Corbin: The College Years, part 11.5
By Corbin, corbin@poetic.com
How life
tests the endurance, patience, and sometimes faith of one young woman.
Pre-Story Introduction/Ranting/Venting/Rambling…
I wasn’t going
to rant today, but I do want to offer some advice…
When one is
working out at the gym, try to wear something comfortable…it’s not a fashion
show, yet I see guys/girls wearing expensive watches, rings and necklaces…what
the freaking hell?!
And girls,
let’s make this clear, you are fooling NO ONE!
80% of you
woman at my gym are there to strut around in short-shorts and lounge around on
equipment. I see you walk in…not a drop of sweat on your face…and leave the gym
never having broken a sweat. And I am not a trainer for hire, do not come up to
me asking for advice. I just want to get in…workout….then get the hell out!
I will not
name names (not that any of them are reading this), but I am embarrassed to
stand next to friends that come in wearing red and pink shorts with the words
“Soccer” “Sporty” “Volleyball” “Sexy” or god knows what printed across their
ass. I do my best to mock them…but they just don’t get it. GRRRRRR!!!
And
guys…guys…guys….PLEASE!!….what is with the whole goatee craze still going on?
And wearing the baseball cap on backwards…PUUHHHHHLLEEEEAAASSSEEE!!!!! Wipe that dirt/peach-fuzz off your chin and
take the cap off.
Also,
if you have time to read a book or watch the TV while working out…you are NOT
REALLY working out…more people in the fantasy world of exercise.
Anyway,
things get pretty intense in this part as I decided to delve into a subject
that still brings back some interesting emotions for me. Simply read on…
Part
11.5
Corbin watched the drops of sweat cling to her strands
of hair and then after a few seconds break free and hit the tile floor of the
women’s locker room. She smiled and shook her head, watching several more drops
of sweat splatter on the ground, although she wanted to change she was
exhausted from practice and it felt wonderful. Physically pushing herself to
new limits seemed the best way to tap into that feeling of being alive.
But the hushed voices of several women broke her
day dreaming and she sat upright with a quick jolt, quickly forgetting about her
pain and bruising. Her heart began to pound without mercy, ‘Oh fuck, this is
it’ Corbin watched one of her team mates close the door and lock it, the sound
of another latching door came from behind and caused her to take a quick glance
over her shoulder. The only other exit out of the women’s locker room was
effectively sealed off, several members of the team milled about with
mischievous smiles on their faces, and it was Katie the Team Captain that had
the most amused look on her face.
Corbin’s eyes darted around the room and found
Nikki in the very back of the throng of girl’s, she had a sympathetic look on
her face, but she knew no help was to be found there, ‘Fuck, it was just last
night that Nikki had warned me about this. She had to have known it would be
tonight’ Corbin blinked and slowly stood up.
“Are you a natural blonde Corbin?” Katie stepped
forward and a burst of muffled giggles went up from the girls in front and
behind her. It sent a chill up Corbin’s spine.
“What? You know I am…why?” Corbin replied with a
faint, but nervous smile. Which was true, Corbin had taken showers with the
girls before and they knew she was blonde, above and below deck.
From behind her back, Katie pulled her left hand
and set a box of on the end of bench. It only took a second to realize the
contents, it was hair coloring and then she withdrew her right hand and set a
bic razor down on the bench next to the box of hair color.
Before she could even speak, Katie sneered, “You
get a choice, you can either get a dye job up top and down below, OR get
shaved, and I’m not talking about shaving your head” again some muffled giggles
went up.
“What?” Corbin took a step back but ran into the
lockers and thus out of maneuvering room. Six girls stood, arms folded, to her
right while about seven closed in from her left.
“Now, we can do this the easy way, or the hard
way, what will it be? And I don’t mind telling you, we are anticipating doing
it the hard way…but we all like that, makes the whole experience that much more
exciting”
Corbin’s heart thundered in her chest, she
couldn’t believe what she was seeing and hearing and what was about to happen.
“Come’on guys, what are you talking about?”
Corbin nervously rung her hands together. Katie just watched without mercy, in
fact, there was not a merciful eye in the entire group. They all had a bone to
pick with Corbin and her standoffish personality; she was not a team player…but
a loner…although she contributed to the game and helped them
win…psychologically and emotionally she was distant.
Katie herself was semi attractive, with shoulder
length dark brown hair that was naturally curly, more so in the warm, humid
days. She was naturally olive skin complexion and stood about 5’ 9”. She was
very athletic and had a small chest, but she was a girl that demanded respect;
she was the senior person on the team, smart and fair. But now, all Corbin
could think was about how every bit of compassion and caring had left those
eyes.
“What do you think we are going to do with that
razor?” Katie said.
“I don’t know” Corbin clenched and unclenched her
left fist.
“Yes you do, say it” Katie taunted. It would be a
lie to say that Katie was a little nervous. Corbin was a tall girl at 5’ 10”
and strong, stronger then any other girl she had met, based on what Corbin was
lifting in the gym and the infrequent collision on the playing field, which
always left Katie somewhat shaken.
“Shave my legs?” Corbin nervously replied her
voice cracked with tension. Katie and the rest of the team laughed for the
briefest of seconds, “No my dear, like I said, you get a choice; Pink pussy
hair or no pussy hair…you’ve got five seconds to decide”
“What?…what?...five?...You must be kidding!”
Corbin babbled.
“Times up!” Katie smiled, “I’ve decided you’re
going to get a shave!” and a cheer of whistles and claps went up shaking Corbin
to her very core.
‘Oh my god, they are serious!’ It dawned on
Corbin they were going to strip her and shave her and dye the hair on her head…
“GET HER!” Katie yelled and lunged. Now, sometimes
things move fast and sometimes things move slow, depending on where you stand.
But in those one to two seconds that elapsed after Katie’s charge Corbin
actually had time to reflect on something Nikki told her; ‘Do not resist…that
it would only make things go worse…much worse…that the girl’s in the past who
resisted only ended up being further humiliated’.
‘I just wish I wasn’t so winded’ Corbin thought,
because while she respected Nikki’s opinion, she had decided that there was no
fucking way she was going down without a fight!
Katie charged first; it happened so fast she
didn’t even realize what was going on until she was skidding face-first towards
the tile floor, quickly she outstretched her hands and broke the fall as her
arms and legs splattered in all directions…she hit the deck with a loud ‘OUFF’.
The last thing she remembered was Corbin
deflecting her tackle and throwing her to the ground like some fucking rag
doll. Her fall hindered several girls, but she was quickly back on her feet.
“Get that bitch!” Katie sprang to her feet and
spun around. ‘What a mess!’ Katie looked on in bewilderment, in just a few
chaotic seconds Corbin was already semi-sitting on one girl and had two more
snared in separate head locks under her left and right arms respectively. The
rest of the girls were prying at Corbin’s arms and neck trying to dislodge her
from the three trapped girls, who were screaming for help. The muscles lining
Corbin’s arms flexed and Katie knew that Corbin was probably in panic mode, not
realizing she was probably hurting them.
Nikki had taken a backseat to the whole affair,
and what a spectacle it was…
“Watch it, that’s my fucking leg!”
“Who’s biting me?”
“She’s choking me! GET HER OFF!”
“AHHH! That’s my breast…watch it!”
Nikki had never seen such a commotion, it took
two girls prying on each of Corbin’s forearm’s to free the two girls trapped in
each headlock. With the aid of sweat, Corbin wrenched her right arm free and
stood up, trying to lurch her body up and over the bench in front of her. She
had two girls on her left arm pulling and another one had just attached herself
around her waist.
“What the fuck, take her down!” Katie yelled.
“What the fuck do you think we’re trying to do!”
A girl yelled back. Three girls seemed out of commission already, having taken
a fierce pummeling, and rolled on the floor nursing their wounds. But Katie
knew it was only a matter of time and tried to organize the remaining team
members into an all out charge before Corbin could break away. Standard
procedure was for last years hazing victims to be the ones to subdue the victim
this year, but so far Corbin had waded thru them easily.
“FUCK!” A girl yelled as her clawing fingers
couldn’t hold and she watched Corbin break loose and jump the dividing bench.
“You fucking bitch, I’m going to kill you” yelled
Mora, the hot-blooded Latino of the team, as she stood nursing an elbow she
just took to the side of the head from the escaping blonde.
“Sorry about that” The always apologetic Corbin
said to Mora, as her hazel eyes darted defensively around the room.
“Your going to be so sorry bitch” Mora snapped,
spit flew off her ragging lips her head ringing from the elbow strike.
With a loud metal clatter, Corbin voluntarily
slammed her back into the opposing row of lockers to take a breather. She was
free, but only for a second, her vision was partially obstructed by loose
strands of blonde hair, but she saw Katie to her left suddenly leap up and
stand on the bench several feet away with a smile on her face. Mora was
circling in closer, she had this crazed look in her eyes that worried Corbin,
Mora was hot-tempered and Corbin always suspected that the Latin girl never
liked her.
“Not bad Corbin, not bad at all, but you do
realize you ARE going down” Katie taunted. Corbin took a deep breath and knew
that there was probably no way out, she was doomed, with almost ten girls
closing in on her now; her escape was probably just luck as they did not
anticipate her to struggle so hard. But now, many of them were smarting bruises
and even a bloody nose on one downed team member. Corbin was now anticipating
the worst type of payback and scanned the room looking for help…from
anyone…especially from Nikki. Her body slumped against the lockers and brought
her left hand up to brush aside her hair, ‘I’m so fucked’ she thought and came
close to loosing it as her left hand
trembled with anxiety. ‘Loosing it’ in the sense that she thought she might
break down and cry uncontrollably…but another part of her wanted to take down
as many girls as possible, maybe that’s what scared Corbin…the thought she
might really hurt someone…want to hurt someone?…’Fuck them’ Corbin
thought…’Fuck these bitches, I may go down, but the first one or two that get
within arms length is going to be sorry’ and Corbin steeled her mind and body
for the inevitable.
*WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* the fist hammered three
times on the locked door to the room, “Someone’s coming, I think it’s the
coach!!” Betty’s voice cried from outside; Betty being the designated lookout.
“What the fuck?” Katie looked around the room.
The lookout was a formality, as they had done everything in their power to
ensure privacy this evening. Suddenly Katie bolted down the bench from Corbin’s
left to the right and reached down scooping up the razor and hair dye product.
Based on her queue the other girl’s started to collect themselves in a somewhat
confusing, disorganized manner. Corbin’s eyes darted around the room, still
unsure of what was happening when her heart leapt out of her chest as the door
to her left opened and Mrs. Kinser stepped in, looking none to happy.
“What’s the emergency that I had to come back
down here…” But the Coach’s words evaporated into silence as she took in
everything around her.
Obviously, she had just stumbled onto
something…and her first instinct told her what was taking place. She was no
fool, she was aware of these ritualistic hazings that went on all the time,
just as long as she was no where near the gym or any place that is was going on
at, she had ‘in so many words’ told every Team Captain to do what they needed
to, but never to inform her of any part of it. It was her ‘supposed’
responsibility to stomp out this activity and report such misconduct to the
University Officials. ‘But that is a joke of a formality’ she thought.
“I’m sorry Mrs. Kinser, someone called you down
here?” Katie stepped around the corner and asked innocently, but the question
had horrible consequences if some girl had indeed ratted them out.
The coach took in the scene one more time and her
eyes focused on Corbin briefly, the girl was standing awkwardly, her back
against the lockers, looking more exhausted then usual. “Must be my mistake”
The coach said abruptly and spun around, several girls parted as she walked to
the door, flung it open and walked out.
The silence was terrifying as not a person moved
in the entire room, until Katie performed a total 180 degree turn ending up
looking at Corbin, “Who ever had her come down her…” She didn’t have to finish the
threat, everyone already knew the gravity of being a whistle-blower.
“WHO ELSE BUT HER!” Mora pointed and yelled at
Corbin, but Nikki wasn’t going to let this go past a hazing and have Corbin
suffer some misguided revenge.
“Bullshit” Nikki snapped and stepped forward, “If
she knew tonight was the night, then why would she even show up, she could have
avoided this whole mess if she had just left practice and went straight to her
room”
Katie nodded her head, it made sense. Corbin
seemed totally taken by surprise and if she knew when it was going to take
place, why stick around?
Corbin surveyed the room and found a few admiring
eyes, given the massive fight she put up, while a few of the more bruised girls
glared hard at her, but none more so then Mora, the Latin girl.
“What about her?” Mora raised her right hand and
unwaveringly pointed at Corbin, as if she was an accused culprit, waiting for
execution.
“Maybe some other time” Katie sighed.
“MAYBE?” Becky called out from in the back, in
shock that Corbin might get off all together, Mora cast her own surprised glare
from Corbin to Katie in disbelief and then back to Corbin.
“Yeah, I said maybe!” Katie snapped, “We have two
big games coming up, and we need to focus on those, so this might just have to wait”
“And as for you…” Katie’s voice suddenly lowered
to a more normal speaking tone and slowly walked over to where Corbin stood.
The Captain watched the blonde straighten up nervously until her back was flush
against the lockers and unable to retreat any further. The attractive,
olive-skinned girl raised her right hand up and brought the blade of the razor
even with Corbin’s chin. Watching with amusement at the way the blonde’s hazel
eyes focused on the instrument that was to be employed against her and noticed
the girl even shudder when Katie pressed it gently against the girl’s chin.
“…until we decide what to do with you ‘newbie’, you’re on laundry duty, got
it?” and she tauntingly tapped the razor against Corbin’s chin. It was
interesting the way the atmosphere in the gym had become a bit somber and
serious. The most startling revelation was how Corbin detected an immediate
division amongst the team members, the junior and senior girls were much more
admiring and forgiving of Corbin, a few going so far as to pat her on the back
as they would walk by her. She smiled half-heartedly in response, although
still she was shaking all over and slightly nauseous to her stomach. But it was
the sophomore and freshmen girls that were determined to make sure she got her
‘comings-up’.
“You’ve still got something coming, you snot
nosed cunt!” Crissy, another blonde whispered in Corbin’s ear as she walked by
something that surprised Corbin to hear as she had always gotten along with
Crissy, ‘Why the sudden hostility?’ But none so threatening as Mora, the feisty
Latin girl walked right up to the blonde and shoved her dirty clothes and
panties into Corbin’s gym bag.
“I want you to wash mine personally bitch, and
don’t fuck’em up” Mora sneered and slowly reached out, taking a single dangling
piece of blonde hair yanking it hard, hard and quick enough to pull it out at
the root. Corbin grimaced a little at the hair pull, eliciting a joyful sneer
from Mora as she tossed the strand of hair into the air which seemed to float for
a second before slowly drifting down to the floor. Mora simply stepped around
Corbin, but not without a firm shoulder bump as she walked past. Corbin
staggered her feet to keep her balance and just looked down at the ground in
frustration.
“You ready?” The voice suddenly appeared from
behind.
Corbin jerked and turned around, Nikki was
standing with gym bag in hand. Corbin nodded ‘yes’, there was no way she was
going to take a shower here tonight, she’d take one back at her dorm room.
“Give me a sec” and Corbin began to go around cleaning up the locker room and
collecting all of the girl’s dirty uniforms. A few girls took the opportunity
to fling them maliciously at Corbin’s head when she got close enough, but
Corbin didn’t say a word and swallowed her pride as she collected everything.
Nikki sat watching sympathetically but didn’t help while there were still team
members around, she knew the unspoken rules…Corbin needed to carry this out
herself.
During the walk out from the lockers, Nikki kept the
pep-talk to a minimum as Corbin seemed way to stressed by the whole event to
probably even listen.
“Where they serious about the shaving?” Corbin
suddenly asked, pausing at the entrance to her dorm room.
“I don’t think so, maybe just to scare you” Nikki
shrugged casually, trying to remain calm hopefully some of that calmness would
be picked up by Corbin.
“Well it worked” Corbin sighed and rolled her
eyes in. “Fucking laundry duty? Damn, that sucks, that really sucks!” Corbin
nervously laughed.
“Yeah” Nikki chuckled a little, “Nothing worse
then having to wash a bunch of dirty, smelly soccer uniforms. But don’t worry
about it, just collect all their stuff and I’ll help you out” Nikki smiled
reassuringly. But Nikki’s smile suddenly faded, she watched, unexpectedly as
tears began to stream down Corbin’s cheeks.
“Damn it” Corbin sighed and her left hand came up
to quickly brush away the tears, embarrassed she was letting the experience
overwhelm her. Quickly Nikki stepped up and hugged her friend, embracing her
for a few moments, not even saying a word.
“Thanks Nik” Corbin sighed, “I don’t know what I
would do without you these past few weeks. Nikki had not anticipated that
comment, and it caught her a bit off guard…and speechless. She felt Corbin return the hug with greater
effort and for the very first time she and Corbin questioned if anything
between them would be the same, even something so simple as a hug now felt like
something more.
Nikki’s arms relaxed and she pulled away, “Thank
you Corbin, for being my friend too”
Nervously Corbin brushed her hair up over her
ears and swiped her key card over the Card Reader to unlock the door, “Better
take a shower”
“Talk to you tomorrow” Nikki smiled and turned
away.
“Tomorrow” Corbin mumbled and went inside.
~~~~~
Even with that pep talk, Corbin was fed up and
pissed off for letting herself get dragged down recently and began lifting like
a crazy woman. Arms, chest, shoulders, legs, and any and every muscle she could
identify on a chart, she put it to work. She worked out about 2 hours a day,
four or five days out of the week when time permitted. The more the girls on
the Soccer team hazed/taunted/pushed Corbin the harder she trained and lifted,
but she could tell…it was only a matter of time before a blow-up occurred with
one or several of the girls on the team.
It was during this time of becoming an ‘athletic
terror’ (I don’t think I really was, but I just like that phrase:) that she would
finally met Dale face to face; he had just transferred and played football. In
reality it was Dale that had frantically sought Corbin out after seeing her
that night at the bar, he had been unable to get her off his mind although he
had the pick of women at the school.
“Hi” Corbin heard the voice from above as she sat
on the workout bench, staring idly at the floor in between reps.
‘Fuck’ Corbin mumbled, prepared yet again to tell
some guy to get lost, but her mouth and brain shut down when she looked up and
saw Dale looking down at her with a sincere smile.
“I’m Dale” and he stuck his right, Corbin gave a
reluctant smile and reached out to take his hand.
‘Well you dummy’ Corbin thought to herself, at
least make an effort to get to know him. It was strange as she really DID want
to get to know him…’this is so corny’ she thought detecting a butterfly feeling
in her stomach.
“Look, I just wanted to say hi, I’ve seen you
around school and…maybe we’ll run into each other again soon?” He decided not
to be too forward, to just introduce himself and go on his way. ‘Go slow’
something inside his brain kept repeating.
“Have you already worked out?” Corbin blurted out
and suddenly was shocked to hear the words coming from her mouth, in fact she
was almost up and off the bench but sat back down, not wanting to appear to
eager.
Dale smiled and took her question to be an
invitation, something he had hoped for but not expected. Dale and Corbin began
to lift every once in awhile, but like every guy, his concentration sucked. He
would rather check out her ass, legs and tits although he tried valiantly not
to. Yet, he seemed relaxed around Corbin which was a nice change of pace
because so many guys acted inept around her and childish with their bantering
small talk and stupid one-liners. It’s not that Dale was naturally quiet, but
he would rather not say anything then make stupid small talk, something that
Corbin very much appreciated. When he did start to open up, Corbin found Dale
to be smart, funny and he was gorgeous to boot, something that quickly became
an issue as every single or semi-single girl suddenly began putting ‘The Vibe’
out there for him to pick up on. ‘I’m not playing that game’ Corbin told
herself, she had too much self respect to ever compete for a man, which seemed
to spurn Dale on a bit further in Corbin’s direction; the less she acted
interested, the more he chased her. Corbin had learned to play the dating game
and didn’t even realize she was involved with her first serious boyfriend at
College...ironically Corbin also wondered, ‘Perhaps I am the one that needs a
shot at redemption where socializing is concerned?’
(Now before everyone thinks I have a swelled
head, I do acknowledge there was allot of competition at this school, allot of
gorgeous girl’s that most likely put me to shame. I don’t know why he became so
interested in me? Well that’s not fair, I have allot to offer, so why shouldn’t
he be interested in me!)
Dale stood 6'3" and was in incredible shape,
a wide receiver he had to be agile and fast so ‘bulking up’ on muscles was not
in his plan…all though her had plenty of them.
“You mind if I walk you back?” He asked.
“Sure” Corbin smiled and stood to wipe down the
padding on the weight bench. As she turned he stared at her long toned legs and
a butt that hinted at incredible firmness from under her baggy workout shorts
as she bent over. Shaking his head, he stood and began collecting his
belongings his heart hammering in his chest, Dale couldn’t recall the last time
he was so nervous…and it felt good.
Corbin drew allot of attention as they walked
into the establishment; her long grey, form fitting slacks, with a black top
contrasted with her long blonde hair nicely. Dale was extremely pleased with
himself, walking into one of the local College restaurants with Corbin.
Although a date, if it could be called that, left Dale questioning where things
stood as Corbin had kept him at arms length the whole night and only gave him a
hug outside of her dorm room. He walked back to his own Dorm with a major hard
on, a million thoughts spinning off thru his head.
(I knew he had a boner because I could feel it
when he hugged me or it was something very big and scary down there).
Corbin was actually a nervous wreck on their
second date, she had held Dale's hand on their first date, but she knew he
would be closing in for a kiss on the second, something she had avoided the
first time out. He had judged her to be conservative based on her body
language, again, he walked Corbin to her dorm building, and he got the point
when she didn't invite him up once again, but he decided to make the bold move
and see if things would progress further; "Mind if I kiss you
goodnight?" He asked, Corbin blushed and smiled, "Sure".
He leaned in and kissed her, to Corbin it felt
very nice, a tingle ran up her back and his arms went around pulling her in a
little closer. She didn't even mind when he wanted to use his tongue (in fact I
wanted him too). They French kissed for several minutes on the steps and felt
herself leaning into him, wanting him to hold her…enjoying it…her body and mind
suddenly spiraling into separate directions. Slowly Corbin forced herself to
pull away, she didn’t want to, she wanted to keep kissing him, it was
nice…different from Nikki in almost everyway, but she wanted it just as
much…his mouth was forceful and probing…and her mouth opened up more, yet her
hands came up to his chest pushing a little. A shiver ran up Corbin’s spine and
her nipples were extremely hard now as she smiled while pulling away trying to
disengage from their kiss. He pursued her a little, his lips looking her hers,
even nibbling on her full lower lip for a brief second.
“Wow” Corbin sighed and leaned away, "Thanks,
I had a good time" Corbin smiled.
"Thank you, can I call you for another
date?" He asked excitedly.
"Why yes you may" Corbin said in a
mocking formal tone and they both laughed a little her head coming to rest on
his shoulder as he pulled her in close.
(Ahhhhh…thinking back on that night still brings
a smile to my lips, my wonderful Dale:)
~~~~~~~
Corbin was starting to feel good again, actually
she was starting to feel great. Her body was in the best shape of her life, she
had strong, good looking muscles and she was probably stronger then any girl on
campus, but still not so strong emotionally at times, evident when she was
walking with Nikki one day and saw Sharon across the way in front of her
Sorority house, having a huge social.
On a social note for Corbin, her dates with Dale
were going fine, but she was stressed about the growing, physical expectations
he was having and Corbin wished she had
~~~~~~~
“You want to come up?” Dale asked as they pulled
up in front of the apartment complex he just moved into with a roommate. Corbin knew she had to make a decision about
what to do and if she wanted things to go further, up till now it had been
about a month of hand holding and heavy kissing. Taking a deep breath she
looked over, “Okay” she said in an almost whispering voice. Nervously she ran
her hands over her skirt and they walked up the stairs to his second floor
apartment.
‘So odd’ Corbin thought, she felt so far away
from home and so on her own now, like a grown woman figuring her way thru life.
Her heart pounded in her chest as they went in, although she had been into the
sparsely male decorated apartment before, this time it took on a whole new
meaning as she knew his expectations about ‘being-together’ were building, but
unfortunately, Corbin couldn’t relax which was draining all of the thrill and
intimacy right out of her.
And another odd feeling flooded thru her as she
found herself wondering where
“Would you like a drink?” Dale asked.
“No, I’m fine” Corbin set her purse on the
counter and nervously looked around. “Where’s Steve?” she asked, making polite
chit chat.
“Good question, not sure” Dale responded, typical
of guys Corbin thought, they failed to keep track of one another. Corbin had
chosen to wear a pleated thigh length skirt this evening, even with the chilly
temperatures outside, but had a sweater on over her short long sleeve top.
Sitting down on the sofa she leaned into him as he wrapped his left arm about
her shoulder, it was warm and relaxing and for the first time that evening she
was able to allow some of her anxieties to wash away. So much so, that she felt
a slight nudge on her shoulder and blinked, her head bolting upright, “Huh?”
Corbin groggy voice called out.
“You fell asleep, do you want me to drive you
home or would you rather…stay here” He asked.
‘There it was’ Corbin noted and she tensed,
blinking her eyes, she had never slept in a bed with a man before, even
platonically. She was fearing the worse, but Corbin was so sleepy and actually
longed for some company tonight that she looked over at him to make ‘a deal’.
“I don’t mind sleeping over Dale, but no sex” She
flat out said it, maybe it didn’t come out the most diplomatic tone or way, but
Corbin wasn’t known for being articulate where people’s concerns were.
Dale leaned back and feigned a little shock, when
in all actuality Corbin also detected a trace of disappointment, “Corbin,
whatever you say, that…that’s fine with me” he hugged her and they stood up to
walk down the hall to his bedroom as he turned out the lights and TV.
“I need something to sleep in” Corbin looked
around and Dale quickly fetched her some pajama bottoms, a top and walked into
the bathroom, “Here is an extra tooth brush, and it’s never been used!” he said
with a smile, Corbin chuckled and nodded, “That’s good to know”. She shut the
door and slid off her skirt and top, putting the flannel pajama top and pants
on, it was really sort of cool sleeping over with her boyfriend and felt a
sense of pride that she could call him that…’No no no’ Corbin reminded herself,
‘He is the lucky one’ she recited.
Dale was already in bed, and the first thing that
Corbin noticed was he wasn’t wearing a top, she hoped he had boxers on under
the covers. Nervously she pulled her hair back as she walked around the bed,
“Pretty sexy, huh?” Corbin smiled nervously as she tugged on the long pajama
bottoms with her fingers.
“With you in them, they’re sexy now” Dale smiled
and pulled the sheets back, Corbin crawled in and snuggled up close to him.
“I’m glad I put clean sheets on today” He
laughed.
“Yeah, me too” Corbin smiled, she felt his right
hand roam over her stomach and discreetly slip under the button down top,
coming to rest on her bare stomach, his fingers tracing the outline of her abs.
It felt good as she enjoyed the sensation of his touch.
“Can I see?” He asked.
“Oh, yeah…sure” She nervously smiled and he
pulled back the sheets, he unbuttoned the bottom two buttons of her shirt to
reveal her amazing abs. Leaning over he kissed her stomach several times
sending small flutters up thru her tummy,
“God I love this body” He sighed and a thrill
went up thru Corbin’s body as he detected a heavy breath from her chest.
‘Okay that’s enough’ she thought, wanting to make
sure things didn’t go too far, and then she actually said it aloud and
playfully pushed his head aside while covering up her tummy. He laughed a
little rolled back over, sort of going with the whole thing, his male drive
wanted to keep touching and fondling her, but his other senses told him to pull
back; He sensed that when Corbin said ‘Enough’ she meant it.
For Corbin, it was just an exhilarating rush to
sleep over at some guy’s house ‘My Boyfriend’s place’ as Corbin thought of it
now. But it was just the idea of Dale courting her that made her feel like a
pampered girl, it was invigorating. ‘So why am I laying here, falling asleep,
wondering what is going on with
~~~~~~
The same confusing, wondering thoughts often
circulated thru
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“Well, I’m impressed” Nikki sighed.
“About?” Corbin smiled and looked over at her
friend.
“You and Dale” Nikki replied.
“What can I say…” Corbin said as if it was no big
deal, trying to be a little vain but ended up laughing and blushing over the
whole affair.
“Are you two….” Nikki smiled mischievously.
“Married?” Corbin smirked with a sarcastic tone.
“I’m jealous” Nikki sighed and walked over,
gently touching Corbin on the shoulder, massaging her muscles.
“You serious?” Corbin blushed again and looked
down at the ground, quickly glancing up at Nikki’s eyes.
“A little” She shrugged, “Not sure why…I have a
boyfriend too, isn’t that odd” Nikki said lost in thought as her left hand
lightly touched Corbin’s right arm and shoulder.
Feeling bold, Corbin wrapped her arms around
Nikki, “Come here” and pulled her dark haired friend into her embrace. Nikki
smiled broadly as she enjoyed feeling Corbin take the initiative. Corbin felt
Nikki almost purr as she rested her head on Corbin’s shoulder. There was an
innocent joy in these moments Corbin thought, she had somehow set aside her
anxiety over being physical with another woman…’It feels good, safe, relaxing’
Corbin thought with a smile. Their embrace was soon replaced with a deep kiss,
the most intense yet as they slathered their tongues deeply into one another’s
mouths, holding and kissing one another when Nikki grabbed Corbin’s butt with
both hands pulling her tight.
“Sometimes I want you all to myself” Nikki said
into Corbin’s open mouth.
“You do?” Corbin sighed.
“I do” She whispered, but knew she would have to
settle on this.
~~~~~~
Dating Dale had its own new experiences that
Corbin had never anticipated for. The most stressful being a trip over to
Dale’s apartment after Soccer practice one day. She had shown up at a
pre-arranged time, although Dale’s car was nowhere in the parking lot, but she
went up to the apartment anyway. Steve was there and answered the door inviting
Corbin in, now Corbin didn’t know Steve all that well, but he seemed like a
decent enough guy. Steve stood about 5’10” with unkept red hair, but otherwise
a fairly tidy person as was Dale, ‘Thank god’ Corbin thought she was such a
stickler for neatness.
“You just get off from practice?” Steve asked,
eyeing her soccer uniform, actually inspecting her legs most of all.
“Yep” Corbin said as she sat down at the Kitchen
table, while Steve had gone back into the living room to watch TV but slowly
turned his attention back to the beautiful blonde in his kitchen.
“Dale running late?” Corbin asked as she looked
down at her cell phone to see if there were any messages.
“Just a little, he should be home any second”
Steve looked over again and then cut off the TV. “You can fix yourself
something to eat or drink if you like, just help yourself” Steve called out
again, now looking directly over at her.
“Thanks” Corbin replied and picked at a piece of
tattered string coming off her shorts. Steve meanwhile had tried to figure her
out, but Corbin’s typical one-word answers aggravated him to no end, it was
like trying to engage a brick wall with conversation. Corbin looked up from
picking at her dirty shorts and saw Steve walking towards the kitchen table, it
caught her a little off guard but didn’t give her any grave concerns. She
really didn’t have any bad vibes from being around Steve, but this was the
first time she had been alone with him.
“You weight lift?” Steve pulled out a chair to
her left and sat down.
‘Oh great…’ Corbin thought, ‘…is he going to
grill me now?’
“Some” Corbin answered and was trying to change
mental gears into her ‘Social Mode’ for some conversation with Steve, if that
is what he was expecting.
“How much can you lift and such?” He leaned
forward, folding his arms casually in front of him.
“Oh, I don’t really keep track of that sort of
stuff, I just try and stay in shape” She smiled and tried to brush off the
pursuit of any more question about that topic of conversation. Steve watched
her every movement, even under the smudges of sweat and dirt, she was radiantly
beautiful, her strong jaw line…down thru her neck, shoulders and arms. He
concluded that he had, probably, the hottest girl in school right in front of
him and wanted take advantage of every minute with her.
“Oh come on, you don’t keep track?” He scoffed at
the thought, “As dedicated as you are, it’s hard for me to believe that you
don’t have some idea” he probed.
Corbin shifted in the seat a little and let out a
small, indistinguishable sigh, “Not really, I keep track of everything up here”
and pointed to her forehead with a smile.
“So, how serious are you with Dale?” Steve
suddenly shifted questions catching Corbin off guard a bit.
“What?” Corbin’s mouth opened with puzzlement,
she understood the question, but was a little surprised he was being so
forward.
“You know what I mean, I notice you’ve been
coming over allot more, so I figure that you two must be getting pretty
serious” He smiled, and knew he had scored a direct hit by the way Corbin
stuttered and blushed a little.
“Well, were dating, but serious, I mean…if your
asking are we committed to dating one another, I assume yes, we haven’t really
discussed it in length” It dawned on Corbin that it was a good point, she had
never demanded nor asked that they date exclusively, she just ‘assumed’ they
were at this point.
“So maybe, I could take that as you being unsure
at this point? So there might be opportunity for something else?” He raised his
eyebrows hopefully and totally shocked Corbin as his right hand reached out, his
palm coming to rest on her left knee that was folded over her right leg.
(I am still
shocked by how I reacted to Steve’s forward behavior, maybe embarrassed when I
look back on, and I know it freaked Steve out…as you will see…)