Chapter 5

The next weekend Sammi surprised herself by only losing in the semi-finals in a tennis tournament. It was held in Terminus, so she didn't stay at the venue, which was a shame. She saw Tom at the Saturday night party, but he was clearly occupied with another girl. She was a little jealous until the girl turned around; she had enormous boobs, bigger, even, than Anna. There was no way she could compete with those.

When she got home Saturday night Anna was in bed with Sam. Apparently they'd just finished up. Sam was resting on the bed while Anna was gathering her clothes together.

"Looks like he got a little carried away," Sammi said when she saw the cum speckling Anna's dark hair. Anna had gathered her clothes together and was on the way to the bathroom when Sammi made that comment.

Anna touched her hair reflexively. "Yeah, I was planning on swallowing him, but at the last moment he really sprayed me."

"It looks like he got it all over your boobs, too."

Anna laughed. "He's like a lot of boys - when he cums it goes everywhere."

Sammi joined her in the bathroom, studying the girl as she cleaned up. "What's it like to have big boobs?" she asked.

"It's never something you plan," Anna said. She studied her face as she wiped away Sam's cum. "Did I get it all?"

"Your left boob."

"Thanks." Anna wiped away the last evidence of Sam's passion. "I've noticed that every boy wants to cum on my boobs. Somebody once told me that cum is good for boobs." She cradled her breasts, studying them. "Maybe they were right."

"I'll have to try that," Sammi said. "How big are you?"

"D-cup," Anna said as she put on her bra. "They look bigger on me because of my small back. Annamarie's boobs are just as big as mine, but she's a bigger girl so it isn't as noticeable."

"I only wear a B-cup," Sammi said. "I wish mine were bigger."

Anna smiled. "We're never happy with our bodies, are we? If you have small boobs you want big ones. If you have big boobs you want small ones. We're too tall, too short, too fat, too skinny... we're never happy."

"Especially when you're a teenager," Sammi said. "When you're a teenager your body is still changing so there's a chance you'll get what you wish for."

Anna nodded. She finished dressing and started brushing her hair. "We're going to go swimming tomorrow. Want to join us?"

"I have a tennis tournament to finish tomorrow, and anyway, I don't have a date."

"You don't have a steady boyfriend?" Sammi shook her head. "Tell you what. I have a cousin, why don't I call him?"

"You would?" Sammi tried to think of who Anna's cousin could be. "Do I know him?"

Anna shook her head. "He lives somewhere near Lower and goes to school there. I think you'll like him. He's kind of nice looking, too."

"Sure. None of the boys I've met at school appeal all that much to me."

"Poor girl. Why don't I call him right now?"

Anna made the call. It turned out her cousin Roderick was interested. He couldn't get free on Sunday, but he could the following day. Sammi nodded - she didn't have tennis practice on Monday after a tournament. They'd all get together in Valleys End, go swimming and maybe even have dinner. By the time Anna got off the phone Sam was dressed. Sammi went back to her room to sleep while Anna and Sam left for the movies.

Roderick was a few inches taller than she was, with dark blonde hair and compact but muscular shoulders. As they were undressing for the pool the first thing she noticed, after his shoulders, was his even tan.

"Anna said you live near Lower," she said. "Do you go to school in Seaside or Valley's End or... ?"

"I go to school in Lower," he said. "Well, it's not actually in Lower, it's a town about 15 miles up a side road, but officially it's part of Lower."

"I couldn't help but notice the tan."

"Ah." He glanced down at himself. "Our school's sort of administered by both school districts, the Valley and Seaside."

"The Valley and Seaside? What does that mean?"

He laughed as he hung up his clothes and tossed a towel over his shoulder. "We have all of the same classes as the kids in the Valley, but we're officially nude, just like in Seaside."

"Officially nude?"

"You have a uniform you wear to school, don't you?" Sammi nodded. "The only thing we wear is a pair of sandals. Oh, when we have gym I wear a groin belt for support, and girls wear a bra, but that's it."

"But... ?" Sammi stopped, picturing an entire room full of naked kids. She saw that everyday in Sex Ed, but Math? English? History? How could you concentrate on what you were studying? "Every class?" she finally asked.

"Every class," he said. "It's warmer down there than it is up here in the valley, so you don't need to wear clothes to keep warm. What other reason is there?"

"Um, I guess... I don't know," Sammi said. That was a question to discuss in class sometime, or perhaps during lunch. Why did people wear clothes, other than custom, well, and because some people just looked better with clothes on. She smiled to herself. A lot of people looked better with their clothes on. Anyone who ever spent time at a pool in Three Valleys quickly learned that.

There were only a few people actually in the pool; almost everyone else was sitting around the edges. Sam and Anna were sitting together under an umbrella, sipping something and laughing. Several younger kids were splashing around the shallow end of the pool and two really small kids were in the children's wading pool.

She and Rod dove in and swam a few laps side by side. He was a smooth swimmer, and when they emerged she couldn't help notice his muscles. If they were alone they'd spend some time together on a blanket, but that wasn't possible at a public pool. Feeling a little annoyed by that she settled beside him while Sam and Anna played in the pool.

They idly talked of this and that. Rod described what his school was like; in every way but one it was just like the classes Sammi knew: everyone was nude all of the time.

"I still can't get over that," Sammi said when their conversation tapered off. "All of the time?"

"Don't the kids in your school... don't they go nude?"

"For gym class, well, swimming, sure, and in Sex Ed, of course; it would be hard to do anything with your clothes on, but other than that, no. Do you guys ever wear clothes?"

"Only when we come up here into the Valley. If we have to go to town for something, well, most of the time we go to Lower. If the stores there don't have it, it's just as easy to go into Seaside as it is to come up to Valley's End. Most people go into Seaside because if they came up here they'd have to put on some clothes."

"I'd probably like to see your school," Sammi said at last. "I've seen a map of Seaside and Lower, where is it?"

"About 10 or 12 miles from Lower," Rod said. "You have to cross over the river and catch a train from there. It's a small town, about 4-500 people. Every family has kids, that's why they put a school there. It was cheaper than shipping them to Lower or down into Seaside."

"Why'd they build the town?"

"Ah, there's some sort of construction going on. Dad doesn't talk about it. It's not secret, they're putting up several buildings and then they'll build other stuff. I think it's going to be a railroad line, but it's going toward the coast, not toward the other valleys. Somebody told me there's a place for a great deepwater port a few miles down the coast. They'll build an industrial port there rather than in Seaside."

Sammi thought about that in silence. She knew there was a lot of construction going on around Three Valleys, most of it to connect the valleys with the rest of the Project. She knew there were at least two railroad lines being built, and there was an airport. She knew she could probably find out all about it if she asked her Dad; right now she didn't really want to.

"What do you guys do for entertainment?" she finally asked.

"Movies, plays, we get together for games and picnics. What do you guys do?"

Sammi shrugged. "Movies, swimming like this, sometimes dancing. Sometimes somebody will host a pool party. I like going to those a lot."

"A pool party? What's that?"

Sammi was surprised he hadn't heard of them. "It's, uh, some families have a private pool. We get together, eat, gossip, swim, have sex, things like that."

Rod nodded. "We don't have private pools," he said. "Sometimes the older kids get together for fun, but that's it."

"Must get boring."

Rod laughed. "If you want excitement you go to Lower, or down to Seaside. A few kids go up to Valley's End."

Sam and Anna called something from the pool, inviting them in. Rod helped Sammi to her feet and they dove in. The rest of the afternoon was spent splashing in the pool and having fun.

When she returned home Sam and Anna disappeared into his room, and from the sighs, moans and the squeaking of the bed she knew what they were up to. She felt alone. She wished Rod was here with her, but he had gone home instead. She liked him, but she wasn't sure if she liked him enough to want him as a boyfriend.

Rod called her Tuesday night, asking her out again on the weekend. Unfortunately she had a tennis tournament on the weekend in South Valley, so she had to say no. But she did tell him she wouldn't mind seeing a movie or something on Monday. He would have to meet her halfway, in Valley's End, though. He suggested Lower, and she told him she'd call him back.

She thought about it the next day. That morning, as Jimmy Collins came all over her breasts, she decided she would travel to Lower for a movie. She licked up Jimmy's jism - he had the best tasting jism of all of the boys in school - and hastily scribbled a note. Jimmy was about to eat her out and she knew she wouldn't remember anything while he was doing that. It wasn't until they were getting dressed that she saw the note and stuck it in her pocket.

She placed second in the tournament in South Valley. Tom was there, and in a reverse of what had happened in the last tournament he didn't make it out of the round robin, but she did. They shared a room again, and he kept her up way late, though if the truth be told she kept him up way late, too. In the morning he was rock hard, and as a result she was both relaxed and fired up for her first match.

She ran out of energy in the finals. Afterwards she and Tom went swimming, and then retreated to the nearby bushes to see if either of them was still tired. Tom got himself hard one last time, and lasted and lasted. Sammi, not having the worries a guy had, came repeatedly from the hard thrusts of his cock. Afterwards they drifted gently together and had to scramble to get dressed in time to go home.

On the trip back she decided she liked Tom, but as a friend, not as a boyfriend. Oh, he was fun to be around, and he was really good in bed, but she'd see what was happening with Rod before she went any further with Tom.

Sammi had never been to Lower, not even as a day trip. The day was warm, one of the bright Spring days they got at this time of year. The weather forecasters said it was going to be a warm summer, too. She smiled ruefully at that. They had school all summer and the only way she was going to enjoy the summer was in the evenings.

To get to Lower from Valleys End you had to ride the cable car. She had half-hoped Rod would meet her there, but he was nowhere to be seen. Reluctantly she bought her ticket and rode down alone. At the bottom she turned and looked back up the cliff.

People had told her this one view was worth the trip. The falls were 800 feet high. They fell in one long plume of white and splashed on the rocks right next to the cable car station. Mist from the falls kept everything damp, even on the hottest day. The water collected in a series of pools around Lower before dropping another 400 feet in a second waterfall. Below that the river ran a mile through a series of rapids, dropping another hundred feet before smoothing out in a calm, placid appearing stream that meandered back and forth in gentle curves.

The town of Lower was stretched out on two plateaus along the river. The upper plateau had a few stores and a restaurant. That was where most day-trippers congregated. The view and the falls were the main drawing card.

The lower plateau was the town proper. Here was the business district, a row of shops and boutiques that paralleled the river. A few houses were at the lower end of the street, along with the public buildings of the town: a playhouse, a theater, a park, the local city hall, two more restaurants, a doctor's clinic and the station for the train to Seaside. There were three streets that stretched back from the main thoroughfare, and houses lined each street as they twisted and turned out of sight into the woods. The train station to Seaside was in the lower part of town, along with a bridge across the river.

Stairs connected the two halves of the town, but for those who didn't want to climb 100 feet of stairs there were the elevators that dropped down inside the cliff separating the two parts of town. Most of the residents of Lower kept lockers here holding clothes they would wear in the upper part of town or up in Valley's End - the rule of thumb was that from the stairs on down was nudity.

Sammi was wondering if Rod would meet her at the bridge. She realized they should have set up a meeting place, but she hadn't realized there was more to Lower than she'd thought. She walked over to the railing to look at the falls. She could see rainbows in the white lace of the mist. The water hit the rocks below her with a thunder that spoke of their power. She stood there, trying to take it all in, trying to absorb the noise and power when she heard something that made her turn around.

Rod stood there in a white shirt, tan slacks and sandals. His hair was a little messy from the breeze and spray, and he was smiling as she turned around.

"I was hoping to catch you on top," he said, pitching his voice to be heard.

Sammi decided to accept that as an apology. "This is beautiful," she said, gesturing at the water. "I've never been here before."

"It is something, isn't it," he said. He motioned towards the stairs or elevator building. "Shall we go? The movie starts in 30 minutes. Afterwards I thought we could get something to eat."

She let him take her hand and they walked slowly towards the elevators. Her hair was wet from the spray, and even though she knew it was a warm day she felt a little cool.

"You can use my locker," Rod said as they entered the elevator building. "You can only rent them by the month, you see, and I thought this would be easier than anything else."

"Sure. That makes sense." Rod's locker wasn't the small one like she saw at school. It was three feet wide and held several changes of clothes, a rack for shoes, and a small set of drawers. Sammi undressed quickly, hanging up her skirt and blouse and folding and stacking everything else on top of the drawers. She had brought sandals with her, and slipped those on while Rod undressed.

She had to smile to herself. In the past when she had undressed with a boy it was to have sex. Now they were going to see a movie and have dinner. It seemed a little funny. She wondered what girls elsewhere in the school she'd gone to in Center would think of this - it would probably shock a lot of them clean through to the bone.

They took the elevator down with two other couples. The theater was about a block away. She had wondered how Rod was going to pay for the tickets without any visible money; he presented his thumb to a scanner and it read his print. He used a touch screen to confirm his identity and complete his order. The computer must have liked what it saw, two tickets popped out of a slot with a click-whirr.

The movie was a romantic comedy about when people first began to move out of Center to build their own communities. Those first few towns were built to take advantage of natural resources, and the people in the movie were settling the town of Silver Rock where silver was being mined. They had the usual problems: building sewer, water and electrical systems, paving roads and putting in all of the filtration and other necessary equipment. The Chief Engineer spent his spare time pursuing his secretary, who had given her heart to one of the workers. Entanglement followed entanglement before it all somehow managed to work itself out in a series of steamy but improbable love scenes and pratfalls

Afterwards she and Rod had dinner, and for the first time in her life Sammi was aware that she was naked. She tried not to think about it, but in the intimate setting of the restaurant she could almost feel Rod's eyes on her body.

After dinner they took a walk over to the river. By then the moon was up, but the air was warm. They held hands; they would have done more, but when she tried to press her hip against him in invitation he seemed to shy away slightly.

It was getting late, and Rod accompanied her back to the cable car. When they stopped to dress she was aware of how awkward he looked pulling his clothes on. He nodded at her bra as she fastened it.

"Does that really help? It looks like it would pinch you."

Sammi shrugged. "It takes a little getting used to, but the first time you do anything vigorous you discover how much you need one. If I didn't wear it my boobs would flop all over the place, and that hurts. Don't girls wear bras - oh, that's right, nude."

"They wear them during gym class," he said. "Most girls take them off as soon as they can. My sister says they're uncomfortable to wear."

"If you don't wear one all the time I could see that." She pulled on her blouse. "Like I said, you get used to wearing it. I think it would be harder not wearing one."

"I suppose you adapt."

"What's it like wearing pants? Girls normally don't wear them, so I figure it would be as much of a novelty for you as it would be for me."

"You've never worn pants?" She shook her head. "I guess - I guess it's hard to explain. You just pull them on. They feel a little odd, I'm used to feeling my legs when I walk."

"That's what I thought. I have a friend who has worn pants, and she's said the same thing. When you wear a skirt you're aware of your legs; she said you don't get that when you wear pants."

They finished dressing in silence and walked back to the cable car. "I, uh, I had a good time," she said finally.

"I did, too," Rod said. "Would you like to do something like this again? Up in Valleys End rather than down here."

"You don't have to come up there, I can come down here."

"You looked a little uncomfortable," he said. "Being nude bothers you, doesn't it."

"In a way," she said slowly. "Look, it's all right during gym, especially because we go swimming every day. But most of the time, when you take your clothes off, it's to have sex. It's just an adjustment here. People get naked, but they don't have sex."

"Nude," he said. "Naked means vulnerable."

"Well, I felt vulnerable. Look, that didn't come out right. I like you and I had a nice time tonight."

Rod sighed and obviously didn't say what he had been going to. "I think it would only be fair if I came up there."

"I, uh, that would be nice," she finally got out after trying to vainly read his face. "When?"

"Friday? Or do you have another tennis tournament?"

"Friday would be nice. I don't have a tournament next week. Should we meet somewhere?"

"How about at the cable car station?"

She smiled and nodded. She wanted him to kiss her, but wasn't surprised when he didn't. She had heard that the people in Seaside were restrained about such things, and a kiss could lead to all sorts of intimate things.

She waved as the cable car pulled away from the station. Eventually he was hidden by the mists. She smiled to herself. She definitely wanted to get to know him better. Friday couldn't come too soon.

She was still thinking about him the next morning on the way to school. Then she saw Jenny sitting by herself, her face creased in a frown.

"Problems?" she asked, sliding in next to the girl. "Something bothering you?"

Jenny nodded. "Today's my first day," she said in a low voice.

"Your first... ? Oh. And you're worried about what it'll be like." Jenny nodded again. "Have you been doing your exercises?"

"Yeah."

"Then you'll be all right."

Jenny bit her lip. "Sammi? What does..." She looked around to see who might be listening. "What does it feel like? I've heard stories and..."

"It feels wonderful," Sammi said, giving her cousin a smile. "It feels better than anything you've ever done. What kind of stories have you heard?"

"When I was... there was this girl... and she said... she said it hurt, and you bled and..."

"Where was this girl? You didn't hear that here in Three Valleys, did you?"

"Um, no. It was, you know. Mom said I'd be all right, that I'd enjoy it. But I felt myself down there this morning, and I'm so small, and I've seen the boys in class and they're so big and..."

"You're not worrying about anything that every other girl hasn't worried about." She thought a moment, trying to figure out how to tell her cousin. "A girl stretches down there, you know that. We have to, otherwise the baby couldn't get out."

"Uh huh."

"You'll stretch enough that he can put it in. Part of the reason for all of the touching and kissing is to relax your muscles enough that that'll happen."

"But... but Marion said it hurt, and that she bled and everything. She said it was like when she had her period, but not quite as much."

"It doesn't, trust me. In fact it'll feel real good. Some girls like it so much that that's all they want to do." She snorted in laughter. "Believe me, that's all most boys want to do, too."

"Yeah, I've heard that. But it doesn't hurt for them."

"It didn't hurt for me, either." Sammi thought back on that magical afternoon. The boy, Matt Harper, had been gentle, taking his time with her. She kept staring at his cock. In the last few months she'd learned to jack a boy off, to suck a boy off and learn what their cum tasted like, and the heavenly joy of a boy kissing and licking her sex. Matt did that here, licking and touching her until she came.