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Central Station.
Nate met Serena on the platform. She stepped off the train wearing
a light blue silk slip dress and pink rubber flip-flops. Her yellow hair
hung loose, just touching her bare shoulders. She wasn’t carrying a
bag, not even a wallet or keys. To Nate, she looked like an angel.
How lucky he was. Life didn’t get any better than the moment when
Serena flip-flopped down the platform, threw her arms around his
neck, and kissed him on the lips. That wonderful, surprising kiss.
First they had martinis at the little bar upstairs by the Vanderbilt
Avenue entrance to Grand Central. Then they got a cab straight up
Park Avenue to Nate’s Eighty-second Street townhouse. His father
was entertaining some foreign bankers and was going to be out
until very late, so Serena and Nate had the place to themselves.
Oddly enough, it was the first time they’d ever been alone together
and noticed.
It didn’t take long.
They sat out in the garden, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes.
Nate was wearing a long-sleeved polo shirt, and the weather was
extremely hot, so he took it off. His shoulders were scattered with
tiny freckles, and his back was muscled and tan from hours at the
docks, building a sailboat with his father up in Maine.
Serena was hot too, so she climbed into the fountain. She sat on the
marble Venus de Milo statue’s knee, splashing herself with water
until her dress was soaked through.
It wasn’t difficult to see who the real goddess was. Venus looked like
a lumpy pile of marble compared to Serena. Nate staggered over to
the fountain and got in with her, and soon they were tearing the
rest of each other’s clothes off. It was August after all. The only way
to tolerate the city in August is to get naked.
Nate was worried about the security cameras trained on his
parents’ house at all times, front and back, so he led Serena inside
and up to his parents’ bedroom.
The rest is history.
They both had sex for the first time. It was awkward and painful and
exciting and fun, and so sweet they forgot to be embarrassed. It
was exactly the way you’d want your first time to be, and they had
no regrets. Afterwards, they turned on the television, which was
tuned to the History Channel, a documentary about the Red Sea.
Serena and Nate lay in bed, holding each other and looking up at
the clouds through the skylight overhead, while they listened to the
narrator of the program talk about Moses parting the Red Sea.
Serena thought that was hilarious.
“You parted my Red Sea!” she howled, wrestling Nate against the
pillows.