Part II: The Save
"Well, I did it Coach," Kevin announced proudly the next morning, poking his head into the coach's office.
"Did what?" he asked grumpily. He slurped down the last of his cup of coffee and lit up a cigarette.
"I beat my neighbor...that girl," he explained eagerly, trying to refresh the Coach's memory.
"Oh, yeah, right," Coach replied. "How'd it go?" he asked, realizing that Kevin wasn't going anywhere until he told him his story. He poured himself another cup of black coffee from his oversized thermos.
"It was great!" he exclaimed. Then, he reflected on Joey's final -- and winning -- basketball shot. "Actually," he clarified, "we kinda tied." He fudged the truth a little bit. "But it's okay," he followed up rapidly. "It turns out, she plays basketball for St. Augustine's. She's on their first string varsity."
Coach looked up from his coffee cup, completely unimpressed.
"The point is," Kevin implored, "I was fantastic!" Kevin's hands were waving wildly. "You were right! All I needed was a little self-confidence. I made all of my shots, even from the outside, and it was like I couldn't miss!"
"Then why did you lose?" Coach sneered.
"Well," Kevin explained, "When she saw how good I really was, she tried to...distract me. And...since I already knew that I could beat her, I, uh, . . . we . . . uh, called it a tie."
"Did you drive to her basket?" Coach asked, fully intending the question to be about sex, rather than basketball.
"Uh, yeah," Kevin answered softly, but proudly.
A huge smile spread across Coach's face. He understood completely. No longer upset at having one of his boys beaten by a girl at a sport which he coached, he stood up and offered his hand to Kevin. "Well done, son, well done," he said, as they shook hands.
Then, Coach raised his left hand and smacked Kevin warmly on the shoulder. "But you still got beat by a girl. And I told you what would happen, if you let that happen."
Kevin looked into Coach's eyes. Surely this wasn't happening, was it?
"Sorry, son," Coach said. "You're off the team."
"But, wait!" Kevin implored. "That's not fair! You weren't there! You didn't see how awesome this girl looks! I couldn't keep playing basketball when she had my cock in her mouth!"
"Sorry, Kevin," Coach said. "You knew what would happen."
"Aww, c'mon Coach," he begged. "Give me another chance. My dad'll kill me!" Kevin's mind raced desperately. "I'll do anything you want. I'll run laps, I'll mow your lawn, I'll wash your car...!"
"Okay, okay," Coach said. He didn't really want to kick him off the team. But his team had been playing so badly this year, that if word ever got out that one of his varsity players, even a second string player, had gotten beat by a girl, he knew his job was on the line. "I'll think about it. But in the meantime, don't tell anyone about what happened, okay?!"
"Okay!" Kevin agreed enthusiastically. "Not a word. Thanks, Coach!" He turned on his heel and ran out of Coach's office before he could change his mind.
The bell rang as Kevin hurriedly made his way to his first class, running at a full clip down the long ceramic tiled halls. He was running so quickly that he nearly ran over his sister, who had just come out of the girl's restroom, and who was also racing to her first class.
"Hey, Kev," Kaci called out. "What's wrong?! You look upset."
"Sorry, Kaci," Kevin answered, slowing down a few paces beyond her. "Coach said he might cut me."
"What?! Why?!" she asked.
"Because of what happened last night," Kevin explained. "Joey beat me at horse the other night, and Coach told me that if I didn't beat her last night, then he'd kick me off the team. He doesn't want anyone to find out that one of his players got beat by a girl."
"Yeah, but . . ." she paused. She wasn't sure if he knew that she had been watching he and Joey go at it last night in the backyard.
"It's okay," Kevin reassured her. "I know you saw us. Don't tell Mom and Dad, okay?"
"Of course not," Kaci replied. She was a little embarrassed at having been caught spying on her brother and their neighbor having sex out in the open, on the basketball court. "It sure looked like it was worth it, though," she added, dreamily. She was envious of her older brother. She was also a little infatuated with him.
"Yeah, but it might have gotten me kicked off the team," Kevin replied scornfully. He knew that his sister was curious about sex, and he wanted to steer her away from having casual encounters. It was a double-standard, he knew, but still, once word got out that a girl was "easy", it was only a matter of time until she was scorned by her peers, or worse yet, knocked up.
"What're you gonna do?" she asked, worried.
"I don't know yet. Coach said he'll let me know later on. "For now, I guess I just gotta keep my nose clean." Kevin checked his watch. "Come on," he said, "You'd better get to class."
"Okay," Kaci answered. "See you at home. By the way, don't wait for me after school. I gotta do something."
"Okay," Kevin replied. "Don't be late." The two ran off in different directions, moments before the principal came walking down the hall, checking for anyone trying to ditch class.
As the day progressed, both Kevin and his sister, Kaci, tried to figure out a way to keep the Coach from kicking Kevin off of the basketball team. By lunchtime, Kaci had an idea. She went to the computer lab and paid some geek twenty bucks for 10 minutes of computer time, interrupting his game play. Then, she surfed the 'net until she found Joey's e-mail address on the St. Augustine's web site for the school's basketball team.
Kaci sent a quick e-mail to Joey's e-mail account, and hoped it would find her soon. She wrote:
Dear Joey:
My name is Kaci. I'm Kevin's younger sister. We sort of met last night. Kevin's coach is a real dick. He said he was going to kick Kevin off of the basketball team because you beat Kevin at hoops last night. Can you help?
Thanks, Kaci
Kaci wasn't sure what Joey could do, but she knew that Joey wouldn't want her brother to get hurt by last night.
Luckily, Joey had her e-mail forwarded to her cell phone. And even though the school didn't allow students to carry their phones with them during school hours, she was careful to keep her miniature-sized phone on "buzz". She sometimes wondered what it would be like to strap the phone to her clit, but it's buzz was too infrequent and short-lasting to go to the trouble.
Joey slipped into the bathroom stall to retrieve her message. She became furious as she read the message. Not only was she upset that Kevin's coach was going to drop him from the team, but it infuriated her that his coach thought so little of girls basketball.
"Shit!" Joey muttered. The bell rang and Joey stormed off to her next class, her mind focused on what to do next. Why did men have to be so chauvinistic?! Joey wanted to rush over to Kevin's school and give his coach a piece of her mind, but she knew that if she got caught cutting class, or worse, if she missed practice after school, she wouldn't get to play in the upcoming game. But she also knew that if she didn't act quickly, Kevin's coach would cut him from the team, just because she came on to him.
She couldn't let that happen. Not if she could help it. She quickly scribbled a note to her friend Sandy, telling her that she had to skip the rest of the day's classes, and asking her to cover for her at practice, if it came to that. She would try to make it back in time, though.
When the bell rang, signaling the next change of classes, Joey headed for the gym locker room, explaining to the security guard that she had forgotten a book in her gym locker. Because she was one of the school's star players, the guards knew her, and gave her some slack.
"Bye, Joey, be good," the security guard said, as he watched her walk away, not in the direction of the gym locker room, but instead, toward the student parking lot.
She looked over her shoulder at him, and winked. "Thanks," she said, winking at him, "but I can't promise anything!" She liked to tease him. He was moderately handsome, and she knew she might end up doing him some day, but for right now, she knew that the more she kept his hopes up, the greater latitude he would give her.
She rushed to her car, a red Ford Mustang, convertible. It was a gift from her father, when he had heard she made the basketball team. He had always wanted a son, but he was glad to see his daughter doing so well in sports.
She revved the engine, and pulled out of the parking lot. She waved at the school security guard at the entrance to the campus -- ho also wanted to get inside her pants -- and sped down the road, towards the highway, and Kevin's school.
Luckily, there was no campus security at Kevin's public high school. Joey drove straight onto the campus and parked in the student parking lot. She didn't want to park in the visitor's stalls which were located right in front of the administration building.
Killing her engine, Joey stopped to pull a purple velvet pouch out of her glove compartment, depositing it into her backpack, before stepping out of her car. She slipped around the perimeter of the track, knowing that it would probably lead her to the gym. She hoped Kevin's coach would be in his office. It was nearing two o'clock. She had about an hour-and-a-half to find the Coach, convince him not to cut Kevin, and then leave the campus without being seen. If she were lucky, she could make it back to her own school by 3:30 p.m., when her own basketball practice began.