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.