Zane read the same sentence for the fifth time and, once again, didn’t comprehend a single word. His eyes were closing, his head was nodding, and his hand slipped, letting the pages flip wherever they liked. He hated doing reports. And he hated having to do them from actual books. What was wrong with Google? It’s the same information! He was a senior for Pete’s sake, he shouldn’t have to work this hard. But, here he was, sitting in the school library falling asleep in a book. At least it wasn’t calculus.

He leaned back in his chair to close his eyes for half a second and was shocked back to reality, who knows how much later, by someone pulling up the chair across from him and dropping their books on the table. It took a moment for him to focus.

“Hi, Joey.”

Joey beamed back at him.

“Hi. Mind if I sit?”

Joey had developed a bit of a crush on him. Okay, maybe more than just a bit. They had met during the summer and since then, he and Sara had been trying to fix her up with Sara’s little brother Nick. They obviously really liked each other but were both too shy to say it out loud. That was now his problem to solve since Sara was off at college. He would have been able to ignore the whole thing if Sara didn’t text him every day for updates, or with ideas, and suggestions on how to get them together. The only thing it had accomplished so far was to get him and Joey together. The whole thing had started to get complicated. Joey having a crush on him would not help that situation.

She hesitated a moment and then asked.

“Could you give me a ride home again today?”

Zane thought for a moment. How could he get out of this?

“Pleeeeeease,” she begged, sweetly.

Okay fine. How could he deny that sweet voice? Joey was a beautiful girl. Bright blue eyes. Long silky blond hair. Soft round cheeks. Perfect skin, absolutely perfect. And those lips, those were the best of all. He had kissed those lips. He had to. The first time he drove her home, he couldn’t help himself. Joey had never kissed a boy before, not really kissed a boy, so he had taken some time to teach her how to do it right. How could he not? She was perfect right from the start. So now, sitting here begging him to give her a ride home once again, he knew exactly what she wanted.

“Yeah, okay.” He said. “You know where to meet me.”

He had given her quite a few rides home since school started. And he wound up kissing her goodbye every time. And every time, those kisses got a little bit longer, and Joey got a little bit braver and more aggressive. They’d never had, or even considered, anything like a date. As far as Zane was concerned, she belonged to Nick. They’d never even spent any time alone together other than in his car, but they had done some serious kissing.

“How’s Nick?” he asked, hoping the boy had finally made his move. “Has he asked you out yet? Any dates? Has he made any moves on you yet?” Zane teased. He already knew the answer. Nick told him everything.

Joey turned a bright crimson, but a huge smile crossed her lips as she stood up, picked up her books, and gave him a very suggestive look.

“I’ll tell you later.” She teased right back.

He watched her walk away, that sweet little ass swaying perfectly from side to side, and thought, Nick had better lock that down as fast as he could or some senior was going to snatch that girl right up. There was no way she was going to be a virgin when the school year was over.

Another pile of books dropped on the table next to him. The chair was pulled back, and closer to his, and a soft warm body cozied up to his side.

“She’s really cute. You gonna bang her?”

He turned. That had been the thought forming in his mind, but it was battling with the thought of telling Nick that he better get his dick in motion, otherwise, he was going to lose his chance.

“Oh, hey,” he replied. “No, no banging, just a ride home.”

“Uh-huh. And maybe a tour of her bedroom?”

“No. No tour. I don’t even get out of the car. I just drop her off and on my way.”

“Oh, you’re no fun at all. The poor girl.”

This was Skylar, the newest cheerleader who had transferred from, well, he wasn’t sure where. But he did know, she was every bit as gorgeous as Joey, and Skylar was a senior.

“You wanna give me a ride home? I’ll give ya the tour ... and we don’t even have to get out of the car.”

She flashed him a grin that nearly melted his clothes off right there on the spot.

Zane didn’t know what to make of Skylar. When he first met her, she was quiet, shy, and demur, almost fading away into the background. She had been at the school for all of two days when he found her sitting with the other senior cheerleaders, and he was drawn to her instantly. Those eyes and that smile captured him, and he couldn’t look away. That’s when Morgan had come up behind him and covered his eyes, breaking the spell. He turned to greet her, and then she claimed him for the upcoming Sadie Hawkins dance, and that ended his first encounter with Skylar.

Two days later they had a more formal introduction. By then the senior girls had all warned her about Zane and his exploits. They didn’t come right out and say that they had slept all slept with him, at least once, but she figured that out quickly.

They told the whole story of the secret vote and how diabolical it was, but more importantly, how almost everyone had fallen for it. Bella also explained how Coach Rivers had strictly forbidden anyone on the squad from being seen with him.

Skylar remained very quiet and shy whenever he was around. Although she couldn’t help but smile back at him every time he looked at her, and that sparkle in her eyes absolutely dazzled him. The other girls did their very best to steer her in different directions, which seemed to work, as she had already dated a few other guys, although never the same one twice.

That was the way things went between Zane and Skylar. Right up until the day she ran into him at Starbucks. He had just stopped to pick up a drink when suddenly she came confidently up to him in line.

“Hi, Zane!” she said as she wrapped her arm in his.

Zane was surprised. He’d barely heard her speak before, let alone touch him.

“Oh, Hi.”

“Come sit with me.”

“Ummm, okay, let me get my...”

Skylar let him grab his drink and then pulled him over to a table, way off in the corner. He was taken aback when she sat down surprisingly close to him.

“We never get to talk at school. All the other girls say I should keep away from you.” She said.

“Really? Why do they say that?”

“They think you’re some kind of man-whore who’ll jump into bed with anyone if he gets the chance.” She smiled.

He thought about that for a minute. Well, they would be the ones who knew.

“Is it true?” she asked.

“Is what true?”

She slid up even closer to him, wrapped her arm around his shoulders, and pulled up close to whisper in his ear.

“Is it true that you tried to fuck your way through the entire cheer squad last year? Juniors, sophomores, even the freshmen? Is it true that you’ve slept with every one of the seniors?”

At least she hasn’t seen the video, Zane thought. Still, this was very surprising. What happened to the shy, innocent girl who never said two words? He sat there looking at her with her arm around his shoulders and, as he was now very aware, her other hand sliding up his thigh.

“Ya know, I’m a senior.” She said, with an expression that oozed pure sex. He was sure everyone in the place was staring at them. But they weren’t.

“You can’t go around saying you slept with all the seniors anymore ... unless you want to...”

Zane seriously couldn’t speak. Did she just ask him if he wanted to fuck her? Her hand slid all the way up and over his cock, which was rocketing to her attention. Not waiting for an answer, she leaned forward and pressed her lips to his, her tongue immediately invading his mouth.

Her kiss was amazing. She tasted of pure lust as she wrapped her hand around his cock and wouldn’t let go. He would love to fuck her. He would fuck her right here, right now, in the back of Starbucks if that’s what she wanted. And it seemed like that was exactly what she wanted.

Then she stopped. She pulled away, let go of his dick, wiped her mouth, and slid at least a foot away from him. She reached into her bag for her lipstick and reapplied. Two seconds later Bella, Nikki, and Alexis all showed up at their table and made themselves comfortable, pushing Zane as far from Skylar as they could.

Bella immediately went on the offensive.

“What are you doing here Zane?” she asked. “You’re not trying to hit on the new girl, are you? You know we already warned her about you, right?”

Zane was still trying to figure out what had just happened.

“I uh ... coffee.” He said, lifting his cup to show them.

Skylar sat, smiled, and never said a word.

After a few minutes of very awkward conversation, all the girls got up and left. They had plans for the day. They all said their goodbyes. Skylar turned back to him, winked, and gave a little wave over her shoulder.

Zane held his ice-cold drink against his crotch. He wasn’t going anywhere for at least a few minutes.

“What the hell was that?” he asked himself.

They’d had a few more encounters like that since then. Every time Skylar getting more and more aggressive and suggestive. Right up until today in the library. Now he was thinking about both Joey and Skylar.

At lunch, Zane grabbed himself a couple of pieces of fine cafeteria pizza, better than their main course, whatever the hell that brown stuff was, and sat down at his regular table waiting for his friends. Before even one of them showed up, Bella pulled up the seat next to him and started in on some crazy idea to reveal the leaker of their sex-tape. Seeing his friends approaching, he shushed her. Somehow, his friends didn’t know anything about the video. Surprisingly, few people did.

“Oooooooh here we go! The two love birds are gonna start making out in the cafeteria!” One of his friends bellowed out as three of them approached the table. They may not have known about the video, but they all knew that Zane had fucked Bella. Somehow that news had gotten out. And they all wished it had been them.

They took their places around the table trying to coax more information from either of them about how it was, how many times did they do it, etc. But both Bella and Zane just rolled their eyes and tried to change the subject. Luckily, at just that moment, Bella’s side of this interrogation showed up. Nikki, Skylar, and Alexis. They scattered around the table, Alexis next to Zane’s left, Bella on his right. Skylar was on the opposite side of the table between Mark and John, who both wanted as big a piece of her as they could get. And Nikki next to Bella.

The conversation swirled, from Zane and Bella having sex to was Skylar dating anyone, and if she wasn’t, would she like to be? Mark and John both volunteered for that duty. It bounced from sex to sports to teachers and classes, then broke into little side conversations. Mark and John grilled Skylar about how she liked the school. What was her old school like? Did she have a boyfriend there? Was he still her boyfriend? While the whole time, Skylar was watching Zane with that sexy smile of hers, and he just knew what she was thinking. As she offered up one or two word answers to their questions.

Zane and Bella would occasionally get a couple of sentences between them about their issue, but nothing concrete. That was when Nikki started cracking up. She had pulled up a photo on her phone and handed it to Bella to see, laughing her ass off as she started telling the story of the photo. Zane looked over Bella’s shoulder to see as well, then took the phone from Bella.

“Let me see,” he said.

Nikki continued trying to get her story out between guffaws.

Zane had noticed something important. This was a new phone. He looked at the photo, with Nikki still laughing. He swiped through a few more pictures. Then he started snooping. That was when Nikki noticed.

“Hey, gimme that back,” she demanded, reaching to take the phone back from him.

Zane pulled away and continued to snoop. Now Nikki was reaching, trying to snatch the phone back. Bella was stuck between them trying her best not to help either of them, but perfectly blocking Nikki.

“Zane!” Nikki barked. “Gimme back my phone.”

“What?” He replied. “We have a deal, remember,” reminding her of what would happen if she didn’t do exactly what he said.

Nikki fumed for a moment but stopped her protests. Zane closed what he was looking at and handed the phone back to her, still on the original pic. She snatched it back from him as quickly as she could.

“So, Nikki, that’s a new phone isn’t it?” Zane asked.

“Yeah, I got it for my birthday.”

“Wasn’t that like, during the summer?” He asked.

“Yeah...”

Zane shot Bella a quick glance that said, did you know about this?

“Why didn’t you tell me you got a new phone?”

“What?”

Nikki was confused at first. Why would she need to tell him that she got a new phone? Nothing had changed. She’d still show him if he asked, like just now. And up until now he hadn’t asked. What does a new phone have to do with anything?

“I’m just surprised, that’s all. I would think you would have shown everybody.”

He turned to Bella. “Did she tell you?”

“Of course she did, I was there when her mom gave it to her.” Bella answered.

Zane raised his eyebrows at that. Bella had thought nothing of it either. What was the big deal? Zane was quiet for a moment, thinking, figuring, making vague connections. He then asked.

“What did you do with your old phone?”

“What?” Nikki asked, totally confused.

“Your old phone. What did you do with it? You didn’t trade it in, right? Since your mom gave you this one.”

At this point, Nikki was totally confused and flustered. Who cared what happened to her old phone? Why was he even asking? Bella, on the other hand, began to see the slightest glimmer of what Zane was thinking.

“I dunno,” Nikki answered, it’s probably at home, sitting in the bag that this one came in.”

“Cool,” Zane answered. “Bring it to me ... Tomorrow.”

“What? ... Why?”

“I just want it. You’re not using it anymore. Bring it to me ... Tomorrow.”

Nikki opened her mouth to protest, but knew what would follow. She rolled her eyes, shook her head and replied.

“Fine.”

“Now do you think she behind all of this?” Bella asked later between classes.

“I don’t know,” Zane replied. “She doesn’t have any of the photos or videos on her phone, but she did have something suspicious.”

“What?”

“An email. From Funbunz69. Did she ever mention that to you?”

“No.”

“I didn’t have time to open it. I didn’t want her to think I noticed. But why would she have that? And why wouldn’t she tell anyone? Not even you.”

“So why do you want her old phone?”

“I’m not sure, I just wanna look. The whole thing is suspicious.”

Bella was deep in thought as Zane walked away, trying to make the same connections that he was making.

Turning the corner, almost at the pool entrance, Zane was stopped by Sam, Joey’s friend. She held him back for a second and said, “Give them a minute...”

Zane was confused.

“Give who a minute?”

Sam discreetly peeked around the corner, then motioned for Zane to do the same. What he saw, was Joey, sitting on a ledge, with Nick standing in front of her holding her hands on her knees. It was so cute. The smile on her facesaid it all. Finally! He thought. The kid is making his movie.