Please feel free to read previous chapters β the following story will engage you much more if you do, although if you haven't the time, then this will stand alone as a good read, I hope.
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Inside, after getting home, I got on the phone to Karl. I didn't know what I was going to say, I only knew that I really didn't want to go out with him any more, and that now was the first chance I had to tell him so.
It rang.
"Karl speaking." came the voice.
Bingo! I was hoping it wasn't his mother or father.
"Karl, it's Kate. Don't hang up, we need to talk."
There was what sounded like a resigned pause, the pause of someone with no excuses. If only he knew what I'd been up to I'm sure it would have been different.
"Karl, I know you were fucking Ann this afternoon. Besides your guilty expression and the smell in her room, she was covered in your cum, and believe me, I know that taste."
I kicked myself at letting that little titbit slip, but Karl was so ready with his excuses he missed it completely.
"Kate, Kate, I can explainβ¦. I just went round to say hi, and one thing led to another. She led me on. I couldn't help myself. It didn't mean anything..."
The words tumbled out, one after the other, none making sense. I was listening to the ravings of a totally guilty man, caught virtually in flagrente delecto.
"Shut up, Karl" I interrupted, with a quietness that I didn't know I had, my voice stopping him mid-track. "You betrayed me, I found out, and that is it. We're through. I'm going to tell my parents that you dumped me, and you'd better say the same, otherwise I will make damn sure that everyone knows I caught you fucking Ann, including your parents." I could make no greater threat to Karl, his parents being the roost-rulers they were, and both of us knew it.
There was another long pause.
"You're right. We're through."
I put the phone down without adding another word. My coming of age was truly happening, and I was losing my early teen link to my first boyfriend, the one who'd also, up until this last weekend, also been my only fuck. I felt no sorrow, just a numb emptiness that told me I'd been under his spell too long, and that I'd just made the best and biggest decision in my life.
I called Nessie, and explained what I'd seen, but not what I'd done or the secret I now shared with Ann and Richard, and then told her about my conversation with Karl afterward. As ever, she was totally supportive, the perfect girlfriend, backing me without questioning.
I left talking to Tim till school the next day, when I collared him in the library at a quiet study carroll near the back in the sixth form area, out of bounds to the juniors.
"Karl and I are through."
"You WHAT" Tim jerked his head up, the look in his eyes one of total astonishment. "Really?"
"No, I'm making it up. What do you think?" Teen sarcasm is the worst, I knew.
His expression was one of mingled hope, exhilaration, fear, love, expectation.
"Where does that leave us?" The trepidation was obvious. He must have thought I'd keep him on the secret side as I lived my life. I had to stop that.
"Tim, I am so in love with you. I'm really pleased Karl and I are finished. Last weekend meant a lot to me, and I want to see where we can go as a couple. Will that be okay with you?" I finished my sentence in my best little girl lost voice.
He reached up and hugged me to him, completely breaking the school's two-foot rule, brought in to keep randy teenagers off each other. Luckily there were no teachers around to see, so I leant in for the deep kiss his mouth was offering, our tongues meeting, and the resultant brain engagement releasing the hormones so closely associated with sex. I broke it off before my legs gave way.
"See you."
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+Just over a month later.+
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