Kelli and I fighting alone in a secluded field, along with her mention of youthful after-school catfights, reminds me of a 1980s snowstorm incident at my Litchfield County music boarding school. It was a lazy Saturday in January, and a wet heavy snow started falling and accumulating on the crunchy icy snow already on the ground from earlier storms. Someone outside yelled "snowball fight!!", and a bunch of us ran outside and split up into teams based on our dorms.
The mix of wet and icy snow to assemble weapons was a mischief-maker's paradise--the 2-step process, if course, was the break off a sharp shard as the inner core of your snowball, then pack the fresh hard stuff around it. When the ball hit your enemy, the fresh layer would crumble off and your target would get a taste of buckshot from the ice you had inserted. Anyone who didn't already know this learned fast that January day.
There was a girl in the other dorm named Laura. She and I didn't care for each other, although we never spoke much about whatever our issue was. During Waterbury beer runs, she and I would watch each others' streetfights against the immigrant girls, no doybt secretly hoping to watch the other suffer a vicious beating. But that never seemed to happen--we were both almost always victorious.
She and were surreptitiously lobbing snow grenades at each other during the snowball fight, being careful to mix in throws at other girls (and a few participating boys--most were smart enough to stay indoors, knowing how barbaric girl snowball fights can get) so as not to draw direct attention to ourselves.
I saw Laura sustain a hit to her eye and retreat to the sidelines the evaluate her injuries and dry off.I snuck around to check her out, and even possibly "finish her off" with a direct shot of snow, when the lines of battle behind us started to break off into chaotic snow brawling. Laura seemed to retreat further, so I followed her. I got within 10 feet of her, and she could hear my boots crunching in the snow. Her eyes were tearing from cold ice on her skin, and I stared out of genuine concern if she was ok.
But she squared up and stared at me right back, reaching in her coat for a pair of leather gloves, put them on, and said "Let's go, bitch".
I thought of how when NHL ice hockey players fight, they square up and remove their gloves. Laura and I were now standing in a blizzard, squared up, and putting gloves on.
I thought it was primal as hell.
The actual fight wasn't as great as the set up. Wearing full winter gear, hats, coats, boots, it's really hard to do much harm with a punch. And the ground was soft as a baby's bottom with fresh snow, so no injuries were even really possible to us when we fell to the ground in a catball.
Betwern the mutual realization that there would be no winner in our battle, and a distant shout of "Hey, look everyone! , Laura and Carol are fighting!!", our skirmish quickly ended.
But I masturbated for years to the thought of wounded, crying Laura turning to face me to fight.
I wonder. When this fight with Kelli ends, will I masturbate to it?
To be continued.....