"Great game tonight!" she announced as she hoisted her schooner. "Us ladies dominated! It was the new socks!"
"Whatever!" her team-mate replied. "If it wasn't for us guys shielding you ladies..."
"Well I guess I could give a shout out to you guys too... Y'all did pretty alright." she smirked over her glass at him and took a big drink. "For boys that is!"
"Come nn!" he sprayed indignantly. "You ladies could never win a dodge ball game without our 'Big Guns'" he said, flexing a lean bicep. "Socks ain't got nothing to do with it. It's all raw power!"
He swung his hand into the air for a high five from the other guys on the team.
"Oh Dude, leave us out of this!" one said, nervously eyeing his female team mates. "Some of us have to live with these ladies..."
"Pussy," both arguers muttered while they took another pull from their drinks.
"And on that note, the rest of us better get going, the babysitter is going to be going nuts!" The rest of the group got up, throwing money on the table for the tab. "G'night, you two!"
"But my drink is only half done!" she wailed.
"Don't worry; I am sure 'Big Gunz' here will finish two more before that one is gone. Later!"
"Fuckin' guy is just cannon fodder anyway," he muttered loudly into the air as the rest of the team filed out.
She laughed, "That is all any of you guys are! I am telling you, it was the ladies new knee high socks, it had them too wowed to face us!"
"Come on! I could beat the pants off of you, any time any place!" he protested, the liquor making him bold.
"You wanna bet?" she exploded! "Where and when, Punky?" her head snapped back and forth as if to say 'Oh no you di-en't'.
"Pff!" his eyebrow arched as he threw his head dismissively.
"Where and when?" she demanded as she slammed her schooner down. He leaned back slightly from her wrath.
"Uhh..."
"Well? Where and when will you 'beat the pants off of me'?"
"Well, I guess the racket ball courts at the college where I work are deserted by seven on Friday nights," he stammered, unused to the turn this trash talking session had taken. "Not even security bothers to go down there..."
"Loser has to," she hunted for an appropriate punishment. "Whatever the winner says!" she finished triumphantly, her hand thrust out for the handshake that would seal the bet. Her eyes bored intensely into his.
"Uh. O-kay." He feebly held out his hand. She grabbed it firmly, pumped it up and down twice vigorously.
"Deal! Friday night, Punk!" she tipped her schooner back, draining it quickly, slammed it on the table and was gone before he quite knew what had happened...
Friday evening found him standing in the secluded racket ball courts in his shorts and tee shirt, still wondering what exactly, the hell had happened. By quarter after seven he had warmed up and worked himself into a bit of a lather. How had he let her rattle his cage like this? She probably wasn't even going to...
"I bet you were thinking I wouldn't show up!" she announced as she ducked through the small racket ball court door. "No such luck for you..."
"Look," he said in his best mollifying tone. "We don't have to do this..."
"Like Hell! You said you are going to 'beat the pants off me'" she said in an insulting voice.
"Alright," he challenged, getting a little angry at her tone. "So what happened to your socks of sexy distraction then, huh?"
She seemed only slightly abashed. She was wearing long basketball shorts, past her knees, and a thick ¾ sleeve tee with double zeros across her back.
"I don't need them to beat the likes of you," she challenged. For the first time he wondered if he detected a lack of complete confidence in that statement.
Still stinging, he bounced the ball hard and fast against the ground several times.
"Let's do this!" he growled. Still feeling pretty confident he purposefully sent the ball hurtling past her to bounce harmlessly against the wall and back to his side of the court.
"Oh it is so on!" she shrieked, dropping into game stance.
Never having played opposite of one another, the game started out fast paced, and yet probing. Where would weakness reveal itself?
He controlled the ball for several throws, feeling out her technique. He threw it hard and fast at her feet, but she easily hopped over it.
"Too slow!" she mocked as he retrieved the ball on his side of the court. He faked a toss at her feet again and caught her on the hip half way through her attempt to jump over it!
"Yeah!" he exclaimed, fists pumping through the air.
"You got lucky!" she shot back at him angrily.
"So now what?" he suddenly wondered. She reached under her long tee shirt to the waist band of her enormous shorts. She sighed heavily and started to lower them.
"What? Wait..." he stammered, staring nervously as her shorts dropped to the ground and were kicked away from her.
"Oh don't be a sissy! You wanted to beat the pants off of me, and I am not even a little bit naked yet! Look!" she demonstrated how her long shirt easily covered her hips. "Play ball, sucker!" She hurled the ball straight for him!
He was still distracted by what had just happened and barely dodged by throwing himself backwards and sideways. He was unable to recover in time to stop the ball from going back to her side.
She may have been decently covered while standing, but he couldn't help but notice the muscles in the backs of her thighs flex as the shirt rode up when she reached for the ball. He was still musing about this observation when he realized that the ball was again flying at him! A clumsy leap and he was saved again. He got his bearings just in time to see the ball rolling back to her side of the court. She was reaching down, again showing a little thigh, anticipating getting the ball when it rolled over the line.
"To hell with this," he thought, "Sacrifice the body!" and he dove for the ball. He landed hard on his side but he grabbed the ball before she could and quickly lobbed it up into her prone body.
"Son of a Bitch!" she cursed loudly. He got to his feet, rubbing his bruised ribs.
"Maybe now she will lay-off a little," he thought. He was dismayed to see her cross her arms and grab the hem of her long tee shirt.
"Look, you don't have to-"he cut off as she whipped the shirt up over her head and threw it behind her. She stood looking defiantly at him, her hand on her hip that was tossed to one side. She was wearing tight, red velvet booty shorts and a small half tank that left her smooth belly exposed. He could just make out where a navel piercing had been.
"You can pick your jaw up off the floor any time," she called sweetly. His teeth clacked together, embarrassing him as he realized how he had been ogling his best friend! He gave his head a shake, reminding himself that she was just messing with him for acting like a jerk at the bar. The ball had rolled onto his side, he scooped it up and turned towards her.
"Are you ready this time?" he asked her, his voice only a little hoarse. She twisted side to side, limbering up for the next round. Her lithe muscles flexed and bunched. She hopped up and down a few times, making her breasts bounce slightly. She cracked her neck in both directions, and rolled her shoulders a few times.