Melissa, 1996, by Ed K.

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Who: Ed K.
What: Melissa
When: 1996
Where: Henderson, NV

Melissa was my third grade girlfriend. She was also my first kiss. This was a time when I was trying to re-find myself; I didn’t want to be me anymore. Melissa and I used to make out underneath a tree at recess, sticking her tongue in my mouth as if she was trying to feed it to me. I found it so odd. There’s this foreign object in my mouth, the first thing I think is “I’m going to suffocate.”

I had asthma, so every day at lunch she’d try to kill me by forcing this THING from her mouth into my mouth. But people were envious… I didn’t care if she was slowly killing me… because people wanted to be ME. It was awesome.

After about a week of us being “boyfriend and girlfriend”, I went to her house. Her parents were at work. She was hanging out with an older middle school girl, can’t remember her name… let’s call her Morgan. Melissa had a tetherball pole in her back yard. After a game of tetherball (Melissa won), Morgan tried to strip for us. I went inside to get some kool-aid. Then we all went into Melissa’s room.

Immediate Melissa asked if I wanted to play “doctor”. I had no idea whatsoever what she was talking about, I didn’t have many friends. Melissa and Morgan proceeded to show me. They took off their shirts and started playing “doctor”. I look at her alarm clock on her nightstand, it read 4:09. I had to get home, Mom is going to be pissed if she comes home and I’m not there.

I leave. The next day at school Melissa lost interest in me, we “broke up”. I didn’t really care, as a 9 year old… I found her to be interesting, but a little too extreme for my third-grade taste.