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-- CHAPTER 8: Victim --
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PRE-COLLEGE (September 2001)
She was already there when I arrived. It was a glorious morning, with blue skies and the sweet smell of flowers and the trees around me. Life was moving on.
Cherys turned from her spot and smiled at me. For a second I hesitated, unsure of exactly how to greet her. There had been no repeats since I took her 'virginity', and I wasn't expecting there to be any either. We'd had our moment together, a culmination of long held fantasies. And yet, we hadn't verbally discussed how things would go from here on. So I kind of froze in place, trying to decide what to do.
Cherys made up my mind for me when she opened her arms for a hug. I stepped into them and we were pressed close together, chest to chest while she lay her cheek against my shoulder.
I waited until she let go first, and then pulled back to look into her eyes. But Cherys just closed them and then softly pressed her lips against mine.
The kiss was fleeting, and then she leaned back and looked at me. Then she turned and faced the headstone we were standing beside. "See sis, your man is doing just fine."
I slipped my hand into Cherys'. We both turned and said our prayers for Ellie.
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FALL QUARTER, SENIOR YEAR (September 2001)
"Well, this is certainly going to be weird."
"What, you having second thoughts?" Amber squeezed my hand. We'd just finished unpacking my stuff. Phyllis had moved into an apartment with her boyfriend, and I was taking the empty room at Amber, E-Beth, and Diane's house.
"Oh, no. Nothing like that," I squeezed back. "I'm used to rooming with girls. Just... not girls that I'm sleeping with."
"Well, to be fair, you're not sleeping with Diane," Amber smiled. "Yet..."
I held up my hands. "Hey, I haven't touched her!"
E-Beth walked by behind us. "Yet..." she called in a sing-song voice. Apparently she overheard the conversation.
Then Diane came by. "What are you guys talking about?"
I turned beet red. Amber just answered, "Nothing, nothing."
I rolled my eyes. "Okay, I'm going to my room now."
"You sure you don't want to come to mine?" Amber put a fingertip in her mouth and essayed a little girl expression.
"I'm too embarrassed to get it up right now."
"Aww... I'm sure I can get your hard," Amber giggled.
"Or I will!" E-Beth said as she walked the other way, heading back down the stairs.
I just shook my head and went into my new bedroom. These girls were going to drive me crazy.
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"Oh, gawd. You're driving me crazy!" Amber cried.
I looked up from my spot between her legs, which were flung to the sides as I dug into her channel even deeper with my tongue. My hands were up on Amber's perfect tits, so large and round and so good at filling my palms.
There was a sudden knock at the door, which to my consternation began to swing open.
Abruptly I pulled my head back and looked around frantically for something to cover us. We were both buck naked and there was nothing that would do the trick in time.
E-Beth swung the door wide open and then leaned against the doorframe. "You two had better hurry up. Amber and I have a class in fifteen minutes." And then she just stood there and relaxed in her position.
"You gonna watch or something?" Amber asked without a trace of the embarrassment that I was currently feeling.
"Yup."
I glanced back at forth between them for a second, but then Amber grabbed my head and shoved it back into her crotch. "You heard the woman. Hurry up!"
Bewildered, I obeyed and went to work.
At least until I heard Diane cruising by. "Hey, he's got a nice ass."
Ah, hell.
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"Hey, dude," Kevin greeted me as I walked in and dropped my bag next to the coffee table. I dropped myself onto the couch a moment later. "Dude, you don't look so good," he said with honest concern.
"Really? How so?" I asked in a tired voice.
"Well, there's the bloodshot eyes and big black bags beneath. You're pale, really pale if you consider we just got back from summer vacation. And you look like you're moving at half-speed. Dude, we've been at school a week and you're already wiped out. And today's a Monday. What the hell are you going to do when finals come around?"
I sighed and let my head loll back against the wall behind the couch. "I don't know."
"What's going on? You not getting much sleep?"
"Uh, it's not that," a stupid smirk rose into my face.
"Whaaat?" He asked, leaning forward.
"Well, whoever said 'there's no such thing as too much sex' didn't live at my house."
"Amber?"
I nodded.
"E-Beth?"
I nodded.
He paused. "Diane?"