EDITED BY:
Miriam Belle
CREATIVE CONSULTANT:
Simply_Cyn
Author's Note:
"This is one of many small stories that work as a supplement to 'The Finer Points of Sheila.'"
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My name is David Vervier, I'm 19 years old and this is my story...
The last week of high school was a long one for me. It wasn't so much that I was going to miss my friends, despite the fact I had grown up with them all since we were little. My hometown was small, a population of only 2,500 in a good year, and even then you're counting the tourists who came in from all over the west coast to fish and hunt. Don't get me wrong, I like my friends a lot and have had some good times with them. They're a good group of people, but I'm not really close to any of them in a deep meaningful way or in a place to say any of them are like brothers or sisters to me. We're just a clique, a small group of kids who got through high school in a strange sort of symbiosis, if you will.
It seemed that the last week of school was also the end of our time as a group. Doug, who was something of the unofficial spokesman for us, had his mind on attending the Art Institute in the city that next fall. Brett, our resident stoner, was so wrapped up in his next high and sale that we really barely saw him as graduation day approached. Elle and I would sometimes hangout, but her folks split up a week before and she went into a bad depression. She had a major crush on Doug, and for the life of me I could never really figure out why. Of course, I guess if any of us were close enough to be something more than friends, it was Doug and Elle. Finally, our academic quiz-kid Brad was on his way to Harvard if you can believe it. The man was a genius, and he actually kept a perfect grade point average of 5.0, no matter what. The only thing he couldn't manage was his girlfriend, Abbey. When they split up, he sort of closed himself off and drifted away from us.
That's how it was. In one week, everything changed dramatically to the point I could no longer say we even had a clique. And maybe it was for the best. I got the impression that everyone was ready to move on to bigger and better things. I knew I was. After a while you get tired of the same old problems, the same old redundant bullshit to which the answers seem so clear to you and yet so clouded for others. For example, Doug and Elle were clearly crazy for each other, and who could blame them? Doug was a smart, straight-laced good-looking guy, the dictionary definition of tall, dark and handsome. Elle, who had something of a reputation for being a little loose (I should know, we've fucked each other four times since senior prom) was his match; tall, built like an Amazon with the biggest set of tits I had ever seen pass through the halls of our high school and a face that could have sold makeup to even the most utilitarian of celibate Amish women. They just seemed right together, and they had both asked me and the others on many occasions if they should be together, and despite all the advice to the contrary, they remained apart.
And then a few days later, the whole process would start over again. Wash, rinse and repeat. You can see how this could get weary over a span of four years.
The Monday of that last week, we met up at the pizza parlor for what ended up being the last time all five of us were together. Brett arrived late, his eyes slightly bloodshot and watery, looking relaxed and carefree. Doug and Elle arrived together, heralded by the wisps of blue smoke that belched from Doug's ancient pick-up truck. Elle looked beautiful, her amazing bronze-toned hair pulled back in a ponytail, her hourglass figure accented and displayed by tight jeans and a tank top that looked to be on the verge of ripping at the seams from her large breasts. All of us were guilty of staring, and with the exception of Doug, I knew I was the only one of the group who had ever actually felt her up. I mention Doug as an exception because while I have no proof they ever fooled around, I can't believe they never played doctor at some point during their long friendship.
The two denial-ridden lovebirds joined Brett and I at the table near the gigantic wide screen plasma television at the front of the parlor. The place was relatively empty, and that suited me just fine.
"Where's Poindexter?" Doug asked as he sat down across from me, Elle to his left.
"Not sure," I shrugged as I took a drink of my Dr. Pepper, "Brad was going to stop by Ms. May's house to pick up his letter of recommendation for some scholarship on the way over."
"Ms. May is so fucking hot," Brett observed, his greasy black hair swept back and shiny in the neon lights of the beer signs that adorned almost every wall.
"She is a looker," Doug nodded.
"You guys need to get laid," Elle shook her head as she poured herself soda from the plastic pitcher I had ordered upon arriving. She looked at me and asked, "Dr. Pepper, right?"
"Is there anything else?" I replied. My eyes instinctively dropped to the crevasse of her cleavage, supported by the red fabric of her tank top. My mind recalled the last time we had been together, and she had taken those massive tits and jerked me off with them. I sport an eight-inch cock, and she managed to completely hide me in her breasts. She caught me looking at her, and gave me the evil eye.
"Do you think Brad and Abbey will get back together?" Doug asked as he played with his Zippo lighter.
"I doubt it, man," I said, "Abbey's had a wandering eye for awhile now, and lately she's had wandering hands too."
"That sucks," Brett turned on the bench and leaned against the wall, "Cheating on your boyfriend is a shitty thing to do."
"Things happen," Doug remarked coolly, and I got the impression that there was a load of subtext between the two of them. When I thought about it, it seemed those two had been very tense with each other now for awhile.
"Cheating is cheating, man," Brett said.
"Free advice courtesy of the man from Pennzoil," Doug looked at his lighter, snapping the flint and igniting it, then quickly snuffing it out as the lid flipped back into place. He pointed to Brett's hair, "What do you use? Thirty weight?"
"Fuck you," Brett said nonchalantly.
"Will you two stop?" Elle sighed, "I mean, what is the deal?"
Doug only concentrated on his lighter while Brett seemed to drift off into his own little world.
"We just have a difference of opinion on some things, that's all," Doug said quietly, his voice steady and yet at the same time on the verge of anger.
Brett nodded, his eyes wide with sarcasm.
I decided to change the subject. "So, Doug, when do we get to meet your mystery woman?"
Brett snorted and rolled his eyes.
"Never," Elle said as she took a long drink from her glass, "I've been trying to beat it out of him now ever since the party at the flats."
"What's the big secret, Doug?" I asked, "Come on, tell the truth and shame the devil."
"Yeah Doug," Brett looked at him with what I could only describe as venomous reproach, "Tell the truth, man."