Hello Readers! This story is rather a long one, so if you're looking for a quickie, this probably isn't your thing. If, however, you prefer a slow buildup with plenty of flirtation and teasing before sex, then this may be more your cup of tea. I hope you dig it and thank you for reading!
Part One
There it was. It was official. Angie had made the tennis team. Angie, now 18 years of age and a senior in high school, was going to tackle her fourth year playing the sport. She was beyond thrilled. She and her good friend Rachel had both made the team, and she was excited for her good chum to be along for the ride.
Both young women stood about 5'5", but Rachel was a little bit on the round side, though still very cute with her freckled face and glittering blue eyes. Angie was on the slim side with wavy blond hair and green/blue eyes. With Angie being on the slim side -- some might even say skinny side -- people often mistook her for being taller than her height. Their personalities also clashed occasionally, Rachel being the brusque and abrupt one, and Angie being a little bit more of the delicate type, although she was not afraid to hit on the boys or let her opinion be known when she felt it mattered.
Though these two girls got along like yin and yang, Angie was certain that she would not get along so famously with her new tennis coach so well. She was used to Coach Leonard, the guy who coached the girls the first three years of her high school career. Len was extremely demanding, but he got the results that he wanted, which was that of an outstanding girls' tennis team. Unfortunately, he was getting up there in years and not quite the whippersnapper that he once was and decided to hang up his gloves and retire.
Now there was a new coach, and Angie did not relish the thought of him.
This guy -- his name was Al -- was a younger guy, and she was not at all impressed with him when she met him the couple of times at the try-outs for the team. He did not
look
like a high school tennis coach. With his tanned skin and muscular physique, she was sure he had not suffered or dealt with reality a day in his life. He reminded her of the young jocks at school that she so desperately tried to avoid: the football quarterbacks, the baseball pitchers, the cross-country runners. In other words, all those young men who were all so aware of their physical perfection and reveled in the attention it brought them.
True, Al looked about twice the seniors' age; he was, in fact, 38 years old, but Angie did not consider that in her quick judgment of him. She never thought that a man could be both intelligent and beautiful at the same time. In her experience, it just was not possible. And she felt that the same theory could be applied to Al.
How wrong she would find herself to be.
Al, in fact, was everything that Angie assumed that he was
not
: he had a natural intelligence and intuition about him that made him weed out the undesirables and toxic personalities in his life; he could be extremely charismatic and romantic toward the opposite sex, often resulting in what he craved for; he had an extremely high sex drive, causing much frustration in his love life when it was empty, and, finally, he was a classy man and extremely respectful of those around him.
Furthermore, he had a different background than a lot of the men in the rural area. He had lived in Spain until the age of three, when his parents and himself moved to the United States. He remembered very little of the Spanish life he and his family had left behind, but his culture was something he embraced. Aside from his tall, muscular frame, his eyes were a dark brown and his hair was also a dark color, though it had been receding the last few years. He was as close to physical perfection as a man could get.
Still, Angie was not impressed by him. Not by his looks, not by his demeanor that seemed so standoffish and unemotional. The truth was that he was just a reserved, shy man who could be quite charming when the occasion called for it. Angie, with her typical skepticism, and Al, with his open mind and hearty laugh at a dirty joke, made the twosome an unlikely pair.
But a pair it eventually made them.
Part Two
The first two weeks of tennis week were astoundingly surprising to Angie and the others.
Compared to Coach Leonard, Al was as gentle as a lamb. He softly coached the girls with an authoritative but quiet hand. There was no yelling, no abusive language, no cursing. He was extremely respectful of their age and inexperience at sports, and if an obvious mistake was made during practice, well, he let it go. He didn't hang onto it like a bulldog like their former coach had done.
This approach made Angie appreciate her new coach. There were no otherworldly expectations. He simply wanted the girls to have fun and maybe learn a thing or two about the sport in the process. With this type of warm and encouraging attitude, Angie found herself drawn, maybe even attracted to this man who was more than twice her age.
It seemed that Angie's attraction was drawing Al to her and her to him. It was almost imperceptible. Al's eye seemed a little bit more focused on the young blond than it was on the other members of the team. His body seemed to draw closer and nearer to her over time, helping her correct her stance or where and how to grip the racquet. Their accidental touches sent an electric shock of teenage hormones from her heart, allowing her panties to become damp and then moist and then finally soaked with desire for him.
With the sunshine beating down on their tanned and athletic bodies, drops of sweat running down their arms and the sides of their face, the unlikely pair became close. Their physical proximity to one another made her heart race and her tummy flutter with butterflies. His reaction to her was much more prominent than he let on. He was always a gentleman with her, lightly touching the small of her back as they spoke, or shyly complimenting her on the things she excelled at, like her two-handed backhand, and quietly pointing out how she could improve getting behind the ball or making her serve more accurate. All his comments were taken to heart by the young woman, and, though she had been reluctant to accept him into her life, she was quickly beginning to see what a catch he was.
On this lazy Sunday afternoon, after Sunday dinner with her mother and stepfather, Angie went up to her bedroom and put her earbuds in and escaped into her fantastical world of dreaming and fantasizing about what young women often thought of: men and sex, relationships and dating, roses and a love-conquers-all type of romanticism. She pulled her diary out from a drawer in her desk. She sat down and began to scribble all of her thoughts in the tiny notebook, with one focus and one focus only: Al.
And so her diary entry went as follows:
Sunday April 7, 2019
Dear Journal,
There's something about him. I can't quite put my finger on it. It's almost as if, under that gentlemanly exterior, he is absolutely oozing with manliness -- and yet he rarely draws it towards himself. And that's what makes me notice him. I get the feeling he is attracted to me too, but he's too much of a gentleman, too kind to let it show. And yet, I feel something with him, as if he can hear every thought running through my brain.