by Delayne Terra Buranek

Created on: March 16, 2009

My friends and I took Spanish class. Outside of class we spent time in the translation dictionary looking up things not taught in class. Sure 'te amo', or 'te quiero' (I love you) we learned. But 'tienes un buen cuerpo' (you have a nice body), that they didn't teach us. And we wanted to know it because you'd never know when such a phrase could be useful. It was like I was 14 going on 32. As a freshman girl I was becoming hyper aware of my body and my desires. I was about to have my first real boyfriend, my previous one I'd broken up with at the end of summer. He was too afraid to hold hands. And I was so ready for my first kiss.

We'd been officially dating for a week. He was older and more mature. A senior in high school and oh boy was I in love. We lived just down the road from each other and he would drive me home from school which I enjoyed. I hated the school bus and my jerk of a brother always had somewhere else to be after school so he couldn't drive me. The drive also enabled us to spend time together alone, an opportunity that was rare as my parents wouldn't allow me to go on a date with him without someone chaperoning, even if it was just my best friend tagging along.

I'd had a dream the night before. It was a very complicated and confusing dream full of hidden meanings that I wouldn't understand until much later. Did you know that a white animal in a dream is bringing a message? Well I never got the message, but I did dream about a kiss. It had been a prophecy for as we found ourselves in my parents' house, after he dropped me off and was about to leave, we kissed. He didn't leave as early as he planned for we kissed long enough that my face became chapped, but then again he did have some very manly facial hair.

The dream was more prophetic than I could have guessed at the time. Although I enjoyed the kiss, because what young woman with hormones beginning to rage wouldn't, it wasn't as good as the one in the dream. The one in the dream was just...wow. Dream kisses are meant to be that way I figured. Of course the dream kiss, as I was told in the dream was meant for practice. I was thankful that my own subconscious prepared me for my kiss that day.

If I consider my dream kiss my first kiss then it was magical, which left all subsequent and actual kisses severely lacking. I went with it though, as I was told that a princess may have to kiss a few frogs first. Someday there would be a day with another magical kiss that would leave me weak in the knees and a little dizzy. I found that someday and now everyday is filled with kisses that only get better than the first.

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