Chapter 7

I bounded out of bed and ran to the shower when my alarm clock rang. I needed to see Penny as soon as I could. My parents were surprised, but pleased, by the way I hustled to get off for school. I was standing outside at our bus stop in front of my house ten minutes before the bus was expected.

Penny arrived a couple minutes after me, well before any other kids. I gave her a hug when we met and whispered in her ear, "Are you OK, lover?"

"I'm OK, Kyle," Penny answered. She squeezed me tighter. "I really need you, Kyle. I can't go through this alone."

"I know, Penny. Lean on me. I'll help." We didn't say anything else for a couple minutes. We simply hugged.

Finally we separated a few inches. I looked Penny in the eye. "You believe this is happening now? You didn't seem to think it was possible for you to get pregnant last night."

"I was in denial last night, Kyle. I surfed on the net for awhile. I guess I probably saw some of the same sites as you. Boy, if we could have done anything else to make sure I got pregnant, I don't know what it would be."

"I know, honey."

"What ever it may be, I guess our fate is sealed."

"I talked to Will last night for advice. He says we need to talk to some adults who can help us. He thinks we should talk to our parents."

"NO! We can't do that. No way!" Penny stated adamantly.

"I know. That's what I told, Will. Then he suggested that Joe and Barb could help or maybe Justin and Sherry."

"I'd feel a little more comfortable talking to them. Do you think they would help us?"

"I'm sure they would. I'm going to give Justin a call tonight before my scout meeting. Is that OK?"

"Yes, that's OK, Kyle." Penny hugged me again. We were still hugging when Eddie arrived.

He smiled at us. "Hey, Penny. Hi, Kyle. How's it going?"

I answered, "Fine, Eddie."

Penny said, "Good Morning Ed." as we separated. We held hands.

Eddie asked, "What was up yesterday afternoon, Kyle? I came over to train. Andy said you wouldn't come out of your room. What's going on?"

"Oh, I didn't hear that you came over. I was kind of tied up doing research on the net. I'm sorry, Eddie."

"It's OK, Kyle. Andy and I lifted and ran," Eddie explained.

Andy came down our walk and joined the growing crowd. "You ready to join the world today, Kyle?" he asked.

I answered, "I'm OK, Andy. I was a little distracted yesterday."

"A little distracted! An atomic bomb could have gone off next door yesterday and you wouldn't have noticed." Andy scoffed.

The other three kids arrived at our bus stop. Mrs. Shirk pulled up about thirty seconds later. We piled onto the bus.

When we arrived at school we walked inside and down the main hall towards our lockers. We bumped into Stacie as we turned the corner. "Tiger! Penny! I guess you two had fun Saturday night. It sure sounded that way." She leaned over and whispered loudly in Penny's ear, "You hang onto this stud. Good boyfriends are hard to find."

Both of us blushed. "Um, thanks, Stacie." Penny stammered. Stacie headed the opposite direction from us. We proceeded down the hall. I swore a couple of the guys from the party winked at me when I passed them. Eddie caught up with us, Stef in tow. He had waited at the front door until her bus arrived. We were standing in a group while Penny was pulling books from her locker when Andy Groff came up to us.

He pounded me on the back and gushed, "That was some show you to put on Saturday night. I've never heard a girl make sounds like that. You need to give me some tips some time, Kyle."

Penny turned bright red like I did. She asked quietly, "Did we make that much noise?"

I grimaced and said, "I think we did."

Stef leaned in and asked, "What did you to do on Saturday night?"

"Um, uh, we borrowed Zack Hayes' bedroom for awhile. We made love," I offered.

"Penny, you didn't!" Stef declared. Penny nodded her head yes.

Eddie slapped me on the back. "You, dirty dog."

"No. It's not ... I just ... Oh, hell! I love her!" I said, finally finding the correct words. I hugged Penny and held her close. Our group split up when the warning bell rang, telling us to head to our homerooms. Penny and Eddie went to one, Stef to the next room and I went to mine a couple more rooms down the hall.

I received more of the same from kids at the party and even from strangers. Word spread like wildfire about Penny and me at the party. It was down right embarrassing! I tried to take the leers and teasing with good humor. Between classes Penny and I met. She was getting the same treatment too. Nobody was being unfriendly or nasty about it. They treated us like celebrities. It was getting old by lunch time.

I met Penny outside her fourth period class and walked to the lunch room holding her hand. After we purchased our food we headed to the table where our gang usually sat. Penny's ex-boyfriend Chad Hurst was sitting there with a couple of his followers. I picked a different table away from Chad. We sat down. Eddie and Stef joined us a minute later. We had barely started eating when Zack Hayes, Annie Lowell and Stan Humphries plopped down with us.

Zack gave us a big smile. "Hi Kyle. Good to see you, Penny."

"Hi, Zack. Hi, Annie," Penny and I said nearly simultaneously. Don Higgins and Karl Weaver came next and sat down beside Eddie and Stef. Jeremy North and Hal Long spotted Penny and me as they paid for their lunches and headed our way. They paused when they got near the table and saw all the "in kids" sitting at the table.

Zack spotted Jeremy. "Hey, Jeremy, we have room over here," he said as he pulled the empty chair out that was beside him. Jeremy took that seat and Hal sat down in the empty chair on my left. We spent the next couple minutes introducing everyone.

I had started eating when Hal leaned over and whispered in my ear, "How did you end up at the 'in kids' table?"

I whispered back, "I didn't. They came and sat with us."

The odd mix of football players, cheerleaders, and my friends actually mixed quite well. Half a dozen conversations flowed around the two tables we sat at. Part ways through lunch Zack looked at me and asked, "I have to know, Kyle. Is your love making prowess genetic or is it something you learned somewhere?"

I choked on the milk I was sipping when Zack asked me. I sputtered a little and finally said, "I'm not anything special. I don't think Penny and I sounded any different from any other couple I've ever heard."

"How many couples have you heard to compare yourself to, Kyle?" Zack asked.

I explained, "Um, well not that many. Maybe three or four."

Zack asked, "Most of the times you heard people having sex you were listening to your brother and his girlfriend, right?"

"Well, yeah. Will and Abby did it a lot after school last year."

Zack just laughed. He called out, "Hey, guys. Kyle thinks he isn't special because he and Penny sound a lot like his brother Will and his girlfriend." All the older kids at the table laughed. Zack looked at me again. "Don't you know that your brother is nearly a legend as a love maker at this school?"

"Are you serious?" I asked, not believing my ears.

"I saw your brother make love to Abby one time. The stories about his prowess are not exaggerated."

Annie asked, "Penny, did you have an orgasm on Saturday night?"

My lover answered, "Of course I did. I think Kyle gave me four that evening. Doesn't everyone have orgasms during sex?"

All the older girls at the table laughed. "NO!" was the common answer to her question.

Annie continued, "Hang on to, Kyle. It's hard to find a boy who can give you one orgasm, much less four. He's special!" I turned beet red. I tried to ignore all the praise so I could finish lunch.

Zack asked Eddie, "Why didn't you make it to my party?"

"You didn't invite me," Eddie answered quietly.

"Shit! I'm sorry, Ed. I meant to. My bad!"

"I thought the party was for the varsity. I'm only JV."

"No, man. The party's for my friends. That includes you! I'll make sure you are invited for the next one. I promise." I could see from the look in Eddie's eyes that he appreciated Zack's gesture of friendship.

Our half hour lunch period went quickly. My ninth grade friends and football friends mixing casually, joking and bantering. When time was up, the group split up to go to their fifth period classes.

Eddie, Stef, Jeremy, Kathy, Penny and I walked together to our social studies class. Jeremy commented, "That was weird, wasn't it?"

Eddie answered, "Yes. I didn't expect to ever sit at the football jocks and cheerleaders table."

Penny said, "Kyle told me on Saturday before the party that they were nice people. He was right."

Stef said, "They don't seem stuck up or anything. They aren't like I imagined before I met them."

We arrived at Mr. Norris' classroom. We found our seats and got ready for class. When social studies was over, Penny and I walked towards her next class with our arms around each other's waists. "Today has been a bit much. I think everyone in the school knows that you and I made love on Saturday night. They are making us out to be these fantastic lovers. We are just a couple of ninth graders. Nobody special."

"You are getting a taste of what I went through last fall during football season. I'm just a guy who can run fast and catch a football. They made me out to be this big hero. I'm just, Kyle. Nobody special."

"You're special to me."

"I know. That is all that matters to me. They act as if I have this great knowledge of how to pleasure a woman. Making love to you isn't about the mechanics or the technique. It's about how I feel about you. That is what makes it special to me."

"I know, Kyle. I feel the same way."

We had reached the stairway where we needed to split up to get to our next class. I gave Penny a long deep kiss with lots of tongue. I barely made it to deustche Unterricht [German class] on time.