Road Ends by Mary Lawson

Author:Mary Lawson [Lawson, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical
ISBN: 9780701188528
Google: 7Uc0AQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00FO5Z9EI
Goodreads: 18630671
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2013-11-12T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Megan

London, February 1967

Megan lost her virginity—or more correctly, gave it away—on a wet Wednesday night a year and a bit after arriving in England. She was glad to be rid of it. It was a leftover from childhood, a barrier, mental as well as physical, to seeing herself as fully in charge of her life.

She’d always disapproved of “sleeping around” on principle and had no intention of doing so, particularly as men kept trying to talk her into it, but over the course of many long nights alone in her box room and then many more long nights alone on the top floor of the hotel, she’d had time to think about such things and had failed to find a single reason why people shouldn’t sleep together if they wanted to. If you weren’t being pressured, if you were old enough to know what you were doing, if you took care not to beget an unwanted child, why exactly shouldn’t you? This business of saving yourself for your husband—if ever there was an idea indisputably thought up by a man, that was it. And anyway, she wasn’t going to get married. Marriage led to children and she’d done children. So the only question was, might she want to have sex, if not now then at some not-too-distant date, and the answer was yes, if she happened to feel like it and the time/place/person were right. Judging by the amount of time other people spent doing it and talking about it, it was something you didn’t want to miss out on altogether.

Having made her decision, she went to a GP and asked to go on the Pill so as to be ready when the right person happened along. The GP didn’t want to give it to her (he was a man) and tried to talk her out of it, but Megan said very firmly that she was nearly twenty-three and it was her body they were talking about, not his, and in the end he gave in.

She was picky and it was a while before the right person turned up but eventually he did, in the form of a Scot named Douglas whose employers had sent him down to London from Edinburgh for a six-week senior management training course. Megan selected him because he had nice eyes and didn’t remind her of any of her brothers and had expressed an interest in having sex with her in a polite and non-pushy way and, most importantly, because he would be going back to Edinburgh when his course came to an end, so there wouldn’t be any question of things developing further. It was only her virginity she wanted to lose, not her freedom.

She’d wanted to know what sex was like and now she did. It was messy, but that aside she’d enjoyed it. She suspected it ruined your judgment though, because after Douglas left she rather wished he’d come back, but that wore off quite quickly.

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