UNSEXUAL RELATIONS.

It was Friday a boring morning of lessons geography and maths and some work on some king who had lots of wives and beheaded a few

after lunch in the spare classroom assigned as the sandwich room I went out onto the field taking in the sunshine the blue sky and others about on the green grass

boys kicking a ball about girls sitting in groups giggling or talking a few in pairs walking along a boy here and there with a girl holding hands(romance stuff)

some girls with skip ropes or a ball throwing between each

I saw Yiska sitting on the grass with two other girls in deep conversation she stood up when she saw me and came over

I have read some of that book you gave me she said don't understand

some of it

we walked away from the other girls they watched us talking no doubt what don't you understand? I asked

copulation she said what does that mean?

what do you think it means?

she looked back at the girls who were looking our way and talking

don't know she said never heard the word before

it means having sexual intercourse I said quietly

intercourse? she said I understand sexual but intercourse seems too scientific

boys shouted from across the field someone had scored a goal between two jackets on the grass

a relationship in a sexual way I said

she stopped and gazed at me

the book has some pictures but it's confusing she said

have you shown your parents? I asked

God no she said you want to get me whacked?

just joking I said

we walked on again where did you get the book?she asked

I found it in a drawer in an old sideboard at home I said it's quite old think it was my gran's

the words seem hard to understand she said the pictures in brown and white

yes I noticed the one about the baby in the woman's womb I said

but what do you have to do? she asked to have a baby?

it says I said

does it? she asked

yes many times in different ways I replied

she sighed intercourse is that it?

I nodded she looked puzzled

so not just kissing?

no not just that

or touching? she said

not just touching

we came to the fence and looked at the passing traffic

that girl in class said that if you kiss too much you get pregnant Yiska said

no not that I said where's the book now?

in the cabinet by my bed she said

will your mother see it there?

hope not

does she look through your stuff?

not as far as I know Yiska said

she leaned in and kissed me warm lips on warm lips her hands around my neck

I put my hands around her waist off across the playing field a bell tolled from the school

we pulled apart and walked back towards school an odd beating within my fourteen year old heart.