This is a story about young adults that are completing school and moving into the world. Everyone is of course at least eighteen.
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Carol and I sat on the bench. She was on a short substitution, I was lending support. From 5pm til 10pm each week, teams from surrounding towns came into the main city of Crimea on a Friday for Summer Basketball under lights. Crimea wasn't big, at most 5,000 people, but it was central in the district. It had the high school, the hospital, the train line, silos for the grain; and it had the only floodlit basketball courts in the north of the Young District. There were four courts; twenty games were scheduled from men's, women's, junior and senior, A-grade and B-grade. As you could imagine, it was the center of country society on a Friday. The courts buzzed with people of all ages - complete with an array of moths and bugs.
"You're playing next? Which court?" Carol asked me.
"Cancelled. Grayport forfeited."
"Again? They're useless."
"Fucking disorganized," I agreed.
"Hey don't swear. My Auntie is around here somewhere."
I ignored her. I had other things on my mind. "So...can we go somewhere after?"
"I'm so sweaty," Carol moaned, pulling at her singlet.
"I won't mind," I assured her.
"Yeah? I will."
Before I could persuade her otherwise, she was gone, called back to court.
Sitting on the other side of me was my cousin Mike, younger by a year and constantly giving lip.
"Your girlfriend has a killer ass. She must be dynamite bent over in the shower."
I turned and looked at him, furrowing my brow. It was typical of the crap I'd heard from him all my life.
"Could you be any more crude?"
"Sure," he grinned cheekily, "Her tits are coming in nicely, too."
I just laughed. There was nothing else to do. Mikey would happily take a beating, it wouldn't stop him from mouthing off next time. And anyway, it was true. The bum-huggers they used for the women's summer uniform were scandalous on a girl like Carol. And her tits, they weren't big, but gee they looked solid. I could only dream that I would get her completely topless sooner rather than later.
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David Tonkin, Donk, was the biggest chic-magnet of my year. It was quite a thing for a girl to be his girlfriend. And I have to say it wasn't unearned. He wasn't just big and strong, he was perfectly polite. To everyone. Genuinely. He was gentle yet chiseled, brutally handsome yet humble. I often looked at him wondering if his manner was in his genes, or conditioned. I wanted to know that it wasn't my fault I wasn't more like him.
When he spoke, I listened.
"So I was with Annette on Friday night...," he started. There were four of us sitting around at lunch. I wasn't usually in his circle so I was being careful not to say anything stupid. Annette Gilbert had been the unrequited love of most of my life before Carol. She had gorgeous eyes and hair; she moved with such confidence and grace it made me melt. I'd asked her out in a woefully nervous manner years ago. It hadn't gone well. I didn't try again. Annette was in the always-been-gorgeous category. My Carol was in the became-gorgeous-later category, which was much more to my reach.
"So I get her into the soccer goals. Making out," Donk tells us.
"Those ones over there?" one guy asks incredulously.
"Yeah, but right down the end."
"Fuck."
"Listen. So we're there for ages. Long enough for me to get her pants right off."
"Her pants?!" was the whispered excitement.
"She had just her sweater on top. Pants right off. Her pussy completely open, man."
"Fuck!"
Gee, Annette Gilbert with bare legs and vagina. I saw pixies. I thought I was going to faint.
"Her legs are all open. She's laid back, gonna let me do it. All the way."
"She let you do that?"
"She didn't just let me, she demanded it. Said she was hoping she already had one in her by now. Been curious about it for ages."
"Holy shit. You actually fucked Annette?" the guy in my left asked. "Just over there?"
"So she's waiting for me to get my pants off. I'm knelt undoing myself, watching her, legs open, pussy right there and boom, I've got a soft-on."
"What?"
"Couldn't get it up man."
"You couldn't get a boner?"
"Nope. Fucking nothing."
"Shit man. Annette fucking Gilbert with her pants off begging you to nail her and you go soft?"
"Yep."
"Holy shit. You fucking idiot. What the fuck gets you hard if not that?"
"I know! How bad is that?" he laughed.
As crazy as the situation was, I had to hand it to Donk. If that had been me, I'd have never told a soul. I'd be terrified that she would tell her friends and it would get out. Yet Donk was laughing about it with us carelessly. It was admirable.
"So now she fucking hates me. Won't talk to me."
"What did she do? Did she try and help?"
"I told her to frig herself while I watched. She puts two fingers in her own pussy, and I'm still not hard. She pulled on me herself, still didn't work. She gets up, says she'll be back. Walks off, doesn't come back."
"Without her pants?"
Donk shrugged. "The sweater was pretty long."
"Her underwear is still out there?"
Donk nodded. "Might be. I thought she might come back for it."
The other two lads looked at each other and bolted. They battled each other across the grass on the chance Annette Gilbert's panties were still over there in the net. Donk just shrugged.
"Fucking morons. How about you? You got into your Carol's pants yet?"
I shook my head no. There was no lying to Donk.
"There's no knowing what to do, is there?" he smiled at me. "Take their pants off, you're a creep. Don't take their pants off, you're too slow."
"You couldn't have known she wanted to be fucked so badly. She should have said something."
"Girls don't though, do they?"
I had to agree, mine hadn't.
The two boys were combing the ground around the goals, so I guessed they hadn't found them.
"See you later," Donk said and moved on. I looked down at my own boner. From just hearing about Annette spreading her legs with her pants off, I was granite-hard.
Sigh.
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Carol and I had a half hour free and were lurking at the back of the library. No one could see us and unless they snuck along quietly we would be able to hear people in time.
"Kiss me," I demanded.
Carol came in close. It was wonderful sharing her mouth and tongue. My hand could go up her skirt and grip her ass through her panties.
"You're too excited," she teased, gripping my crotch briefly before pulling herself away from me.
"You're a tease," I sighed, but with a smile.
"Oh yeah?" Carol said, cheekily undoing the buttons on her shirt, pulling it apart. With her log wavy hair spilling over half her face, it was boner-inducing torture. "You like my bra? Is that teasing?"
"I hate your bra. Get rid of it."
"Not here, baby," she stated the obvious.
"Where?"
It was the ongoing question that had never been answered.
Not your place.
Not my place.
Not at school.