Sitting in the locker room, Carol looked around, she was hot, and tired.. Practice had been rough.. but she was feeling that warm sensation that covers muscles once they have been first stressed, then were allowed to relax. The other girls were already stripping, chatting and laughing. She watched as her team mates moved towards the showers. She had always felt a little odd at these times. Not because she was ashamed of being naked, actually, when alone she had always found the sensation of wearing nothing to be liberating, kind of therapeutic. But in the company of other young women she was embarrassed by her body. She knew, deep in her mind that she shouldn't be, but she was. Her breasts had yet to fill out and at eighteen years of age, she still didn't have a "mound" of pubic hair, just a light covering of auburn fuzz. No, fuzz wasn't the right word for it. Her pubic hair was sparse, almost as though she were balding.. but at eighteen, down there? All the other girls on the team were walking around her with full bodies, or at the very least enough secondary signs of maturity that they couldn't be mistaken for a little girl.
"Comon, hit those showers!" yelled the coach. "I want towels and uniforms in the hampers, not on the floor ladies!" Miss Stenholtz shouted as she entered her office.
Carol stood, and peeled off her hockey uniform. Once naked she held a towel at waist level covering her sparse pubic area, walked around to the bin that collected the dirty uniforms and then walked into the shower area. Stephanie was already there, giggling at something one of the other girls had said, but upon seeing Carol enter the area, turned and motioned for her friend to move next to her.
"Hey!" Stephanie Shouted over the sound of falling water. "you still on for tonight?"
"Tonight?" Carol said stepping under the warm water. "Yeah, I guess so." She had almost forgotten the double date.
"Great!" yelled Steph, pulling her long brunette locks back over her shoulder. "I can't wait, it's gonna be a blast!"
Carol washed herself. Her small breasts, when would they grow like Steph's? God, her friend must be a full "C" cup by now, and her pubic hair grew in a large, full dark mound of curls. Carol watched as the other girl bent over, rinsing her buttocks and thighs.. She felt her breath grow sharper..
'Damn'
she thought,
'not now, not here'
. Her mind flashed to a few weeks back..
She and Steph were in the other girls house, her friend had gone to the bathroom and they were talking, so she had left the door open..
Carol had sat on the floor across from the door, chatting when her girlfriend had opened the door to hear better.. she was looking straight at her friends crotch. She could almost make out the golden stream that erupted from the darkness .. her breath caught in her throat, her heart started to pound as the other girl wiped herself, pulling the hair and skin forward, she had felt flush, her panties were getting damp all by themselves.. it scared her⦠it thrilled her..
Carol plunged into the water, hoping that as she got excited, no one would notice. She turned her back on her friend, and soaped her hair.. another girl was standing across from her.. her nipples little flat spots on white mounds of flesh.. The water caused a tingling sensation on her small breasts, she looked down at herself, her nipples were erect, standing straight out from her 'almost' "A" cup chest.
"Hey! Earth to Carrot top!" Steph shouted.
Carol spun again, facing her friend.
"What is it with you?" Stephanie stepped closer to her.. almost touching. "Are you OK? β¦ I asked what you were going to wear?" The brunettes eyes dropped to the other girls pale chest. "God, turn up the hot water silly, you're freezing yourself."
"Uh, I guess I just caught a draft.. " Carol stumbled trying to pick up the other girls suggestion about being cold.
"Or are you excited about something?"
"No, I caught a draft. " Carol ducked under the water again. She had felt that stirring in her loins again.. she was turned on. God, what was going on with her?
"So.." Steph stood with her hands on her hips. "What are you wearing tonight?"
"I don't know.. Uh," Carol had to focus.. "Jeans I guess"
"OK, listen I'll come by, drop my things and we'll go from there OK?" Stephanie was referring to the plan for her to spend the night at Carol's house that night.
"All right, uh, about when?"
"I guess around seven or so?"
"OK."
"Jeans and what else?"
"Huh?" Carol had tried not to look at the way her friends breasts hung off her frame.
"What else are you going to wear?"
"I don't know, a blouse, maybe a jacket." She shrugged.
"Don't wear anything too tight." Her friend said with a grin and sauntered out of the shower area.
"Let's go girls!" came Miss. Stenholtz's voice. "Water's off in ten minutes!"
Carol turned, facing the tile and started back in on her hair..
'What's happening to me? Why am I having thoughts like this?'
Once home Carol ran to her room and fell onto her bed. She couldn't understand why she was getting turned on looking at girls. She had always felt more comfortable around women then men, with the exception of her father, but that was normal right? But in the last year or so, she could remember taking a much keener interest in the girls in her class, especially those that were close to her, like Stephanie. Could she be ..
One of them?
She closed her eyes and tried to remember what she had been thinking, deep down somewhere in her mind.. something must be triggering her erotic responses.. but how? Another girl?
She had marveled at the other girls bodies.. watching them move, naked and graceful. She had watched them bounce and jiggle and ..
'Oh My God'
She was having sexual thoughts about Stephanie! How could she? How couldn't she? In her heart she knew, that even in her most intimate sexual fantasies, the ones that she would masturbate too, Stephanie was always there, watching while a faceless nearly genderless body had touched her, kissed her. Or on other occasions she had thought of.. She had thought of her. Those dark pools for eyes. That hair, her smell, her form, her voice, her hands, her.. She was starting again. Why did all her intimate thoughts revolve around other girls? She stood and looked in the mirror.. Green eyes looked back at her from within an alabaster face, angular, sharp almost. Shoulder length red hair.. a wide splash of freckles across her face. Thin, muscular frame under her clothes. No chest. God, she looked like a boy. Maybe she was a boy, maybe she was one of those, whatchamacallit's.. Herma something's⦠She'll never be as attractive as Steph, or some of the other girls in her school. Damn..
Dropping back onto her bed, she thought of her last few dates.. the way they had ended. Virtual wrestling matches. The guys had been grabbing and pulling, slobbering all over her.. squeezing her small breasts until they stung with pain. Ramming first their hands then their thighs between her legs, trying to hump her through her clothes. God, what a horrible night she had coming. But then.. Steph would be there.. Stephanie.. she had listened to the other girls stories of wild sexual abandon. How she reveled in the taste, the smell the feel of the boy she was with.. Why couldn't she get like that, why wasn't she able to enjoy her dates like that? She felt tears well up inside her. Carol rolled over and cried into her pillow. Then, after shedding some tears, and venting her frustration into the innocent pillow. She drifted off to sleep.
Carol awoke to the sound of her mothers voice calling her. Steph was here. She rolled off the bed and looked in the mirror again. Her eyes showed she had been asleep and it was a shock as her dark haired friend bounded through the door.
"Hey Care', You OK?" She asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"It's just the old Italian thing kicking in, worry abut the ones you love, you know."
Carol's heart jumped in her chest.. It was the word 'love' wasn't it? She was having more and more trouble being composed around this girl. What was wrong with her?
"Come on where are we sleeping tonight?" Stephanie said looking at the small double bed that occupied one corner of the other girls room.
"I was thinking we could sleep in the den, with the big TV and all.. "
Snap
out of it dummy.
"OK, cool, let's get our stuff down there, the guys are coming around eight, and it's a nine thirty show." Stephanie hefted her overnight bag onto her shoulder and the two proceeded to plod down stairs to the den.
In the next half hour the two made a space for themselves, placing sleeping bags and pillows in a sort of futon like arrangement. Just as they were finishing their construction Carol's father entered the house. He looked down the short stairwell into the den and said in his strong voice:
"Good evening short cake." His steel gray eyes glistened, his almost non existent hair was just a shade of gray now, it made him look distinguished in his Marine Corps. Uniform.
"Hi Daddy" Carol said, not able to hide the joy she had upon seeing her father.