Fun & Famous
IT'S WORLD KISS DAY
And so were our first tongue wrestles
Just raise your hand if you’ve forgotten the moment of your very first kiss . No? I thought so. You just don’t forget that. And because today is World Kiss Day and your editors are not the hardest, we’re opening a little book for you.
Holiday loves, washing machine moments, cinema scenes, chewing gum issues: May, Josselin, Jet, and I about our first smooches.
May: “My holiday love Herbert did those really fast washing machine spins and suddenly interrupted the moment by saying: ‘By the way, I prefer to spin the other way.’ Back in the holiday home in Zeeland, I smelled completely like his Cacharel perfume. It was almost traumatic. After that, I didn’t kiss for a year and a half out of shock. You were really handsome. Sorry, Herbert.”
Jet: “I was 14 and at the cinema watching the movie 8 Mile by Eminem. At that time, it was super cool if you hadn’t seen the movie at all because you were busy kissing the whole time. I knew it was going to happen, but I waited until it came. I still remember feeling his tongue and thinking: okay, this is heeeeeeul weird. The days after, I could only think: oh my god I kissed, oh my god I kissed. Yes, I belong.”
”I still remember feeling his tongue and thinking: okay, this is heeeeeeul weird”
Josselin: “My first tongue kiss was at the campsite in Spain when I was about 15. There was a boy who was trying really hard to flirt with me, but I played hard to get because I had read in a magazine that it was cool. Eventually, we did kiss, very uh, sexy by the shower and toilet stalls at the campsite. When we were done, he said: ‘I’m so glad that worked!’ It turned out to be a bet with his friends. After that, I of course told the whole campsite that he kissed like a wet dog. I hope he has a trauma from it.”
Kiki: “I was 14, had a boyfriend for a few weeks, and every day we cycled home together from school. At the traffic light, I had to go right, he left, and we always said goodbye with a little kiss on the lips. He hadn’t instructed me that it would all be different that day, so when I pulled my head away again, he stood there very sadly with his eyes closed and his mouth half open. ‘Oh no!’ I shouted. ‘Did you really want to kiss? Shall we try again?’ He nodded. Then it started to POUR with rain. But really. I didn’t care, just like the chewing gum in my mouth. Our super awkward beginning had turned into a sexy movie scene from The Notebook. Only there were no geese and no boat. Just two bicycles and a traffic light. Also sexy.”
