Chapter 6

Kim

Eventually the celebrations concluded and the townspeople settled down to their normal routines. Travis and Sarah went to school and Julie and Hank did whatever they do all day to keep busy. Since they don't have regular office jobs, what they do is anyone's guess, except that they have a nice family dinner prepared each evening when the kids come home from school. Dinners are always sitting down at a table, as a family dinners, because both Julie and Hank believe that it builds a stronger family unit. The topics of discussion are as varied as the menu and sometime become pretty deep conversations about current events, political things or school activities. There are no rules, per se, about how the subject is determined each evening.

One evening, Hank asked Travis. "Travis, since you moved to Missouri, how many different girls have you had sex with?

"I don't know. A few."

"Just for fun, recall the names of the girls, in your head. I don't care to know who they are. Then figure out how many it comes to."

After a minute, Travis responded. "Well, if you count last year and this year, so far, I guess about twenty."

"Twenty?" Julie said, in a raised, startled voice. "You've had sex with twenty different girls?"

"Yeah, I guess. Maybe a few more. I don't know. I don't keep count."

Hank's question was more subtle, "Why so many?"

"I don't know. Some of them call me up and want to go out and we get to some quiet place and they get naked all of a sudden. With others, they are just exciting girls that I meet in school, and I ask out, and then we end up doing it. Why? What's the matter?""

Hank continued, "Is there some particular reason that all these girls call you, instead of other guys?"

"Well, last year, in the beginning, it was because I was a novelty. A new guy that none of them knew or had ever dated. This really isn't a discussion for the table, but ... Then, after the first couple of dates, the word began to spread among a group of senior girls that I would give them oral sex. I think I must be the only guy in the school that does that because that was the first thing they would ask me when they called up for a date. Would I do that for them like I had for one of their friends? I wasn't gonna turn it down, if you know what I mean. And now, this year, the same thing is happening with another group of girls. They are all friends, and I think they all talk between them about this. What's brought this up?"

"I was at the barber shop today, and some of the fellas were there talking and I think they forgot about our relationship. They were talking about the "new kid on the football team" who is trying to fuck every girl in the county. Another man said that he thought you were about half way to your goal. It was good that none of those dads had a daughter because they all suggested that you would be in trouble if you ever tried to date theirs. I think you are developing a reputation that is going to cause you social difficulties very soon."

"I can't help it if they want me to fuck them, can I?"

Julie jumped in, ""You don't have to go out with them, just because they ask. Why don't you find one girl and try to build a relationship?"

"I tried to date one girl that I like, but she won't go out with me."

"Can you blame her?" Julie threw in before Hank could say anything.

"Honey, this is not the time to criticize. Let's try to remain supportive," he scolded her.

"And even if I did find one girl, what am I supposed to do about sex then? What if she doesn't want to have sex? Huh?"

"Travis, I am not trying to run your life or deprive you of anything opportunities uniquely available to high school boys, but I really do think you have a problem developing, and I think we need to come up with some potential solution for you. My guess is that pretty soon you are going to run out of girls that are willing to date you, or worse, parents that will allow their daughters to date you. That, truly, is my bigger fear." Hank was much calmer than Julie. "Once parents get to talking, you will find yourself on the short list of kids their innocent daughters may not date."

"Well, that's a crock."

"I agree that it may be a crock, but that doesn't mean it won't happen. The thing to do is change your approach before it happens."

"How do I do that? And you still haven't said what I should do about sex?"

Having said nothing during the opening of this discussion, Sarah quietly reached out and took her brother's hand. "All you have to do is knock on my door, big brother."

Both Julie and Hank looked at Sarah and wordlessly conveyed their appreciation.

Sarah continued," Have you even talked to her lately? Have you told her what we talked about?"

"No."

"You realize, I hope, that you are going to have to stop dating other girls if you start dating Kim. I know this is a bit complex for a guy to understand, but the problem is that you have to do something that will tell everybody else that you are not having sex with Kim, that you are just dating. Other wise she will never go out with you because she'll think her reputation will be in the gutter."

"How do you come up with that?"

"Look, Travis, you have slept with every girl in our school that you have dated. That's hardly news to any of us, guys or girls. Kim is not ready for sex. I told you that. She doesn't want to have sex with you or with anybody right now. But if the two of you start dating, everyone in school will instantly think she is just like all the other twenty girls. The only way that Kim is even going to be seen with you is if you take some kind of active steps to convince everyone else that she is different from the first twenty."

Hank thought about that for a while and then said, "Travis, I think your sister is correct. If it's like she says it is, with lots of people knowing about your previous exploits, you're going to have to do something that tells everyone that your new girl is different."

Julie, finally able to get a word in, asked, "Is this the Kim that is your friend, Sarah?" Sarah nodded yes. "She seems like a wonderful girl, Travis. I think you may have a hard time convincing her of your intentions."

After a few moments of silence, Hank, as usual, came up with a plan. "I have an idea about how we can begin to solve this problem. During the school break over the Christmas holiday, we could all go skiing again, and this year, you could each bring a friend. Sarah, if you invited Kim, she would get to be with us, and with Travis in a controlled situation that could allow her to develop some level of trust and things. Travis, you could invite one of your friends to balance out the trip. Sarah, do you have any particular guy that you would like to get to know better?"

We left Christmas morning, flying to the Big Sky Lodge in Montana. Hank chartered a plane so that by flying directly there would be no worries about transfers and connections. It was much nicer. Sarah and Kim shared a room, as did Travis and Mike, his friend and teammate. Sarah had chosen him because, while she was not necessarily attracted to him, he had always been nice to her after football practices and had treated her with respect. It didn't hurt anything that he was pretty good looking, too. The first two days, everyone pretty much skied together and skied the entire day each day as well. That was too much for Hank and Julie. They declared at dinner the second night that they intended to sleep in the next morning, and possibly spend at least the morning in the spa. By noon the next day, it was pretty obvious that Travis and Kim were far better skiers than either Sarah or Mike. While Sarah and Mike chose to remain on the intermediate hills, Kim and Travis (at Kim's urging) opted to try out the more advanced, and far more challenging slopes. Kim is truly a very accomplished skier and Travis struggled to keep up with her. Although two years younger, she was wise in the techniques of enticement for she skied just enough faster and just enough more aggressively to be able to tease him and provoke him to keep up with her. After the first few runs, she would finish just ahead of him and then turn to welcome him with open arms. That subtle message was not lost on Travis and he garnered the nerve to open the subject of dating him. They were sitting at a table on the patio of the warming station, enjoying a cup of hot chocolate.

"Kim, this is a little hard for me to ask, because you have said no so many times in the past, but would you go out with me when we get home?"

Kim had enjoyed this discussion in her mind many times since being invited to go skiing. "Travis, you are one of the nicest guys I know. You have always been very kind to me, respectful and friendly, and not bossy like some of your classmates and team mates. You know that my mother would not allow me to date anyone last year because she said I was too young."

"Will she this year?"

"I don't know. I haven't asked her yet. But that's not the problem. I know, or at least I have been told by other girls that you expect, if not actually demand, that every girl you date sleeps with you. Is that true?"

"You make me sound so cruel. I have not demanded it from any girl. But I won't deny that i have slept with several girls. Some of them asked me out and actually invited me to have sex with them. But I haven't demanded or forced anybody."

"But you have had sex with every girl you dated, haven't you?"

Travis was nervous now, and beginning to wish that he had not started this again. Kim said nothing, waiting for his response. Looking at her, it was obvious to him that she expected an answer.

"I don't know. Yes, probably, I guess."

"So that's a problem, then, isn't it? You've had sex with every girl that you've dated, and now you want to date me. Do I get a sign to wear around my neck that says "I'm dating Travis. I'm number twenty one?"

"Come on," Travis pleaded. "That's not fair."

"I know, Travis, but think about this. What will every person in our school think about me? They'll say that I'm just one of the many. And I don't want to have sex with you, Travis. I don't want to have sex with anybody right now. I am not ready for that and I don't want every kid in school thinking that I am."

"So does that mean you won't go out with me?"

"No, it means that you have to figure out a way to tell everybody that we are not having sex. When you get that figured out, I'll be happy to go out with you. More than happy, actually, I'll be ecstatic!" With that, she leaned across the table, through her arms around him and kissed him passionately on the lips.

She pulled away and left him sitting there, mostly surprised at her. She was a quarter of the way down the run before he had his skis on again.

That night in the comfort of their room, she told Sarah of the conversation. Sarah, while not surprised about the topic, was somewhat surprised that he had actually admitted to sleeping with all those girls.

"So, what are you going to do, Kim? Are you going to go out with him?"

"I don't know. It's up to him. I am not going to until he figures out how to tell the world that I'm not going to sleep with him. It probably wouldn't be such a tough job if there was any girl that had denied him, but I guess there isn't. What's so special about having sex with Travis?"

Sarah wanted to tell her, but didn't dare. To her own amazement, she said nothing at all.

Kim and Travis were inseparable for the rest of their waking hours on the ski slopes. If the idea of their being together was supposed to create a sense of comfort in Kim about being with Travis, it had a far more devastating effect on Travis. Ten non stop days with Kim, with her smile, her voice, her long blond hair flying behind her as she skied -- Travis was hooked, completely, without doubt, absolutely hooked. He would look at no other, date no other, and do whatever she asked of him. Had she been of a mind to, she might have extracted any measure of servitude from him, just for her own pleasures, but she was not of that kind. But, several weeks after school had resumed and his devotion was still apparent, she had to be pleased that she actually might have been responsible for it.

"How about if I ask the principal if I can use the p.a. system and just announce it to everybody?" Travis asked his sister.

"Don't be silly. He'd never allow it." Sarah responded as they drove home from school one afternoon.

"Then want can I do?"

"Why don't you think about double dating? If you're always with another couple, and you take Kim home first, that pretty well tells everybody that nothing happened."

"Do you think that would work?"

"It would be a start."

The sap began to run again, in late January. From experience, Travis and Sarah had many of their friends over to help and earn some extra money while they were at it. This gave Travis and Kim and opportunity to be together again, and people began to take notice. Sarah managed to overhear a conversation between at least two of the guys helping out one Saturday. They were standing in the locker room of the recreation building while she was in the next room.

"I can't believe that Kim Reynolds is going out with Travis," one voice said.

"Yeah, I know what you mean. I tried and tried to get her to go out with me and she always turned me down," his companion said.

"She must be one hot piece of ass."

"No, Travis said that she wouldn't go outwith him unless he promised not to fuck her."

"Do you believe that? Travis has fucked every girl he ever met and some of them twice."

"Yeah, I know what you mean. That guy must have some kind of pussy magnetism."

"He's not going to go out with some girl that doesn't fuck."

"That was my thought too, but he sounded pretty serious when he told me about having to promise her."

"She's pretty and all, but what's so hot about her? He acts like she's the only girl in the world."

"Heh, Heh. Yeah. I sure am glad football season is over. She has him so mellow, he'd never hit anybody again."

"Kinda sad to see a stud like him get wiped out by a girl."

"Do you think his sister will fuck every guy she dates?"

I dunno. Sometimes she's pretty hot looking herself. I know I wouldn't mind bangin' her."

"Yeah, well, I'm not going to ask him about it."

By spring, having only dated in the company of another couple, most of the kids in school were at least willing to believe that it was possible that Kim and Travis were not sleeping together. His reputation for sliding between the thighs of his dates notwithstanding, his classmates were unwilling to gossip negatively, and they certainly were not going to ask him personally if the rumors of her requirements were actually true. Of course, whenever she could, Sarah reinforced the support of the rumors, speaking as Kim's best friend and as the sister of Travis. After all, who better to know than she? And she could attest to the fact that he was not starved for sex when he dated Kim because, as his sister, she made certain that she slept in his bed the night before their dates. Many nights they would have sex two or three times before morning, and Sarah always made certain that she was around to give him a blow job just before he left for his date. She was his sister, after all, and this is what loving sisters did for their brothers, isn't?