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.
"Anyway, when I was down around the end, some boys jumped me from behind. I never saw them. One grabbed me, and another one stuck a bag over my head. I later found out it was a couple of pillowcases, one inside the other. I went to scream, and someone stuck his hand over my mouth, and then they tied a rope over the pillowcases around my mouth, so it all was a gag. If I didn't struggle, and as long as my nose was clear, I could breathe OK, but there wasn't enough air for any exertion. And I was crying, which made my nose run, and that was bad.
"They tied my hands behind my back, and stripped my shorts and underpants off. They just pulled my top up above my boobs, they didn't take them off. One of them said, 'Here it comes, bitch!' and shoved himself into my pussy. That hurt an awful lot, first when he popped my cherry, but it kept on hurting because he was so big and it was all dry. He told the others, 'Yep, she was a virgin, I was right.' And he told me, 'You should have gotten Morris to pop your cherry for you. He's supposed to be gentler about it,' and they all laughed. He kept going, and then he said to one of the others, 'You get going, we don't have all night,' and someone stuck his dick into my ass, too. And that hurt even worse.
"After the first one finished, he came out, and the next one took his place. At least I'd been stretched out some, and it was wet from him, so this wasn't so painful, but it was really awful." She was crying a little by now. In her place, I would have been bawling my eyes out.
"As the second one screwed me, a girl started talking to me, in a nasty tone of voice. 'You thought you were better than the rest of us, didn't you, keeping your cherry and being oh so careful so you wouldn't get your ass screwed too. All the rest of us could get screwed, but Miss High and Mighty didn't have to get her ass on the ground.' And on and on. I was pretty sure I knew who that was. I recognized the voice and the style. Anyway, they kept it up, front and back, until they'd all had a couple of turnsโI guess, though I have to say something else in a minuteโand then the very first one laid me back on the grass and untied the rope around the bag and stuck his dick in my face. 'Open your mouth, slut, and if you make a sound or bite me I'll slap your head off.' What could I do? I opened my mouth, and he fucked that too. He'd had his dick in my ass, or maybe the girl's, and I could taste that.
"And that's the other thing. The girl who was saying all that awful stuff, well in the end she got it too. While the first couple of batches were screwing me, I heard a one guy say to another, 'Hey, we don't have to wait for her. We've got this one.' They must have grabbed her, and I heard her inhale and start to scream, and one of them must have slapped her across the face, it seemed, it sounded like a gunshot and she cut right off. He told her, 'If I need to, I don't care if I knock your teeth down your throat, slut, you're no better than she is.' I found out later that they used another pillowcase to gag her, after they pulled all her clothes off. He told her, 'You won't tell anyone! This was your idea, to get back at her, and you helped us set it all up.' Apparently they treated her the same as me, front and back at the same time, and I think most of them kind of switched off between us.
"Finally, the first one came to me and said, 'I'm going to untie your hands. You give us a long time, count to two thousand at least, before you take that bag off. And don't you say a word to anyone about it, or we'll do a lot worse to you.' So I did like he said, and when I got the bag off and I could see, I saw what I already knew from her voice, the girl was Bruja. She was lying face down, no clothes at all, gagged, with her hands tied behind her, too. I couldn't leave her like that, could I?
"I untied her hands, and her gag. She wasn't crying, the way I had been, but she was pretty unhappy, and she had bruises already starting to develop on her face. She told me, 'I'm sorry. What they said to me was all true, I wanted them to get you, so you'd be like the rest of us, and somehow I just didn't think about how bad it would be. It was worse for you than for me, I know that. I'm not going to say a word to anyone about it on my own, but if you want to take the risk I will back you up completely, even though it will land me in big trouble too. I really am sorry, I knew it was wrong and I didn't care, and what can I ever do to make it up to you? Nothing at all, besides what I just said.' She was crying by the time she finished saying that.
"I know you must hate Bruja, she's always on your case and with no reason at all. I do want you to know that she was at least sorry this time for what she did. I believe her on that. You would if you'd seen her and heard her.