A History of First Kisses

He kissed me on on the hood of a car in philosophy city. I was trying to recite a foreign alphabet and I kept stopping and starting and laughing, and he just smiled and kissed me to shut me up.  He doesn’t kiss me anymore but he still tells  me to shut up.

He kissed me by a kiosk while his friend was buying beer and I was in the middle of a sentence. I don’t remember my words or his kiss.

He kissed me at a traffic light, after he told he wanted to kiss me, and I told him I knew because people get this look in their eye when they want to kiss someone, and he said that I must see that look a lot. And then he kissed me. I never saw him again.

He kissed me on some rooftop in the city, after hours of walking and drinking wine. He made me believe it was a special first kiss. It wasn’t.

He kissed me on a mattress in the living room while our parents were asleep in the next rooms. He was my first kiss and that was our only kiss.

He kissed me on the tiny balcony of his dorm room at dawn and we smiled at each other in the new light. He was a good kisser and a sweet boy, but I broke his heart.

He kissed me in his car at the beach after he told me he wanted to kiss me and I said, “I know”, even though I didn’t, and then he laughed and I laughed, and each laugh brought our lips closer together. He moved away the next week but still called me on Valentine’s Day.

He kissed me in an abandoned mansion on a warm autumn evening, in the dark, to the music of howling dogs. He called my scars maps to my soul. But in the end he didn’t want to read them.

He kissed me in the bathroom at our favourite bar. He followed me, he knew to follow me without asking. And we kissed, wordlessly, because he always knew how to read me.

I kissed him while he was talking because I was tired of waiting for him to kiss me. He held my hand and opened all doors for me. He taught me how to trust again.

She kissed me in a doorway in an alleyway, with closed eyes, with sweet lips, with her hands in my hair.

He kissed me in a dark corner of a garden party after we followed each other with our eyes all night. He kissed me again seven years later. We dont follow each other anymore.

I kissed him on the beach at dawn. He said, “Why me?” And I lost my cougar virginity.

He kissed me on Valentine’s Day just because it was Valentine’s Day. I don’t even know his name. But I remember that he was beautiful.

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Alexia
@alexiaroumamas

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Alexia

Her name is Alexia. But that’s just how she knows when her mother’s mad at her. Everyone calls her Lexi, which means word in Greek. It’s no wonder she grew up to become a writer. She was born in Sydney and raised in Athens. She studied in London. Now she lives in Melbourne. She is good at loving cats, wearing red lipstick, and talking French when she’s drunk. She’s bad at paying attention, paying bills, and being a vegan (damn you, ice-cream).

She writes better than she talks, but not as much.

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12 Responses to “A History of First Kisses”

  1. So@24
    July 22, 2012 at 2:43 am #

    Speaking of first kisses… don’t know if it gets any worse than this:

    http://startingoverat24.blogspot.com/2007/08/embarrassing-confession-my-first-kiss.html

  2. Mike →
    July 23, 2012 at 3:19 pm #

    Begging the question that kissing is a pretty bizarre ritual in the first place…

    • Alexia
      July 27, 2012 at 3:17 am #

      I suppose… But it feels so good!

      • Alexia
        July 27, 2012 at 3:19 am #

        Haha, I think everyone’s got an awkward kissing story like that!

  3. Briana →
    July 23, 2012 at 3:41 pm #

    love it

  4. Peter
    July 23, 2012 at 3:54 pm #

    This is just perfection.

    • Alexia
      July 27, 2012 at 3:18 am #

      Thanks, Peter!

  5. Jess
    August 2, 2012 at 3:54 pm #

    “He called my scars maps to my soul. But in the end he didn’t want to read them.” My word. I want to read that line over and over again!

    • Alexia
      January 16, 2013 at 9:39 am #

      I am glad something good came out of that disappointment!

  6. Esther
    August 6, 2012 at 5:55 am #

    this left me breathless.

    i love it.

    • Alexia
      January 16, 2013 at 9:36 am #

      What a gorgeous reaction!
      (And how belated is mine?!)

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