Katie was leading him on, she had no intention, and she was a damned cock tease. That's what the less popular girls were saying at St. Genesius High School. The people that knew Katie well knew otherwise. If Bobby delivered she'd go through with her side of the deal.
You see, at this Catholic school outside New Orleans Sister Elizabeth's admonition to "Save your virginity for your husband" was generally taken as "Decide who you're going to marry and screw him during your senior year." Not too early in your senior year, of course, just in case he knocked you up: You didn't want your belly to show under a graduation gown, so most of the senior girls, including Katie and the other three senior cheerleaders, were still virgins at the end of football season. That's when Katie's friends knew she'd soon be a virgin no longer.
"Win the district championship and you can have my cherry." That's what Katie told Bobby in front of a half dozen other football players and their dates at the beach party back in August. It's likely the team would have been in the play offs anyway, but being the hot blooded young Creole male Bobby was, he quarterbacked St. Genesius to an undefeated season, the district championship and virtually guaranteed himself a football scholarship to a Bowl Division school. Katie's future looked bright indeed as Bobby pulled the car into the gravel road that Friday night after the last regular season game.
Bobby's family owned this piece of property on Old Bayou Road, and he had picked the site well. A two hundred year old live oak tree surrounded on three sides by the tall sugar cane would provide enough cover to hide the car from any nosey classmates. During planting and harvest the tree provided shade for farm workers' lunch breaks. If he had asked his father Bobby might have been shocked to learn that it had also provided cover the night Bobby was conceived in the backseat of a tricked-out 1969 Chevy hot rod. If Bobby hadn't been thinking with his 'nads he might have seen his dad wink at Katie's dad and their moms smile knowingly when he and Katie left the parking lot after the game. After all, there were traditions to uphold at St. Genesius.
It was about 11:30 P.M. when Bobby turned the engine off and looked at the eyes of the grinning cheerleader under his right arm. "Backseat!" Katie ordered.
Bobby rushed out the driver's side door and around the car to open the door for her, but she was anxious too, and already out when he got to her side. He followed the best ass he'd ever seen, covered by cheerleader's bloomers, into the back seat and closed the door behind them.