorant of the normal "desires" and were buddies until the evening we were up at the pond used for swimming. I had been thrilled to death to be driving the tractor to mow and we'd finished the big field and then done the lawnmower work close around the pond.

Lynn says, "Let's go swimming." I said we'd have to be back for supper soon and by the time we went back and got our suits and came back, we'd be about out of time because the house was a good way from the pond. Lynn said, "We don't need suits.....C'mon...." And we did.....At first it was just me and my buddy swimming naked......That lasted about 30 seconds and then........I think it was the first time I had ever felt those particular feelings for a girl and it was both exciting and frightening as hell. Another of those feelings that you can never repeat, like sleeping restlessly while waiting for Christmas morning when you're 6.........We didn't have sex but it led to a lot more and heavier nightly sessions.

Pretty much then through high school, Lynn and I would still be an item at camps and weekend things, but we knew it now. Great thing about those camp/weekend things was they never really interfered with the traditional day to day local boy/girl relationships.

Spaw