Pam was panting hard. Her lungs burned. She bent over with her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath. Debbie was bent over beside her, panting just as hard. She collapsed on her back in the grass by the track, covering her face with her hands. None of the other kids was around. The rest of the class had already gone into the locker rooms.
"That... bitch... I'll kill... her," Debbie said between heavy breaths.
Pam just nodded.
The bell rang and Debbie sat up.
"Shit. I knew she would make us late. I hate when she does that."
Pam didn't have enough breath to answer. She just followed Debbie back across the field to the gym doors and the girl's locker room. Her legs were tight and sore and she moved slowly. Debbie already had her locker open. Pam dialed the combination on the lock, opened her locker and sat on the bench.
"If Franklin ever makes us run a mile again I'm gonna make myself puke so I can, like, get out of it," Debbie said. She peeled off her blue t-shirt and threw it in her gym bag.
Pam stood up slowly. Her legs ached. She took off her own shirt and put it in her gym bag. She took out the clean towel and set it aside on the bench. Debbie stripped out of her shorts and shoes like she was in a hurry. Pam took her time. It was after three and school was over and the only thing she had to do for the rest of the day was homework.
The rest of the locker room was empty and quiet, except for the soft hiss of water from the showers. At least one other person was in the locker room. Pam hoped it wasn't Miss Franklin. The last thing she wanted to see was her naked ass. Besides, some of the girls said she was a dyke, whatever that meant.
Debbie wrapped her towel around her body, tucked in the corner and shut her locker.
"You got any homework tonight?" she said.
"Yeah. Math, of course."
Debbie rolled her eyes. "How did I know?"
Pam pushed her shorts and underwear down, stuffed them in the locker and wrapped the towel around her naked body. They walked together to the showers. Pam stepped carefully around the cold puddles of water.
The girl in the shower was Beth, the one on the girl's basketball team that everyone said was so good. She was washing herself with a bar of soap. Pam picked a shower next to Debbie, across from Beth, and turned on the hot water. She stood to the side. The water was usually way too hot and came out so hard it stung.
She glanced at Beth while she waited for the temperature to get more comfortable. She was rubbing her soapy hands over her boobs. She was very pretty and she had a beautiful body, but she seemed so stuck up. The other girls always said she was. They said she got all A's and she was going out with a guy who was in high school.
Beth rubbed her soapy hands over her belly and looked up. Pam looked away quickly. She didn't want Beth to think she was staring. She looked at Debbie, who was rinsing her long, dark hair under the water. She had a beautiful body, too, but Beth was so well developed. Her boobs were rounder and stuck out more than Debbie's, and she was so tall, like a real woman.
She also had a real boyfriend. Pam soaked herself under the hot water and turned the bar of soap in her hands. It must have been so great to have a boyfriend like that.
Beth washed her hair. Pam liked the way the water glistened on her skin, and the way she rubbed her hands on her body. She washed the soap out of her hair, rinsed her body down, turned off the water and walked out of the shower without looking at her or Debbie.
"What a bitch," Debbie said in a low voice. "She's got a fat ass, too."
Pam glanced at Beth. She stopped to pick up her towel and wrapped it around herself. Pam frowned. She had a nice ass. Debbie didn't really think it was fat, did she?
Debbie finished her shower first. Pam lingered a minute or two longer. She enjoyed the way the hot water soothed her sore shoulders and stung her nipples. The touch of a man's rough hand would feel better, but the water would have to do.
Debbie wrapped her wet hair in the towel and put her hands on her hips.
"Come on, let's go. I wanna get the hell out of here," she said.
Pam shut off the water. The showers were suddenly quiet, except for the soft drip of water that echoed off the tiled walls.
Pam wrapped the towel around her body. Debbie came out naked, pink and damp from the warm shower. Her nipples were rosy red, her skin glowed and her breasts jiggled when she walked. She seemed so comfortable with her body, like she wanted people to see her naked.
Pam finished drying her hair at her locker. She put on her panties and bra, but Debbie took her time drying off. She bent over to dry her legs and stuck her ass way out.
"What are you gonna do tonight?" Pam said.
Debbie rubbed her nipples with the towel, her eyes turned up to the ceiling. She flipped the towel over her shoulders and dried her back, letting her boobs shake.
"I'm gonna go out tonight, find a guy with a car, make him out with him, then I'll like, tell him to take me someplace we can be alone like Lathrup or someplace and I'm gonna let him fuck me 'cause it's been like, a week since I got laid and I can't stand it anymore."
"You'll just let any guy love you?" Pam said. She sat on the bench to put on her socks.
Debbie shrugged. "Sure, what's the difference? As long as he's got like, a hard dick, I don't care who he is." She stuffed the towel into her bag and took out her panties. "What are you doing tonight?"
"Homework."
"Oh yeah." Debbie pulled her panties up. The crotch fit snug over her mound and the back wedged between her ass cheeks. "Look, why don't you come over to my house with me? We can go out together. Hey, maybe we'll even fuck the same guy."
At Debbie's house, they dumped their books and gym bags on the sofa and went to the kitchen. Debbie turned on the small television hung to the wall over the round table. Pam leaned against the counter, her eyes fixed to the tv to see what came on. Debbie opened the refrigerator.
"Want a Pepsi?" Debbie said. She took out a can for herself and handed one to Pam.
She popped the can open and took a sip. Her eyes turned up to the television. Debbie changed the channel to the Jerry Springer show.
"Check this shit out," Debbie said. She tossed the remote on the counter. "I could be on this show. You could be on it, too."
"What is it?" Pam said. On the screen was a row of women and younger girls sitting on chairs on the stage.
"Check it out. I seen this one before. These girls are all like, the same age as us and they wanna have babies. Their Moms are like, so freaked out and shit."
"Did your Mom freak out when you got pregnant?" Pam said.
"Are you kidding? She had a fucking cow."
"My Mom freaked out, too," Pam said, and sipped her pop.
Debbie chuckled. "My Mom grounded me. Can you believe that shit? She said I couldn't ever see boys again. Can you believe that? She is like, so stupid. I didn't have to go out to get knocked up. Gary did it for me right here in his own bedroom. Shit, my Mom and Dad were sleeping in the next room when we did it."
"You really did it with your brother?" Pam said.
"Hell yeah. He's the one who got me pregnant. I bet the boy's gonna grow up to look just like him, too." Debbie chuckled again, shaking her head. "My Mom would shit bricks if she saw that."
Pam nodded and kept her eyes on the television.
"Your brother's pretty cute. What's his name?" Debbie said.
"Ethan."
"Yeah, Ethan. You should sleep with him."
Pam's mouth fell open and she stared at Debbie. Could she read her mind?
"I couldn't do that," Pam said.
"Why not? I sure would if he was my brother. He's pretty hot. And I bet he's got a big dick, too."
Debbie took a deep drink of her pop, tilting her head way back. Pam watched her throat working when she swallowed. Debbie couldn't possibly know what Ethan was like, she was sure. He was too good, not like her. She didn't want him to get spoiled by girls like Debbie. Pam hoped he waited. She wanted to be his first.
"Anyway, I never like to date guys from my own class. They're like, all too young and immature and all that. I like older guys," Debbie said, staring up at the ceiling with dreamy eyes.
"Why do you like older guys?" Pam said.
"'Cause they know how to kiss and how to fuck and they got cars and they can do more stuff." Debbie sighed. She set the pop can on the counter and crossed her arms. "I never fit in with other girls my own age, anyway. I mean you, you're cool because you been knocked up and you know. That makes you different. The other girls, they don't know."
"I don't know anyone else my own age," Pam said. She looked up at the tv again. The girls on the screen were all about her age, but they all looked so much more mature than she felt. One or two of them were already pregnant.
Debbie laughed. "I remember the day I snuck my Mom's garter belt and some stockings from her dresser and put them on when I got to school. That was when I was in seventh grade. A bunch of guys loved seeing me in that, a bunch of them."
"What happened?"
"I got my cherry popped by one of my teachers, Mr. Garcia, in science."
Pam stared at her friend with wide eyes. Debbie seemed so grown up, so mature, like the girls on the television.
"I always sat in the front row in his class. I didn't even like, know I let my skirt rise up. I looked at him and he was like, sitting at his desk, staring at my legs. I spread my legs and the farther I spread them, the wider his eyes got."
"Did you get in trouble?" Pam said.
Debbie shook her head. "He made me stay after class and he took me to his office and like, lectured me on how I was dressed and before I knew it he was like, fucking me. It was so cool. I should have worn that garter a lot sooner."