***The characters referenced in this story are Sixth-Formers, aged 18, or they are teachers. No character is any younger than 18***
I've never had any luck with women. At five-eight and chubby, I'm no pinnacle of manliness. My dick's a fair size, but what's that matter if girls prefer just about every other man around them?
It sucks being an eighteen-year-old and still a virgin.
The whole situation got dramatically worse a year ago, when the Two Worlds Treaty was announced. Scientists discovered a kind of spacetime rift leading to a parallel Earth -- we call it Wildenarth -- where all manner of sapient, sentient, pseudo-mythological entities exist. For the sake of mutual gain, our governments and theirs signed a treaty, allowing for migration between both worlds.
In my Sixth Form college, about half of the staff and students decided to move to the new, adventurous place. In their stead, a stream of monster-folks -- "Wildenarthers", politely speaking -- came to replace them. Monstergirls and monsterguys have ensured that losers like me are now at the absolute bottom of the totem pole. Even the tall, attractive humans struggled in keeping their girlfriends. Sure, most moved onto monstergirls, but the change was no less disheartening for it. Jen Stephens, my long-time crush, got herself her first boyfriend: a minotaur hunk.
I don't even get much time to hang out with her anymore.
The Headmistress is an elf. One science teacher an orc, another a nymph. We have a dire wolf teaching English, a scorpion-woman Maths, a Scylla Music. And it goes on, but this story relates to my most-hated subject of all, physical education. PE.
We'd never had a Coach, and now we do. Kyln is a stallion centaur, a ferocious example of his species, muscular and hairy and wild. He dominates every conversation, goes around unclothed despite centaurs generally wearing shirts at the very least, and rules the PE department with an iron fist.
As an unfit, lazy, doughy nerd, we're each other's natural enemies. So, obviously, I'm the target for a large amount of his chastisement and abuse.
Kyln solely teaches archery, so I'm spared his wrath most of the time. But when archery lessons arrive -- something about cross-culture pollination -- I'm the object of his perpetual scorn. 'I didn't paint the damned target on the wall, Greyson', 'The bow's a lot stronger than you are Greyson, you wimp', 'Arrows are designed for shooting, Greyson, but you're miraculously capable of removing that quality. It's remarkable.'
And so on. I can deal with it.
But the Coach scares me. When I have detentions -- and I have lots of them, on account of his strictness -- it's just me and him alone. Which by itself would be fine, if not for the way he behaves.
He'll come up behind me, seven-foot-four in height, and put both hands on my shoulders. In class he never touches me, but when we're alone, he's...handsy. Hands on my shoulders, straightening my posture. Hands on my hips, on the sides of my chest. Hands, whenever possible, regardless of how things are going. His willingness to touch becomes, quite rapidly, concerning.
The rules are clear, post-treaty: human and non-human interrelations are encouraged wherever possible. Cross-species (race?) pregnancies are possible, and to be encouraged.
But I'm not gay. I've never been interested in men.
'Uh, Coach?' I say, having fired my last arrow. 'I need to collect the arrows. Can you release my shoulders?'
He just squeezes firmly, sliding his hands gently down onto my breast, back again. 'Not like you're going to hit any targets, Greyson.'
Kyln cups what amount to breasts on my chubby form. He pinches my nipples between his thumbs and index fingers, firm yet painless. I shudder. 'Coach...'
'Damn, Greyson, are you enjoying this?' Suddenly he chuckles cruelly, trotting off to the side, smirking maliciously. 'Get laid, kid. Do I look like a pretty girl to you, huh?'
No, definitely not. I blush, awkward, embarrassed, as Kyln makes a show of zig-zagging down towards the targets with his powerful, inhuman body on full show. Muscular haunches, a thick equine lower half, tail black and messy-long, fur brown and rough. His hoofs are larger than my hands at full span, fingers and all.
Kyln is clearly middle-aged, given the way his black hair greys at the temples, but his body is the pinnacle of honed muscle, chiselled and broad. The man himself, the human, has wild green eyes that hint at feral cunning, a strong jaw, a sharp nose, a clean-shaved face. His hair flows behind his ears, a black mane growing grey streaks, running halfway down his muscular back.
I'm forced to glance away, in spotting the heavy sway of what must be his balls, wobbling side to side between his back legs. Kyln keeps me in his peripheral, smirking to himself as he trots over to the lost arrows, and scoops them up with a slight bending of his legs, so large is his humanoid upper half.
'You got a girl, Greyson?'
'I--'
'What am I saying? Of course, you don't.' The Coach laughs viciously. He gallops back down the length of the great gym hall, depositing ten arrows on the floor before me. 'Pick them up, Greyson. With any luck, a bit of training your archery muscles might give you a shadow of a chance at mating, in the next century.'
'Thanks, Coach.' I sigh, and bend over, reaching for the arrows. Kyln, naturally, proceeds to slap my arse so hard I almost fall down. 'F-uck, man, that hurt!'
'Bend your knees, idiot.'
This is obviously going to be hell, isn't it?
*
I end up in detention with him again on Wednesday.
'That girl you were watching at break,' Kyln says. 'The red-haired one. Who's she?'
'Just a friend.'
He snorts. 'I'll say. You've no chance against a minotaur, Greyson.'
'Yeah, yeah.'
I shoot the bow, graze the target. Kyln laughs. 'Bet that minotaur won't miss the target when it comes to putting a calf in her belly.'
'Do we have to do this? Am I really here just to have you bully me?'
'Bully?' The Coach chuckles. He trots over, brushing my back with his flank. 'I'm doing my job, Greyson. I'm teaching you, aren't I? See, you almost hit it. That's an improvement. You might actually hit the straw backboard before you graduate.'
One of the worst things about him getting so close is the way he smells.
It's not even that it's bad, per se, it's just...heady. Kyln has this strong odour about him, not quite sweat. It's nose-tingling, potent, musky. It's bitter and animalistic, a kind of wild beast's stench, not unclean but also not superbly washed. A wilderness odour. Other centaurs don't seem to have it, not even things like minotaurs, or orcs.
'Yeah, but you don't need to constantly point out how bad I am with girls.'
The Coach says nothing for a moment, then seizes my shoulders from behind. 'I'm pretty well-travelled, Greyson. Ever think I know a thing or two about women? Play your cards right, I might teach you.'
'I'm sure your advice works for centaurs, but I'm not one.'
It's not something I should say, but I do, all the same.
'What's that girl's name?'
'Jen. Stephens. Why?'
'I'll fuck her within the month,' Kyln says.
I shiver at the notion, but find recourse in humour. 'Really? With her boyfriend about?'
'I'll fuck him, too.'
'What?'
'You humans have all these hang-ups, on gay and straight, but centaurs don't. Sex is about power, Greyson. Pleasure, yes, but power mostly.' Kyln runs his hands down, stroking my chest. 'Those that we conquered, back in the glorious days, found purpose in living for our needs. To be taken by an alpha, a stallion, was a fate that fell upon men and women both.'
He sounds insane. 'Why do this?'
'To prove a point, obviously,' Kyln says. He moves back, slaps my shoulders. 'Him first. Her, we'll talk about.' The centaur coach canters aside, circling around. 'Hit those targets, Greyson. Prove you're not the loser I think you are.'
*
I have these "lessons" with Kyln on Friday, then the following Tuesday.
Same business, same shitting on me, same being a bully, being touchy-feely. But Wednesday, all of a sudden, ends strangely. 'My office,' Kyln says. 'You know it?'
'PE block, out at the wooded bit?'
'Wait by the window at three o' clock tomorrow. Just out of sight.'
'Why?'
'I'm going to fuck Marcus over my desk.' He chuckles. 'I want you to see how easy it is.'
'You're...you're joking right?'
Kyln squeezes my shoulder. 'No, Greyson. I'm deadly serious.'
'Why would I want to see that?'
'Because if you don't' -- he cups my chin, forces me to meet his dangerous green gaze -- 'Jen Stephens will be next. And unlike that minotaur, I really know what I'm doing. Understood?'
'I...okay.'
Kyln smirks, releases me, and trots to the side. 'Ready your bow, Greyson. At least hit the fucking target today.'
*
I'm not sure if I believe him, but I don't want to take the chance.
Kyln's office is part of the new, larger buildings, that built upon the old, smaller ones. Because, of course, so many of these nonhumans simply wouldn't fit in the old, human-centric designs. Forest surrounds it, shadowing it most of the day, making it easy to slip around the outside and find the spot in question: a length of brick wall leading to an inverse corner, a large window looking into Coach Kyln's office. It's a large open rectangle, mostly unfurnished, but for the huge desk in the middle and the file cabinets on the other side.
Marcus stumbles in, a faint blush beneath his large, gentle eyes. The minotaur, eight feet tall and black-furred, handsome and muscular of build, looks nervously around. I slip back behind the wall, out of sight.