Author's note: This story is part of a series called 'The wedding party"'. The stories can be read in any order and are vignettes involving different members of the wedding party.
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The wedding party: Claire and Tina.
I couldn't believe it, Becky was getting married to Mark, the man she'd been dating for two years. It was so exciting. They were the first of our group to get married. I was standing outside the hall waiting for Becky with the other bridesmaids. The ceremony was about to start. I looked at the other bridesmaids. We were all close
I was actually the youngest of the group. All of us, except Mark's sister Misty, had been sorority sisters in college. The others had been juniors when I joined. Since my birthday is in November I was two years behind them but almost three years younger. I was 17 when I started college. Now three years later, I was in my Senior year and Becky was getting married.
Becky had introduced me to the group and she was my Big. A big is someone who mentors you to become a full member of the sorority. She was one of the sweetest women I knew and I was very happy for her.
As I looked down the row of bridesmaids I saw Claire looking at me. Claire was the maid of honor. Just as I am now, She had been president of the sorority her senior year. As presidents, even after Claire graduated, we still had sorority business to work on together.
She smiled at me and blew me a stealthy kiss. I am sure I blushed. I always blushed around Clair or at least I felt like I did. I'd known her for three years now and still, every time she spoke to me, I felt a little thrill inside. I thought back to when we had first met.
I had just started college and was walking through the student union when I saw her. I didn't know Claire at the time, but I saw her. You can't miss Claire. Claire is the personification of the classic Swedish woman. Being 5'11" and blonde would be enough to make her stand out, but when you threw in that body, and that perfect nose, well, everyone notices Claire. To top it off she was wearing a short skirt that showed a set of legs, that at the time, looked like they were longer than my 5' nothing height.
I watched her as she tacked something to the student union bulletin board. I think everybody did. I am sure she was with people but to this day I can't remember anything else but Claire at that moment.
After she left my curiosity made me go and look at the paper she posted. It was a flyer for a, non sponsored, intra school softball league. I had played softball in high school so it sparked my interest. There was a number to call and I wrote it down and then went on with my day.
During the day I found myself thinking of Claire. Looking back I remember walking through campus and wondering if I'd see her.
When I got back to my dorm there was an announcement for the same softball league. It seems my dorm was putting together a team. I put my name on the list. Later that night I got a call from the girl organizing the league team from my dorm. She told me there was a meeting that week of everyone who was interested and asked if I could be there. I assured her I could and hung up.
The next two days were fairly normal except that whenever I saw a tall blonde I wondered if it was the blonde from the student union. I found myself looking for tall blondes.
To be clear, I am now, and was then, straight. I had dated a few guys in high school. I was still a virgin, but that changed in college. I liked boys (men?) and still do but for some reason I kept thinking about Claire.
It was Thursday evening so I headed down to the room for the softball meeting. I reached the door just as two other girls did. One held the door for me. I thanked her and then turned to enter the room. That's when I saw her. Claire was standing near the front of the room talking to some other girls. This time she was wearing jeans and a tucked in T. Her back was turned to me, but I knew it was her. She was as beautiful as I remembered. The jeans hugged her perfect ass.
I stopped in the doorway and kind of zoned out on Claire. I was jostled out of my stupor by a girl behind me trying to get in the room. I tripped a bit and yelped. The girl grabbed me to steady me.
"I'm so sorry," she said. "Are you OK?"
"I'm fine," I replied. "Thanks for catching me. Just like me to fall over my own feet. Call me Grace."
She laughed, introduced herself, and did call me Grace. I told her my real name was Tina. She laughed again realizing she'd missed the joke and then went to sit down. I turned to find a seat. When I did, Claire was looking straight at me.
She held out her hand, "Hi Grace," she smiled. "I'm Claire, nice to meet you."
"Hi," I stammered. She was even prettier up close. "I'm not really Grace, I'm Tina," I said as I shook her hand. Her skin was so soft. I'm sure it's not true, but to this day I swear she smelled like cookies.
"I'm not really Grace," I started to explain again.
"I know," she said. "I heard, but I kinda like Grace."
I gave a nervous laugh. Claire took a step back and looked at me.
"Do you even have a strike zone?" she asked laughingly.
Like I said, I'm barely 5'. At barely 100 lbs I was dwarfed by her. Don't get me wrong. I had curves. I was a 34c and proud of it. With my long brown hair, I got checked out a lot, but Standing next to her I felt like no one could see me.
I mumbled something. She laughed and said, "Well, thankfully I'm not a pitcher so it's not my problem." She gestured me to take a seat.
Claire started the meeting. She introduced herself and the girl next to her who was our dorm organizer. She told us about the league. It was a very casual league, anyone could front a team as long as it was school affiliated. My dorm had a team, her sorority, there was even a math department team. There were 15 teams in the league. There was no money involved. If you wanted team jerseys you bought them. The school loaned all the equipment. Any student could reserve certain sports equipment so someone from each team was assigned getting the equipment for each game.