Author's Note: I worked at a hotel during my undergraduate years. These are my after hours experiences. All characters are 18 and older.
Fucking Sister Joan
Chapter One - Friday Night
Two strikes, two out, bases empty, top of the seventh inning and the visiting team was down to their last out. One more strike and the conference title was ours though any old ground out or fly out would do. I stood under the lights on the pitcher's mound of St. Michael the Archangel High School, swept the rubber with one cleat and the other then peered in between the legs of my catcher. Greg flashed two meaty fingers, pounded his mitt with an even meatier fist and held his glove where he wanted the pitch--low and away. From inside the cage of his catcher's mask his eyes said YOU GOT THIS MIKE. I wound up and snapped off the perfect curveball. It caught the outside corner of the plate landing in Greg's mitt. The batter's knees buckled. He had guessed fastball and didn't even swing getting a backdoor curveball instead.
"STEEEE-RIKE THREE!" called the umpire. "Game over."
The crowd which had been chanting "SLAYERS! SLAYERS! SLAYERS!" now roared. Greg reached the mound in three great bounds and practically crushed me in a bearhug. The infielders joined in and many hands lifted me in the air. The rest of the team sprinted out of the dugout and joined the celebration bouncing in unison which bounced me above them. Like anyone held and tossed in the air by so many hands I got the distinct feeling no one was in control and I'd end up on the ground any second but it didn't happen. Too many hands of strong young men held me up.
"Put him down! Let him down!" yelled beer-belly history-teacher baseball coach only to wrap me in a hug when they did.
His face flushed with the joy of victory and his eyes shone brightly while he thumped my back with one hand and tugged the bill of my cap crazily down over my face with the other. Honestly the man had never touched me before except to shake hands after other victories. I knew he hadn't won a conference championship in years but his unbridled display of affection surprised me.
"Congratulations coach!" I said hugging him back with my gloved hand in his back. Other hands pulled at my pitching arm - the left one - and slapped my shoulders and back.
"Thank you Michael!" he effused. "Couldn't have done it without you, son! On to state!"
It was the first time he ever called me Michael. Coach broke away leaving me hugging and shaking hands with all my teammates as we lined up to shake hands with the other team who were crestfallen in the agony of defeat. They beat us the previous year for the conference championship. This was payback.
"Good game," we all said to each other knowing it was for us but not for them. "'Bout time you won it," one of their players said to me getting in a dig even in defeat.
Then came the team trophy presentation. Second place for the runners-up and first place for us. Team co-captain shortstop Mike (yeah both of us Mikes) and I hiked the big garish gleaming trophy high overhead to the cheers of the crowd before presenting it to coach whose eyes were so wet I thought he might be crying.
Off to the side there was someone crying. Sister Joan. Tears ran down her face. She was our religion, English and social studies teacher, number one fan and honorary team member. The big toothy smile we rarely saw in school now just would not quit. Coaches and players posed with the trophy. Cameras flashed.
An hour later at the victory party at Mario's Pizza someone touched my arm while I waited alone at the counter for another drink. It was Sister Joan.
"I'm going now Michael," she said. "I just wanted to say congratulations again and goodbye."
"Are you leaving for the summer Sister Joan?" I said. "For your motherhouse?"
"Oh no it's just goodbye for now. I'm not leaving town till after the state tournament," she replied. "Besides my apartment is being remodeled so I have to stick around to make sure they do it right. I'm staying at Hotel Excel. That's where you work now isn't it?"
"Yes," I said.
"When do you work next?"
"Tomorrow night," I said.
"Good," she smiled turning to leave. "I will see you there."
"Sure you won't stay longer?" I said. "There's plenty of pie left. Hawaiian. Your favorite. No one else's."
"No thanks," she said through a rueful smile at my tease then stepping away called loudly, "Think STATE! We're going to win STATE! STATE! STATE!"
The crowd heard her and joined in the chant as Sister Joan walked out the door pumping an arm to STATE! STATE! STATE!
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Sister. Joan. McCarthy. There are no cheerleaders in baseball--no pompom girls or drill team majorettes like the other sports. Joan was a one woman cheer squad.
I've described her in previous stories but in case you forgot I will again. She's tall and slim, easily 5'8, with big brown eyes and a brilliant toothy smile. What little I could see of her hair was dark. The rest remained hidden under the blue veil of her religious order. Did she have long hair? Was it cropped? Like everyone else I wanted to know what was hidden under it. She wasn't a nun in full habit. Except for the veil she wore civilian clothes--dresses, skirts, blouses, sweaters--but nothing immodest. No make-up. No jewelry either except for the silver ring on her right ring finger signifying she was in holy orders.
Though the top button of her blouse was always open she showed no cleavage despite ample breasts. A cross always rested over her heart where her cleavage would be if not hidden. It wasn't a small dainty cross like the one my girlfriend Kim wore. Nor was it overly large and ostentatious like some nuns wore. Still it sat prominently on her chest pushed out by sizable tits I longed to see.
"Tomorrow night," she had just said touching my arm. "I will see you there." Was this an invitation?
I thought of all the times I caught her eyes below my waist ogling the bulge in my baseball uniform. I thought of all the times she caught my eyes on her breasts. I thought of all the times we smiled at each other having caught each other leering. I thought of drill team girl Michelle blowing me in my car telling me how all the girls thought I was already fucking Sister Joan because of the way we flirted with each other.
I decided Saturday would be the night--hopefully the first of many nights--between sister Joan's legs.
Chapter Two - Saturday
No rest for the busy. Though our baseball team had won the 1980 conference championship the night before I was up early lapping in the pool at swim club practice. When it finished my 25 year old swim coach Sharon asked me to wait in her office after showering and dressing. She closed the place down--it wouldn't open to the public until noon--then locked her office door, pulled down my shorts and blew me as I sat on the couch.
"Saw you on the news last night," she gasped drool stringing from her lips when she came up for air. "Congratulations. You're famous now, Mike. College and MLB draftee. Have you made your choice?"