I felt a powerful trill of excitement when I saw her Facebook message. Nicky Saunders... I hadn't seen her since high school and now she wanted to be my "friend".
Maybe it's not that surprising when you consider she was the most "friendly" girl in school - she was tall, brash, and luscious; she had trashy dyed hair, she had tattoos back when only the wildest kids did; and she was a total slut. At least that was the rumor. I thought maybe it was all locker room talk until one night my Junior year. The last time I'd ever seen her.
It was spring, a couple weeks before summer break, and me and some friends were hanging out at my cousins Austin's house. His mom, my aunt, wasn't around much so we pretty much had the place to ourselves, but we were bored: we'd watched both of the pornos Austin had, stolen some beer from the fridge, even went swimming in the neighbors' pool until they came home and almost caught us. We needed something to do. That's when Austin got the idea to see if Nicky would sneak out.
"What?!" I burst out. "Do you have her number?"
"Nah, we're just gonna walk over there and get her to come hang with us", he told me.
"In the middle of the fuckin' night?" I asked. "And then what?"
That's when Corey, one of the two half-way gangsters my cousin always hung out with, broke in. "What the fuck you think we gonna do with a girl like Nicky, man?"
He laughed. They all did, and I laughed along with them, but looking back the joke was on me.
A few minutes later we were walking the few blocks, across a major street, and though a trashier part of the neighborhood, to where Nicky lived. We made for a strange group in my white-bred suburban town: two white dudes, and two black guys, Corey and Terrell. They were more Austin's friends then mine, (the three of 'em were kinda thugged out, they sold weed to the other high school kids, etc.) but I was the biggest, and Corey and Terrell were down with me 'cause I was all league in Basketball.
We laughed and goofed around the whole way there. Corey and Terrell argued about which one of us'd get to fuck her; my cousin claimed she'd probably do us all; and I told 'em that this dude Tyrone - a massive black kid, a senior who lettered in basketball AND had full ride to play football in college next year - said he'd fucked her lots of times.
We'd all heard stories like that about Nicky, so we were full of confidence - even me - until we turned the corner and got to her house.
It was silent, all the lights were off, and suddenly we were nervous. We didn't know what to do. Terrell asked if anyone knew where her bedroom was. We just looked at each other.
"No" my cousin finally admitted. Then he led us about the back of the house, to a tiny stand of trees where we hid, and fought about what to do in harsh whispers. Just as it was getting really embarrassing, there she was.
"What the fuck are you guys doing here?" she asked, half angry and half laughing.
All of us jumped, scared it was her mom or someone, and turned to face her. She stood there shaking her head, and took a drag off her cigarette.
As usual she looked... naughty. She wore faded black jeans cut off just below her ass - her thick, round ass - and a strappy tank-top (a camisole, I guess?) that showed off all the rest of her curves. Trust me, she had plenty of curves. She also had a haughty, knowing look that was sexy as hell, but seemed at odds with her trashy, slutty reputation - too smart somehow.
"You guys looking for me?", she said, giggling. None of us said anything, until she noticed me, smiled, and said; "are these guys trying to get you trouble?"
"Only if we find some" I said back, laughing at how stupid our plan had been, and that it was working so far.
She walked closer to us, closest to me of all, and exhaled a cloud of smoke. "I like trouble" she said, dropping her cigarette and stubbing it out on the ground. "I'll be back in a minute!"
We couldn't believe out luck, and quietly celebrated... pumping our fists, hitting each other, telling my cousin he was stupid and/or a genius. Just moments later we were off. Nicky'd walked right up to us, handed my cousin a bag, then put her arm through mine, and led us out into the night.
"What's this?" Austin asked.
"Vodka!" Nicky told us. "I figured we need a little something to get party going... haha!"
She said whatever we did, we should go get her friend Shannnon, first.
"I think four of you might be too much... even for me," she laughed, and pulled me even closer too her.
I was on cloud fucking nine! Here I was, popular sure, but still a virgin, and the closest thing our school had to a sure thing was flirting with me!