As I walked into the home room for morning registration I saw my best friend Noah already sitting at our table, lazily scrolling through his phone, his expression vacant through tiredness. Normally I would be much the same, but today was different. Smiling coyly to myself I pulled out my seat, placed my chin on my fisted hand and my elbow on the table, giving him the smuggest look I could manage.
"Pay up." I remarked, causing him to look up from his phone.
"Whuzzat?"
"I finished the bet last night."
"Bullshit." He looked worried now, though not yet convinced. I slid my own phone onto the table with the screen unlocked, a chat open.
Me: last night was intense. round 2 soon?
Lindsay: That could definitely be arranged ;)
"Fake. There's no way that's her." Noah protested.
"Oh yeah?" I asked incredulously, snapping my phone back up and rapidly working my thumbs. "Watch this."
Noah turned just as I hit send and watched Lindsay Turner pull her own phone from the pocket of her khaki cargo pants, blushing as she read the message, her own thumbs soon moving quickly. My phone buzzed and I read the message with pride, replied, then once it had buzzed again slid the open phone back onto the desk.
Me: at lunch? I'll drive us to the beach and show you a private spot
Lindsay: Don't tempt me! I don't have a change of clothes. :(
Me: good, skinny dipping's more fun
Lindsay: Oh god! I'm already getting wet!
"Jeez... okay, that's impressive. I was genuinely convinced she liked girls."
"Clearly not." I confidently remarked.
And what reason did I have not to be confident? Our year was small, just seventeen of us left, and though we had all passed the most awkward stages of puberty, not all had waltzed through quite as spectacularly as I had. Whilst Noah stood at 5'10" and was built somewhere between lean and skinny, I was closer to 6'2", and at my last weigh in I was 194 lbs of muscle. I had been a member of both the under 18's basketball and rugby teams before I aged out of their bracket six months ago, and now only play recreationally until I leave for college. But that's still a couple of months away, so for now my physique serves no purpose other than appearing pleasing to the eye. Honestly, the down time has been nice, and let me focus on other things. Like the bet.
Of the seventeen of us left there are eight girls and nine boys. Up until the end of last year I had been dating Georgina Pearson, but she got drunk at the Halloween party and got fingered by some college guy. We had a very loud, very public argument where I punched said college guy, but more than his nose was broken that night. Ever since then,
Georgie
has been somewhat of a social pariah, whilst I have been afforded great sympathy. That is where the idea of the bet started.
Noah had never been lucky with the girls, even with me as his wingman, whereas I've always been treated more favourably. The first day back after October break - one week after the party, and one week since anyone other than Noah had seen me - Brittany, Becca, and Lucy all made a move to let me know they would be happy to supply a shoulder to cry on. Lucy was persistent about it, in fact.
"Jesus Christ, Caelan," Noah had uttered. "I can't get one of them to look at me, and yet every girl in class wants to fuck you."
"I mean, you're not wrong. Can you blame them?" I smarmily replied. The attention was nice, and I wasn't in the best of head spaces, so I enjoyed the confidence boost.
"Asshole. I bet you really think you could, huh?"
"Could what?"
"Fuck every girl in class."
"I mean, discounting Georgina for obvious reasons, I bet I
could
..."
"Oh you
bet
you could? Bet what?"
"I'm not making a bet about this." I faltered, not liking where this was going.
"Oh, so you don't think you could do it? Ain't the hot shit you claim?" He goaded.
I narrowed my eyes and a thin smile formed on the side of my lips. "Okay, you're on. I bet by the end of the school year I'll have banged every girl in class."
"A hundred?"
"Deal." We shook on it, right as registration began being called.
That was five months ago, and now I had done it, with eight weeks of class to spare. I started with Rifa Mitri, knowing that due to her culture she would never go for it if I was seen as a player. We went on three dates before we had a fairly eventful week of daily sex, though that culminated in both of us deciding we were too different to take things seriously.
Lucy Morgan came next, and was by far the easiest to win over. A ride home from school was all it took for her to offer me a friendly blowjob, and who was I to refuse? We hooked up at least ten times since then, and each time was memorable. She is
wild
.
Brittany Macleod, Laura Devlin, Becca Wilkinson, Aimee Corrance, and Candace Parsons came over the next few months. From December to March I spent so much time in their company that I nearly forgot what my mother looked like. But that left just one. Seducing Lindsay had been different. She was shy, bookish, and a tomboy - not my usual type. Most assumed she was gay, but as it turns out she's just odd. She had only been part of the class since the beginning of the year, and as such hadn't really made any friends. In order to win her over, I bought a copy of the book she was reading and sped through it. An in-depth conversation about the strength of Hazel Grace Lancaster was all it took for a friendship to bloom, and a further two weeks of spending time together sealed the deal. As it turned out, not only was she not a lesbian, but she wasn't a virgin either, having experiences with two people before me. And that leads us to now, and my winning of the bet.
Or so I thought.