Authors Note:
After posting this story I realised that there had been a number of missteps. Amongst those were questions about why Carla had felt so rejected by Tim. Their confrontation and also the fact that Tim stayed celibate considering that he was written as young, rich and in great shape.
So I accepted the readers advice on re-editing the story. Not sure if it was a clever thing or not.
If you've read the story and hated it, the re-edit is unlikely to make you love it.
If you liked the story enough to give it a re-read I think (hope) you'll find it improved.
If you're reading this for the first time this is NOT a story about swingers.
Last -- I tried to fix some of the obvious grammar mistakes but I'm sure there's plenty left -- apologies in advance.
The Magnificent Eight (Re-Edit)
The Party was in full swing. There were only eight of us but we were more than enough. We called ourselves the Magnificent Eight. Four of the hottest couples in Springfield. Probably four of the hottest couples anywhere. The guys ranged between twenty nine that would be Jarod and I while Gary and Hugo were twenty eight. The girls were twenty seven except for Carla who was twenty six. We all met at the University of Chicago. Well actually only Jarod and I met in class, we were both studying engineering. The rest we met rowing. Jarod, Gary, Hugo and I rowed competitively in a coxless four meaning that we used one oar each - two oars per side. Amy, Michelle, Olivia and Carla competed in a women's coxless four and that's how it all started five years earlier.
World Champs -- South Korea 2013. The girls were the sport's media darlings, with their long limbed athletic bodies and fine boned faces that had already graced the pages of Sports Illustrated among the many other publications and online sites. Someone in the media dubbed them 'The Fabulous Four' and it stuck.
Individually, the 'fab-four were:
Michelle, the group's natural leader and spokesperson, was the tallest at 5'10". Her mousy blond hair was dyed platinum blonde which she kept in a short spiky style accentuating her bright blue eyes and strong jawline. She epitomised the ideal Scandinavian beauty and could intimidate, or melt anyone with just one look.
Exuberant, warm and superbly positive Amy standing 5'8" with thick golden brown hair usually tied in a pony tail and warm hazel eyes above an upturned nose followed by the most kissable pair of puffy lips possible. Her smooth long limbed body was the stuff that brought traffic to a halt.
Olivia was the introspective thinker of the group. Almost the same height as Amy, her rich Auburn hair was layered to her shoulders. She had warm light brown eyes often behind glasses with freckles on her nose, cheeks, shoulders and arms. She was every schoolboy's 'Sexy Librarian' fantasy except that she was no softy.
The youngest and at 5'4" the shortest of the four was kind and tender-hearted Carla. She had dark eyes framed by thick eye lashes and long black hair that cascaded in curls down her back. Her heart shaped face and olive skin came from her Spanish/Sicilian heritage, accentuated by a small strong nose and full mouth. She oozed sex from every pore of her fully-loaded-body and was best described as a walking wet dream.
The group was a smorgasbord of smoking hot feminine beauty without compare.
We noticed at first but we stopped drooling after a while as we saw them almost daily, due to our similar training schedules and familiarity from our interaction as team mates because, we competed in Coxless or Straight Fours (as they're sometimes called).
We all spoke the same sports language, had similar eating plans and spent long hours on the water or in the gym. We had much in common and much to talk about but for a long time it didn't go any further than that. Everybody had a girlfriend or boyfriend of some level of seriousness so our interactions were that of team mates rather than anything else. But, that all changed during the World Champs in Chungju, South Korea.
The girls won Gold and we won Silver. Later that night after the awards ceremony we went clubbing with some of the other teams. At some point some of the Australian and South African male rowers discarded their shirts and were flexing their bodies on the dance floor much to the delight of the female rowers and local women. We were the only male Americans left at the club and the Fab Four who were partying hard themselves, demanded that we uphold the honour of the USA. We stripped off our shirts and hit the floor, flexing and gyrating half-way between a dance and a Chippendale routine.