4
"Do you want me to teach you how to eat pussy?"
The shocking words hardly registered in my brain as I slumped against the couch in Tara's basement. She was trying to cheer me up after I told her about how thoroughly I had botched things with Steph.
"What for?" I murmured
"Well you may have royally fucked up with Steph, but you've still got Rachel's prom to go to tomorrow, and you're gonna wanna be prepared if you get called in off the bench!" She exclaimed. My eyes limply shifted over to her spot on the floor.
"What makes you think I don't know how to eat pussy?" I inquired.
"Truth or dare,"
"Truth"
"Have you ever eaten pussy?"
"...no."
"Well there you go," she remarked, an "I told you so" look on her face.
I thought about what this lesson might entail--maybe Tara, legs spread and bottomless, fingers parting her lips to show me the pearl of her clit and how to massage it with my tongue; maybe pressing her fingers up inside her pussy in search of her G-spot. Maybe she'd even invite me to try.
All of these lewd thoughts about one of my best friends passed through my mind...and my cock barely moved.
My fuck up with Steph had affected me greatly.
We hadn't spoken in the days since the incident, and not a single sound, sexual or otherwise, had filtered its way down through the floorboards of her room above into my room below. I had made an ass out of myself, and more importantly I had hurt her. I had hurt Steph, a former tormentor who now I dare say I considered a friend. But now, I didn't know where we stood, and I certainly didn't know what it meant for me in terms of having a date for my own prom.
The one thing I did know is that for the first time in years, I went multiple days without masturbating.
Digital messages with Rachel did nothing for me. They had mostly been logistics for Friday, the day I would accompany this chaste choir girl to her school's prom. It was an agreement I made in the moments after orgasm that I had come to dread, and though I would never back out, any reminder of the impending evening did nothing for my libido, especially under the current circumstances. Even in the moments she attempted to be flirty, I barely engaged. What was the point?
In my room, in the moments where I would usually be rock hard, stroking it to the angelic sounds of Steph's cresting orgasm, it was just quiet. A heavy quiet that did nothing to arouse, and everything to remind me of how violated she had felt.
Tara did her best to cheer me up.
"Listen, Miller, it sucks, I know, but you fucked up."
She wasn't doing a great job.
"You remember what I told you in the car that time?" She said, eyebrows raised.
Tara had told me there was more to Steph than it seemed--that she might actually be into me--but I never believed it. Even so, any affection that had been there had to be long gone now. I nodded.
"Well you may have hurt her more than you actually realize," she said, a slight lilt of sadness to her voice.
Sensing the dour shift in tone, she quickly livened things back up.
"I mean don't get me wrong, I know it was super hot to jerk off to her moans coming through the floor--I mean, shit, I've even thought about it myself once or twice to get my vibrator to hit the right spot, but you can't TELL her that!"
I thought momentarily about Tara riding her vibrator, the one with the one-two-three, one-two-three buzzing pattern she liked. My cock didn't move.
Something about her phrasing though--was she saying she would touch herself while thinking about hearing Steph's moans through the floor? Or while thinking about ME, jerking off while hearing Steph's moans through the floor? In the moment the thought was fleeting, but I would run it over in my mind again later.
"So what's this mean for OUR prom," she asked after a long pause, "do you still have a date?"
"Honestly, I've got no fucking clue, Tara...but signs definitely point to no."
My eyes drifted down to the floor as a heaping helping of teenage shame and self loathing set in. "She only was going as a goof anyway...she didn't actually want to be there."
"Oh, Jesus, cry me a river," Tara said, popping me one in the shoulder. "I'll tell you what: why don't you forget about it, and you and me can go together?" she suggested, an uncharacteristic brightness in her voice.
"Us go together?" This idea got my attention. "But what about Chris?"
It got my attention because it was a very odd suggestion. Tara had gotten a date for the prom very, very quickly. She had a dark sexiness to her that was catnip to the young and horny, regardless of gender. She pretty much had her the choice of anyone she wanted, and she chose to accept the invitation of Chris Nivens, the star of the drama club. Legitimately talented, he was the star of every production our school put on, and had the cocky attitude to go with it. He was always shitty to me, and I didn't like him. I tried to be civil about it for Tara's sake though.
Tara wasn't a drama student herself, but she definitely had a drama student aesthetic, and loved the parties they would throw. It had been told that she and Chris had been seen at said parties making out in the corner on more than one occasion, and word had spread that one time Chris had been fingering her right out in the open in front of everyone. Unfazed by another rumor about her, she assured me that even though it sounded "hot as fuck," it was definitely not true.
I believed her, but I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about that image here and there, cock in hand. Of Tara perched up on an end table in a dark corner of a dimly lit room, Chris' hand tucked deep between her spread legs as they kissed, fingers thrusting in and out of her sopping-wet center while a room full of others mingled and danced nearby. Would she cum? Would the music be loud enough to hide her cries if she did?
All of these thoughts had coaxed more than one messy load out of my balls, but at this moment it was all quiet on the western front in my pants.
Tara got up and went over to the mini fridge to grab another soda. Her thin, high-waisted pants held tight around her curves as she moved, the legs flaring out down by her feet, flapping loosely with each step.The mention of Chris seemed to trigger something.
"Change of plans," she finally said flatly, her back to me.
She didn't tell me then, and I didn't press the issue, but later I'd find out exactly what that change of plans entailed.
Tara had hung around the school auditorium one night, waiting for play rehearsals to end. She had told me of her plan previously, as it was her intention to make sure she and Chris had some alone time up in the "Juliet's Balcony" stage set.
While on her knees, topless, sucking his dick, he had started to get very aggressive, grabbing her hair, fucking her face, calling her a "good slut" and a "dirty whore."
Now Tara never met a kink she didn't like, but there was an anger behind his actions, and a lack of control on her part that made her start to panic. She pushed him off her, and tried to calm him down.
He then backed her to the edge of the balcony, pulling her skirt up, and called her a slut again as he tried to force himself on her.
One solid elbow across the nose from Tara later, Chris was off her, and she was out of there. The following day she overheard someone talking about how "Chris fucked Tara in the balcony set."
"Just another thing people say about me behind my back," she would say, dismissively.
I had always wondered why Chris' nose was too broken for him to perform in the play. He was a piece of shit.
When the prospect of prom had initially rolled around, I had deeply wanted Tara to be my date. I really hated that Chris had snapped her up, so this new opportunity seemed like one I should jump on. I agreed it was a great plan. She smiled a big, beaming smile. My eyes glanced down, and I could have sworn I saw the cast shadow of hard nipples through her lacy red top.
It must have been the cold air from the mini fridge.