It was Christmas Day, and I was in high school. I had a long distance relationship with this girl Tina. The relationship was a bit strange, as many relationships in high school are, where I never really felt like I knew much about her. We chatted online. We talked on the phone. Didn’t matter. Without hanging out in her presence or with her friends, it was a different kind of relationship. I was the guy on the side, the x-factor, the unknown.
We had times when our relationship was incredibly sexually charged, and had times where it didn’t factor in. Sure, that’s how real life is sometimes, but like most teenage guys, my libido was often in overdrive. So much that I went out to visit Tina for Christmas.
Dinner was pretty boring. Her dad clearly didn’t trust me, and her mom wasn’t too fond of me either. They did their best to discourage anything from happening between us, and did a pretty good job for the most part. Needless to say, I walked around with an granite-like erection most of the time. If I were a teenage daughter’s father, I wouldn’t like that about me either.