We'd just had the final cheerleader practice for the semester. For the year, really. For me, the last one ever. I was graduating in a couple of weeks and wouldn't be a cheerleader any more. I'd only attended the practise to help train some of the newer girls. I wouldn't be running out on the field again.
As the senior girl there I'd volunteered to make sure that everything was packed away, letting everyone else free to change and depart. Here was a method to my madness of course. Basically, everyone else would be leaving by the time I came in to shower and change, meaning I'd have free access to the showers. The boys hadn't been practising so that meant that there would still be plenty of hot water for the showers. It was the pits when we both practised on the same day as the hot water would always run out.
I strolled into the change-room, waving to the others as they departed. I enjoyed a nice leisurely shower and then went to get dressed. As soon as I opened my locker I ran into a little problem. My panties fell out of the locker and landed in a puddle that was on the floor. Yuk. No way was I putting on wet panties.
This is not a problem, I hear you saying. You were at Cheerleader practice. You'll be able to wear the modesty shorts that go with your cheerleader outfit, right? Well, yes. And no. Like I said, this was the end of my cheerleading career. Knowing it was coming up I had refrained from buying new modesty shorts when I should have. I'd had a little growth spurt over the last couple of months, putting on a few extra pounds around the bust and, unfortunately, the hips. Those modesty shorts were now so damn tight they might as well have been a coat of black paint. It was a struggle to get them on and just as hard to get them off. I loathed them.
I looked at the blasted shorts and then I looked at my school uniform. The tunic reached down to just above my knees. (I have been known to shorten it by rolling it up at the waist but not, I thought, this time.) I could wear the tunic without panties and who'd know, apart from me? I was going straight home after all. Five minute walking along the street. Ten at the most. Goodbye shorts, hullo commando, I decided.
Mr Macafee is our principal. For some reason he never walks anywhere. He charges. He'll burst out of his office and go shooting down a corridor as if he was in a walking race. Most disconcerting if you get in his way.
Why am I discussing our principal, you ask? Because I was just about to walk past the Coach's office when Mr Macafee came charging out. I bounced off him and landed on my behind. I also bounced up off my behind in double quick time, thankful that he'd been standing too near to notice anything amiss.
"Elizabeth!" he exclaimed. "Are you all right? Sorry about that. What are you doing here at this hour?"
"I'm fine," I said quickly. "I was equipment monitor for our practice session. That's why I'm a little late."
"Oh, right. Well good for you."
"Before you go, a moment of your time, please, Elizabeth," another voice said and I turned my head to see Coach Hopkins looking at me.
"Yes, sir?" I said politely. (What else could I say? No way and I'm out of here?)
He indicated I should enter his office and I did so sensing Mr Macafee following me in. Coach Hopkins just looked at me for a moment and then picked up this long pointer he has and used it to flick up the front of my tunic. I promptly blushed and squeaked, frantically brushing my tunic back into place.
"Mm. I didn't think the approved school panties consisted of a little black tuft of fur," he observed, while my face just went scarlet.
"Elizabeth?" said Mr Macafee.
"I, um, I had a minor accident in the change room," I said.
Would you believe that he then had the gall to reach down and lift the front of my tunic up, giving him and the coach a good eyeful?
"Stop that," he said when I tried to push my tunic back into place, and Coach Hopkins laughed.
"How long is it since we caught one of the girls going commando?" he asked.
"Oh, it must be nearly a week," replied Mr Macafee, much to my surprise.
"What?" I said, showing my surprise.
"Oh yes, it happens every so often," said Coach Hopkins. "They always have an excellent excuse for it. I admit the excuse I liked best was the girl who claimed she took them off so she could show the boys the colour of her panties when they asked."