I got a free lunch as pay, but my folks gave me the cash equivalent (30 cents) on top of my half-dollar allowance. While the job lasted only the first...half of the fifth grade before someone else was given it, the friendship I made with Clarence lasted until my family moved East. Clarence was the kindly janitor that sort of took me on as a mascot, if you will. I was eager to take the class trash out to the dumpster because I then would get to see Clarence. I would visit with him after school, he. I close and lock the hatch so that she can’t see what I’m doing and walk around to help her carry the food. She walks into the room to see the table laid with silver cutlery, the light of the candles flickering on the walls and a silver ice bucket containing a bottle of chilled champagne. We sit down and I pour 2 glasses of champagne out and hand one to her. ‘To us my darling.’ I say and we chink the glasses together. We sit and talk over dinner about our hopes and fears. She confirmed. "I don't want to be a virgin anymore Sophie, I want you take it." I am honoured that I can be your first Amy, that shows a lot of trust and love. I want you to take mine also, I am ready. Together." She nodded again."Forever, my love." She added. Even though this was new to us, we both knew what was going to happen next. We had discussed this when we were reading the stories. When a man has sex with a woman, he takes her virginity usually on the first attempt. We wanted to build to the moment,. Boys are funny like that! Anyway I had at least achieved my objective, I was no longer a virgin and having got rid of it I now felt I was better equipped to ‘explore the world of sex’. Looking back I can see just how stupid that sounds but it’s exactly what I thought at the time, I don’t remember just how I thought I was going to do that without getting the reputation of being a ‘slut’, which I certainly didn’t want, but it was what I wanted to do. As things turned out, not too long after that.