Candace and the Frat Boys (Chapter 2)
Kathryn M. Burke
When Candace awoke the next morning she was, to her surprise, alone. She figured that Josh would want to spend as much time with her as possible before she had to go home.
And when she tried to move, even the simple act of rolling onto her back produced such a throbbing of pain over her entire body that she let out a loud groan.
Jesus, I really overdid things last night—no thanks to the insatiable Josh.
The sound evidently brought Josh running back to the room. He was, mercifully, clothed this time, although he was only wearing a pair of jeans with no shirt. He rushed up to the bed, saying, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Just . . . sore," she said with a sigh.
Josh knelt down next to her, not knowing what to do to make things better.
She looked over at him. "Can you find my clothes? They must be downstairs in that room where we were—unless someone's taken them."
"Nobody's taken them," Josh said, vaguely insulted that she would accuse his frat buddies of being petty thieves. "Our president has kept them safe."
"Can you get them? I really ought to be getting on home."
"We were hoping you'd have breakfast with us."
"Fine—but I'd like to be wearing my own clothes rather than this silly thing." She pointed derisively to the borrowed nightgown.
Josh suddenly blushed. "Would you, um, like some fresh underwear?"
"Where are
you
going to find some fresh women's underwear?" she said skeptically.
For an answer, Josh stood up and walked over to his dresser, reaching deep into the top drawer. He pulled out an incredibly skimpy pair of red lace panties.
She looked at them incredulously. "Where on earth did you get those?"
Josh's blush deepened. "I found them in a washing machine in my freshman dorm. I don't know who they belonged to, but I've washed them several times."
"Have you now?" she said, in a tone of voice that said,
What exactly did you do to them that required you to wash them over and over again?
"They're really clean, I swear to you!" he said almost hysterically.
"I believe you," she said with a smile. "I'll put them on, but just get my other clothes, okay?"
Josh almost threw the panties at Candace, then rushed out to get the clothes. He was back in under a minute, a pile of neatly folded garments—blouse, skirt, bra, and used panties—in one hand and her shoes in the other. He stuffed the panties in his pocket, on the assumption that, by deciding to wear the new pair, Candace had renounced all interest and ownership of the other. He held out the articles to her like a votive offering.
She took them and, under Josh's relentless gaze, put them on. It seemed that he was as fixated on her getting dressed as he had been on her stripping—and that he found her as beautiful clothed as naked.
He himself slipped on a none too clean T-shirt and led her downstairs.
It was unclear how many of the occupants of the house were in the dining room, but the moment the dozen or so guys who were there caught sight of Candace, they broke out into a thunderous applause, accompanied by whoops and cries, that she tried to take as a compliment. She was a bit unnerved by being the only woman in the place, but allowed herself to be led to the head of the table, where she sat down. The guy who seemed to be in charge of things—presumably the fraternity's president—introduced himself as Matt and shouted to someone in the kitchen behind the dining room:
"Let's whip up some breakfast for the lady, okay?"
In a matter of seconds, a heaping plate of eggs, bacon, and toast was set before Candace, along with a big mug of coffee. It was close to ten a.m., so it seemed that most of the other guys—however late their previous night's exertions, whether with her or with others, had been—had already had their breakfasts. Candace felt more than a little self-conscious being the only one eating, especially since she was now beginning to recognize a fair number of the men who had inserted their organs into various parts of her body. They were all gazing at her with a kind of delighted reverence—but Candace was starving, so she dug into the food with gusto.
"You were really fabulous!" Matt enthused as she ate.
"Thank you," Candace said, her mouth full. After swallowing, she said in a low voice, "Just out of curiosity: how many guys were there who—you know . . ."
"Interesting that you should ask," Matt said jovially. "I think all but two of the guys here had you."
"How many would that be?"
"That would be fourteen. We have sixteen guys living here."
Candace pondered that number. It seemed a little . . . low. "But were there—?"
"Oh, yeah, there were others. I hope you don't mind, but we sent out a call to some others who we thought might be interested."
"Did you now?"
"Yeah. So about twelve others came over."
"So," Candace said, "that makes twenty-six in all?"
"Well, here's the thing," Matt said. "A fair number of these guys came back for seconds."
"Is that right?"
"A lot of them had you two or three at a time, you know."
"Yeah, I know."
"So the grand total"—and here Matt fished out a small piece of paper from his shirt pocket—"was forty-two."
Candace stopped eating, feeling suddenly faint. "You're telling me I got poked forty-two times last night?" she whispered.
Actually, that would be forty-four times, counting Josh's two pokes during and after the shower.
"You bet," Matt said. "That must be some sort of record!"
"Yes, it must be," Candace said ruefully.
No wonder I feel so stiff and sore.
She continued eating, now staring at her plate and pretending there was no one else in the room.
Josh came to her rescue. After she had finished her breakfast, he said, "I can take you home now. I have a car."
"That would be wonderful," she said.
She had no wrap, so she got up hastily from the table and made her way out of the house, giving a brief wave of the hand as, with a sudden spasm of embarrassment, she acknowledged another round of applause from the assembled men.
She got into Josh's car, lost in thought.
Good Lord, how could I have let myself go like that? It's not at all surprising that these guys think I'm some sort of—
Josh wasn't helping any, saying almost nothing to her aside from asking directions to her house. She didn't live terribly far away from campus, so the drive only took about ten minutes.
As Josh pulled up to the curb in front of her house, Candace said, "I may need some help getting to the door."
But Josh, almost the moment he had brought the car to a halt, had jumped out of it and rushed around the front, like an excessively attentive old-world gentleman holding every possible door open for the "lady" he took her to be.
Even though she was feeling better, the revelation of the number of men who had invaded her body was still affecting her, and she felt like some kind of invalid as she clung to Josh's arm and walked slowly and unsteadily up the short walkway and up the stairs of the porch to her front door.
She was about to thank Josh for his various courtesies and attentions when he burst out with: "Can I see you again, ma'am?"
She rolled her eyes. "Josh, please try to call me by my name. After what we've been through, it's the least you can do. Being referred to as 'ma'am,' even by a young guy like you, makes me feel ancient."
"I'm sorry, ma'am—I mean Candace," he said quickly. "I was raised to respect my elders."
That comment didn't help so much either. She looked him over, the desperate eagerness in his eyes seeming almost painful.
"Josh," she said, stroking his cheek, "you've been awfully nice to me. But I really don't think—"
"I just wanna talk with you!" he exclaimed. "I don't expect anything more! I'd just like to get to know you better. That's all, I promise."
She sighed—for what she felt was the dozenth time. "Okay, fine. Why don't you come over for dinner sometime? I'll cook you something."
He seemed taken aback by her offer. "You don't have to do that. I can take you out somewhere."
"Um, I'm not sure that's such a good idea. Anyway, I like to cook—and cooking for one is no fun."
"Okay," he said. "How about tomorrow?"
"That may be a little soon," she said. In spite of his protestations, she suspected he wanted to do a little more than chow down with her and have a heart-to-heart talk. "I need a little more time to recover. How about Wednesday?"
"All right," he said sulkily, like a little boy. The idea of waiting the better part of four days to see his paragon again seemed to weigh heavily on him.
She took pity on him. Throwing her arms around his neck, she pasted a long, firm kiss on his mouth. After an initial surprise, he got into the spirit of things by kissing her back and pressing her body to his.
He was sliding his hand down in the direction of her bottom when she stopped him.
"No, Josh, not out here," she said with a smile and a twinkle in her eye. "That would be quite naughty. Go on home now."
He was appeased, and tripped down the steps of her porch with a broad smile and a lilting heart.
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