It had been an amazing game, even though Marianne didn't really understand what was going on. She had been told by some of her fellow school pupils that the score was really close right to the closing seconds, until Connell had burst away and scored. Seconds later the referee had blown his whistle for the end of the game, and they had won.
Whilst the team had collected their kit from the changing room, the spectators had piled back onto the bus to head back to school. Marianne had found a seat halfway down the bus, but as usual she was sitting alone, no-one ever wanted to sit and talk with her; she never wanted them too.
Then a cheer went up, as the players began to climb onto the bus. They were cheered like conquering heroes, slapped on the back, applauded, and Marianne watched as they made their way to the back of the bus to join their friends, the 'in crowd'.
Suddenly, a shadow fell over her, and as she turned to see what was happening, she gasped slightly as Connell was placing his kit bag on the rack above her, then sitting down beside her.
She couldn't breathe, she couldn't focus, she couldn't compute. What was going on? Why was Connell sitting down beside her? But she daren't ask. She could feel herself blushing, her heartrate was rocketing, she could smell his sweat, it was intoxicating.
Then they were off, the bus was moving, bouncing along the road, the half-hour journey back to school, but Marianne felt as if she was floating.
Marianne was desperate to say something, anything, but what? She didn't know how to talk about the game, didn't know the correct terminology, she was scared of sounding foolish. So, she just sat there, still blushing, her heart still pounding in her chest and her ears.
But more frighteningly, her nipples had stiffened, and she could feel her pussy tingling, and getting wet. God! She was excited, and he was just sitting next to her.
Her mind was going into overdrive, all sorts of thoughts were crashing through it, everything around her was a blur.
Then, suddenly, she felt something.
There was a pressure on her leg.
Marianne looked down and nearly screamed. She closed her eyes and counted to three and reopened them. The hand was still there.
Connell's hand was on her leg. On the fabric of her skirt, just above the knee.
What should she do? What should she say? Holy Fuck! This was strange.
As she continued to look at the hand, her vision appeared to go a little fuzzy, and then she realised that for at least the last thirty seconds she had not breathed.
Trying not to make it too obvious, Marianne gulped in some air, hoping that the hand on her leg was not some oxygen starved hallucination. The hand remained, in fact it squeezed harder, and moved a little higher.
The pounding in her heart increased. She was sitting in a crowded bus, with the hero of the hour sitting beside her, and he was touching her leg. What if someone saw them?
Scared of making any noise, Marianne clamped her mouth shut and began to breath deeply in and out of her nose. Now any whimpering, groaning, moaning, or screaming she might like to do would be completely muffled.
Then the hand moved again. Slowly, sliding up and down her quad, stroking gently, but lovingly, like you might stroke a pet. And how she wished she wasn't wearing a long, past the knee, skirt and thick opaque 50 denier tights, and instead had miniskirt and sheer tights, she would feel his hand so much more intimately.
Marianne began breathing in time with Connell's stroking, in when his hand moved up her leg and out when it went down. It was the only way she could control herself.
She closed her eyes and just wallowed in the sensations that coursed from her leg through the rest of her body.
All of a sudden, her eyes popped open. The feeling had changed.
Looking down onto her leg, Marianne couldn't believe what she was seeing. Somehow or other, with his stroking, Connell had managed to cause the hem of her skirt to ride up, so that it was now halfway up her thigh, and his hand was now mostly stroking her tights.
Marianne nearly screamed in surprise, but the excitement of the situation, resulted in her groaning, albeit muffled, loudly instead, causing Connell to pause with his stroking, momentarily. Oh, how she wished she did have sheer tights on then his skin would be so close to hers. In her minds eye, she pictured his hand on her naked flesh, and she shivered with pleasure.
However, the lack of any further response from the stunned Marianne emboldened him, and Connell began his deliberate stroking again.
Slowly, the hem of her skirt inched its way further up her thigh, and Marianne tried to look around her, to see if any of their fellow passengers were watching or could see what was happening.