Ashley's next few days were a bit uncomfortable. Justin seemed to be avoiding her. At practice for Battle of the Brains he avoided eye contact, and was always first or second to leave, so they were never alone together. They sat together in chemistry class as usual but he didn't joke with her like he normally did.
On Friday Ashley wrote him a note and gave it to him in class. 'Meet me at the Hellgate after school? I want to talk.' It had a little smiley face on it to show she wasn't mad. But if she was honest with herself, she didn't know what she wanted to say to him. Was she mad? Not really. Did she want to date him? Also not really. Mostly she just wanted things to be normal again. But there was something else, too, that she couldn't quite bring herself to even think. When he read it he looked up at her and gave an anxious little smile and nodded.
She was barely paying attention through her last subject, geography. When the bell rang she had to force herself to just pack up her books at a normal speed. The other kids walked towards the bus stop in twos or threes, and for the first time in her life Ashley was glad she didn't have any friends to make excuses to. It was perfectly normal for her to go to the Hellgate after class, but they didn't have BoB practice on Fridays, and she was so anxious that she almost expected someone to ask her where they were going. But she was a nerd, going to the nerd place, and no one gave her a second thought.
When she got there, Justin was already inside, pacing up and down. He looked as anxious as she felt.
"Um, hi," she squeaked.
"Um, hi," he said back, and made a painful attempt at a smile.
They stood there in silence for a few moments.
"Um, you said you wanted to talk?" he said.
Ashley realised she was standing in the doorway. She came in and shut the door behind her.
"Yeah, I, uh..." She trailed off, and swallowed nervously. All her thoughts and feelings started swirling around. What did she want to talk about? Dating? Battle of the Brains? Making things normal in chem class? All of a sudden, she found herself saying out loud the secret she had kept from herself:
"I want to watch more porn."
Justin blinked. That's not what he had expected. He thought she was going to call him a creep, or tell him they had to get married, or that he had to quit the BoB team, or that SHE was going to quit. He had spent the last few days masturbating furiously at any opportunity, remembering how she had asked for his cum, the way she had smiled at his cock, and imagining fucking her in all sorts of ways. As soon as he had cum, he was swept up with post-nut remorse and guilt and paranoid worries about her telling everyone what had happened.
It wasn't what Ashley had expected either, but now that she said it, she realised it had been hovering in the background of her mind all week. She wanted to see more cocks, and she wanted to see more women asking for them. This had all started because she didn't know the word 'load'. Were there other things she didn't know about? She wanted to watch more porn. A lot more porn.
"Oh," said Justin. He sat down on the busted old couch they had carried down there a few years ago, frowning as he tried to figure out what he wanted to say. After a few more moments he looked up at her.
"Why... y'know... why me? Don't you have a phone?" Realising that sounded pretty negative, he quickly blurted out -- "not that I mind! I mean, yeah. We can do that again! I... I liked it last time. But, yeah, don't you... have a phone?"
Ashley sighed. Her phone was one of the things that she had been bullied about the most.
"My stepdad is super strict and he's a total asshole. He won't let me have a smart phone." She pulled out her old Motorola flip-phone, and rolled her eyes. "It's literally from twelve years ago. It doesn't even have wifi, just bluetooth. Totally useless for anything except them calling to tell me they booked me in for an extra tutoring session."
Justin grimaced. "That's rough. I thought my parents were shitty. Do you have a laptop or anything?"
She shook her head. He looked at her for a few moments and shrugged. He wasn't going to pass up this opportunity. He pulled out his phone.
"Come sit down." He smiled at her and patted the couch next to him.
Ashley could barely believe it. She dropped her bag and sat down. All of a sudden they were very close to each other. Justin could already feel the blood rushing to his cock, and Ashley's eyes glinted with excitement. She took note of the website he went to, then looked up at him when he paused.
"Do... do you know what sort of porn you want to watch?"
She shook her head again. "I don't know what sorts of porn there are. What... what sort do you like?"
Justin went red as he imagined telling her his favourite video was called 'Teenaged anal whore gets publically pounded by strangers'. He evaded her question.
"Did you like what we watched last time?"