Author's note:
This is, in all its seven parts and their many chapters, one very,
very
long story. If long stories bother you, I suggest you read something else.
No part of this story is written so as to stand on its own. I strongly suggest that you start with
the beginning of Part 1
and read sequentially—giving up at any point you choose, of course.
All sexual activity portrayed anywhere in this story involves only people at least eighteen years old.
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Monday was quite a different day, in many ways. I'll try to detail a lot of them, and some of them matter to what happened for the rest of the year and beyond.
It seemed to start reasonably normally. Outside, the sky was overcast as far as the eye could see, and it was very humid, suggesting rain that day. Very unpleasant, sweaty weather for running.
The history test was hard. We were all well prepared, and it was totally fair, except that there were too many questions. No one could write that many answers, not and do them well, much less stop to really think about them. Afterward, I decided that one thing Mr. Henley was testing was our ability to decide which questions to answer when we couldn't answer them all, and I didn't think I did very well. But my grade wasn't bad, when we got the tests back.
Our other classes went smoothly, until gym.
During the day, it had started raining. Not a hard rain, but a steady, gentle drizzle. The rain was warm, which did help to make it bearable being out in it, but that wasn't enough. Gentle as it was, the constant pelting of raindrops on me really bothered me, and from all around me I heard that I wasn't the only one. And the warmth and humidity had me constantly sweating.
Mr. Miles called us all together at the beginning for an announcement. "This week, we will be having this game four days, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Next week we will not have it at all, but will pursue more usual activities, and then the following week, we will have it every weekday. Are there any questions about that?"
The question I had was, why? I could see that a lot of the boys were as mystified as I was. But without exception, all of the girls were nodding, and most of them were smiling or at least looking somewhat relieved. That was all the clue I needed, though it took a moment. I think most of the boys got it, too, though maybe not as quickly.
For reasons that by now should be obvious, every girl student in the entire school was taking oral contraceptives. This was an absolute rule, part of the contract, and willingness and ability to abide by it was an entrance requirement for every girl. And of course they had all had three full years to get the habit down pat. I thought that the same applied to all of the women on the staff as well, though I had deduced for myself that those beyond childbearing age were exempt. Much later, I learned that married staff women of childbearing age who were seeking to become pregnant were also exempt.
And the pills were prescribed in such a way that all of them had their periods at the same time.
This allowed the school to accommodate the schedule to the girls' menstrual cycles, when it mattered, without having to do so on an individual basis. And most, if not all, of the girls were certainly pleased not to have to deal with sex in gym class during that time, that much was very obvious. I wasn't so happy when I realized that my study schedule was going to be affected as well.
Not one boy asked Mr. Miles to explain. I thought that any who hadn't gotten it saw that they were in a small minority, and planned to ask their friends in private rather than look dumb in public. I would have.
And OK, one note here. We did study this stuff, and so I know that with the pills, the girls didn't really have a menstrual cycle, and their monthly periods weren't really menstruation. But they all used that terminology, and I'm going to use the terms the girls did, without belaboring the point further.
Anyway, we squelched over for partner selection. I was paired with Maggie Brown. She was fairly short, with a moderately nice figure though a bit dumpy, and with mousy brown hair. I was sure I could catch her, that she was in the lower half of the group. She didn't look at all happy, and I assumed I was the cause. I knew that she had been evading her pursuers at least most of the time, because she had been enthusiastically applying penalties to the automatic forfeits on Wednesday and Friday.
The whistles blew, and first the girls and then the boys took off. The footing was absolutely terrible. Not only was the grass wet, but there were small pools of standing water all over the course. Brown stuck to the inside rope, running carefully and not very fast. I wasn't quite as careful, though I was trying, and I slipped and almost fell once, but I caught up with her pretty soon. I took a firm hold on her arm. "Under the rope, Brown." We ducked under.
She said to me, with something like a sob in her voice, "You're one of them, aren't you?"
I was looking around. I'd almost always caught my partners on the outside of of the course, not the inside, and always farther along. I'd never noticed that about here, just a little farther down, were three or four patches of low shrubs of some kind. They weren't tall enough to block anyone's view of anyone standing up, but I thought they would provide a little privacy once we were sitting, and especially lying, down. I guided her down in among them, and then said, "Sit down, please." We both sat. Everything was unpleasantly wet, but then, we were soaked through. I could hear what sounded like lots of whistles and shouts up ahead along the course.
I said, "Whatever you meant by that, in a couple of minutes, we're going to have to get our clothes off and screw, to satisfy the rules. I really don't want to have you poking me up the ass, or worse yet, to be labeled as a forfeit. But, in the mean time, what on earth are you talking about? I don't know whether I'm one of 'them', because I don't know who 'they' are, but I see it's got you in some serious distress. So we can take a few minutes talking about it, I think."
She said, "I'm sorry, I got mixed up. You're not one of them. It's just that one of them said something about you, to me." My own confusion must have showed very clearly, because she went on quickly. "No, you don't know anything about it, but thinking you were one of them I was really scared for a moment.
"Last night, second period after supper, I came out here to run. I'm not very fast, you know that, but by luck all last week I had partners who were even slower. I didn't want to get caught and screwed, I knew it would hurt, but I knew I'd get someone faster sometime soon, and I've been trying to get better to postpone it as long as I can.