Leo's point of View
Yuiko stormed off, with all the girls in her heels. I was tempted to follow, but I was held back by four of my classmates. Two on my arm one around my midsection and one standing right in my face with a slick smile. I looked at them and hoped they would let go soon, or else I would have to hurt them a little to get free. Yuiko was still angry with me and I didn't really understand why. I mean it is normal for a boy to..
"WHAT, is normal for a boy to do with the girl he loves?" my classmate asked me. I was confused. What? He looked me in the eye and smiled even bigger now. "So L.E.O. you did "IT" with Yuiko?" he asked me. I relaxed my muscles and the three other guys let go of me. The one standing in front of me placed his hand on my shoulder. "Couldn't wait till the marriage, I suppose?" he said while he nodded his head.
"What are you talking about?" I asked and now I was lost completely. "You know, Yuiko and you made it official?" he asked and looked me in the eye. "No? The date for the marriage is in the invitation. You know that, you are invited and you agreed to attend?" I said and he lost his patience. "For crying out loud Leo! Did you, or did you not have sex with Yuiko?" he yelled and all the boys now turned their attention towards me. I looked at the remaining, only guys, left in the classroom and blushed. "No… we haven't. Not until the wedding night…" I said and I could feel myself put on a shy smile. "What? Then what was that, this morning? It sounded like she was scolding you for having sex with her!" I didn't think our conversation, actually more like yelling at each other, could have been misunderstood, but remembering, it probably sounded like we had "done the deed". "we didn't have sex. I promised me father in law and myself, as well as Yuiko that I would wait until after I marry her." I said. They all looked at me wanting me to explain this mornings scene. I looked down. "Yuiko, just think deep kissing is a part of sex and that it is wrong to do so before our marriage" I said as fast as I could. Looking up the guys was on the brink of laughter. And finally one could not hold it in. they all laughed and said how I wasn't a man if I could live with the girl of my drem and still not have sex. I became annoyed. "HEY! It's not like I haven't had sex before you know?! I said and now they all stopped laughing and looked directly at me. "Yea! I grew up in Africa you know? In the tribes, girls as young as 13 is married off and they often weren't all that happy about it. The day for my best friend's marriage had come. She wanted her first to be with someone she loved she said, and we had sex. But I didn't know what she meant by love until I met Yuiko. And I left shortly after her first child being born." I said and they all looked at me with the eyes rolling out of their heads frozen in their feet.
I remember how I told Yuiko about the "sex" matter.
"Yuiko, we need to talk about something important. I know I seem like a goofball and most of the times I don't understands what happens around me. But! When we talk about the "sex, matter" I understands completely." I said and Yuiko looked at me from behind her book. I could see the blush on her face. "I want to tell you about Africa, and the life I had there" I said and she nodded. "I what to wait till our wedding night. I want sex with you bat I also want to wait, because I want to do this right." I said and she nodded once again. "Before I met you I lived in Africa in a local tribe together with my father and Toki. I had a friend there, a girl, and friend. Not at girlfriend, but a friend who is a girl." I said and stopped. The words was strangely hard to say and I didn't understand why. "She was to be married soon, she was 13, I was 15, and she asked me to sleep with her before she married. Because she wanted her first time to be with someone she loved" I said and looked at Yuiko. She had dropped her book and looked at me with big eyes and an open mouth. "And I did." I said and looked down. Afraid to face her I continued. "She married a man from the tribe and they had a baby together. They are happy now. I left right after the baby turned 4 month" I said and I continued without looking at her. "At that time I didn't understand what love between a man and a woman was. I didn't know the consequences of sex at the time. But luckily she didn't have my child." I said and faced her. She had tears in her eyes. I was ready for her anger and sorrow and even her hatred. I was prepared for her to cancel the wedding but she just smiled at me and said "Oh, Leo. You have been afraid all this time? I am not angry at you for doing something before you met me. I love you Leo and your status as a virgin or not, won't change that!" she said and we hugged.
It was as I explained the whole sex matter Yuiko decided to return to class. And that is what made the guys freeze. I turned around and saw Yuiko. She had a blank expression but then she sighed. "Just because you had sex, with an engaged, underage, African, tribal girl you don't have to boost about it!" she said and came over besides me and took my hand. I laughed as my classmates all began to move again and said loud and clear "I may have had sex ONCE, but I have never made LOVE to the girl of my dreams!" I smiled at her expecting her to smile or laugh. I definitely wasn't expecting a fist in my face.
"LEO YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT!" she yelled and took her seat, leaving me on the floor nursing my cheek with my hand.