All characters in this story are over the age of 18 and are consenting young adults.
In the past few days, I felt like I'd matured several years. The problem was, there were only two girls I had any experience with; Sis and Carol. Sis I understood. At least I thought so. I was naΓ―ve. Carol I didn't understand. She didn't appear to be what I thought she was last week. Last week she'd been a known quantity, a bitch, but a known. This week she had confused me, but I wasn't intimidated now.
If you missed the chapters leading up to this point, you should probably go read them.
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The locker room was different today. When I entered, I heard chatter, positive chatter.
"Hey Tyler!"
"How you doing?"
"How's the back?"
"You going to practice with us today? Bout time."
This felt strange. Normally I would have been ignored. "The back's good. Not as bad as it looked."
As I removed my shirt, "That's going to leave a mark, buddy. You going to tell us about her?"
Before we got into that discussion, Coach Barker came in, "Tyler, get dressed... quick, and go get checked out at First Aid. If they give you the go ahead, I want you in practice. Make it quick."
"Ok, Coach." A few minutes later I was dressed and trotting over to Ms. T's.
When I got there, "You again. What can we do for you? Anything for the football team," loaded with sarcasm.
I hoped this would be the last time I interrupted their routine, "Sorry, Ma'am. I just need a quick check. It's nothing."
Carol stepped forward, "I got him," and pulled me aside and raised my shirt. She had been right yesterday. It wasn't as bad as it looked.
She whistled, "She did do a number on you. I'd really like to meet the girl that could get a guy to stand still for that. When you going to introduce us?"
That wasn't happening, but I decided to tease her with a little non-information, "You already know her. You've met."
"You're kidding! I've never seen anyone do something like that, and I know some girls that like it rough."
I'd never been a flirt, didn't know how to do it, but this just popped out, "Do you like it rough?" It brought a blush from Carol.
Maybe Sis was right, and I was winning. But this reminded me of one of yesterday's lessons, 'if someone wins and someone loses, you're doing it wrong'. Confusing.
Before she could respond, Ms. T broke in, "Carol, if you're through working on your social calendar, just tell him he's ready to go, and we can get a little work done."
"He's ok, Ms. Talmadge," then she leaned in for a whisper, "You didn't forget my ride, did you?"
I didn't feel as confident as I tried to let on, "No, I didn't forget," and I gave her a smile that said I was looking forward to it.
As I walked back over to practice, it occurred to me that this was the first time I'd ever felt in control of a situation involving a girl. Sis was still in charge, but I didn't object to that. I had something with her that I didn't have with Carol, trust. The scales had tipped in my favor. It was exhilarating.
As I reported in to Coach, "Go line up with the receivers. Let's see if you can catch the ball this year."
In the past, I'd been here for 'exercise and to round out my high school experience' as Mom and Dad had put it. Something was different now.
When my turn came, I concentrated. On balls that were out of reach, I ran hard and extended, even threw my body after them. I didn't catch them all, but I did catch some that hit the ground last year. As I caught a few long ones, the quarterbacks started challenging me, trying to see how hard and far I'd go to make the catch.
After thirty minutes and a lot of sweat, practice devolved into a contest between myself and our star receiver, Riggs. Riggs had been serious for 3 years. He was better than me, but we were caught up in the competition.
The coaches were seeing something they look for in practice; the team having fun. They let us run for a while. The quarterbacks began throwing progressively crazy balls. Some of them we caught.
Riggs and I really put out and soon we were both wet with sweat.
When Coach stopped us for water, Riggs hit me on the shoulder, "Hey. Where'd that come from? You trying to get my job?"
"Your jobs safe."
As it turns out, it wasn't just the team watching. The cheerleaders had stopped to watch us show off too.
As he was getting us started on the last leg of practice, Coach approached Riggs and I, "You guys are looking pretty good. Save some of it for real games and we may do some damage this year!" It was the first time I'd been told I might 'do some damage'. It sounded and felt good.
When practice was over and I had gotten dressed, Carol was waiting for me by the gym, "You haven't forgotten about my ride have you? We need to TALK. See if we can work something out. Mom and Dad are both working today, so we can discuss it at home."
I looked down at Carol, "I haven't forgotten." I confess, I thought about her while getting dressed. Sis was the expert, but it was still hard to believe that Carol set this up to have sex with me. Of course, if her conscience was bothering her, who knows?
"What's this all about, Carol?"
"Well, I was hoping I could set things right between us."
"You've already apologized, and it's not nearly enough. Do you know what you caused me to miss out on?"
Carol whined, "I don't know. It was three years... I don't know. I've worried about this for 3 years. I need to get it off my back."
I took satisfaction seeing Carol squirm. This might be worth it all by itself, but I wanted more, "Well, let's see, 3 years, 52 weeks, that's 156 weeks."
Carol was looking panicked, "Ok, so..."
"You've been sexually active those 3 years, haven't you?"
Almost a whisper, "Well, yes."
"So, how many times a week would you say you had sex while I was hanging with the Astronomy Club?"
A whisper slipped from Carol's lips, "Oh, crap."
"That's not a number. If you're serious about making us even, give me a number! Or do you just want off the hook? I didn't look at a girl for THREE YEARS." Might as well make sure she knew exactly how much I had suffered.
"Ok, 2 or 3 times, I guess. Sometimes more, sometimes not at all."
"Ok, so that's 156 times 2. I'll make it easy on you. That means while I was jerking off, you had sex 312 times. Does that sound about right?" I put on a very serious look and never took my eyes off Carol's face as my analysis sunk in and Carol visibly drooped.
Carol knew what I was saying, "Oh God! I can't do it THAT much. We'd have to do it every day this semester, and I have plans. The families going out of town over Christmas, and what am I supposed to do with my boyfriend?"
I couldn't help but grin. Her math left a little to be desired. But she was thinking about it.
Then she did it. I hadn't seen it coming. Her eyes flooded with tears. She looked pitiful. I really can't take crying girls.
I opened my arms for her, "Come here," and she walked to within an inch of me, "Ok, I couldn't really make you do that. I was just trying to punish you," as I reached one arm around her and pulled her to my body, placing the other hand over the side of her face, clutching her head to my chest as she cried.
Between sobs she whispered, "You... you... don't want to... fuck me?"
"Jesus, Carol. I never said that."
"Said what? That you wanted to... or didn't want to?"
As soon as I had hugged Carol, Darwin got involved. I was hard as could be. I lowered a hand to Carol's ass and forced her up against it, "Does this answer your question?" Of course, I wanted to.
Carol pressed her hips against my bulge for a second, and let out a small groan, "Mmmm. You probably shouldn't have your hand on my ass that way while we're in the parking lot. People may see us."
I had completely forgotten that we were standing in the middle of the school parking lot and jumped back to a discrete distance. Surveying the parking lot, I saw one car at the other end of the lot with a solitary girl leaned up against the driver's door looking right at us. "Fuck. Busted!"
"Oh, don't worry about her. That's Bonnie. She was going to be my ride if you backed out." Carol waved. Bonnie waved back and got into her car. As she grabbed my hand and tugged me toward the truck, "You are still going to give me a ride, aren't you?"
"I said I would," as I walked Carol around to the passenger side and opened the door for her. She watched me, as I checked her out, as she stretched to climb into the truck. The cheerleader outfit hiked up to her panties as she climbed in, just like Sis's had.
Carol crawled into the seat and slid around to face me. As she did, her legs were naturally parted. She could have taken my view away, but she didn't, "You know those aren't my real panties, don't you?"