Chapter 6: Penny Helps Teddy at the Library
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After Mr. Peters' class in which the boys provided samples of sperm for Miss Harding, Penny had been wanting to get Teddy alone. She was waiting for him when he came out of Miss Harding's Human Biology class, but he was not in a good mood. Miss Harding had used the sperm samples for the class, as she had said she would, but he found the whole experience to be embarrassing and frustrating. He had been paired with Sally Embretson, who found the exercise disgusting, and when she learned that the sperm they were studying was in fact Teddy's, she almost had a fit. Miss Harding settled her down, but Sally continued to make derogatory remarks about the "quality" of his sperm throughout the rest of their laboratory assignment. They almost failed the exercise when she kept insisting that she couldn't find anything in his sperm, arguing that it must be sterile.
Penny wondered if perhaps she should just leave Teddy alone, but she walked with him down the hall as he recounted his frustration and embarrassment. She reassuringly touched his arm as they walked, trying to make him feel better. She eventually said, "I would have been happy to work with your sperm, Teddy."
He turned to her and was softened by her affectionate smile. He then recognized how whiny and complaining he had been, forgetting about the fact that there was this pretty girl walking with him, a girl that only recently had been happy to give him a hand job and had even offered to do more. He realized the pettiness and selfishness of his behavior. "I'm sorry Penny. I'm ignoring you completely, and you're being so nice. I still haven't told you how much I appreciated how swell you were when Miss Harding humiliated me in front of the whole class."
Miss Harding had indeed humiliated Teddy, and Penny tried to make him feel better. "It really wasn't so bad, Teddy. In fact, I heard some girls afterward talking about it."
"Yea, I can imagine what that was like," he said glumly, immediately switching back to his self-pity.
"What do you mean?" she feigned ignorance. She knew full well what he was thinking. Miss Harding had made a point of the fact that he had a small penis, no bigger than 5 inches perhaps when fully erect. This didn't bother Penny and she didn't want it to bother Teddy. Teddy was so humiliated by the experience though that he couldn't even get himself to explain. Penny continued, "I heard what they were saying. They were talking about how sexy you looked. They had never seen a man's erection before and they were all excited about it. Tammie even said that it looked kind of scary."
Teddy wondered if Penny was just pulling his leg. He thought though that It was possible. Miss Harding herself had said nice things toward the end, and he knew that a lot of the girls were inexperienced. He could certainly imagine the little Tammie, or perhaps Tina, being impressed, even scared perhaps. But, they all had a good opportunity to compare sizes the next day, when all of the boys' erections were on display. Penny though had been nice to keep him turned away from the other students that time, so nobody could have directly compared him to anyone else. It was then possible that some of the girls were actually impressed. He was the only boy to show off the first day, and everybody, at least in Mr. Peters' class, had to show their things the second day. He began to feel better again. He turned to Penny, "Yea, Penny, maybe you're right."
Penny smiled at her success. She liked him a lot, and wanted so much for him to feel better.
Teddy continued, "Listen, we haven't gone out for awhile, you know. I was kind of wondering, maybe, if you might want to go to the Blue Moon on Friday." The Blue Moon was a dance club.
"I would love to go with you, Teddy. I was hoping you would ask." She leaned into him with her shoulder.
Teddy reached for her hand, and she let him hold it. He felt a lot better now. He also liked Penny a lot. They had gone out a number of times, but he was always unable to openly express his feelings for her. He was just hoping that she would infer his feelings from the fact that they went out together. He had not even yet developed the nerve to kiss her. They did hold each other when they danced, but he would quickly let go when the song ended.
Penny had always wanted to do things with Teddy, sexual things, but she knew it was wrong for the girl to act first and Teddy couldn't even get himself to kiss her. She didn't know what to do to help him get the courage. One time, she had even unbuttoned her blouse all the down to the top of her bra. She didn't know what could be more obvious than that. The top of her bra was plainly visible. Teddy did steal a lot of glances but whenever she tried to get him to acknowledge where his eyes were peaking, he would just turn away and change the subject. Teddy would explain later that he just thought the open buttons were an accident and he didn't want to embarrass her by admitting that he could see some of her brassiere.
Penny began to wonder if maybe he didn't find her attractive. Maybe he didn't think she was pretty enough. Penny would not be described as a beautiful girl but she was still very attractive. She had a wholesome quality. She had long, straight blonde hair, curly bangs, pretty green eyes, smooth and pure skin, and plump, pink cheeks. She cursed the fact that the college would not let the girls wear any perfume, and at best only a little make-up. Girls like Wendy had no trouble attracting boys, with her big bosoms. Penny's breasts were somewhat on the small size. Not as small as Tina's or Tammie's, but not what one describe as full or large. Sara used her feminine wiles to get boys' attention, openly teasing them in the hallway. Penny felt that she couldn't do that, and, besides, such behavior might even scare Teddy away.
The hand job in class may have changed everything for them. She could openly play with his erection during class because Mr. Peters and Miss Harding required it. He would have gotten a bad grade if he didn't let her, and once he got used to her playing with him in that manner, she let him know that she was willing to do more; a lot more, and it was clear that he felt the same way. She was then grateful to Mr. Peters for the class exercise. She had very mixed feelings, to say the least, toward Miss Harding though, given her humiliation of Teddy.
Penny and Teddy walked down the hallway, openly and comfortably holding hands. It was now clear to anyone who looked that they were boyfriend-girlfriend.
"What about tonight, Teddy? Are you doing anything tonight?" She decided that she couldn't wait until Friday.
Teddy, however, explained that he had to work that night. It was his night to manage the reference desk at the library. His parents did not have as much money as most of the other students, and being in charge of the reference desk was one of his work study assignments. He didn't mind, as it was not particularly demanding. Very few students even seemed to use the library, partly because you could now get pretty much any reference material you wanted via the internet, and also because so many of the Templeton students didn't seem to even be that interested in their studies. He spent much of the time just catching up on his own homework.
Penny had forgotten about his work study assignment. "Oh, yeah, that's right." She was disappointed.