Author's note: This is a short and fun niche story for those with a topless voyeur fetish. There is no sex, but there is light romance. In the entire spectrum of hazing fantasies, this is about as gentle and innocent as it gets. All characters 18+.
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Leslie stood in the corner with a wine cooler in her hand and looked over the guys at the party. A lot of cute guys. All thin and wiry track athletes-which was a turn on for her- with their cut cheeks and tan faces and sharp shoulders and elbows. But she was shy and didn't exactly know how to work the room. She watched two of her new running friends chatting eagerly with the faster male runners, upperclassmen-one she knew by name from his wins last season. Even though she was new to the school this week, she had followed the team's social feeds since she was accepted in the spring.
"Hi," a pleasant male voice surprised her, with a bit of slur. "Are you new to the team?"
She turned to look at a particularly thin and wiry track athlete-a handsome young devil-who had snuck up beside her. He had a goofy grin on his face to which she couldn't help but smile in response. She put out her hand.
"Leslie. Yes, I am a frosh." She motioned to the partygoers in front of them. "To be honest, it's all a little overwhelming." It wasn't clear whether she meant this party, leaving home that week to be a freshman in college, or joining the running team.
"Brian," he said, taking her hand, the goofy smile only increasing. "Welcome to the team. I've had a few drinks, so excuse my boldness," he said, waving the margarita in his hand in a wide circle to illustrate, his unsteady motion only confirming his statement, "but you are very pretty."
Leslie blushed and ran her hand through her long bangs. "Brian, thank you, but I think you've had too many tonight. Let me guess, you don't drink regularly?"
"No ma'am. I keep it clean all season for the team."
She laughed. "Yes, me too. But it does mean that your-what, 120 pounds?-can't handle very much alcohol. I think your liver gave up the fight already."
"No, I'm fine! I'm only on my third drink, or maybe fourth." He held his fingers out to illustrate, but they didn't cooperate in showing the number he wanted so he looked more closely at his hand and tried again. Leslie laughed. He was a lightweight.
"Brian, listen my boy, you are done for tonight. We've got the first workout tomorrow and you will be in bad shape if you drink any more." Leslie looked around to see where she could find a refuge to sober him up with a few glasses of water. She put her arm around his shoulders to steady him. "Let's go out to the patio."
They sat a while in the warm fall evening air and talked about their lives at college, what it was like to go from high school to a college athletic team. They both were standouts in their local districts, but apprehensive of the work it might take to be a contributing part at the college level, even though the team was only NCAA division II. Like many high school athletes, they were grappling with what athletics meant to their lives and how much they wanted it to define them.
The evening ended with Leslie finding one of Brian's roommates to guide him home. While he went to fetch their jackets from the closet, she leaned into Brian and gave him a kiss on the lips. His eyes opened wide and when he realized what was happening he focused on her face and tried to kiss her back. It wasn't the best kiss ever, but he hit mostly lips and a tingle went down her spine. Maybe college wasn't going to be so bad after all, she thought.
The week was as tough as they feared. It was what they called, not surprisingly, "hell week" for the incoming freshmen of both genders. Five solid days of workouts trying to keep up with the upperclassmen who had already been running for at least two years more than them, with stronger and more mature bodies. It was the week before classes started, at least, so they had no other academic duties to contend with. The schedule was all-consuming: quick breakfast, run in the morning, stretching, lunch with the team, some light work in the weight room in the afternoon, then an evening run followed by dinner and an early bedtime. It gave Leslie and Brian both a feeling for what it would be like to be a professional athlete.
The two found only one occasion during the week when they could meet privately, one night in an alley behind the pizza joint. Neither had a dorm room to themselves, so they understood that all they could expect would be kissing and a little touching in a clandestine public place. Brian leaned against Leslie on the alley wall, traced his finger against her blonde hairline from her forehead down to her chin, and gave her a gentle kiss. She melted. His hand reached to her and gently pressed against her small breast.
Leslie's figure, like that of all the girls on the team, was slender. She had some curves, but they were subtle. Brian's fingers had no trouble finding those curves, though, as well as the hard point of Leslie's little nipple that he could feel through her shirt. He played his index finger slowly back and forth over it while he kissed her, and then pinched firmly while he leaned in for a deeper kiss. She sucked in her breath as a little spasm ran up and down her whole body.
They both knew the last day of hell week was going to be hard. Before the afternoon-and final-workout session, organized by the upperclassmen, there was a lot of fuss made about it. A lot of shouting and encouraging, like, "You've got 90 minutes more to make it on the team, hang in there, you can get through it!" Technically, everybody had already secured a spot on the team based on their high school times, so there wasn't any serious stress about being cut, but as a rule athletes have a very competitive personality type and every new freshman guy and girl wanted to put in their best.
They ran repeatedly up and down the hill behind the campus that featured a number of criss-crossing dirt trails. "The Hill" was simply what everybody called it, and it would have been a pretty venue for a relaxing stroll if it weren't a place where so much pain was inflicted on these college athletes' muscles and minds in their intense training sessions. The runners went elsewhere for their recreation in the off-season part of the school year.
"One last rep now, girls. Ready. Go!" a senior girl with a whistle and clipboard shouted, clicking her watch as the freshman girls launched up the left side trail. The boys had left an hour earlier to run their own hell week drills on the upper part of The Hill. A final hard sprint down the shallow slopes left the girls gasping, with only a few more minutes to go for their hell week. Some girls flopped down on the grass breathing hard. They hadn't been so exhausted, maybe ever, in their training, all of them working so hard to impress their new college teammates.
"Line up, you only have five minutes left. You aren't done yet. Now!" The senior girl with the whistle blew it loudly over the clearing to scare the freshmen into a line, where they were positioned so that with their hands on heads they just touched elbows with the girl next to them.