This is a story about sex. And a story about sweaty high school locker rooms. It's a story about both, actually.
But mostly, this is a story about some really poor decision-making.
And I know what you're thinking! "Yeah, of course there's some poor decision-making! The do-goods and the try-hards rarely wind up in reluctant, erotic stories, right?" Well, you're wrong. I was a do-good and a try-hard throughout high school, but a couple really bad decisions just weeks before graduation led me to the wildest gym class of my life.
The first bad decision was this: I skipped gym class.
My second bad decision was this: I skipped gym class again.
I bet you can guess what my third bad decision was. And my fourth.
You see, I was a do-good and a try-hard in, say, English class, or Ancient Greek Roots and Origins, or Medieval Poetry. I could work my ass off for a single test in Physics. My GPA, for the classes that (vaguely) mattered, was nearly a 4.0. My life was together, I was 18, set to graduate, committed to a damn fine liberal arts college on the East Coast, and making all the right choices. The one thing I couldn't get right was that fucking gym class.
And it's not like I wasn't in good shape. Was I a little on the shapely side? Sure. I had some solid thighs. I could Netflix with the best of them. But I could chill with the best of them, too, and I was nimble and fit enough to do so. Like any other teen, I was a lazy oaf, but I was horny enough and young enough to keep my body in shape.
So it wasn't that I couldn't handle the mind-numbing intensity of public school gym class at the end of my senior year. I was just lazy.
I mean, what motivation did I have for showing up anyway? I'd committed to a college, my GPA was doing just fine (and if it wasn't, I don't think I'd care), and there were much more interesting things to do during that period, like breaking my friends out of chemistry or hooking up in the band room, or both. Who cared about that fucking gym class?
But on this particular day, exactly 18 days before the end of my senior year, I did. Because, as my teacher Mr. Stokes kindly informed me at the beginning of the period, "You're going to fail. If you miss another class of gym, you're going to fail, Carly, and I'm not sure we can give you your diploma if you don't get your final gym credit."
Fucking gym class.
So I'm standing there, in front of this hawk-nosed, wide-mouthed, beady-eyed stud of a gym teacher, and I do what any failing teenage girl would do.
You probably think I sucked his dick, right? Or showed him my tits? Hell no. Guy's not even good-looking. And so old he'd probably have a heart attack before I could murmur the words, "Wanna talk about this in your office?" while showing off the cleavage between my small, firm breasts.
Nah. I just lied.
"I completely understand, Mr. Stokes," I said, beaming with all the sweet, scholarly purity I could muster. "Thank you for this warning. But right now, I've got this horrible headache coming on. Could I please visit the nurse's office?"
It took a while for that one to go through his thick skull (no doubt struggling to detect my lie), but he eventually let me, and I darted out of the sweaty, musty gym quicker than a dateless boy at prom. I walked down the hallway to the nurse's office for a little bit, just in case anyone was following me, and then ducked through the door into the girls' locker room.
The ceilings were really low in there and skirted with some dim fluorescent bulbs. The rows of lockers surrounding me were all painted the same dull shade of grey, the painter's equivalent of an out-of-tune banjo. And it smelled like sweat. And perfume. And maybe chicken nuggets? I couldn't really pin down that last scent.
But most importantly, it was empty, and I wanted to take a second to figure out how long I could possibly be at the nurse's before anyone realized I was gone. I sat down on a low wood bench, relaxed a little bit, and then freaked the fuck out.
Shit shit shit shit shit.
Someone was coming into the locker room.
Two people. I could hear their voices.
I made another bad decision.
I tiptoed further into the girls' locker room, shoved myself into the nearest locker, and pulled the door firmly behind me.
Little did I know, by closing that door, I had sealed my terrible, unfortunate, embarrassing, and incredibly hot fate.
Tony and Amanda were walking into the girl's locker room. And I didn't even have to wonder why Amanda would be taking her boyfriend into the girl's locker room.
The two had been dating for, like, three years at that point, which is borderline absurd for a high school relationship. They weren't particularly good-looking or likeable as far as couples go, but everyone knew that Tony and Amanda had a ridiculous amount of sex.
I'm not even sure why that was common knowledge at my high school, but it just was, sort of like how everyone knew that Erik Holmesson picked his nose during every standardized test and Shayne Wheatley was going to film a porno someday. You just kinda knew these things.
And I just kinda knew, at that point, that I was in deep trouble.
It wasn't just that the class coupling was about to happen right in front of me in the locker room. Or that I would be forced to watch it from my small and increasingly uncomfortable locker. The trouble was that Tony and Amanda were, for reasons still lost to me, members of my close and bizarre circle of friends. And I wasn't ready to watch the two of them get it on.
This is not to say that I'm not used to a fair amount of PDA in my circle. I am, begrudgingly, the living, breathing stereotype of a flaky, flamboyant bisexual, and most of my friends have seen me in my underwear or made out with me or both at this point. It's just that Tony and Amanda are the ultimate and I didn't want to witness some painfully loving sex.
I was squirming just at the thought of it, the walls of this tiny locker pressing cold against my wide thighs and small shoulders. And all they had to do was look through the small grates in the locker door, see my panicked eyes staring out at them...
My fucking luck. They were coming right this way. And before I could yelp one last warning call, to let them know I was there, Tony was lifting Amanda up and pressing her right up agains the locker I was sitting in.
"Mmm... Amanda..." he mumbled, broad hands fumbling at her t-shirt. He had these really intense light brown eyes that were roving all over her body, I could see his face so clearly from the locker, and a crewcut that made his face look like a slightly more chiseled moon. He was a blusher, and his face was bright pink now from excitement and growing arousal. I couldn't see below his waist from here, but from Amanda's persistent moaning, I knew he was rubbing something hard and stiff against her, and she was rubbing back. The motion of their bodies was slowly rocking the locker I was squished inside of.
"Ooh yeah..." Amanda took a breath shuddering with excitement. "Are we really gonna do this?"
There was a pause, then I saw Tony lick his lips. I wasn't really into guys at the time, but the way his tongue flicked out was pretty hot.
"Do you want to?" he asked.
She leaned forward to kiss him, and between the smooching sounds and the radiating heat of their breath I thought I was going to be sick. It went on for way too long before she pulled away. "Let's do it. Now."
My stomach lurched, but I was also felt a wave of anticipation. This was way more intense than I thought it was going to be. Maybe they'd get pretty freaky. I'd have a pretty amazing vantage point to watch it all play out.
Amanda turned around, and now Tony was standing with his back against my locker door, so tall the overheard lights were now completely blocked out. I got a glimpse of Amanda's curly brown hair and olive skin before she went down on him.
Damn. I wasn't going to see anything from here. I could hear his fly unzipping and his breaths coming sharper and sharper, and I took the opportunity to shift myself ever so slightly in the locker. Despite the terrible view, I found myself spreading my thighs a little bit so I could reach a hand down there.