Some time ago I published a short story; titled TONI on Nifty. I did
not get many comments, but the ones I got were very nice and I decided
to make a book out of this story.
One of the nicer comments was from Mardee Louise Prynne, who writes
fabulous tranny stories herself and who told me that the name Leanbaby
was silly. Therefore I changed the name for the book into LaneMacLane.
I published this long version also on www.scribd.com (I don't know
whether Fictionmania likes the mentioning of competition, but then
scribd is not really competition for them). Because I feel that the
target audience with Nifty is better I decided to publish here too.
Now for the disclaimers, I admit that I copied them from one of the
other publishers because I think it says it all. This work of fiction
is for the non-commercial use of its readers. Permission to copy and
distribute through electronic media for non-commercial purposes is
granted. All commercial and non-electronic rights are reserved by me,
the author. Please do not read this story if you are offended by adult
material, reading this material is illegal in your legal jurisdiction
or, if in the United States, under the age of 18. It ain't like this
disclaimer is going to stop the determined, but I got to try. But
let's get on with the story.
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TONI IS A TRANSGENDER LOVE STORY
There may be parts about sex, intercourse, masturbation, paedophilia,
BDSM and the likes but in the end it is a romantic love story.
Dedicated to Toni
What would have happened when.......
Chapter 1
The night promised to be beautiful. All the elements to create a winter
fairy tale were available. The night sky was partly clouded with the
promise of snow on the horizon. It was crispy cold with a mild dry
north-western wind blowing and temperatures below zero. The streets and
the picturesque inner courts were white, as snow had fallen for the
bigger part of the day. The markets were fields of white, on which only
some tracks of footprints and occasionally of tires were visible. The
frozen canals and the white roofs gave the scene all the optics of a
medieval town in winter.
Normally on nights like this the people would be at home dining
together before leaving their houses. They would go to the small ponds
and canals, of which there were many around the town, to skate or just
gather in the moonlight and socialize with friends and acquaintances.
For young people such evenings were tailor-made to make new friends
especially from the opposite sexes.
At such occasions little stalls would have been erected that would sell
hot chocolate, with or without alcoholic additions, for a few nickels.
Also tonight the historical center of the medium sized town of Delft,
in the Netherlands, seemed to be waiting for an evening full of joyful
activities.
But a closer look showed that the town was strangely quiet. The
factories did not show any activity as their chimneys were smokeless.
The historical railway station was deserted and the rails of the yellow
streetcars did not show signs of any recent traffic. Even the waterway
through the city was frozen, which normally never happened as ice
breakers would keep it open during the entire winter.
On this night of the 13th of February 1945 joyful activities were not
programmed. Instead the sound of sirens suddenly tore through the
night, as they had done ever more frequently during many nights in the
last years. Winter nights were not welcomed anymore by the people in
the town as an invitation for mutual entertainment. Especially this
winter was different as the cold was not seen as a possibility to
gather cozily in front of the fireplace. This winter, which was colder
than previous ones, was feared as a life threatening enemy.
Even when the clouds obscured the moon from time to time the snow made
the night almost to day, but the clearly visible streets lay deserted.
The only person visible was a man on a bicycle who speeded, as best as
he could through the snow, along one of the canals. At one of the
bridges he was stopped by some men in uniform who asked him something.
After he indicated at one of the nearby houses they looked at each
other and made room for him. The man sighted relieved. It was known
that people, who were stopped by soldiers during the nightly curfew,
did not always return to their home and he knew from the rumors that
they were deported to labor camps.
The man entered the house he had pointed at and after a short time he
came out again in the company of a man, who was wearing the sign of a
doctor on his left arm. A closer observation of the streets showed that
no lights shone from the houses. This was strange in the country that
was known for people who did not draw curtains before their windows at
night. Equally strange was that many chimneys did not smoke, as they
would normally do on winter evenings.
Reason for this atypical situation was that Holland was in an
undeclared war. Since almost five years Holland was an occupied
country. This winter would go into the history as the hunger winter,
killing tens of thousands of people because of lack of food and
heating. In a country that normally did not know scarcity of these
elementary needs of life.
In the country side long queues of visibly starving people from the
cities blocked the roads. These people were begging the farmers for
food. But even the framers themselves had nothing eatable anymore. The
trees in the city streets and parks were torn down and cut down to
small pieces under high risks. The punishment when people were caught
doing this was instant deportation. But the starving people had to
obtain at least wood for heating as all coal, which was extracted from
the mines in the Southern part of the country, was reserved for the
occupying forces.
This winter followed a summer of high hopes when the news-casts, which
were heard with the hidden radios in almost every house, had spoken
about the successful conquering of the southern part of the nation. As
Holland is cut in half by the rivers Rhine and Meuse, the allies just
had to cross them to free the rest of the country. The catastrophe
however started to take form when these allied forces met unexpected
heavy resistance, trying to cross the river Rhine in the most Eastern
part of the country, near the city of Arnhem.
Like on most nights of the winter the sounds of the sirens got company
from a dull rumbling sound. This sound grew louder and louder until it
was a steady rumble underlying the sounds of the sirens and could be
recognized for what it was. Airplanes by the dozens were cruising high
in the night sky. The people knew also from the allied news bulletins
that they were bombers, which came from old and new airfields that were
situated all over England. This was also an indication of the turn of
the tides. In the beginning of the war airplanes from the East had
flown over Holland to England in an effort conquer also that country.
Now the bombers were flying to Germany, the country that had started
this war that would become known as the Second World War. With their
"Blitzkriege" the Germans had conquered almost all of mainland Europe.
Now their luck started to change as ever more allies were fighting
them. They came from the West after the D-Day invasion in Normandy and
from the South, where they had entered the mainland after a grueling
desert battle, from the Northern part of Africa. Both campaigns were at
the price of an unprecedented number of human lives on both sides.
Another big reason for the changing tides was that the Germans had
taken the war to the Russian tundra's. Here they met unexpected
resistance by badly equipped but fanatic Russians who burned everything
when they had to retreat in the end. The biggest problem however in
that country of endless plains was not the opposing soldiers but the
Russian winter. Together with the policy of burned earth they found
themselves cut off from effective and regular supplies from Germany.
A third sound mixed itself with the others when the staccato of the
flak batteries started. Their efforts to hit one of the planes were
unsuccessful as the planes were much too high in the night skies.
Further to the East the flak batteries would take their toll amongst
the airplanes when they had to descent to unload their unholy cargos.
Some times during the days other bombers would return to drop their
loads in Holland. During the days however they would bring food and
even during such humanitarian flights the flak batteries tried to gun
them down.
This night would go into history as one of the nights in which the town
of Dresden was bombed. In an effort to force Germany into surrender
this southern German was transferred into an inferno that was even
unseen in this war to end all wars. Whether the bombing was a revenge
of the British for the destruction of Coventry earlier during the war
never has been cleared completely. But this brutal act may have been
one of the reasons for the official capitulation that would follow some
three months later.
The doctor and his companion were leaving the old town center, crossing
the railroad tracks they were heading for an apartment building on the
Western outskirts of the town. They entered number 10 and after some
time the sound of a crying baby could be heard from the apartment,
which was prove that I Matthias Doesburg was born
My early youth was in a country that started a furious reconstruction
of the havoc brought on it by the war. Factories had been dismantled
and shipped to Germany. Harbors were destructed and also the
residential districts of towns at the North and the South of my home
town were severely damaged. Rotterdam in the South, the biggest harbor
of the nation, had its centre severely bombed in the beginning of the
war by the frustrated Germans when the Dutch did not surrender fast
enough. The Hague, the Dutch seat of government, in the North was
bombed erroneously by the allied forces who took it for a German town
during one of their numerous air-raids on Germany.
Delft however did not show many material aftereffects of the war and so
it was possible for me to spend a rather uneventful and carefree youth,
living in a family with two sons. Leonard, my older brother by four
years, was the pride of my father and quite different from me. My
father had succeeded in being the manager of the community car fleet.
Still he had always regretted that he had not had the possibility to
become an engineer.
Leonard from the very beginning showed all the interests in mechanics
that I lacked. On top of that four years were a rather big difference.
Combined with my disinterest in technical matters, they were the
reasons that I was not very close to my brother. Still it is always
good to have a big brother when arguments arise, especially with
children in the neighborhood and at elementary schools
When I was five or six years old we moved from the apartment, where I
was born, into a house. Many new housing projects were started some six
year after the war. Many of them went away from apartment buildings.
Middle sized houses were built for middle to higher incomes. A house
with a garden, however small that might have been and plenty of rooms,
meant that the family had really arrived in the middle class. I got a
room for myself. Although it was the smallest of the three bedrooms, it
meant a level of privacy that you don't have when you do have to share
with an older brother.
Another sign of the development towards a more middleclass society in
general was the steadily growing number of motorcars on the streets.
Before the war cars were only for the very rich and not yet common
property as in the USA. Some six years after the war our family got its
first automobile. It was not a big American type of car but a
Volkswagen, built in Germany. The old enemy country was the foremost
beneficiary of the Marshall plan. This program was started by the
Americans to help the European countries to get back on their feet
again. Germany developed into one of the mayor industrial countries in
Europe within a short time. This US decision would prove itself to be
one of the wisest political moves ever, especially as it secured that
the Western European countries could stay away from the ever growing
Soviet influences.
So we got a car but, in our street of about fifty families, we were
only the fourth or the fifth to have such a luxury. I had split
feelings towards this new means of family transports. I used to sit
behind the drivers of the big busses that brought us to the part of our
family who lived in a town some 30 kilometers away. My biggest wish at
that time was to become a bus driver. Also the voyages to the part of
the family that lived farther away were now made by car. The railway
rides had always been a highlight. The first leg was made with trains
fronted by old steam locomotives. Midways we changed into electrical
driven trains. Now we went by car in which there was little to no
heating.
One of the immaterial aftereffects of the war was the turning back to
lines of conduct, which were embedded in the religious values that had
been at the cradle of the Dutch nation. The late twenties and the
beginning of the thirties had been known as decadent and wild. The big
recession and subsequently the war had brought the people back to more
austere values again. I remember from my early youth that church
services were always very well attended. A result of the turning back
to these old values was that for a big part religion held the society
in its grip with strict and sometimes oppressive rules of behavior.
One of the indications of this narrow-minded Calvinistic looks on life
was our beach culture. Children had to wear bathing suits on the beach.
The Germans, who returned already in hordes some five years after the
war did not have such problems. Being Lutherans or Catholics, they had
their little children playing naked in the sand. When we wanted to do
the same we were always called back and told that this was not a decent
thing to do. Being children we did not understand why it was allowed to
them not to us of course. This narrow mindedness would gradually but
steadily change during the following 20 to 25 years and make Holland
ultimately into the liberal country we know today.
My visits to churches however had another effect on me: it triggered my
love for music. And music in churches meant pipe organ music. My first
encounter with music in general, which would play such a big part in my
life, was organ music and I devoured it. I delayed my parents, when
leaving the church on Sunday, to be able to hear the organ to the end
of the usual improvisation.
Delft had several historical churches. The organs in these churches
were not as impressive as some of the famous organs of Haarlem, Alkmaar
or Amsterdam. Still they were well known though in the national organ
society. Their organists also belonged to the best of their profession.
I always was and still am impressed by the sound of these Kings of
instruments when they fill their massive cavernous buildings with their
majestic sounds. Although other music would take over soon in my life I
would always keep a special interest in this kind of the musical
spectrum.
During these early years of my life I also heard modern music but not
as consciously as organ music. I still remember songs by The Artie Shaw
Band, Teresa Brewer, Doris Day, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and Lionel
Hampton to name only a few. Especially Hampton with songs like Hey!
BaBaReBop and Hamp's Boogie Woogie was an early prophet of things to
come. These songs had fascinating and rather up tempo rhythms. We in
our family at that time did only have a radio at home and no record
player, which meant that we heard of these songs just by chance.
At home I was frequently searching this radio for organ music. I found
some programs that were broadcasted weekly. Occasionally I also was
able to hear parts of the broadcasts from the improvisation-competition
at the organ of the St. Bavo church in Haarlem. This yearly returning
event was one of the highlights in the organ music community. As far as
I know the festival is still organized today. I surprised my
environment when they found out that I recognize several organists
without hearing an announcement but simply by listening to their
playing style. When I renewed my interest in this kind of music later
in life, I never got this ability back however.
I learned to know the magnificent compositions of Johann Sebastian
Bach, Johann Pachelbel and Dietrich Buxtehude. At that time the
programming of organ concerts was almost always centered on the German
school of composers. Other composers, who were featured in these
concerts, were Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, an early Dutch composer and
Cesar Franck, a Belgian born organist who worked in Paris and could be
seen as a member of the modern school.
When I was about 8 to 9 years old I even got my father to buy me a
harmonium, which was a kind of organ for home use without pipes. I
started learning to play with vigor being instructed by my father but
soon lost interest. Even a visit to one of the big organs in my native
town did not renew my interest in playing. One can say that this visit
was my first look behind the scenes of music. I still remember it as an
awful experience. I was awed by the organist who played all music
basically without any written notes. I was very impressed by this
ability. It also discouraged me though, as I was convinced that I would
never reach that level of musicianship. But that was not the only
reason. There were many new influences in my life that got ever more
important.
One was discovering girls. Girls I soon found out were different and
nicer to look at as boys. From very early on I had girlfriends. Some of
them even hardly knew that they were my girlfriends. Others stayed on
my list of wishes forever. When I was between six and eight years old I
had my first sexual experiences. Before that time I already stroked and
touched myself but I still had to discover masturbation.
The first experience I had however when I was six or seven was not with
a girl but with a boy. With a friend who lived in our street and who
went to the same school as I did. We spent a lot of time together and
in a nearby park we hid frequently in the bushes and showed each other
our little dicks but we did not really dare to go any further.
Holland is a country with much water and it was and probably still is
customary to learn to swim at an early age. After one of the swimming
lessons, we attended during the early evening, I took the initiative. I
crept under the dividing walls of our changing booths that started 30
centimeters over the floor to his booth. I chose the moment well as he
was as naked as I was. Seeing him completely naked was exiting. He was
a lean boy with a small dick and no body hair at all.
I asked him whether I could feel his dick and he did not object. He
even came closer to me and took my hand. It felt strange but also
exiting to feel somebody else's member. He was small after having been
in the cold water for almost an hour. He in turn, took my dick, which
was also shrunken, in his hand and we slowly started to jerk each other
off. I got a funny feeling in my stomach. The feeling became more
intense, especially when I felt his dick stiffen as did mine. We both
intensified our grips on each other's hairless members. While we were
starting to breath heavier we started to masturbate each other
seriously.
Right in this heated encounter however, my father who had come to
collect us, called from the corridor what took us so long. Both of us
were shocked back into reality. Both our dicks went limp instantly. I
scrambled back but probably my father had seen something. That night I
saw my father really mad for the first time. Even when I had broken a
window on purpose some time before this incident, he was not as mad as
at that moment.
The result of his anger, combined with the spanking I got, had me loose
all interest in boyfriends. Still I do have wondered later about what
would have happened if we had come to an orgasm together. Would I have
liked the experience so much that we would have done it over and over
again? Could it have been the beginning to become gay later in life?
The second time was shortly after this experience and with a girl. The
girl was a niece who lived in another town. When visiting this family
it was custom that I shared a bed with her. I again made the first move
as I dared her one evening to feel me up and let me to do the same
thing with her. I told her that I wanted us to investigate the
difference between boys and girls. She agreed and so we put down the
trousers of our pajamas. I got my first feel of a hairless pussy. It
was great. She had no dick and after I stroked downwards over her belly
I came upon a miniscule butt. Further it went along two parallel kinds
of lips going downward to end in a little bridge. Crossing this little
bridge I could feel her back hole. I found out that the lips could be
parted and that I could push my finger in. Behind the lips she was a
little bit wet and she moaned when I entered her. She however took my
hand and told me only to stroke.
The experience got me butterflies in my belly again. That night I did
some serious petting, which she stopped much too soon. Niece Mona was
probably the more advanced child in the end. I am relatively sure that
she did so because she was close to changing her mind regarding my
fingers entering her.. Still she had me feel her up one or two times
after that. My first experiences with genitals were both with hairless
specimen. Maybe that was the foundation for my later preferences for
shaven pubes. It probably also made me shave my own pubic hair, when it
started to grow some years later.
After these first experiences with sex that were purely on a curiosity
basis, I also discovered how to masturbate. I found out that my dick
stiffened also when I stroke him myself. I did it rather it frequently
until I started to ejaculate and wetted my bed. When my mother found
out I had a very serious session with my parents. They told me that
that was not done, period. They did not threaten me with blindness or
incurable diseases, so I had to find a way to masturbate without
wetting bed spreads.
I found out that I could push my seed balls up into a kind of pouch
under my belly. This done I could tuck my dick backwards between my
legs. I was not circumcised and I could rotate my foreskin over my cock
head with my index finger. After some time I felt my cum building up
but I now could prevent it from squirting out by pressing my tights
together. In that way I could masturbate without leaving evidence of it
on bed sheets.
During another session with my father, which I remember taking place
during a bicycle tour of father and son, he more or less informed me
about the facts of life. As far as I can remember he did not tell me
anything that I did not know already. The sharing of the bed with my
niece after these talks was over however. I do not think that they
suspected anything about our stroking games. They just decided that we
were too old now to share a bed.
Another reason for losing interest in organ music was my growing taste
for secular music. The first pop song I actually remember was The
Tennessee Waltz by Les Paul and Mary Ford. I must have been ten and was
impressed with that breathtaking sound of a guitar, an instrument that
would also play an important part in my future life. I noticed the
arrival of Bill Haley and The Comets, who created a new hymn for all
youth in the world with Rock Around The Clock. I was eleven when things
really started to heat up.
From that time my searches for radio programs changed from organ music
to modern music. Soon I found out that there were hit parade programs
early Saturday afternoon. I also discovered Radio Luxembourg. This
station had an English program that played the music that was heard by
the English teenagers. As far as I can remember they featured a hit
parade on Sunday evening, which became a must to listen to for me.
Another boost of my musical interests was that our favorite nephew Ben,
who was some eight years older than me, bought a record player. During
visits that were rather frequent at that time, I was allowed to play
his records. Leonard who was not interested in music occupied Ben, who
was an auto mechanic, with technical matters. As there was always work
to do on Ben's car, I had the whole show for myself.
Now I really discovered popular music by endless replays of records by
artists like Chuck Berry. Only much later I realized the importance of
this artist and his guitar driven pop music. I heard Fats Domino, The
Platters, Guy Mitchell, Johnny Ray and Little Richard and The Diamonds
with Little Star. The latter were a one hit wonder but one of my all
time favorites. The biggest of them all however was of course Elvis
Presley. He not only impressed with his music but because he was our
example as a rebel. It goes without saying that parents in general did
not like this kind of music.
In this group of artist there was one who was peculiar: Little Richard.
His music was even wilder than that of Elvis. His image was that of a
kind of transvestite wearing make-up and loud woman-like clothing.
These topics made him even more of a rebel than Elvis. But his gender
image was never discussed, at least not in Europe at that time. The
majority of the young rock and roll fans to which I belonged, did not
know what they were seeing anyway. Now we can say he was dressed as a
drag queen, with a moustache. At the time however nobody knew what that
word meant and it was done away as the eccentrics of a stage
personality. Still he was an early herald of the things that were still
under cover and that would stay there for years and years to come.
As long as I can remember I always was a fan of America. The fact that
almost all artists I heard during this time were American increased my
interest and liking for this country. Another push towards American
ways and life styles was a visitor from the USA to one of the
neighbors. This man had taken his car, a Chevrolet convertible, with
him to Europe and I loved it. For some time I saw it every morning when
I went to school. I could not pass it without admiring it for some
minutes. I also got to talk to the man who told me that that kind of
cars were common in America. I started to collect pictures of US cars
and since then I like them even when some of the European cars are
technically better. But what did a German reporter say once after
testing a Cadillac: "Maybe the Germans invited the automobile but the
Americans certainly invited driving in them".
When I was twelve I went from elementary school to high school and I
found new friends. I found my first real girl friend although our
affair did not last long. Angie was the first girl to get me the
butterflies in my stomach by just looking at her. Of course we did not
have sex but our kissing compensated greatly for the lack of more
intimate contacts.
One of the new male friends played guitar. Because I had already
started to learn song lyrics by heart, we formed a nameless duo in
which we both sang while he played the guitar. This duo performed
during school festivities. I still remember we had a special success by
playing Jailhouse Rock. The reason for that was my duplicating Elvis'
hips movement at which almost all boys laughed. But I saw admiring
glances from many of the girls. Still to sing without playing the
guitar was not cool of course and I wanted a guitar too.
This however was not easy as my father was reluctant to spend money on
another instrument, after the disaster with the harmonium. The only way
to get one was saving for it and that's what I did. My first guitar was
a cheap one. In Europe at that time western acoustics were not much in
fashion. The nearness of Spain, with his rich tradition of guitar based
music, resulted in many cheap Spanish guitars in the market however and
I got one of those.
Although my father was very skeptical I surprised him tremendously by
learning the rudimentary ways to play guitar all by myself. After our
first efforts as a duo my friend and I formed a real band. We found a
piano player, a drummer and a bass player. The latter was a child of
its time. Young bands did not have money for the real instrument and
bass guitars were rare and expensive too. That is why he played bass
with a device that was based on a tea barrel with a vertical pole
attached to one of the sides. There was a string (a thin rope) going
from the top of the pole to the middle of the barrel top. Our bass
player was able to have this device indeed sound a little bit like a
stand-up bass.
The repertoire we played was basically of Elvis Presley. But when Cliff
Richard appeared on the scene we adapted many of his songs. This artist
together with his backing band The Shadows had an unbelievable impact
on us. In England, as well as in the rest of Europe, the rock and roll
fever in the States had initiated many young people to start making
this kind of music.
In England initially this did not result in the same kind of rock and
roll productions as made in the USA. They opted for a kind of
simplified Rockabilly that became known as Skiffle music. These bands
frequently had the tea barrel bass and washboard drums in their line-
up. The best known representative of this musical direction was a group
lead by Lonnie Donnegan. This group found many copiers. Cliff as well
as the members of the Shadows also came from this scene. Their first
records were no Skiffle music however but genuine rock and roll with
songs like Move It, Mean Streak and Dynamite. He and the Shadows took
England by storm and subsequently also the continent. Strangely enough
they were never able to repeat these huge successes in the USA.
There were some other groups from England that were at least as
interesting though. One was Emile Ford & The Checkmates with their hit
What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For. The other one, who was
really an omen of the things to come, was Johnny Kidd & The Pirates.
Their hit that would be copied some decade later one to one by several
Beat /Rock groups was Shakin' All Over. Both of them would not stay on
top very long though.
Theses groups showed us the way to make music without a big orchestra
and to become famous anyway. Although Cliff would stay on the charts
in Europe for decades to come, he is not seen by many people as a big
influence on rock music. This is probably because he tended to
alternate rock & roll songs with orchestra backed ballads. This was
genuine middle of the road music and was more directed at girls and
their mothers.. Every rock fan, me included, hated this side of him
that became ever more prominent during the years.
The influence of The Shadows on popular music was definitively much
bigger. They were basically a guitar quartet with Hank B. Marvin
playing lead guitar, Bruce Welch rhythm guitar, Jet Harris bass guitar
and Tony Meeham drums. After their hits together with Cliff Richard
they started to make their own records as a separate act. Their first
hit was Apache. Many followed like Quartermasters Store, 36-24-36, Kon
Tiki, Wonderful Land and Dance on. Also they did not become big in the
USA however. That country was not ready yet for English artists but
that would change dramatically.
It was the guitars they played though, which started the revolution and
the trends that would ultimately lead to The Beatles and the English
dominance of the pop music in the middle sixties. The guitars were
products of Fender, the American pioneer of the solid body electric
guitar. Their products up to that time were almost solely known, at
least in Europe, from some Country & Western acts.
After The Shadows made the solid body guitar popular there were copiers
like Egmond in Holland, who made a very cheap looking guitar. In
Germany there was Framus, which would become known because Bill Wyman
used one of their basses during the first years of the Stones. However
when the would-be guitarists found out that it was relatively easy to
produce your own guitar many of them did so. Some of these home made
instruments were even better than some of the badly copied commercial
ones.
Of course we did not play only songs from Elvis and Cliff. Some of the
other songs were from artists like Paul Anka especially Lonely Boy and
Gene Vincent's Bebop-a-Lula. Also The Everly Brothers were represented
with songs like Bird Dog, Poor Jenny and All I have to Do Is Dream. All
these songs were a must for all four to five men bands. Another must
was Buddy Holly, who also had many songs that found their way in the
repertoire of many amateur bands. I as the lead singer in our band got
my first impressions what was necessary to excite an audience.
We played on several school parties and even got some gigs outside of
my hometown. At one of these out of town venues I had an odd
experience. We played during carnival time when everybody at dances
dresses up. That evening there was a girl whom I really made eyes at.
When I even started to make advances she walked away laughing. One of
my fellow band members asked me whether I had not noticed that she was
a boy. Man I can tell you that I was happy not to have made a bigger
fool of myself on that night.
The band may have had potential as there were some good players in it.
Because the members where not really friends and not really close
knitted the end came after two years, when the individual members all
went their own ways.
After the split I kept practicing on the guitar and even bought a
second hand electric one. It was a KAY acoustic guitar with a home made
pick-up, but I was happy. During that time I tried to get into other
bands but it never worked again. I remember though that I helped
another band in the neighborhood with their first beginnings.
High school was the time to really dive into the chasing of girls. I
befriended several in our class. Still at that time at the end of the
fifties young teenagers were sexually illiterate. Of course there were
stories of girls our age that got babies but generally the girls in
that time kept their legs together, as we said amongst each other. Even
when we found one who was prepared to go further we did not recognize
the signs, so generally only kissing was on the program.
Some of the girls would allow some feeling up but others even refused
that. Even at heir age they were afraid that that would make babies. It
goes without saying that these ideas changed and progressed with every
year we got older but compared with 12 to 14 year old teenagers of
today we were hopelessly backwards and innocent. To our defense I have
to mention that at that time the pill was not yet invented. On top of
that it was difficult to buy condoms under the strict norms of the
Dutch society during that time
When I was sixteen I met Maddy. She was a girl living in the same
street as a girl in my class. I met her the first time at the end ball
of a dancing course. Maddy became my real first love and my first
steady girl. Our mutual friend had been sure that she would not want to
know about me. The reason being that she was two years older than me; I
conquered her by storm however.
We both liked music although she was more of an Elvis fan while I was
into Cliff Richard and the Shadows. We loved movies and we frequented
the five cinemas of my hometown. There was however one flaw in our
affair. She lived ca. 20 kilometers from my home in a village in the
country side. That resulted in me riding by bike every weekend day to
her home and back. But in the beginning that was no obstacle for a
young Matt in love. I had fallen for her smile but she also had a
fabulous figure with very long legs. Her hair was rather short and
together with her small breasts she had a kind of boyish look, which
would become my criterion in my judgment of women.
Of course I did rarely volunteer to master that distance four times a
day by going out in my town. So I read a lot and stayed with her and
her parents. Still this all was bearable when the time to say goodbye
for the day came. We went from heavy petting to hand jobs and when we
were asked to baby sit at one of the neighbors we both lost our
virginity. I still remember that she had the presence of mind to bring
towels at the occasion.
That evening after having checked that the baby was asleep we undressed
each other oh so slowly. We had seen many examples of how to do that in
the movies. I marveled when her BH came down and she showed me her
small but very shapely breasts that had some very pert and hard
nipples. Her figure was beautifully lean and sporty from riding
bicycling every day to work. Obviously the Dutch national means of
transports has its advantages. My dick reacted with an erection that
was almost painful and close to exploding.
This was the first time in my life I saw a real girl completely naked.
In that time we did not have internet and the availability of sex
magazines was also worse as today. She had a flat belly that was
bordered below with some fluffy pubic hair. Luckily not so bushy that
it made her pussy invisible. I had not shaved my pubes, since I knew
her. I had been afraid that she would not understand such a behavior
and would have thought I was gay. Everybody who acted outside the norms
in that time was suspected to be gay.
I laid her down on the floor and I moved up on her between her legs.
She was very passively when I entered her. I was very careful and
continued slowly. I hoped not to hurt her when the moment of losing her
virginity came. I felt the mild resistance and when I passed her hymen,
I felt like passing the gates of heaven. After that crucial moment her
initial passiveness vanished and she became a softly moaning ever so
sensual woman. She kept on trusting her abdomen up to me, as if she
never had enough of me inside her.
I came much too soon and being still within the rather rigid rules of
behavior of our time we did not know about alternative sex games nor
foreplay or after play. I asked whether she liked it which she
confirmed and she rewarded me with a kiss. In retrospect I suspect that
she did not have her first orgasm on that evening. We probably were
also shocked a little bit by our own bravery of fucking each other.
Luckily enough there was almost no blood after our first lovemaking It
was the only time that we really fucked, which in its turn may have
been one of the reasons that the affair did not last.
Still this first sex experience with each other was a good one. It hit
us however also that we made love without any protection. Preservatives
were hard to get and consequently we did not use them. The following
weeks were a long wait for her next period but the experience was worth
it. After it we were back to making love standing up in the laundry
kitchen. This was of course in no way as good as lying down. I did not
dare to penetrate her again because one of her parent might have
checked us out at any time. This situation did not compensate for my
longing to party with friends and to roam the juke joints in town for a
very long time.
Although she was even invited by my parents to spend the holidays with
us the end came inevitably. It was accompanied with many tears and
accusations that I could not do that after taking her virginity. My
first try was aborted and I continued for another month but the seed of
freedom was stronger. After that month I put an end to it. When the
final decision was made the geographical distance between us made the
separation a lasting one. I only saw her very sporadically afterwards.
The following days and especially the next weekend I regretted my move.
There were no new friends, male as well as female, waiting in the
shadows. Initially I was alone. That changed when I met Hank an old
buddy from elementary school. He was part of a group of boys that did
exactly what I had in mind. They partied; played cards together and
roamed the juke joints in town. With seventeen we changed from caf?
houses and snack-bars to real bars. First of all we frequented the bars
and terraces that were situated along and near to the big historical
market place. Later on we also discovered the ones that were in
neighborhoods that our parents would not have approved to. Of course to
us these were the more interesting places.
In bars that served alcohol you actually had to be eighteen but those
rules were not applied very strictly.
The girls I met during that time were rather diverse. The ones from the
"bad" bars were the most exiting. They were generally more advanced
than we, as far as drinking and sexuality were concerned. With them it
was us who were the more careful ones. The wilder sexual games we
played with them might have led easily to unwanted consequences. We
were pretending to be rebels. We also knew damn well though, that
coming home which a girl from those parts of town because she was
pregnant would be a real scandal that could better be avoided.
But some of the other girls (from the better parts of town) might have
been promising. The problem with some of them, whom I really liked, was
mostly that they happened to be Roman Catholic. Although Holland was on
the verge of becoming the liberal country that we know today, these
girls had grave inhibitions to bring home a guy from another religion.
Hank also liked music but his taste was completely different. He was a
fan of Frank Sinatra and I also became mesmerized by this singer after
listening to his music. During that time I got my first record player
and the first records that I bought were by Sinatra. I really dug deep
into it and used the bigger part of my allowance to buy his records. I
collected the first dozen of releases on his self-owned label Reprise.
I also bought many of the Capitol albums that were still on the market.
The album that became a lasting favorite was The Concert Sinatra. This
album with songs like Lost In The Stars, Old Man River and Soliloquy
from the musical Carousel is one of his all time bests. To me it has
almost classical musical dimensions. The conductor on this album was
Nelson Riddle who was frequently used by Frank. The swingiest albums
however were with Billy May the conductor arranger with whom Frank had
wanted to cooperate from the beginning of his Capitol years. I
especially liked these albums like Come Dance With Me and Sinatra
Swings...Other artists who were in the same class were Nat King Cole,
Dean Martin when he felt up to swinging and Tony Bennett for example.
The female singers in that style were Dinah Washington, Pearl Bailey,
Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughn and of course Ella Fitzgerald.
By listening to these singers I started to interest myself also for the
musicians behind them. On their best records they were backed by some
big names from the big band scene, which of course is a part of jazz
music. Especially through Sinatra, who I always regarded as a jazz
singer, I came to know Count Basie, who made two albums with him, Duke
Ellington, who cooperated on one album, Johnny Mandel, Neal Hefti,
Quincy Jones and other key persons from the world of jazz. Another side
effect of listening to this kind of music was to learn more about the
beauty of the English language. Especially Sinatra was an artist who
had a very special talent to play with words. Sometimes even to the
chagrin of the original text writers and or composers.
Still I kept an open eye for the things that happened in the world of
popular music. At the beginning of the sixties things started too
change. After the so called Bobby period with American singers like
BobbyVee, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby Day amongst others,
there was a new sound: Surf music. Happy go lucky music by The
Surfaries, Dick Dale & the Deltones, Jan and Dean and The Beach Boys.
Shortly after Radio Luxembourg played tracks by these groups,
especially The Beach Boys were embraced readily by the British market.
Shortly after that they started to broadcast also more music of new
English groups. We were introduced to groups like The Hollies, The Dave
Clark Five, Gary and the Pacemakers and The Swinging Blue Jeans. The
ones that really got us into their spells however were The Beatles and
The Rolling Stones. In the beginning nobody had the slightest idea that
we were witnessing the first signs of a revolution in music. This new
movement that was called the Mersey Beat would have an impact on
society that until then was believed to be impossible. This music would
shake the American market in its foundations and become known there as
the British invasion.
It was an exiting time partying, listening to music, acting cool,
starting to mix alcohol in our Coca Cola's, rotating girl friends and
playing the rebels. We were not really rebelling against any rule but
maybe just bending them from time to time. Altogether it was even a
rather quiet time although the big youth revolts that would rock
especially in France and Germany a few years later were already in the
making.
My parents gave me relative freedom. Although during that time I also
met my father's correcting hands from time to time when I went too far,
I lived a carefree live. I finished high school and started a study of
architecture at the technical university of my home town. After having
flunked the examinations in the second year I dropped out again. At
that time this was not the disaster it would be today. The
possibilities for non academics to make a career in life were much
better than today. Altogether I don't think I really knew what I wanted
at that time.
Toni The Book Chapter 2
After I dropped out of the university I was waiting to be called up for
military duty as it still existed in that time. I could not search for
a steady job so I took on some "manpower" jobs as a factory worker that
existed for students. During these months while waiting for my
enlistment I met Toni for the first time. The first glimpse of her I
got when I walked out of a cinema after having seen Four For Texas with
Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. and not to forget with Anita
Eckberg and Ursula Andress.
I first saw her back and I could only think of one word: FLAWLESS. I
saw dark brown hair only barely reaching her shoulders. Her back
indicated that she had an almost athletic figure. She was wearing
rather tight jeans so I could see her tush rather clearly. Her buttocks
were accentuating the athletic impression. They were not round and
broad as with so many other girls but more oval shaped. Under them two
legs started that did seem to go on forever. She wore flat shoes. I
intuitively thought that she would look marvelous in high heels. From
behind she had a kind of boyish figure but that being exactly what I
liked most with girls, made me longing to see more of her
Walking behind her I saw that she was heading for one of the nearby
diners. I wanted to buy a coke myself and followed her in. Standing
closely behind her waiting for our orders the first thing I noticed was
that she was more or less as tall as I was. I unconsciously realized
that that meant she would be taller than me wearing high heels. I also
got a whiff of her body fragrance and I found out that she smelled at
least as good as she looked. I unconsciously inhaled rather noisily,
which made her turn her head.
The first thing I saw was her eyes and I felt like drowning. I was
looking into big eyes with green to brown pupils that could melt an
iceberg. They were only accentuated by a black eyeliner that was ooh so
decently applied. The expression in her eyes changed from annoyance to
a low smoldering spark when she returned my "Hi" with an "Oh, hello
too". The voice was strangely husky, low for a girl and melodious in a
way unknown to me up till then.
After she got her order and I mine I saw that she was standing alone at
one of the high tables. I collected all my courage and asked her
whether I could join her. She answered only with nod of her head. Now
I could see that she wore her hair in a kind of fringe hairstyle that
framed her face like the rays of a dark sun. Her face was classic with
rather high jawbones. Her mouth was full as it was accentuated lightly
by lipstick and maybe a bit wide. Further make up was not visible,
which did not mean that it was not there however. I got the overall
impression that hair and make up was very professionally done.
Her face was of an austere beauty to me. Not beauty queen-like and not
doll-like but maybe a bit mysterious. It was that kind of face that
burns into your memory. I also noticed that her breasts were small. I
clearly saw her nipples, which could only mean that she wore no bra.
The sum of it all was attractive to me in an unbelievable way. I
probably fell for her already in that very moment.
All my observation had taken a rather long time and I was torn from my
daydreams when she said "A penny for your thoughts". After returning to
the real world I avoided the direct answer by asking her whether she
had also been in the cinema, which was confirmed. We talked about the
movie and I could brag with my knowledge of the Rat-Pack and the music
that was made by Frank Sinatra. She was a good listener, but during my
talking I saw that low spark in her eyes slowly being replaced by a
mysteriously sad expression, which made her even more desirable.
After we finished our cokes I asked her whether I could walk her home
and she nodded her head again in agreement. She lived not too far from
my parental house. Her apartment actually was in the street of my old
elementary school. At her door we shook hands. More was not offered to
me but that was OK. I already indicated that free love had not yet
arrived in the Dutch society at that time and in addition to that I was
already really glad to be in her company. I did not want to do anything
that would narrow my chances to see her again. I did however get to
know her name which was Toni Westerloo and I got her promise for a date
on Saturday night.
On that Saturday she robbed my breath again when she appeared in a mini
skirt. This was a new fashion trend that had been recently washed over
from London, the hippest place in the world by far in the sixties. Her
T-shirt was fitting tightly and it was again visible that she wore no
bra. It was also very visible that her breasts were small and very firm
as they stood out with her nipples peaking against the covering
fabrics. Now I had the full view of her legs and they were indeed
perfect and incredibly long. I got the confirmation that she looked
gorgeous in high heels. Oh man I could have just keep on standing there
and devour her with my eyes.
The butterflies in my stomach and belly told me that I had to have this
girl. We went to eat together in one of the town's Chinese restaurants.
Afterwards we went to the old historic market place with its historical
town hall on one side and the big "new" church, built in the 16th
century, on the other side. As it was a wonderful August evening, we
settled down on one of the terraces that border one side of this
market.
We started to get to know each other better talking about music, films,
holidaying, schools and work. She told me she was a hairdresser and was
almost nineteen, which made her a year younger than I was. Her job
explained my impression of professionalism regarding her hair and make-
up. She liked all the new groups that were washing over from England
and she loved to go to the movies. We also found out that we even read
similar books, which she also preferred to read in English. The subject
of families was not touched on that evening and during the following
dates.
Walking her home that night I noticed that guys who overtook us turned
their heads to see the front of the fabulous figure from behind. All of
them seemed to be impressed with the front view too. That night we
kissed for the first time and although I probed her lips with my tongue
she kept them tightly shut.
We really got steady during the following time and we saw each other
almost every day. Eventually I learned that she was the daughter of a
wealthy family, who I knew as they had a big mansion on the outskirts
of town. From me she learned that I was still living at home, waiting
to go into the army in a few months. I also told her, that my father
was working for the town council, which made us a typical middle class
family.
She told me however that she did not have much contact with her family
anymore since she lived on her own. I also got to know in what place
she worked and even I knew that that hair salon was the best in town.
It had not been my cup of tea to get away from the parental house when
I became 18. Still I knew there were many young people who did that so
I found nothing strange about that. There was no information about
brothers or sisters. She also did not volunteer any information whether
she grew up in a strict religious environment, which I suspected she
had.
I from my side held back with the information that I had an older
brother, who was ready with his studies and was now a technical
engineer. After that he had gone to Italy where he had gotten a job.
The main reason for this move however was because he had met an Italian
girl during a family holiday when he was fifteen and that friendship
had become an engagement. My parents and I would attend the wedding
which would take place shortly before I went into the army. I also got
to know her apartment which was basically a big room with a bathroom
and a mini kitchen. As her bed also was in that single room we were
using that to do our petting, which of course was our favorite pastime.
She opened up to me but only her lips, but I found out that kissing her
was different as with other girls. Her kisses were passionate at an
unbelievable level. There were promises in them and a longing for more
although she did not offer more. After some time she let me caress her
breast readily, confirming that she did have very small boobs, but I
did not care. Her nipples in the centre of small but very prominent
aureoles were always hard and pertly provoking me. Admiring her boobs I
asked her why she used to go without a bra. Her explanation was that
she had to wear one during her work but did not like the confinement of
the garment. As soon as she left the shop she discarded it as
frequently as she could.
She refused to have me remove her panties. She always kept her legs
together when I fondled her through the fabric of her garments. During
these first tries to get rid of her panties I noticed that she wore two
of them. This was new to me but I did not think anything about it. In
the beginning I got rid of my briefs, trying to provoke her in doing
the same. She asked me not to do it again though, as she was in no way
ready to get more intimate with me.
I was a little bit chagrined because I had looked forward too much,
much more. Being together with her without sex however was so
satisfying for me that I did not insist. Secretly I expected the
experience, when it would arrive, would be the more exiting because of
the long wait. This restriction had an advantage for me. I had ceased
to shave my pubic area and could take up that habit again as I really
felt uncomfortable not being clean shaven.
Her prudish behavior did not cool our friendship. For some time I saw
it as a result of her upbringing. Her family may have been rich but its
background was probably a very rigid and strictly religious one. I
presumed that because they were originating from a region that was west
of Delft. This part of the country was one of the regions where mainly
very religious farmer families lived. My family was also religious to a
certain level. In the Dutch Calvinistic society there was a growing
tendency to break away however from the old strict structures. The
people who were not ready for this opening up kept among themselves. I
suspected her family to be part of this so-called black-stockings
church community.
Shortly before I went into the army the wedding of Leonard was due and
my parents even had me ask her whether she wanted to come along as my
girlfriend. She strangely rejected without giving any reason. Because
of this invitation however I took her home one evening. She was liked
instantly by my mother as well as my father. I even got a compliment
from both of them after that visit. Her decision not to accompany us
was however not changed during that first encounter with my parents.
So I went to Italy without her and visited the city of Bergamo for the
first time in my life. The holidays in which Leonard had met Ele had
been at the Mediterranean. I knew her family came from Bergamo but I
never had been there. One of the reasons was of course that during the
last 3 years I had not accompanied my parents during their holidays.
Bergamo and the new family were eye openers, Ele's father; Nicola
Malfredi was the owner of a small but highly specialized parts supplier
for the automotive industry. He had organized Leonard's job with one of
the most prominent systems suppliers for that industry. The idea was
that my brother would get praxis in another company before he would
become part of the family enterprise. He was a real charming man. He
was proud of Italy's heritage and an expert in culture and as I would
find out also in food matters. And there was Paola, Ele's sister and
she was a dream.
The last time I had seen her she had been thirteen but now she was one
hundred percent woman and a marvelous companion during the wedding. She
tried to seduce me but I had the good sense not the let things get out
of hand. An important reason for that was the not present Toni of
course. She was on my mind all the time and poor I had to acknowledge
that I probably had fallen in love with her. It wormed me however
endlessly why she had decided to stay in Delft.
During the week in Bergamo I discovered my love for Italian food. At
home we always ate well but very Dutch, which meant good food with
little imagination. With Ele's father as guide I found out what
Italians could do with not so good ingredients and loads of
imagination. I learned that the Italian cuisine started really in that
way, being a cuisine of the common people. This is in contrast to the
French cuisine which is a cuisine of the court and of nobility. Today
the ingredients do not have to be poor any longer of course, as Italy
is one of the richest countries in the world. Many of the famous and
best dishes however are still made in the old tradition and like I
said, I loved it.
We ate the typical Bergamo food like horsemeat bacon (Bresaola),
Vasonsei and Vasoncelli as well as Porcini (mushrooms) and Asino
(Donkey meat). The local red wine is called Valcalepio. The food
basically originated from the mountains that start only a few
kilometers North of the city. The first night we ate it in a farm house
in that region, on a mountain slope, where Mamma cooked herself.
Typical for this kind of restaurant was that the wine was drunk from
ordinary stone cups. The second night we went to the Alta Citta, the
oldest part of Bergamo situated on a range of hills just North of the
19th Century business district. With the whole of the newer town at our
feet we had a dinner of Italian specialties.
We also went to Milan to eat fish near a huge fish market. I already
knew about shrimps but that evening I learned to know scampi, lobster,
even ink fish and shells in all sizes. I asked my father about this
kind of sea food and why we never ate it, although he came from a
fishermen's family. He told me that the high sea fishers from his birth
town had an aversion against shell food. Even mussels that were
cultivated in masses in the South of Holland were not on their menu. He
had to admit however, that these Italian dishes were fantastic. We also
grilled the so-called Fiorentina steak in the garden. With every dish
there was another wine from the private wine cellar. After the food the
espressos were served with grappa. I certainly could have lived in such
a country.
When I came back to Holland I had to introduce Toni to the Italian
cuisine of course. Firstly by searching out an Italian restaurant,
which created problems as in Delft, at that time, no such restaurant
could be found. I found one in The Hague but that was expensive. On top
of that I did not really like it, so we had to do it ourselves. We
bought cook books and started to experiment. Of course I wanted to eat
a Fiorentina steak right away but it was impossible to duplicate the
Bergamo experience. Every butcher we asked for it had no idea what we
were talking about. After those let downs, we started with spaghetti,
home made pizza and some antipasti. Imagine that even to get Parmesan
cheese other than the grated variation was an adventure.
After the wedding, back in Holland we had our first pre-Christmas time
together. When my mother found out that she was not visiting her
parents on the Christmas days, she invited them on the spot. I wondered
why she was alone but loved to be with her during these days. We
attended a church service on the first day of Christmas and afterwards
listened to the organ together. The dinners with my parents were cozy
and I found out that my mother had even convinced to stay overnight,
sleeping in Leonard's room. This of course was the ultimate indication
that my mother planned with her as the second daughter in law. On New
Year's Day, when we kissed I was certain that nothing could separate us
from that moment on.
During January the next year I was drawn into the army and Toni and I
saw each other only during the weekends. Being in an all male company
in the army made me an awfully horny guy when on leave. As a result I
got ever more impatient with her refusal to get to the next stage in
our love making, which did not really deserve the name up to then.
After some weeks I made her an ultimatum. I wanted to pet wit her
naked. I promised her also that I would not press her to let me
penetrate her, if she did not want it. She looked hurt, but also with a
strange understanding expression in her face. She said she had to think
about it and while she thought about it we should not see each other
for a month. I did not see why she had to think about it for such a
long time, but I agreed.
During that month I really found out how much she meant to me. Being in
the army was not my favorite past time and I felt very alone.
Especially the weekends going home without the prospect to see her were
bad. I even considered getting back to her before the month was over
and to accept things as they were.
After a month coming back from the base on a Friday I couldn't wait to
get to her apartment. She greeted me with her irresistible smile and
had me sit on her couch (not the bed). This was the first time that I
had not seen her for some time. It was also the first time that I felt
like falling in love all over again. She also had Coke and brown rum
ready, my favorite drink at the time and started to talk. She said that
she had a very serious reason for not wanting to see me for a month.
She had planned to use that time to create a distance between us in
order to end our affair. During the month however there was one big
fault in her plan. She was not able to detach herself from me. The
longer the month lasted, the surer she was that she really loved me.
I can tell you that I was flattered. She continued by asking me if I
was serious, whether I loved her too. Slightly taken aback, I had to
admit to myself that I loved her at that moment but I did not know
whether that would last forever. Seeing my hesitation she added:
"Important is whether you want to give it a serious try". When I
confirmed that immediately, she continued by saying that her reason for
no getting more intimate with me was not religion but because she was
different.
I was still contemplating what she meant with different when she stood
up. She slowly started to undress her self. I