Chapter 3 - Girlfriends
Sunday was slow and quiet, which was just fine for Manny, after the fevered pitch of the last few days.
He woke up late, and found the house quiet - his Dad was out golfing, his sister Betty out for the day as well, while his Mom was gardening in the backyard. He quickly got a big glass of milk and toasted up some Pop-Tarts, and ran back up to his room to sit in front of his computer.
Pouring over the backup tapes from Principal Cole's computer, he hoped that his time away might have jarred something, but he still didn't notice anything exceptional. Following too many dead ends, he finally decided to put it away and get to the schoolwork he'd been neglecting.
Hours later, crouched over his biology textbook, an idea struck Manny, and he jumped over to his computer. He set up a comparison of the school database backups on Mrs. Cole's computer, against the similar school databases that were on backed up from other computers. Since they should have all been synchronized at the end of the school year, they should theoretically be the same. Manny waited.
"A-ha" he muttered under his breath.
That was followed by a grumble. The search did find some extra information in Mrs. Cole's files, but it didn't reveal anything spectacular.
Manny looked further.
The anomalies were all on records pertaining to girls that had graduated from school last year. Where the standard record just had some basic information about the name of the college or university, Mrs. Cole's records had an extra line of information for about a third of the female students - a name. No indication of what the name meant, but it looked like some sort of contact.
This is strange
, Manny thought, as he looked further,
every single record with a contact name is for some school far away...and they seem so obscure, I've never heard of any of them. And the same contact for each school, and sometimes the same contact for different ones, that might be geographically close. There were no addresses. The other girls, a lot of them are going to school in the city, or somewhere relatively close.
So what do I have now? Just a list of names that for some reason aren't on any other student records. When in doubt, check the 'net.
It took some diligence to look through the results for each name, knowing that pouring through these results was like checking for a needle in a million haystacks.
It was evening when Manny came up with something interesting. One of the names, 'Roger E. Latham', turned up a website for a Nevada brothel, among other results. Mr. Latham was on the 'about us' page, apparently involved somehow in business administration. In a combination of boredom and puerile interest, Manny clicked through and browsed around a bit.
There. That face.
One of the pictures of the 'new girls' working at the brothel looked familiar. He'd seen her, seen her around school. Though of course that that time her name wasn't 'Suzy Sweetheart' like the website proclaimed now.
Manny jumped back to the database, and scrolled through the entries.
Oh yeah, that was her name. I thought I remembered from some assembly presentation.
And on record as going to something called, 'Mountain Plains College', and beside that the name of the mysterious Mr. Roger E. Latham.
Hmmm,
Manny browsed further,
measurements, hours...does groups up to three, men and women. Cool.
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When his sister came back later that evening, he knocked on her bedroom door, "Hey, Betty, can I come in?"
She sounded exasperated, "Aaargh, I guess. What do you want to bug me about?"
"Well, I was just thinking about our choices for next year. Made up your mind about where you're going?"
"Um," she looked up into the air, trying to grasp some thought. "Not exactly, but I know I'm going away. The school has these great little independent colleges they have ties with, very exclusive, that they can set you up with if you work real hard. That's what I'm aiming for. Girls only though."
Manny raised an eyebrow, "Girls only?"
"That's right, jerk-off." She chuckled. "How about you?"
"Uh, no idea. Yet," he replied, truthfully.
"Well, unless I can help you right now with your soul-searching, do you mind fucking off? I was in the middle of something."
Manny left her room. He decided to roll up some of the pot he had left over from Saturday night, and go for a walk, think, and smoke.
This is so bizarre
, he thought.
The school sending off...selling? Gotta be big money involved somewhere. Skimming off a good third of the females of the graduating class...and no one protests? For...well, I guess it's pretty obvious what for. The eternal demand.
And now I'm tied up in it. This is so fucked-up.
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Biology class was Manny's first on Monday morning. A knock came on the classroom door.
"Hey there, is Manny in class today? Can I borrow him?" It was Mr. Anderson, one of the primary figures in the Phys. Ed. department, as usual walking around with a smile and a grin and a jump in his step no matter how early in the day it was, and showing off his tanned muscles underneath a golf shirt with the school logo. "You might as well take your books with you Manny, I don't know if you'll make it back by the time the period ends. No, no, nothing bad."
They walked together down the hallway, and then down the staircase to the main floor.
Manny asked, "What's this about, Mr. Anderson?"
Mr. Anderson looked around and lowered his voice. "Well, I'm not going to elaborate here in the open, but let's just say Mrs. Cole is busy and asked me to take care of a few things for you? C'mon, I'll show you in a few moments."
As they walked along, Mr. Anderson spoke up, "You always struck me as a unique student Manny, someone with a good head on his shoulders, combined with an understanding of how the world really works. I'm glad you're in the know."
Manny just stayed quiet until Mr. Anderson led him to the Phys. Ed. offices, where he introduced him to Melissa, who was just starting out at St. Thomas this year, assisting the teachers with gym classes, along with handling some administrative duties in the office.
Melissa was skinny and short, when she stood up to greet them her head was at about chest-level to the two males. She wore thin-rimmed glasses, and her dark hair seemed long, but was currently tied up behind her head so it didn't fall below her neck. She was dressed practically, in dark slacks and a golf shirt with the school logo, with several top buttons undone, and worn tight enough to the skin that Manny thought he could make out several details of her sports bra underneath.
Mr. Anderson introduced him, "This is Manny."
She extended her hand, and there was a mischievous glitter in her eye, "Charmed. I sure wish nice-looking boys like you would come by more often. Give me some reprieve from old geezers like Mr. Anderson here." She winked at both of them as she turned away.
She led them to a side-office that didn't seem to contain much except for a few chairs and a computer, and then closed and locked the door once they had all entered.
"The first order of business," Mr. Anderson said, "is your salary. Mrs. Cole was able to allocate a hundred thousand dollars a year, to put you on the payroll. We thought we'd set it up on the front like a freelance consulting job, might be easier to explain to people, since you won't actually be doing anything?"
"A hundred thousand?" Manny hoped he was surprised enough so that his shock sounded like grudging acceptance. "On the payroll?"
Mr. Anderson smiled, "For being so nice as to not say anything, of course.
"We've got your bank account info from various payments made by and received by the school, over your time here, so that's all done, right?
"Secondly, we all think it's high time you got a girlfriend. Melissa, can you fire that program up?
"Now here's the deal," Mr. Anderson explained to Manny, "We'll give you one girl. Every single one we'll display to you here has been in this school from the start, undergoing slow training. So we think we can augment that with a short intense programming session, and she'll be fine!"
Manny looked over to Melissa. She didn't seem to pay any attention, just focusing on the computer. She hopped up. "Done! Alright Manny, all you gotta do is scroll through the records and find a girl you like and let us know, k?"
"Uh, k."
Looking through the list, Manny understood. Here was a list of a lot of the girls in his grade, graduating this year. A lot of fine ones too. But this database was much more detailed than the one he had at home. Measurements, menstrual cycles, full-color pictures, etc.
Hmmm
, Manny thought,
Cath is in this. My sister Betty too?!? I guess there's some mistake, or they just didn't customize the database for my viewing.
Manny heard something, and looked over. Mr. Anderson was sitting in an office chair, and in front of him petite Melissa knelt down, unbuckling his pants.
As she drew his half-hard cock into her mouth, Mr. Anderson looked over with a sheepish grin, "Oh yeah, one more thing to tell you." He took a piece of folded-over paper out of his shirt pocket and handed it to Manny.