Chapter 7

NATALIE WOKE UP Saturday morning in the arms of her lover. Lover! She was only sixteen years old and she had a lover! It was still unbelievable. How had she gone through ten years of school with this boy and not even noticed him? Yes, he was eight inches shorter than she was, but he wasn’t bad looking. In fact, when she got him out of his clothes, he was incredibly ripped. And hung. And his face, when not distorted by the thick glasses, was also nice.

Most of all, though, was how he made her feel like she was the most important person in the world. The only person in the world. He was kind and gentle to her—and to the other girls—yet when he spoke with authority, everyone got in line to do what he said. If he’d wanted that cheerleader, Susan, she would have stripped and spread her legs for him at his word.

But Dennis never abused the power he held over people when he was leading them. He constantly checked on those who were struggling in the conditioning exercises, encouraging them to do their best. Even the boys on the track team had come around after he’d shown he could back up his talk with performance.

He woke up and realized she was staring at him. He squinted and she moved closer to him so he could see her more clearly. She knew that without his glasses, his best focal distance was about five inches.

“Good morning,” he whispered.

“Yeah. It’s such a good morning.” They shared a kiss that wasn’t deep and passionate, but was long and heart-felt. “Can you ... make love to me again?” She could feel him stirring against her. He closed the distance and kissed her again. They made love to each other with the quiet determination to please their partner. It wasn’t that Natalie was dripping with lube. She was slippery enough to welcome his condom-encased cock into her pussy, but she wasn’t there to get an orgasm. She was there to have the wonderful sense of connection between the two of them. She wanted to share the same space with his body. She pulled him on top of her and he thrust deep. Her moan was of contentment. Her lover was where he should be.

“I get to pick you up tonight,” Diane said when she had Dennis on the phone. “We’ll plan on leaving as soon as you’ve read to Peg, but Judith and I might show up earlier, just to hang out.”

“Um ... Do we have a date tonight?” he asked.

“Yes, silly! Well, sort of. I told everyone I’d pick you up for the party,” Diane said.

“Party?”

“You remember. Debbie announced it on the bus coming back from Treynor. It’s nothing big or formal. You don’t have to come up with a costume for this one.”

“Oh. I must have missed the information on that. I guess it’s okay. I’ll call if there are any problems.” Dennis disconnected and asked his Mom about the party.

“If you’re sure you want to, it’s okay,” she said. “Number Five is so considerate to think of Peg’s story time before you leave. No drinking, drugs, or sleeping around. And call me if you need an emergency ride home.”

“Thanks, Mom.”

“What’s he doing here?” Tori whispered to Debbie when Dennis, Judith, and Diane came into the party. “I thought it was just the team and no dates.”

“Um ... Not that I planned it this way, but you’d be hard pressed to try to convince the basketball babes that he isn’t part of the team. In fact, I think I’d be hard to convince. I just never thought about it. Remember what they said about him being like one of the girls? We could probably all parade around naked and it wouldn’t faze him,” Debbie said. “I’ve been thinking of trying that.”

“It would faze him,” a voice whispered behind them. The two girls turned to see Natalie. “He’s a lesbian,” Natalie continued.

“I wasn’t meaning to diss him,” Tori said. “It just shocked me. Did you girls really parade around naked in front of him?”

“Still do. Every chance we get,” Nat said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if Diane and Judith were naked with him before they came to the party and I’m pretty sure they will be afterward.” The two girls had made an attempt to get Dennis into his bedroom as soon as Peg went to bed, but he hustled them out the door instead.

“Yeah but ... I thought you were like his girlfriend,” Debbie said.

“Um ... yeah. I uh ... Dennis is my lover.”

“You went all the way?”

“All the way and then some,” Natalie sighed, smiling. “Anyway, I’m not his only girlfriend, though. The basketball babes, as you so kindly called us, are all his girlfriends and we made a pact to share him. I’m just the only one that’s gone quite that far. Though we’ve all fooled around. Some more than others.”

“And you’ve all been naked?” Debbie asked. “Something happened this year that suddenly made him ... appear. Ten years in the same class and I never noticed him before. Now ... I actually fantasized about him Thursday night.”

“You wouldn’t believe what was really going on that night,” Natalie said. She looked over at Dennis, happily greeting other team members and accepting a Coke from Judith. She noticed Corrine Klinefelter working her way close to Dennis. He was a magnet for the new ‘athlete.’

“What happened?” Tori asked.

“If you’re going to tell what happened after he left us, you have to start by telling what happened with us,” Amy said, stepping up next to Natalie. Brenda was holding her hand.

“Us? As in you and ... Brenda?” Debbie asked. “Wow!”

“Yeah. We took Dennis home after the meet Thursday afternoon. Only it was to Brenda’s home, not his. The three of us got pretty loud,” Amy said.

“Until we all passed out,” Brenda giggled. “God, he’s good.”

“Wait. I thought Natalie was his lover,” Tori said. “I’m confused.”

“Just because I’m a virgin doesn’t mean I can’t have an orgasm,” Amy snorted.

“Oh, wow.”

“When he woke up, he had to rush home so he could read bedtime stories to his sister,” Brenda said. “You will never find a brother more devoted to caring for his sister than Dennis. But that’s where Natalie’s story starts.”

The girls turned to Natalie again as another couple of team members joined their little group.

“Leanne was spending the night with me and we were just getting ... um ... changed for bed when my phone rang. Dennis just barked at me and said he needed help in front of his house right now. We were dressed and out the door in thirty seconds. Not only Leanne and me, but Robbie and Dannie, too.”

“He just barked at you and you ran to do what he wanted? Isn’t that a little ... I don’t know ... demeaning?” Laura Percy asked.

“How long did it take you to fall in line the first day of practice when Dennis came out to lead us in conditioning?” Brenda asked. “Dennis would never talk harshly to any of us without a damned good reason. You can bet if he’d said that to me, there would have been a race to his house.”

“I guess he does have kind of a commanding presence when he’s in charge,” Laura admitted. “So, what happened?”

“Dennis was saving a girl’s life,” Natalie said succinctly.

“Who?”

“Carol Reston, from the senior class. When we got there, he was carrying her up to his door. We scrambled and helped. We got her wrapped in blankets while Daniella held the phone and the 9-1-1 operator gave him instructions to make sure she was breathing and there were no blockages. Then a State Trooper arrived and Dennis helped him get Carol down on the floor for a hard surface and the trooper administered CPR. She started breathing again and is still in the hospital,” Natalie concluded.

“I thought you weren’t supposed to move someone who was unconscious,” Becky said.

“She’d have frozen to death lying naked in the middle of the street. It was only getting her in the house and getting blankets on her that saved her life,” Natalie said.

“Naked? What the hell?”

“Dennis was a couple of blocks away when he saw a car stop and shove Carol out on the street, then speed away. Dennis wasn’t close enough to see any details, but started running toward her. Everybody thinks it was her boyfriend, Tom Perkins.”

“The sheriff’s son?” Tori asked. “Um ... Did you guys hear? The sheriff was found in his garage yesterday. Dead.”

“Man! Are we some kind of crime hub?” Debbie asked. “First the big drug raid and now this? What else happened?”

“Well, the ambulance and a fire truck arrived and they got Carol into a thermal blanket and off to the hospital. Then the trooper had to get statements from us regarding what we saw and did. Mr. Vining stepped in as our attorney, though there wasn’t much I could say but just be there to support Dennis. The trooper finally left and we went to bed.”

“Huh? You went to bed with Dennis? In his house?” Becky exclaimed.

“Not just me. All four of us girls slept over with him. And it was ... really good,” Natalie said.

“What’s he got? A ten-inch dick?” Becky asked.

“Yeah,” Natalie, Amy, and Brenda all sighed together. Then they started giggling and the little clutch broke up. They noticed that all five of the team’s hurlers were on the couch. Dennis was behind them, working his way down the line massaging their shoulders.

“We should play ‘Truth or Dare’ since we’re all sitting around anyway,” Rita suggested. There was general agreement.

“There has to be a couple of rules,” Roberta said, reaching over to take Dennis’s hand. “First of all, it’s not fair to make Dennis the subject of everything just because he’s the only boy here. You’ll play if it’s fair, right, Dennis?” He nodded and squeezed her hand. “Second, if your dare includes another person, the other person has to consent. So, if you dare me to kiss my sister, my sister has to say okay if she’s willing. You can’t force someone to participate.”