Preacher William, Valerie, & the seeds of discord. - A 14-part Novel. Christina’s late night visit. By FinalStand. Listen to the podcast, at Steamy Stories. Anyway, we were uncoiling from the sofa and Rio was giving me this mysterious look when there was a knock at the door. “Dude, it is 11 o'clock,” Rio muttered. “Only bad news arrives this late.” “I’ll go check it out,” I shrugged. There wasn’t much else I could do. I opened the door and there stood Christina, looking pretty depressed. “Do you want to come in?” I asked. “I know you have company,” she replied. “Can we talk outside?” It wasn’t too chilly but I wasn’t wearing too much either. “Of course,” I walked onto the porch, leaving the door mostly closed behind me. “What’s wrong?” “I’ve worked things out with Faith and the other girls,” Christina paced nervously. “We are all going to keep quiet about what you learned and see how we can turn this to our advantage.” I didn’t say anything because she hadn’t come to tell me the news of what had been the obvious move on her part so I was left wondering what was going on, then I saw it. I opened my arms to the side, palms forward, and waited. She saw the move and looked me over with obvious reluctance for what would come next. Finally, she stepped up to me and rested her forehead on my shoulder and let me encase her in my arms. It sucks to be alone, but it truly sucks being alone and being the one in charge even more. “God, Zane, I fucked up. I could have ruined Heaven’s life,” she sighed. “The others trusted me and I let them down.” “You are not doing Heaven any favors by being paralyzed with doubt,” I told her. “You had no idea who you were up against and even if you had, you would still have weighed what was best for Heaven against the risks and pretty much acted in the same manner.” “You don’t understand Heaven,” Christina said. “You don’t understand her home life.” “Her home life is not my concern, Christina,” I pointed out. “The Heaven here and now is my concern, though, and it is the concern of several more friends she’s made since coming to this school, friends she wouldn’t have if she stayed in a hole.” “What if I fuck up again?” she worried. “So many girls are depending on me to keep the Chancellor at bay.” “I fuck up all the time and I’m still here,” I countered. “I know what you mean, though. Sometimes when these girls look at me like they expect me to have all the answers and I’ve got nothing, I want to run and hide.” “We don’t have that luxury. We chose to stand up and now we must carry on in our struggle. I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t raised to quit,” I related to her. “I made a mistake, Zane. I don’t make mistakes,” she declared. “I’m confused; have we lost?” I questioned her. “No,” she grumbled, “and that is not what I meant. I brought Faith in, I misread her, and we all suffered because of it. I was deceived.” “Well, someone should remind Christina Buchanan from time to time that she’s human, and a pretty smart woman at that,” I replied. “You don’t have to win every battle, only the last one.” “That is what my grandfather said,” she mumbled into my shoulder. “He sounds like a clever guy,” I said softly. “He should go far someday.” Since he was one of the richest men in America, I was probably right. “You can be a real jerk at times,” she muttered, but I noted she wasn’t moving. “I have to agree with you,” I said, as I got up on my tiptoes and kissed her on the top of the head. I leaned back and tilted her head to me with a finger under her chin. “Christina Buchanan, would you marry me?” No one said anything for a minute. “Can I think about it?” she finally whispered. “Of course,” I assured her. “How could I be in love with you if I couldn’t wait for you?” “How can you love me when you don’t even know me?” she asked. “That’s why it is love and not like,” I answered. “There are times you really piss me off but there is never a moment I don’t want to be with you.” “You don’t like me?” Christina studied me. “Right now I like you just fine, but you can be a real pain at times. See, I know what’s right and you refuse to know your place,” I responded. “And what place is that?” she smiled. “Above me, smiling down,” I leaned in for a kiss. “No,” she shook her head. “No?” I pleaded. “We have a long way to go before I let you treat me like another one of your girls,” Christina informed me. “Okay,” I agreed. “No hard sell in my emotionally vulnerable state?” she mused. “You are safe with me, Christina,” I assured her. “That’s good to know, Zane. Now go inside before Rio blows a gasket,” she smiled, slipped out of my arms, and walked toward her car. I still soaked up the marvel of her receding silhouette. Rio was leaning against the wall just inside the hallway when I got back in. “I don’t get the two of you,” she grinned. “I love her,” was my only response. “That’s good, because she’s fucking nuts about you,” Rio laughed. I couldn’t decide whether she was kidding or not. Later, we lay together in bed, Rio partially over me where she alternated between listening to my heartbeat and kissing my shoulder. She also had a hand between her legs and was doing some serious vaginal stimulation. “Zane.” “Yes?” I replied. “I had an abortion,” she confided in me. “Oh, okay,” was all I could manage to come back with. “‘Oh.’ Is that it?” she sounded a bit hurt. “I figure there is more to the story than you had an abortion. So are you going to tell me what it is?” I inquired. She mulled that over for a few seconds. “I did some really stupid shit, like getting shit-faced drunk at some parties with people I barely knew, and pretty much got used like a whore. I didn’t really care, and eventually I got knocked up,” she told me. “My parents, the big Pro-Lifers that they were, smuggled me out of state to a private clinic and aborted the kid. They never asked my opinion on the matter but I imagine that having a pregnant daughter who couldn’t even name the father wasn’t on their agenda,” she recited bitterly. I wrapped an arm around her, rolled over on her, and kissed her gently on the lips. “I don’t know what to say,” I began. “I can’t imagine what it was like to go through that.” “Huh,” Rio snorted. “My parents slapped me with anti-depressants and an implant, my ‘friends’ told me it was for the best, not being teen Mom material and all, and I treated myself like a whore.” “Hell, I sucked and fucked the entire lawn crew once; I fucked my little brother’s friends; and I became known as the girl who would ride bareback at my school. It is a miracle I didn’t contract herpes or AIDS,” she recited sadly. “I think I hated just about everybody.” “You know that none of that matters to me; right?” I asked. “You are still that woman I woke up next to on day one.” “To the bitter end,” she recited. “To the bitter end,” I affirmed, my promise to stand by her no matter what. “Why couldn’t you be in love with me?” she sighed. “You are asking an eighteen-year-old how this love thing works?” I teased her. “I’ve been lucky enough to meet five women in the past two weeks I’d like to spend forever with, and I love the one I’m least likely to end up with. I’m clueless.” “Me, Iona, Barbie Lynn, Christina and Heaven?” Rio guessed. I nodded, which made her snicker. “You really want to spend forever with Heaven? You are a glutton for punishment.” “Heaven can be really nice,” I defended my girlfriend. “She’s got a permanent case of PMS. Hell knows what would happen if she actually had PMS,” Rio teased me back. “So you don’t want to spend any more time with her?” I inquired. “Fuck that,” Rio giggled, “I like them brave, bold, and saucy in the saddle. I’d love breaking her down, or having her break me trying.” “Fine,” I announced after a moment’s contemplation. “Fine?” she asked. “I’m not going to break my word to Jill but I can’t wait to fuck you until we get back to campus, so how would you like to screw on Pastor Bill’s desk before Sunday school?” I suggested. “I’d love to leave a little something extra on that gold-plated conman’s desk,” Rio purred. “Now, Zane, do you think you could bend the rules ever so slightly and finger-fuck me? I’m ever so horny,” Rio pleaded. I figured it couldn’t hurt too much; right? I rubbed and rubbed one hand down to her crotch where Rio had already pulled her soaked panties down to mid-thigh. With my other hand, I pushed up her top, exposing her ripe nipples, chain and all. I plucked a nipple into my mouth, letting my tongue play along the stud before sucking in more of the breast, increasing the pressure on the nipple itself. Rio was well worked up already and now began to writhe beneath me. My free hand passed below her carefully groomed chevron-shaped pubic mound and along her clit. Her folds welcomed me like molten gold, so hot yet silky smooth to the touch. As she started to moan, Rio stuck the meat of her palm into her mouth and bit down in order to keep quiet. I spent a minute playing with her two studs in her labia before working two fingers deep inside her, twisting them, and seeking out her G-spot. “Gak!” Rio convulsed as I stroked it. Oh, yeah, I thought, as I began to seriously work it over. Rio’s fluids were sloshing around my fingers, her other hand began pressing my whole mouth over her breast, and she kept bucking up against me. I now began to alternate between rhythmically tapping her special place and brutally finger fucking her, driving two fingers in and slapping her clit with my palm. “Uh, uh, uh, ugh, ugh, um,” Rio began panting, then her body arched and she screamed into her clenched fist. “Oh, fuck, that’s good,” she finally managed to get out. Before I could respond, she grabbed my head and drew me up for a fierce kiss. She tore at my lips and tried to steal my breath away. “Tell me you want me,” she pleaded with a desperate hunger tinged with fear. “I want you, Rio, always,” I responded with my own heat and need. Slowly the passion ebbed from Rio’s eyes and a playful demeanor replaced it. “You are such a dumb blonde, Glenda,” she sighed happily. Glenda had been the name that had allowed me admission to school in the first place, Glenn Zane Braxton, Glenda. I answered by pulling my fingers out of her cunt, taking a lick, then pushing them through her lips. Rio daintily sucked on them, pulling them in and cleaning them off before biting down like the little bitch she is and making tears come to my eyes. “What the fuck!” I hissed. “That’s for not giving me your dick, Asshole,” she snickered. When I looked ready to explode, she pouted her lips, rolled onto her stomach and stuck her bare ass up in the air for a spanking. I grunted and rolled over onto my side, away from her. “Good night, you witch,” I sulked. There was some rustling behind me a minute later, then Rio snaked an arm around me and pressed her body to my back. “I’m sorry,” she whispered. “I act crazy at times.” I rolled over to face her. “I know what I’m getting into, Rio,” I comforted her. “That doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt at times.” I displayed my wounded fingers. She kissed my fingers, I kissed her lips, and we both finally went to sleep. Preacher William, Valerie, and the seeds of discord. *You can live without freedom the same way you can live without light, happiness, or music* Jill didn’t know what to make of our prompt appearance Sunday morning for breakfast already dressed for church. I’d convinced Rio to not try a hard sell with my aunt, instead playing it calm, cool, and collected. The real reason we wanted to get to church early was because I’d come up with the idea of screwing Rio on Pastor Bill’s massive mahogany desk before class and she’d become infatuated with the scheme. GAINING DEFINITION We had to remember our Bibles before eagerly heading out the door. Mine went back to my missionary days while Rio’s was brand new, a gift from Jill. She’d lost her old one on the trip from Arizona to Virginia, or so she’d told Jill. In reality, she had torn hers apart page by page and stuffed it down the airplane toilet during the flight, her way of spreading the gospel. Once at the church, we split up, Rio and I getting together a few minutes later. I was unsure about the security cameras in the hallway but Rio shrugged it off. She followed the wires to the closet the system was kept in, picked the lock, and deleted the last two hours of footage before deactivating the whole system. I was clever enough to wipe off all our fingerprints before we made for the pastor’s office. This time, Rio’s improvised, lock picks weren’t necessary as the secretary kept the door unlocked. We slipped past her station to the larger office beyond and I chased Rio around to the ‘big chair’. “So, Bad Boy, are you going to make me a Bad Girl?” Rio taunted me. I stepped up between her thighs and got ready to feast on her succulent cunt lips when she held me up. “I don’t think we have time for that,” Rio grinned. She slipped out of her panties, which I quickly pocketed (having learned from the first Barbie Lynn incident), and hopped up on the desk facing me. I unbuckled my belt, fixed the button, and unzipped my pants. My penis came smoothly out of my boxers and I lined up with Rio’s slit. Her juices were already flowing by the time my cockhead graced her full lips. “Oh, that’s what I’ve been looking for,” Rio moaned, as I pushed forward inch after glorious inch inside her. She wrapped her arms around my neck and came close to doing the same with her legs around my waist by the time I was fully into her. I got a few half-thrusts into Rio, our faces only inches apart, when I began to push her back down on the desk. “No, I want to look into your eyes,” she told me. I nodded and started driving my cock in a strong steady rhythm. “Rio,” I said softly. “Yes,” she breathed heavily. “I like saying your name,” I explained. “I like the sound of it and the way it makes me feel.” “I, ” I was sure she was fighting for a snarky reply but then she smiled and said, “Okay.” “Oh. God, Oh, Fuck,” Rio gasped, as we began, getting her close to climax. I stopped when I first heard the voices. “What?” Rio panted. I pulled her off the desk and looked for a place to hide. There were three other doors out of the room. I took the closest, yanked up my pants, and dragged Rio to it. It turned out to be a large closet with vestments, coats, and a few changes of clothing inside. Before I could finish shutting the door, Rio put her hand in the way. Before I could inquire why, the main office door opened and in came Pastor Bill and Lance Wellington. They were yammering on about something or other; I really wasn’t paying attention. All that changed after Pastor Bill took his seat behind the desk and swiveled it to the side. Lance came around the desk and knelt before our spiritual leader. His body blocked my visual but I heard a zipper being undone and some clothes being pushed aside. What Lance proceeded to do was clear enough, though. Rio was between me and the door; she looked over her shoulder and grinned evilly. Before long, she had my cock in her hand and was maneuvering it back to her pussy from behind. I moved my hips down, she arched up, and I slipped back into the hole I’d been in not a minute before. I stayed still while Rio began to ride my cock up and down. There we were, two very different couples separated by less than a dozen feet, both fucking in different ways. Lance was giving Pastor Bill oral attention in a manner that dictated long familiarity to not only cock-sucking, but blowing Pastor Bill in particular. Rio had one hand placed against the door sill in order to stop us from spilling out of the closet while the other was tucked against her stomach. The four of us were pushing toward climax but Pastor Bill was the first one to the trigger. I was still feeling the oily smoothness of my cock inside Rio’s vagina while rubbing both breasts through her shirt and bra when Lance began chocking and sputtering. The bastard hadn’t even warned Lance that he was cumming. Good ole Pastor Bill reached across the desk to grab two Kleenex. As he did so, his other hand came down to rest on a slick spot Rio and I had left on his desk. He looked at his hand with disgust and wiped it off his hand before handing a tissue to Lance. “Get going to class,” Pastor Bill told his cock-sucking companion. “Of course, Pastor William,” Lance responded as he cleaned his face. As he headed to the door, he turned to the preacher. “Do I have to do another marriage counseling session with Felicity? She is so damn annoying,” he whined. “Lance, you are going to have to keep up appearances and that means spending the occasional night with her,” Pastor Bill lectured him. “As distasteful as she is, she is the socially acceptable choice for your spouse if you plan to have a political career.” “I wish this whole marriage thing was over with already,” Lance sighed. “Then I could stick her in the house and get her out of my life.” “Remember, a woman is a duty, but you know how to get your pleasure. Take your pill when you have to lay with her, and if nothing else, use her back door,” he chuckled. “I suppose so,” Lance conceded, “but I’ll have to shut her up. She blathers on and on incessantly and her voice is so grating.” “Well,” Pastor Bill laughed, “you can always use her mouth too.” Lance snorted and left the room; Bill followed a minute later. For our part, the whole exchange between Pastor Bill and Lance got Rio hotter and hotter. She was rocketing back against me until I was afraid the slapping of our flesh would alert our host to our presence. Once he was gone, Rio went off. “Fuck me, damn it,” Rio exulted. “I’m going to rape their asses.” I wasn’t sure how that would work. It wasn’t like Rio’s or my word would go all that far. I decided to spin her back around and kick her leg up over my arm so I could fuck her while gazing into her eyes. The first thing I noticed was the sheer joy etched all over her face. The second thing I noted was her phone in hand, set on record. There was going to be some severe damage over this and I had to do damage control, but first I had to screw Rio to orgasm. “Ah, ah, ah,” Rio moaned. “You are churning me up inside, you fucking brute. This is so fucking good.” “And the video?” I inquired. “Fucking brilliant,” she panted, “My best idea yet.” I drilled Rio several more strong strokes and she gripped me tightly and sexually exploded on me. She kept squeezing my cock with her vaginal muscles as I came in her as she was still cresting her wave. “Oh, Zane,” she wept tears of joy on my shoulder, “You make all this other shit bearable.” “No problem, bro,” I sighed happily, “but we need to talk about the video.” “Yeah,” she snorted, “you have a plan. I’m going to bypass me having a temper-tantrum and get straight to you making me happy with how clever you are.” “We find more ways to bring Felicity over to our side, then hit her with this when she’s wavering,” I detailed. “We still need credibility and that’s going to take Barbie Lynn on our side. Once we get Felicity, we can get Mrs. Wellington too. That gives us access to everyone in the church.” I set Rio onto her feet and handed her panties too her. Rio shimmied into them and grinned. “Now I’m all sloshy inside. Is that thing a damn fire hydrant?” “You weren’t complaining a minute ago,” I countered. “I’m not complaining, but all those bitches in class are going to know I’ve been fucked,” she snickered. “Who are you going to blame?” I wondered. “Pastor William, our glorious shepherd; I can describe just what his cock looks like now,” she grinned manically. “I think we are back to that whole 'credibility’ issue,” I reminded her. “You aren’t going to let me have any fun,” Rio pouted. “Well, work on this; I’m pretty sure Lance isn’t the only guy here that the pastor is using. Lance was a tool, nothing more,” I told her. “It could be fun to find out who his other toys are.” “I hate you for having a better idea than me,” Rio giggled, “but I love your deviant mind more.” “I love you too, Baby,” I said as I brushed her cheek. “Let’s get to class before they get to ridicule us for arriving late.” Rio grabbed my hand and sprinted with me out of the office. We were late to class but only just. This time I’d studied so Mr. Coleman wasn’t able to humiliate me, though some wise-ass taunted me about being on a women’s committee. “Yes, I do,” I confirmed, “and what committee are you on?” “Athletics committee,” he sneered. I gave him a shit-eating grin right back that gave him pause. “So I hang out with a bunch of MILF’s, which is a pretty red-blooded American male thing to do, while you hang out with a bunch of guys, which is pretty homo-erotic,” I chuckled. There was a deafening silence in the room. We had broken up for church service and a few guys were almost out the door. The target of my aggression was first stunned, then angry. “Mr. Braxton, that is quite enough out of you,” Mr. Coleman snapped. “I’m sorry about that, Mr. Coleman. I thought he was ribbing me about my committee so I teased him back about his; I wasn’t serious,” I lied. Andy, the guy who’d given me a hard time, elected that moment to get in my face. “That wasn’t funny, Braxton,” he snapped. Mr. Coleman remained conspicuously silent. “Gosh, Andy,” I quipped, “I don’t know where to begin. How about, we are in a House of God and shouldn’t be raising a fist against one another.” “If that doesn’t work, do understand that you get the first punch, then I break you like a twig,” I continued with eagerness written all over my face. “You are an elementary school teacher and I have years of martial arts experience.” Andy suddenly paled. “Mr. Braxton,” Coleman growled again. “How dare you threaten somebody?” “Um, Mr. Coleman, Andy got in my face, so what exactly are you getting on my case about? Wouldn’t the situation be better served if you stopped him in the first place?” I said. “Andy should be able to take a joke better,” another guy in my class, Christopher Gilbert, joined in. “Besides, Zane’s right; the wives on the committee are attractive and their husbands are lucky men.” That seemed to end the matter because Chris Gilbert was the son of somebody and carried weight in this crowd. We continued to depart but I felt obliged to stop Chris. “Thanks, but I’m not sure why you just backed me up there,” I questioned. “Maybe you’re not such a bad guy,” he grinned. I had to think that over. I barely knew Christopher Gilbert. He was 23, son of a big real estate guy, he was a property manager, whatever that was. “I have to appreciate the timing of your epiphany,” I joked. “It came to me late Thursday night when I had a security issue at one of my properties,” he grinned. Oh, crap. His daddy must own the mall where I had that little altercation. “Sorry if I cost you a good night’s sleep,” was all I could say. “Let me say that, 'damn, you’re fast,’ and it would have been mean of me to let Andy get his ass handed to him in front of all his friends,” Chris related. “He’s really not a bad guy either.” “I’ll keep that in mind,” I nodded. We were making our way to the church hall when Rio, Iona, and Barbie Lynn intercepted us. “Hey, Ms. Masters,” Chris said to Barbie Lynn. He looked at the other two girls. “Christopher Gilbert, this is Rio Talon and Iona Becket, two of my classmates and closest friends,” I introduced my buddies. “So, Chris, how do you know Barbie-licious?” Rio smirked. “Huh?” Chris said. “Rio has an intense sense of humor, Chris,” I intervened. “Pay her no mind.” Before Rio cold make things worse, I placed an arm behind her and pinched her butt. “Behave,” I warned her. “Okay, Zane,” Chris chuckled. “Good luck with that one. To answer your question: I know Ms. Masters from a few years back at a youth retreat. We were both counselors. Take care now.” He turned and walked off to his section of the tabernacle while the girls and I went off to ours. “So, Barbie, were you hot for Chris back at camp?” Rio persisted. “Chris? Nah, he had a girlfriend back then; they both went to the University of Virginia. I think they broke up right before they graduated but I’m not sure,” Barbie Lynn informed us. “Besides, I had a fiancé too.” “Had? Have you tossed him over for Zane?” Rio teased. I sighed and Barbie Lynn blushed. “Nah, Shugah, I tossed him over for you,” Barbie Lynn whispered into Rio’s ear. “Just for that tantalizing tease, no Honey Glaze for those hot crossed buns of yours,” Rio bantered right back. “Am I the only one who remembers we are in a church?” lectured Iona. “No, you are not,” Christina surprised us. “Now stop trying to make a scene and sit down with the rest of us.” We dutifully obeyed because three of us respected Christina and I had one of Rio’s arms twisted behind her back. At the end of service there was no problem getting the gang to go down to the space between the pews and the podium where the important people gathered. I caught Pastor William shooting me a hooded look but I blew him off. I was here for someone else, as was Barbie Lynn and Rio. Iona was tagging along to make sure we kept out of too much trouble. “Hey, Sahara,” I greeted the pastor’s wife, who hovered near but wasn’t part of the action. “Why, hello, Zane,” she smiled. “Did you enjoy the service?” “I’m still a little fuzzy on the message of seeking wisdom in God’s word instead of Man’s technology,” I grinned. “After all, I have an app that gives me helpful Bible verses on demand.” “I think you missed the point, Zane,” she shook her head with mirth. “We need to trust the Word of God over the simple technological solutions that fail to take in the moral implications of the results.” “Wow, when you say it that way, it makes sense,” I applauded. Sahara blushed and gave me another smile. Rio and Barbie Lynn had closed in on Felicity, allowing Iona and I to come up behind Mrs. Wellington. I put my hand on the small of her back and positioned myself at her side. “Hello, Mrs. Wellington,” I greeted her. I knew her first look at me would define a lot about how she felt about last night. “Zane,” she beamed at me. “How are you doing today?” “Better now,” I grinned. “I just wanted to say that I’m downloading those files we discussed when I get to campus this afternoon.” “Oh,” Mrs. Bainbridge sneered, “is Mr. Braxton working on a special project already?” “Zane,” Rochelle Wellington smiled to her rival sweetly, “send Kendra a copy of the notes you showed me. Kendra, Zane has a talent for 3-D imagery that the committee will find quite useful. I thought you might find it nice to have our newest member showing some interest.” “Oh, it is his interest that I’m worried about,” Kendra commented, with a pretty obvious look toward Sahara. Before I could respond to that jab, I felt a hand on my shoulder trying to pull me around. “Pastor William wants a word with you,” Lance informed me. “Okay,” I shrugged, then turned back to Kendra. “Mrs. Bainbridge, I admit that it is my fault that I find Mrs. Penny to be kinder, more compassionate, and more spiritually understanding than you. She is a gentle soul who better relates to what a young man needs.” “Pastor William wants to see you now,” Lance insisted. “That’s nice, Lance. I’m talking to your mother,” I said dismissively. “Rochelle, thank you for agreeing to mentor me; I appreciate you helping me understand this Church and this community by taking some of your valuable time to listen to my ideas.” “Ladies, have a nice Sunday. Okay, Lance, let’s go see what Pastor Bill wants now,” I told him. “His name is Pastor William,” Lance corrected me somewhat angrily. “No, his name is William Penny and he happens to be a pastor,” I jibed. Lance’s response was stymied by our arrival at Pastor Bill’s circle of cronies. “Ah, Glenn,” Bill greeted me. “I would like to invite you to dine with my wife and I tomorrow night.” I was smart enough to know that wasn’t really an invitation, but still, “I’d like to but this week is our first round of testing for the semester so I’m not sure I can break free,” I answered. “You find time enough for other things, like jail,” he lectured me in a personally degrading matter. “Pastor William, as you will learn about me, people who cross me or threaten the ones I hold dear, I beat bloody and leave broken on the ground,” I smiled evilly right back. The confusion that threat caused was evident because I hadn’t been quiet. “Jesus loves the Peacemaker,” Pastor Bill bantered back. “Winners write the history books,” I countered. “That is not very Christian of you,” Mr. Wellington, the Mayor, pointed out. “Jesus Christ ended up nailed to a cross; Emperor Constantine, who converted the whole Roman Empire to Christ’s worship, got to build his own city,” I responded. “I won’t be as famous but I’ll do more and get to bury my enemies before I die,” I added. “Are you sure you were a missionary in Thailand?” another church elder asked. “Oh, I was a missionary all right, but not a very good one. I left the hard work to my Uncle Tim and Aunt Jill,” I informed them. “Did they convert many heathen souls to the World of our Lord?” a third man inquired. “It is not that simple. They taught people to read English and got them in the practice of reading the Bible,” I explained. “They have over a thousand years of culture to work against and many of the tenants of Buddhism are close to our own Christian virtues so it is hard work.” “So that would be a 'No’,” Pastor Bill gloated. “Really?” I grinned. “When Uncle Tim went missing, 200 of his flock risked floodwaters in an eventually futile effort to save him. How many of us would risk drowning to save you, Pastor William? I would say that when lives were on the line, his flock did their Christian duty.” I noticed Jill standing on the edge of the group listening, her eyes close to tears. Hey, I hated Tim, but I wasn’t going to let these spineless bastards degrade the man in front of his widow, no matter how I felt. “I’m sure we would all rise to the challenge,” Mr. Wellington pontificated. “Then you are as good a man as Uncle Tim,” I trapped him with his own words. “Your Uncle Tim gave everything, including his life,” Pastor Bill said with a smug, superior smile. “His willingness to give should be an example for all.” “I’m already giving. The Festivities Committee’s budget seems a bit anemic so I’m going to be funding some of their efforts,” I enlightened him. “That is not how tithes are normally handled,” Pastor Bill corrected me. “I’m not a normal guy,” I grinned. “Pastor, I’ll look over my schedule and call your house to let you know if I can swing dinner tomorrow. It has been a wonderful chat but I have to be going now.” I turned and left them there, confident I hadn’t made any friends among Bill’s inner circle. The price of their friendship was way more than I was willing to pay and it wasn’t just monetary. My girls swarmed around me, even Jill. “Thank you, Zane,” Jill said softly. “Tim would have been proud.” “Jill, I said that for you, not him. You stood by him and that shouldn’t be trampled on by people who don’t know any better,” I comforted her. “I was getting ready to cry out 'Blood and Souls for my Lord Arioch,” Rio grinned. “Why did you antagonize them?” Iona wondered. “They are used to bullying people and getting their way. I let them know I was more than willing to fight,” I told Iona. “He also wanted the women to see what he was doing,” Barbie Lynn said. “I saw a few females, Felicity included, who thought a great deal of how Zane handled the situation.” “Girls love watching men fight over them,” Rio laughed as we exited into the parking lot. “Is everyone coming to our place for lunch?” Jill asked. I took a quick look around the girls who nodded their approval. “Sure thing, Jill; we will be at home in an hour,” I answered. Getting back to campus and into casual clothes wasn’t a problem, nor was lunch with Jill. We sat around and shot the shit for an hour afterwards but school work demanded that we head back to school to do some actual classwork. I went by Raven’s to pick her up because she’d left me a text (by way of Iona) that she’d made some progress over the weekend. “We really should study in the library,” Raven told me as we headed to my room. “The last time I checked, the library didn’t have a snack bar,” I told her. Raven was less than convinced and a bit nervous until we opened the door to the bottom of the steps leading to the Solarium where I lived and the voices of multiple girls welcomed us. “You have company?” she questioned me. “All freshmen are welcome in my room, Raven. You’ll see,” I informed her. “Is there going to be anyplace for us to study, ” Raven began to confound me, then we came to the point where you could see past the side of the stairs into the Solarium. “Oh, God,” she muttered at the scope of the room, “you, you have pool tables!” she ended up in a near squeal. “I love pool!” She took a few steps forward into the room before looking back at me. “What is all this? Where did this all come from?” “I was given the entire Solarium as my room, sort of, and I decided to convert most of it to a common area for the freshman class,” I said. “How long has this been going on?” she wondered. “We did it yesterday,” Iona said from the closest sofa. She put down her laptop and walked over to us. “Zane paid for the stuff and we students put it in. Let me show you around.” “You do that, Iona,” I told her, as I gave my diminutive friend a hug, “I’ll be in my room.” Iona led Raven deeper into the complex of entertainment while I headed to my room, which seemed to be the quietest place to study today. Valerie I passed around the Chinese silk screens that shielded my private area from the rest of the Solarium and saw my new monster-sized bed. I also saw the tall, honey-blonde Amazon reclining on it, looking my way. “Come here, my Love-Monkey,” she said in a deep, husky voice. I’m sure my mouth gaped open. “Ah, I don’t believe we’ve been introduced,” I managed to finally say. She smiled and patted the bed beside her. “You are seriously hot and I’m positive I’d remember you if we’d met, but I don’t and I do need to study so I’m going to ask you to please leave,” I groaned. “Trust me, I really don’t want to be asking you that either.” I heard laughter from the far side of the bed and Rio slowly raised her body into sight. “Bro, the look on your face is priceless,” she chuckled. “So this is really your room?” the other girl inquired. “I told you it was,” Rio grinned. “Yes, it is,” I responded as well. “In fact, this entire floor is mine, mainly because the Administration has nowhere else to stick me.” “Rio, what’s going on here?” I turned to my other friend. “Honest, Boss,” she beamed, “I found her when I got home. She’s my new dorm mate, your replacement.” “You were her first roommate?” the newcomer asked. “For all of one night,” I confessed. “Then everyone realized she had boobies, and I didn’t, and I developed this current life of seclusion.” “This is your version of seclusion?” she questioned. “What can I say?” I sighed. “I’m a man of creature comforts. That still doesn’t explain you on my bed. Rio?” “She is Valerie Palmer, a new addition to the school,” Rio started, “but that’s not the cool part. She’s a member of the Stormriders motorcycle gang.” Seeing my lack of name recognition, Rio added, “They are a big deal in the West, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizona, of course.” “Nice to meet you, Valerie.” I knelt on the bed and extended my hand. “I’m Glenn Zane Braxton, but everyone calls me Zane. Welcome to FFU, and what brought you to us?” “Dad is a born-again Christian and he wanted me to come here, so here I am,” she shrugged. Now, to me that made no sense, as she should have been eighteen, thus her own person, but who was I to press into her personal matters. “Damn it, Zane, I keep forgetting you were living in a cave for the past two years,” Rio shook her head. “Her grandfather is Daniel 'Damien’ Palmer.” Again, I didn’t know who that person was. “My grandfather is doing three life sentences,” Valerie said with a degree of weariness. “Fine. I should take it the Stormriders are not a motorcycle club, then,” I grinned at her. Valerie’s eyes and mine locked for several seconds. “Are you arrogant, stupid, or really unconcerned?” Valerie asked me. “A little of all three,” Rio chimed in. “You should never ask a man if he’s arrogant because if he is, he won’t know it,” I responded. “I’m smart enough to get into this university, but them I’m dumb enough to be the only guy at this university,” I continued. “I can honestly tell you I really don’t care who you were before you came here. It is none of my damn business. If you want to be friends, I’m game.” Valerie nodded. “Oh, and Rio is a nutjob, but if you hurt her, I’ll make you suffer, I swear it.” “Is that supposed to scare me, rich boy?” Valerie said, becoming very serious and sitting up, “because I’m not impressed.” “I didn’t say it to impress you, Valerie,” I met her gaze, “I believe in fair warning. I don’t care if you are damaged goods or you are one stone-cold, bad-ass bitch; you mess with Rio and I’ll take her pain out of your hide.” “Rio, I thought you told me this guy was cool,” Valerie said to Rio while still looking at me. “Best guy in the whole God-damn world,” Rio beamed. “Zane, have you ever stabbed somebody?” Valerie quizzed me. “On purpose or by accident?” I asked. “How do you stab someone by accident?” Valerie wondered. “You toss their ass into a stand of bamboo so hard the stalks break and they get impaled,” I answered. “I take it you’ve done it on purpose.” She shrugged. “Do you fight much?” she changed tact. “More than I should,” I replied, “but I butt in where I don’t belong too much.” “Me too,” Valerie nodded, “on the 'I fight more than I should’ thing.” “Well, I would rather talk shit upfront than spill blood later,” I pointed out. “Like warning me about Rio,” she nodded. “Please believe me, she’s a nut and will get on your nerves, so please don’t toss her out a window or down the stairs because I’m actually attached to her,” I grinned. Rio flopped on the bed. “I should be mouthing empty denials but Zane’s pretty much right,” Rio snickered, “and if he hadn’t fucked me silly on the preacher’s desk this morning, I’d be in his face about this bullshit.” “You had sex on your preacher’s desk?” Valerie smiled. “Zane, what are these girls, what the hell?” Raven went off. “What kind of bedroom is this?” “Raven, you know Rio and this is her new roommate Valerie. Valerie, this is Raven,” I groaned. “Hey, Raven,” Valerie greeted her. “So do you normally walk into Zane’s bedroom too?” “No,” Raven blushed. “He invited me over to do some work on our English project.” Iona stepped in behind Raven and waved to Rio. “Iona, Valerie; Valerie, Iona,” I sighed. “Wait!” Valerie raised her hand and looked back to me. “Are you gay? Because I see a lot of girls strolling into your room and none of them have been identified as your girlfriend yet.” “Technically, that would be Heaven,” Iona volunteered. “She’s a senior.” “Can we get back to everyone being in Zane’s room?” Raven grumbled. “And what is he doing with a bed as big as my entire room back home?” Valerie appraised the room. “Got it,” she laughed. “You are sleeping with her (Iona) and her (Rio), but not you (Raven).” “Of course I’m not sleeping with him,” Raven shot back. “I took a Purity Pledge, as should all of you.” “I’m not a virgin,” Valerie responded. “Me, either,” Rio waved. “I am,” Iona raised her hand. “That’s nice,” I directed. “Rio, Valerie, and Iona, please leave. I’ve invited Raven to my room so we can do actual classwork because I occasionally like to pretend I’m in college for an education.” “On it, Zane,” Rio snickered. “Come on, Valerie, let’s go check out the hot tub. I wanted to show you to Zane so he could put you on his 'To Do’ list.” Iona shook her head and left. “I’ve got a boyfriend,” Valerie clarified. “Thank God,” I muttered, which drew looks from all three women. After Rio and Val left, Raven kept staring at me. “I, does this happen to you often?” she finally asked. “Yes, but I’ve learned to adjust,” I pointed out. We sat down on the bed, Raven pulled out four library books on the period we were looking into, and we began going through them and taking notes. “Is Heaven really your girlfriend?” Raven asked after a while. “Yes, but it is more complicated than that. I love another girl but I don’t know if she loves me, and I spend time with a dozen other girls here, plus I have friends at a Sorority House off campus,” I explained. “And you sleep with Rio, who isn’t a virgin, and Iona, who is,” she stated, and I confirmed with a nod. “I was wrong. If you can keep all that straight in your head, you have a good grasp of details. We are going to do fine on this term paper.” “Thank you, Raven,” I smiled at her, and for a change, she smiled back. GUST FRONT I would have liked to spend the night with Iona and Barbie Lynn but Iona informed me that Coach Dana Gorman had tested her security code earlier in the day and I figured something was up; nothing good for me and my friends. Sure enough, at 12:10 in the morning, my little buzzer by the bed that informed me that a key code was being entered woke me up. I silenced the alarm (no sense in letting them know that I had it) and waited in bed. Shortly thereafter, the Coach and two female security guards came strolling in. “Alone?” Dana quipped. “You asking me out?” I grinned. “Get up; we need to check the bed, if that is what you call this thing,” she motioned to my sleeping platform. I dutifully got out of bed. “What are you doing?” she snapped when she realized I was naked. “Getting out of bed like you asked me to. I sleep in the nude, or didn’t you already know that?” I yawned. “Put some clothes on,” she ordered. I picked up my robe and put it on while they stripped back my sheets and looked for bodily fluids under the dark light. I had been at my Aunt’s the past two nights, so yes, my bed was still fresh. Unsatisfied, Dana and her two buddies began roughly going over my place. When they finally discovered nothing (my hiding places were specifically designed), the two officers turned and left. “I’ll be keeping an eye on you, Zane. You can expect this to be a regular occurrence,” she promised. I simply stared. We remained looking at one another for a minute because she knew I was up to something. “That’s right, step out of line and make my job easier,” she noted. Again I kept my silence. It would have been easy to take this personally but I’d told her this was War and I took that seriously. I doubted I was the sole beneficiary of their attention so I had to get ready to respond to their next move. “Nothing to say?” she asked. I kept staring. “Say something, damn it,” she growled. “Good night, Coach,” I obliged. She shook her head, turned, and walked away. When I saw the door close behind her I went back to my room and took out my phone. I made three calls to the concerned parties and a final call to Iona, to have her wipe my call log. I can’t say I slept well that night. Showering in the morning was troublesome enough on normal days but this morning, Rio decided to invite Valerie to join us. I did my best to pretend to ignore her, which wasn’t easy. Valerie was around six feet with milky skin where the sun didn’t reach and tanned where it did. Her hair was golden-blonde and she was trimmed, not shaved. Her eyes were grey with a hint of blue around the edges; he breasts were a solid C without a hint of sag. There sure were a lot of blondes going to this school. I could see the mental calculations going through her head as she walked in and the other girls eyed her. In the hierarchy of this place, I didn’t hold a place; proximity to me showed a girl’s status among the crowd. Opal was top dog, but Rio and Iona were marked by their close relationship with me as well. Valerie clearly thought about walking away from it all to spare herself the drama and the grief. She countered that with the knowledge that she had to fit in somewhere in this school, and as non-traditional as she was, her best bet was with us. She answered that internal struggle by taking the shower one down from me, next to Opal. Opal expressed her dominance to Valerie by corralling me into a body massage and a show of mutual affection. I thought Valerie was unimpressed with those actions but as we got into it, I sensed she was intrigued by the notion of having sex without actually having sex, and the sexual arousal that came with it. As I settled in front of the sink to brush my hair, shave, and brush my teeth, Valerie took the sink beside me. “You don’t seem to mind all these naked bodies around you,” she noted. “Why should I? I enjoy them and they enjoy me. I like making them happy, and my presence certainly makes their lives more difficult so I’m glad to help,” I explained. “So, do things ever go to the next level?” Valerie asked. “Not here, and not with most of these women; they are virgins and happy about that fact. They want to be virgins on their wedding nights and I respect that,” I answered. “Rio makes you out to be some sort of sex-crazed stud monster,” Val informed me. “Rio’s not a virgin and her only plans for marriage involve her being a black widow to her old, rich husbands,” I grinned. “Is she, bi-sexual?” Valerie whispered. “Yes, I can verify that she is,” I replied quietly. “Has she hit on you yet? Wait, silly question, have you thrown her out of your bed yet?” “This morning I found her sucking on my nipple through my nightshirt,” she smirked. “Rio needs constant reminding of where the boundaries are,” I informed Val. “You two talking about me?” Rio came bouncing up. “Is there a three-way in our future? Who gets tied up?” Valerie groaned in response. “Rio, there is such a thing as personal space and acceptable roommate behavior,” I told Rio. “Things like spontaneously feeling her up while she sleeps are BAD!” “God, damn it!” Rio squalled, “But did you see the size of those bad boys? They are huge and puffy and I swear, they were calling out to me across the room.” “In my long and illustrious career with the female nipple, they have never talked to me. If you don’t behave, I’m going to have to tie you up at the next orgy and make you watch,” I warned. I couldn’t threaten to take away something she had, like her piercings; that would make her dig in her heels. Instead, I went after the things she was looking forward to. “Don’t forget to secure her hands over her head so she can’t diddle herself,” Valerie got into the sport of things. “Good point,” I agreed. “Major buzz-kill, you two. Valerie, you are trying to make your first day here no fun at all,” Rio teased. “Which reminds me; Valerie, has Rio warned you about Handmaiden’s Duty?” I inquired. Rio looked offended that I would say such a thing while Val looked confused. “It is a tradition here that requires all freshmen to perform a task of a non-damaging nature for any and all upperclassmen. They cannot grab you in class or a dorm room, but anywhere else is fair game,” I informed her. “My first task was to be a bench for someone to sit on,” Rio grinned. “Mine was to kiss a girl,” I nodded. “Kiss her? Cordelia damn near passed out, you kissed her so long and deep,” Rio teased me. “The first one was very nice and chaste,” Iona stepped up and added. “It was the second one that curled her toes and started the stampeded on Zane.” “What do I do if a girl asks me to kiss her?” Valerie worried. “Tell her you are waiting for your herpes to clear up,” Rio volunteered. “It isn’t likely to happen,” Iona came across with sounder advice. “Homosexuality is frowned on at this campus.” “I’d tell you to kiss them and enjoy the moment, but I’m a guy,” I shrugged. “I’m still not sure what is normal for this place,” Valerie related. “Rio and Zane are aberrations,” Iona offered. “Most of the girls here are fundamentalist Christian virgins who are looking to get married once they graduate this place.” “What is your story?” Val asked Iona. “I was pretty much the girl I just described until I met these two,” she smiled. “Now I feel that I have, options.” “Options like prison time,” Rio laughed, “or becoming a sex toy at an S&M club.” “I was thinking more like taking a summer and roaming the country,” Iona glared Rio. “Maybe I could teach you to ride a motorcycle and you can come with me,” Valerie offered. “That would be wonderful!” Iona brightened up. “When could we start?” “This afternoon, if you like,” Val responded. “My ride is in the parking lot.” “You have a motorcycle, here?” Rio exclaimed. “Rio, it is hard to be in a motorcycle gang without a chopper,” Valerie pointed out. “On that note, I have to go,” I sighed. New girls were starting to migrate in, meaning I had to retreat to my room. “Take care, everyone.” The crapstorm The crapstorm fell on us as we left the dorm. All kinds of upperclassmen snatched up freshmen as they appeared and shadowed Pro-Christina students they couldn’t grab. Rio and I were able to shove off of Valerie before she was identified as being with one of us, so she made it to the Dining Hall unmolested. I didn’t have to do anything too heinous, carry three backpacks while reciting the Gospel of Luke from memory (ugh). They made Rio sing 'Onward Christian Soldier’ because it was the only religious song she’d admit to knowing. She did a horrific hack-job of it too. They had Iona going through the descendants of Noah; she knocked them back flawlessly, Brainiac. It got better at the Dining Hall door where Rhaine oversaw the removal of every electronic device from the incoming students, no phones, tablets or laptops, nothing capable of rapid communication. Then came the assigned seating designed to break us all up. Surprisingly, Valerie looped back around and joined us in the line. She leaned into me. “What the fuck is going on?” she whispered. “There is a war going on between the Pro-Christina faction Rio, Iona and I belong to, and the Pro-Rhaine faction, which is supported by the Administration. I didn’t want to get you involved,” I explained as I saw Mrs. Marlowe closing in. “Mr. Braxton, be quiet,” she snapped. “Of course, Ms. Marlowe,” I nodded to her; she glared back. We had assigned seating for breakfast, isolating us. Conversations were kept to a minimum by roving teachers and the mood was getting grim, made worse by a slow drizzle that began to fall outside. Still, things weren’t hopeless. As I was putting my food tray away, Paige of the Science Club slipped past me. “Copper Seven,” she whispered. Cordelia, head of the Science Club, was definitely the smartest person on campus. She’d created a list of contingency plans for us to use if things went bad. We should have been getting them on our phones but the Chancellor had stymied us there. Instead, things were circulating by word of mouth. In this case, Copper Seven, things were simple. Copper meant theft and Seven was the code for communications. We were stealing the facility’s phones, crashing their computers, and doing whatever mischief we could to make communications difficult, if not impossible. I had the pleasure of passing the word on to Rio, who gave me a look that would have made any brigand with a handful of gold proud. I didn’t know the specifics of Rio’s criminal history but I knew she definitely had one, and I’d have been stunned if pickpocket and shoplifting weren’t part of her repertoire. I’d warned Coach Gorman about making shit like this fascist suppression policy up. I barely recalled what I was forced to perform on the way to Assembly because what happened there was so memorable. We got the standard lecture, then the Chancellor laid into Christina for all the disruptions the student body was going through, Christina and a few other malcontents. What made it memorable was, at the end of Dr. Bass’s speech, a freshman I barely knew, Millicent Pierce, stood up and raised her fist in defiance. “That’s bullshit!” she cried out. “Sit down and be quiet, child!” the Chancellor commanded. “Coach Gorman,” she then directed our head of security toward the young girl. Millicent wasn’t done yet. “You are lying to us!” she screamed out again. As Gorman and a second teacher made their way to our young rebel, Rio stood up with a raised fist. “Shame!” Rio called out. A dozen of us followed suit. Teachers flooded off the stage but Cappadocia figured out that if you joined up with other girls and linked arms, they couldn’t drag you out. Girls were screaming at girls, shoving began, and soon blows were being exchanged and Assembly degenerated to a nasty furball. We were threatened with demerits, detention, and finally expulsion, but nothing seemed to curtail the conflict. I saw Ms. Goodswell leave the melee and go to the base of the podium and begin to plead with Bass about something. I could see that Goodswell was trying to get the Chancellor to let Christina come onto the stage and quiet her followers but our Glorious Leader wouldn’t budge. Christina could see the gestures and I knew she was about to end things anyway. There was something I had to do before things fell apart. I leapt up and began using the backs and arm rests to jump across the crowd. I made it to Millicent right ahead of Gorman. Millicent seemed stunned to see me hovering over her but it was too noisy to communicate. I pulled her up and retreated back the way I’d come, keeping her out of Gorman’s clutches for the moment. “Thanks,” she grinned at me. “Who is your Spiritual Advisor?” I responded. “We need to get you to her so you don’t face the Chancellor alone.” “Ms. Trenton,” Millicent responded. Ms. Trenton wasn’t one of the 'good guys’ but she wasn’t on our enemies list either. I located Trenton and angled us toward her. “This is crazy,” Millicent gasped. After all, if we tumbled, we might very well break our necks. Ms. Trenton didn’t look happy to see either one of us but she immediately clued into why I was dropping her student off on her. She grabbed Millicent by the arm and led her away. This was a good thing because our rebellion was about spent for the moment. A minute later we had quieted down. Dr. Bass threatened us with a whole new series of punishments before exiling us off to our first classes. I had the joy of getting hate blasted my way by both the Chancellor and Coach Gorman. I didn’t have long to dwell on it because the moment we stepped out, a new group of upperclassmen descended on us freshmen. “Walk the other way or I’ll feed you your lungs,” growled Rio as she stepped in front of a group of us and stared down a slightly larger group of students. At times like this, I really wish Rio knew how to fight. On the other hand, she plays 'crazy’ real well and it takes a certain desire to experience pain to confront her. After the melee we’d been through, the other students backed off. I was halfway through my first class, English Lit with Ms. Goodswell, when the door burst open and my albino pseudo-friend Paige burst in. The Expulsion “Zane, they are expelling Heaven,” she gasped. “They are walking her off campus right now.” I jumped out of my seat and shot Ms. Goodswell a look. She didn’t bother telling me not to go and I was spared the necessity of ignoring her. I really liked her and I would have hated to show her disrespect. Paige and I went racing out of the building, her trying to update me about what had happened through her wheezing and gulping of each breath. She must have been running her ass off because the second I found out that they’d called Heaven a taxi and were getting ready to ship her out at that very moment, I had to leave Paige behind and beat feet for the parking lot. On the way I breezed past Dana Gorman. “Zane!” she called out. “Zane, stop!” I had no intention of doing any such thing. I found Heaven with two campus security guards and Joy Jefferson lugging her luggage along. “Heaven,” I grabbed her since my arrival allowed me to surprise everybody. “Here, take my keys; go to Aunt Jill’s. I’ll cover it for you.” I shoved my keys into her hand. Heaven had been crying and even in the light rain, I could tell she was a mess. She was trying to make sense of what I’d said and done. A hand grabbed my arm, twisted, and forced me down at the waist. “Zane, I told you to stop. Now you are going to the Chancellor’s office with me,” Dana Gorman told me as she locked in the arm bar. “I swear, you are not even trying, ” Dana was cut off by someone catching her on the far side and flipping her on her back. Dana rolled with the blow and came back up ready to fight. “Heaven, don’t do anything,” I waved her off as I turned to face Dana, side by side with my savior. It was Valerie! WTF?! “You two, get on your knees and lace your fingers on top of your heads,” Dana told us. “Who is this?” Valerie inquired. “Coach Dana Gorman, head of security on campus,” I answered. “Well, damn it,” Valerie groaned. “I thought you were in trouble so I came running.” “Get down,” Gorman demanded. “Are we going down?” Valerie whispered to me while keeping her eyes on Dana. “We are screwed so we might as well make her earn it,” I chuckled. “Very well. Guards, taser,” Dana directed. The guards moved in position to shoot us with their drawn tasers. “Well, we are boned,” Valerie grimaced. “I’ve been tasered before and it sucks.” “I haven’t had the pleasure but I think I’m about to,” I groaned. “Drop them,” Dana ordered. As the one to my right rear got ready to shoot, a movement behind me drew her attention and she fired at it. The taser crackled but the figure came on anyway. Chastity had pulled up her backpack as a shield and let that take the brunt of the attack, and rode her momentum into the officer and slammed her into the taxi. The second guard turned to concentrate on Chastity and was blindsided by another student, Hope Song. Hope knocked the taser from her hand and flipped the officer to the ground. Joy and Heaven remained pressed against the taxi while Hope and Chastity joined Valerie and me in confronting Dana. Dana sighed, took off her jacket, and made ready to fight. “This is your last chance, students; kneel and put your hands on top of your head,” she warned us. “Is she that stupid, or that good?” Valerie asked me. “She’s that good, I’m afraid, but we can at least let her know she’s been in a fight,” I readied myself. Dana spun and kicked Hope first, knocking her flat. Valerie and I closed in rapidly and drove Dana back while Chastity tried to maneuver around so we wouldn’t get tangled up. Dana had my number and seemed to know Valerie’s style as well, but combined, we could keep her occupied. The Coach knocked me aside and pummeled Valerie but the new kid wouldn’t fold up, leaving Dana now surrounded as Chastity got behind her and Hope stood up. “Stop this!” shouted Christina as she came running up with Faith. “Christina, tell them to give up,” Dana snapped. “Shut up, Coach,” Christina yelled back. “One more word and I’m going to take specific pleasure in grinding every bone in your hand to a pulp.” That threat hung angrily in the air. “Give Zane and me a minute with Heaven and we’ll go peacefully,” Christina promised. Dana withdrew and soon it was Hope, Chastity, Faith, Christina, and me huddled around Heaven. “Zane’s letting me stay at his place,” Heaven wept. “I’ll be close.” “I’ll contact Tawny and I want you to spend time at the Kappa Sigma House, Heaven. They can be your friends,” Christina told her best friend. Heaven worked off my house key and handed me back the ring. She then folded me up in a hug. “I’ll see you soon, girlfriend,” I smiled down at her before we kissed. Heaven turned to Christina and hugged her too. Christina kissed her on the forehead, and then Chastity, Hope, and Faith all closed in for one final effort before we put Heaven in the taxi. I gave the driver my address and wished Heaven the best of luck. That done, we turned and got ready to be lead to our punishment at the Chancellor’s office. We’d attacked and/or threatened security officers. “Zane, who is the newcomer?” Christina asked. “I’m Valerie Palmer, but my Stormrider name is Valkyrie,” Val answered. “What happened?” Chastity jumped in. “I was crossing over to Admissions when I saw Zane running across campus with another woman in fast pursuit, so I went to help him. She had her hands on Zane so I flipped her off of him. Your arrival saved us from being tasered, so thanks,” Val informed them. “So, why did you make Gorman back off when the four of us couldn’t?” Val inquired. “Christina had ten years of training in MMA,” Chastity grinned. “Not enough to take Dana by herself, but with everyone else there, she was going down.” “Damn it,” I joked, “Christina, is there anything you don’t do well?” “I certainly don’t understand you,” she sighed. “It doesn’t matter, though, this is it. The Chancellor played us well and we’re done.” “We aren’t done yet,” I tried to buoy her spirits. “She expelled Heaven in such a way that we felt compelled to act. By doing so, we broke the rules, and now she can legally get rid of all of us, end of rebellion,” Christina noted. After that, we were all pretty quiet. We only waited in the Chancellor’s waiting room long enough for our varied Spiritual Advisors to show up, then we were led into her office. “I wanted to say goodbye,” Melrose Bass purred to us. “You are all officially expelled. You will be packed and off this campus by noon.” “One question,” Virginia Goodswell interrupted. “Mrs. Moore wasn’t contacted about Ms. Vickers’ expulsion; I checked. Ms. Vickers can’t suffer academic punishment without counsel.” “Mr. Vickers is a transvestite,” Bass shot back. “She falsified her admissions documentation.” “She was still accepted and therefore is afforded our traditional protections all students enjoy,” Virginia persisted. Bass shot her a dirty look. “Ms. Goodswell, that is quite enough. When the public and the Board of Directors find out that Mr. Vickers perpetrated a fraud on this school, they won’t care,” the Chancellor stated. “You can’t do that,” Christina said firmly. “I can and I will,” Bass sneered. “We are well past you having any voice on my campus.” “No,” spoke up Ms. Lane, the school’s lawyer, “you can’t release that information. Those are medical records and we’ll get destroyed in any lawsuit that is brought against us.” “He’s a boy who wears girl’s clothing,” Dr. Bass countered. “Wrong,” glared Christina. “Heaven has implants and takes drugs for her situation.” “Your problem is one of definition,” I grinned. “A person who wears the clothes of the opposite sex is a transvestite, or cross-dresser. Someone with both girl and guy parts is transgender and Heaven is transgender; release that stuff at your own peril.” “There is still the matter of you assaulting campus security officers,” Bass growled. “That’s a non-starter,” Valerie stepped up. “I initiated the fight in good faith.” “What does that mean?” Gorman spat. “You attacked me when I had Zane contained.” “Precisely,” Valerie looked Coach’s way. “You never identified yourself as a campus security officer. All I saw was a woman in a pantsuit attacking a known student; I came to his aid.” “Even so, when Zane identified me, you still resisted,” Dana responded. “Not relevant. Zane could have told me you were a Martian for all that the legal system cares. You never identified yourself to me, allowing me to continue resisting,” Valerie said in an even monotone. “Don’t even get me started on the taser,” Valerie continued. “I know you gave the command for the deploying of the weapons but that’s not enough. The firing officer has to clearly annunciate their intention to use the weapon before firing, three times. Your officers failed to do so, thus deploying the weapons in an unapproved manner, allowing our group to defend itself.” “Those guidelines are only to be used in crowd suppression. My officers were defending themselves from imminent attack,” Gorman said. “No,” Chastity grinned. “They were aiming at Zane and Valerie when I arrived on the scene and I stopped them. They never announced their intention and I assumed Zane was getting blindsided.” “You shouldn’t have been there in the first place,” Gorman growled. “You shouldn’t have been dragging Heaven away in the middle of classes before she could have a single word with any of us,” Christina countered. “You goaded us out but you didn’t count on the outcome of the struggle.” “Heaven was being moved out to avoid just such a scene,” Gorman declared. “How did that work out for you?” I snickered. Dana scowled at me. We seemed to be at an impasse. “Chancellor Bass,” Virginia broke the silence, “I am informing you that I’m going to immediately petition the Review Board to examine the expulsion of Ms. Vickers and seek an injunction that allows her to return to classes until a final decision is reached.” Any threads of civility between Ms. Goodswell and Dr. Bass evaporated but the Chancellor had to nod and accept the statement. “Dana, I think we need to review events at the parking lot before we proceed with any charges,” Hudson Lane requested. Dana grudgingly nodded. “Zane, Chastity, Hope, you are all now on three-day academic suspension. Everyone else, you are on academic probation,” Chancellor Bass announced. “Dismissed.” As we walked out, Chastity sighed, “Well, there go our first tests of the semester. We’ll all get zeros, which are going to be fun digging ourselves out of that pit.” “Look on the bright side,” Hope grinned. “We aren’t likely to finish the semester anyway.” “Yes,” Christina noted, “that makes everything so much brighter.” “Nice save, Valerie,” I congratulated our newest friend. “Yes,” said Christina, “that was very timely.” “That?” Valerie chuckled, “That was total bullshit. I’ve had a few run-ins with the law so I know some of the lingo, but most of that was a total pipedream. A decent lawyer would have picked up on that right away; we are lucky theirs is a loser.” Everyone but Valerie and I laughed. I looked embarrassed, and Valerie looked confused and a bit put off at not getting the joke. “Zane’s banging the lawyer, Ms. Lane,” Chastity told Valerie softly. “She’s on our side.” Valerie gave me an appraising look then shook her head. “Seriously, dude; is anyone on this campus safe from you?” Valerie chuckled. “You’ve got it all wrong,” Hope snickered. “Zane is like a shiny new laptop. Leave him alone in a room too long and someone’s going to come along and have to use him.” “One of these days you are going to treat me like a real person with wants, desires, and feelings,” I groaned. That earned a few weak chuckles but we all knew that things were getting worse. Chastity, Hope, and I were exiled to our rooms for the rest of the day, and I pretty much spent it in isolation. Cordelia had disabled my own private internet hookup in case my domicile was ransacked so I was left with school work to go over. At 12:30 they brought me lunch and at 6:30 a student brought me dinner. Another leadership shakeup As I was eating, there was another knock on my door. This time there was a girl I didn’t recognize from the dorm. “Yes?” “Hi, I’m Alice Hendricks, and I’m your new Dorm Mother,” this bright-eyed brunette with pigtails and a gymnast’s body greeted me. “Good for you,” I replied then started to shut the door. “Wait,” she said hurriedly. “The code you gave Barbie Lynn Masters doesn’t work.” I sighed. “Do you see that green pad beside the keypad?” I indicated the object. “Yes,” she nodded. “It is the thumb pad scanner. You enter your code and scan your thumb,” I told her. She entered the code and scanned her thumb, and nothing happened. “It doesn’t work,” she noted. I rolled my eyes. “Let’s think about this,” I groaned. “You used Barbie Lynn’s code and scanned your thumb.” I watched as the wheels turned behind her eyes. “Oh, my thumb doesn’t match the code, how is this going to work now?” she questioned. “I need to access your room.” “Fine,” I shrugged. I pushed her aside, covered the keypad with my body, and entered the proper code to generate a new number. “4-7-4-4 is your number. Punch it in and scan your thumb and you’re set.” “Good night,” I told her, and headed back upstairs. “Wait. I need to check out your room,” she informed me. I grunted, turned, and faced her. “Do you have a phone?” I asked. Alice nodded. “Can I see it?” She hesitated but handed it over. “You are one of the Enemy,” I stated. “What do you mean?” Alice asked. I handed her phone back. “The majority of the girls in this dorm don’t have phones anymore because of the Chancellor. You only have one because you are in with the Chancellor and you are pretty much going to be hated for it. Don’t get caught alone in the showers, you scumbag,” I warned her. “That’s not fair,” she declared. “Oh, we are past being fair, Alice. Now come upstairs and get your tour over with,” I shrugged. Once we got there, Alice stumbled and gasped. “How am I going to search through all of this?” she wondered. “That’s not my problem,” I told her. “I will be in my bedroom.” I went in that direction and I noted she was following me. I flopped down on my bed and listened to her low whistle. “This is your room? How did you get all this, stuff?” she inquired. “I bought all of this for the freshman class to use so we could be safe from the Handmaiden’s Duty from time to time,” I answered. The door opened and a double set of footsteps came running up the stairs. Rio and Iona came bolting into my room, stopping short when they saw Alice. “Hi, I’m Alice, your new Dorm Mother,” she stated crisply. “What are you doing in Zane’s room?” “Oh, the fuck you say?” snapped Rio. “Where the hell is Barbie Lynn?” “That is quite enough of that, Ms. Talon,” Alice demanded. “Can you please give us some space?” I requested. “No, I don’t think that would be wise,” Alice countered. “Fine, whatever,” I shrugged. “What’s the news, girls?” “They sent 40 of our people to the infirmary,” Rio said while glaring at Alice. “They preferred to shove us down stairs. Barbie Lynn hurt her knee and Pandora Jaspers bust her scalp open.” “Alice, you are going to go out and sit on the sofa now,” I told her. “No, I am not,” she responded. “This is your last chance to keep things civil, Alice,” I cautioned her. “You seem to have forgotten why I am here,” Alice replied. “I haven’t forgotten, Alice, but you clearly don’t understand the cost of that decision,” I said. “What is that supposed to mean?” she shot back. “Ladies, I’ll see you tomorrow, but we clearly aren’t going to be given any common courtesy tonight,” I told my ladies. Rio came up, kissed me hungrily, and then glared at Alice. “Cordelia needs to see you at the corner of the Clegger Building at 12:15,” Iona whispered in my ear as she hugged me. I gave her a wink as we parted. The girls left and I had to put up with Alice for an hour as she tried to make conversation and I did my best to ignore her. “Zane,” Dana Gorman called out as I reclined on a sofa and Alice skulked around. “Over here,” I motioned. “You have been temporarily reinstated by the Review Board,” she informed me. “Don’t waste this opportunity.” It was 8:00 o'clock at night so I had to wonder what discussions had taken place. “Am I supposed to be grateful?” I scoffed. “I didn’t hear an apology for treating us students so shabbily, nor Heaven being re-admitted. All you did is give us something today that you plan to take away tomorrow.” “Don’t be an idiot,” Dana snapped. “You aren’t in a position to make demands.” “Well, it was nice to see you, Dana,” I shrugged. “I am sorry about this morning. You were very impressive, by the way.” Dana shook her head in disgust and left. “You shouldn’t have been mean to Coach Gorman,” Alice scolded me. I shrugged. Alice tried to be nice, insisting she wasn’t in the way, but ended up staying with me until my last bathroom break. I pretty much hated her. *An army is one man’s courage and a thousand men’s discipline* The post-midnight meeting with Cordelia and a rag-tag group of students was probably the most insane stunt I’d pulled for some time. I thought Cordelia was nuts but my opinion was not solicited. I was wanted for my upper body strength and long reach. See, one of the Administration’s greatest tools was the school’s surveillance network. As Cordelia saw it, there was one point of weakness for the system and that was in the heart of the Security Center, the system servers that coordinated all the incoming data and video feeds. We weren’t going to sabotage it; that would be simple. No, we were going to steal it, and that’s exactly what we did. I had to admit that was the last thing Gorman would have suspected us of trying to pull off and the best part of it was that all the surveillance devices were rendered impotent because we stole the objects that held the information of our misdeeds. We stole out the back gate of the campus and buried the equipment out in the woods. LIGHTNING STRIKE I knew there would be hell to pay and I couldn’t contact my normal shower-mates so I went to the shower early and was back in bed by the time Dana Gorman stomped into my room. “You weren’t in the shower,” she growled, “but several other students were.” “Why are you angry for me not being in the shower with the girls?” I yawned. “Because it would give me leverage to make you give me back my security system, you Jackass,” she snapped. “And you blame me, why?” I slipped out of the covers, naked, and started to get dressed. Dana didn’t seem to mind looking me over. “This is no longer a game,” Dana pointed out. “You’ve stolen thousands of dollars of University property. If I can’t find things and quickly, I am going to have to bring in the Sheriff’s Department and that equals criminal charges.” “Should I take it you’ve made no progress in the assault on the students yesterday, or is their support for Christina good enough reason for you to let them suffer?” I continued. “You are being an idiot again,” Gorman accused me. “We can deal with that once you and the others stop treating this like some social experiment and get back to your studies.” “I think this is the point where we cease having anything to discuss, Coach,” I muttered. Gorman looked down at the ground and clenched her fists in frustration. “A third of the Soccer team walked off yesterday. I lost half the Karate club as well,” she ground out. “Archery disbanded, and it looks like Orienteering and Marksmanship will do the same today. I’m telling you, this is nuts. I’ve worked my ass off making this school athletically competitive and everyone is throwing that away.” “I don’t know what to tell you except that I doubt any of this would have happened if someone hadn’t been gunning for Rio on our first day,” I said. “I certainly made mistakes but you made the first one. I do have one thing I want you to think about.” “What is it?” she asked warily. “How do you like your war now?” I stated with intensity. She didn’t laugh it off this time. “You think this is going to keep going?” she questioned. “You have our backs against the wall; you are beating and expelling us,” I explained. “We don’t have many options.” “I won’t let you win,” she said evenly. “I’m afraid it is out of our hands, Dana,” I warned her. I didn’t know for sure things were going to spiral out of control but I couldn’t see any way out of it. Dana shook her head and left. Around 6:45 Alice came to escort me to breakfast. She talked; I remained quiet until I picked up Rio, Valerie, and Iona. We were crossing campus to the Dining Hall when Valerie nudged me. I looked in the same direction she was and saw Hope walking across the lawn on a definite mission. It didn’t take me a second to see where she was heading; Rhaine and two of her associates were in huddled conversation. Rhaine never saw what hit her. Hope did a spin kick to her head and sent her flying. She punched the other two, followed up with a heel kick to one and two blows to the head to the last one. Hope then swooped down, snatched up their phones, and rapidly walked away. The first attack hadn’t lasted ten seconds. “This is your last chance to get out of this,” I whispered to Valerie. “I’m sorry, Mother,” Valerie sighed. I didn’t have time to know what that meant because I figured the open nature of Hope’s attack was Christina’s way of telling the rest of us it was time to strike back for what Rhaine’s people had done to our side yesterday. I turned and clocked Alice hard enough to knock her down. “Rio, get her phone,” I hissed to my friend. Rio was surprised for a second, then jumped on Alice’s body. People around us began murmuring but most were in shock. I didn’t wait around because I had spotted a group of five of Rhaine’s people a few feet ahead. The ripples of Hope’s attack started to reach them when I kicked the first one in the back. Valerie was right at my side, flipping a second girl over before she had a chance. I saw Iona grabbing up their phones even as we fought on. The remaining three were able to turn and face us but it didn’t do them any good. We steamrolled over them, punching and kicking them into the ground. The first girl near us began to scream as I closed on the next group. This turned out to be Joy and Mercy. Valerie was about to pummel them but I held her back. “Joy, Mercy, sit on the ground and give us your phones,” I growled. They hesitated and tried to back up. “Mercy, do it,” Rio hissed. “I don’t want to see you get hurt.” That did it for Mercy, and she took to her seat and handed her phone to Rio. Rio showing compassion toward Mercy was unlooked for and something we’d have to talk about when this bout of madness ended. Joy went down beside Mercy, allowing Valerie and I to move on. By the time we closed on the fourth group, the general student body had figured out something bad was happening and parted like the Red Sea as we approached our quarry. The three girls we approached knew we were coming. I could read their disbelief in their eyes; they couldn’t imagine that the attacks they’d perpetrated on our people were coming back to haunt them. One got a blow into my stomach before we finished them off, giving their downed forms a few extra kicks before heading for our last targets. There were four of them, with the added complications of a history teacher named Mrs. Cunningham who was a matronly, sixty-something-year-old instructor. They were standing at the four doors that entered into the Dining Hall and if I had been them, I would have run, but I guessed that the teacher standing so close made them assume we’d hold back; we didn’t. The first girl stepped up to say something to me when I split her lip and sent her stumbling back. I kicked the one farthest away while Valerie punched another one in the throat. I chased the second girl down and while she was bent over, I pounded her in the cheek and planted her in the ground. I spun back and kicked the first girl in the face, flipping her over, and witnessed Valerie run the fourth girl into a door and knock her out. Mrs. Cunningham finally recovered enough to grab my arm. “What are you doing?” she muttered weakly. “Yesterday, these girls thought it would be fun to kick some of their fellow students down some stairs, landing them to the infirmary,” I responded. “Today they reaped what they sowed.” I had no idea if any of the girls I’d attacked had actually beaten up any of Christina’s people, but that wasn’t the point. The Administration had let Rhaine’s girls know that they wanted Christina’s people intimidated and suppressed. Not being schooled in the application of force, things had escalated when Christina’s people had not backed down. The Chancellor had let them think they were entitled and we’d just shown them they were not; they were going to be held accountable for what they did. Mrs. Cunningham released me and bent over the first moaning girl. Iona came up with a handful of phones. “What do we do with these?” she asked. “Give them to me,” chuckled Rio. She took the phones, took out the memory cards, and chucked the phones up on the roof. In the end, Christina only used twenty of us to send eighty of Rhaine’s people to the infirmary, and we accomplished it all in under five minutes. We brazenly arrived at breakfast, most of us making for the food line but Rio sprinting for the bathrooms to flush the evidence. Up with the teachers, things were in utter chaos. Gorman’s walky-talky didn’t seem to be working (thank you, Cordelia) so she grabbed the closest student and wrote them a message. She handed it to the girl (a freshman) who promptly read it, then ate it right in front of the coach. Coach sat that girl down, grabbed a second girl. This one took the message and ran straight to the bathroom and flushed it. Around Chancellor Bass a storm was boiling over. Several teachers had witnessed the violence and wanted something done about it before one of them was drug into the matter by means of a physical confrontation. They were demanding the attacking students to be rounded up immediately. Several teachers, led by Dr. Larson, were begging, pleading, and demanding that the Chancellor call it quits with this whole suppression scheme. Bass refused to budge, ordering Gorman to round everyone up and hold them in the parking lot. Gorman was trapped. “That’s insane,” Dana snapped. “What am I going to round them up with, students? We’ve seen how well that’s worked. I don’t have enough security guards to peacefully bring them in and my only alternative is to bring in the Sheriff’s Department and use force, and I’m not going to do that.” “You will if I tell you to,” the Chancellor threatened. Dana threw her hands up in the air and backed away. She paced for about a minute, long enough for us to get our food and take our seats, which were all in one section of the Dining Hall due to some 'screw up’ (read: Cordelia) in their seating assignment. There appeared to be around three hundred of us now and morale was high. I caught sight of Gorman angling toward Christina and starting to talk. Christina signaled for her to stop but only long enough to summon three people to her, one being me. Temperance, the senior, was one of them, and the third was a girl I’d only known by her photograph. She was Hannah Cartwright, the Sophomore Class President. “I’m asking for a cease-fire,” Dana reiterated. “The fighting ends on both sides, strict discipline will be enforced for any and all infractions, and there will be no administrative actions for what has happened over the past forty-eight hours.” “We want our phones, tablets, and laptops back, plus the ability to use them,” Temperance stated. “All expulsions are to be cancelled and the procedure to bring Heaven back is to begin immediately,” I continued. Dana nodded to both addendums. “I want my security system back,” Dana countered. “We will start looking for it as soon as this deal goes through,” Christina agreed. “That is the best I can hope for,” Dana sighed. She stuck out her hand to Christina, who stood and shook it. “Deal?” Christina looked around to get our consensus. “Deal,” Christina echoed. I wanted to sit back and savor our partial victory but Christina was tense and nervous and that infected us all. When Dana got back to the Chancellor, she made her case. Dr. Bass glared at her for a moment but the words that followed, while spoken in a low voice, reverberated throughout the hall. “That’s idiotic; we will not negotiate with these children. Your incompetence has led us to this point, Ms. Gorman; you are fired.” Several teachers immediately protested but Dana simply put down her walky-talky, turned, and strolled out of the room. Dr. Bass cancelled classes for the day and confined everyone to their dorm rooms and dorm floors until the situation was resolved. Christina told us to ignore the travel restrictions but to keep in groups and avoid confronting security. When we were ordered from the hall, I noticed everyone was traveling in groups now, even the teachers. Things had become totally crazy. As Valerie, Rio, Iona and I returned to our dorm, we ran across Alice coming back from the nurse’s office. When she saw us, she looked hurt and a bit afraid, but she showed enough courage to confront me. “Why did you hit me?” she demanded. “I did nothing to deserve that.” “Alice, you were sent to spy on me, or did you search every dorm room as thoroughly as you searched mine?” I shot back. “I was told to do that when I accepted the position of Dorm Mother,” she replied. “Did it occur to you that I might resent being singled out for persecution and, if given a chance, I’d strike back?” I explained. “If not, it should have, especially after yesterday.” “I had nothing to do with what happened to those other girls,” she shook her head. “Listen, you stupid cunt,” Rio snapped. “You got orders from the same person who sent those girls to hurt our friends.” “When you chose to take Barbie Lynn’s place, you placed yourself side by side with those mean girls, Alice,” Iona added. “You chose to be a soldier in their army. Soldiers get shot, even if they don’t get involved in shooting at the enemy themselves.” “It is time for you to go,” Valerie told Alice. Alice stayed in the hallway as the rest of us walked away. By the time we made it to my door, Pandora, Paige, Brandi, and Opal had joined us. “Cordelia wants your hook-up activated once more,” Pandora informed me. She had a bruised right eye and a bandage above the eyebrow. “She figures any minute now, the Chancellor will shut down our regular internet lines.” “Sure thing,” I agreed. “I’ll get the hot oil and work Valerie over after that tough fight she was in,” Rio volunteered. “Boundaries,” Valerie cautioned my buddy. “Besides, if anyone works over this body, it will be Zane.” Rio chortled and I gave the tall biker-chick a skeptical look. “Just kidding,” she laughed, “though we both could probably use some stress relief.” That train of thought was interrupted by a fresh group of freshmen entering the area. I went over to one of the glass panels that gave me a view over the campus. Small groups of students were violating the curfew, and here and there a lone campus security guard gave chase but it was an uneven struggle. Students could run inside a dorm and vanish, and Campus Security didn’t have the resources to search every dorm room. The pair that came up the stairs thirty minutes later was a real stunner. It was Barbie Lynn with her knee wrapped up, being supported by, Dana Gorman. Dana also had a backpack that clinked very time she moved. “Look what I found sneaking across campus,” Gorman snorted. No one said anything; she was the Evil Henchman, after all. “Thanks, Dana,” I said, as I took Barbie off her hands, “take a seat and relax for a while. What brings you to my room, anyway?” Barbie looked terribly concerned by this turn of events. “My cable is dead, no internet or TV, and I don’t have access to the few remaining security systems, so I figured if anyone had access to the outside world, it would be you,” Dana related. “What do you need?” I continued. “I’d like to watch some international soccer,” she told me. I looked toward Paige, who shrugged, then nodded. Dana took a spot on the closest sofa to a TV and sat down. She unzipped her backpack and pulled out a beer. Rio homed in on that and jumped over the sofa beside Dana. “What do you think you are doing?” Dana asked Rio as my friend put her hand into the satchel. “Getting a beer; I figure we are all rebels here,” Rio smirked. “No, you are a rebel; I’m unemployed, and I don’t want to add a criminal conviction for giving alcohol to a minor to my list of accomplishments,” Dana explained. “Come with me,” Valerie commanded, as she scooped up Rio’s arm and headed away. “Let’s play some pool.” “Oh!” Rio bubbled, “Are you going to use your big hard stick on me?” “Yes; it is called caning,” Valerie retorted. BARBIE LYNN, IONA AND ZANE Iona was looking lost with everyone seemingly going in different directions, so I took her by the hand and, with Barbie Lynn, retired to my bedroom. “I love you two,” I sighed as the stress slowly started to recede. Barbie Lynn pulled close to my side and when I looked at her, we kissed. Iona pressed into my front and rested her head on my chest. Our lips parted and I looked to Iona, who was giving me a wide-eyed smile. We kissed for some time until Barbie Lynn began massaging my rod through my pants. I returned to Barbie until Iona hugged me tight, resulting in me going back and forth for a while. “Let’s go to bed,” Iona suddenly spoke up. Barbie Lynn chuckled at the smaller girl’s assertiveness while I marveled at how far she’d come from the scared girl who had grabbed my arm only a few weeks earlier. I sat Barbie Lynn down on the edge of the bed and worked off her skirt first. I stopped Iona from doing the same, preferring to undress her next. I alternated taking off items of clothing until they were finally naked on the bed, side by side before me. “Well, Zane,” Barbie Lynn began, sliding one leg up until the heel was touching her thigh. “What are you waiting for,” Iona finished, mimicking Barbie’s movements. “I would like to express right now how much I’ve missed the both of you,” I swore to them. “Less talk; more action,” Barbie Lynn instructed. I began stripping as fast as I could and the girls crawled underneath the covers. Iona was on her back, propped up on her elbows as I finished shedding my clothes. Barbie Lynn surprised her by rolling onto her side and taking a nipple into her mouth, causing Iona to give a startled squeak. Iona had not expected to be the center of our attention, that was normally Barbie Lynn’s role, so she couldn’t mount an effective defense against our combined affections. We each feasted on a nipple, taking the occasional stop to kiss Iona deeply, or one another, with Iona’s breasts rubbing against our cheeks. Both our hands made our way to Iona’s honey box, pulled her reluctant legs apart, and began rubbing all over her pubic area. We pushed fingers almost a knuckle deep into her super-tight virgin cunt. Barbie and I spread her juices around, making the whole pubic mound slick and fluid. We even put our fingers on opposite sides of her clit and rolled them back and forth, sending her over the edge. “Jesus,” she panted. “Oh, thank you, thank you, oh, thank you,” she gasped. “This feels so good, YESSSSSSS!!” she cried out. At this point, I was thinking about letting Iona go but Barbie Lynn kept flicking her clit and probing her pussy while sucking in and twirling her breast. I added a finger to the mix and kissed Iona, who desperately tried to suck my tongue out of my mouth, ouch! At the same time, Iona’s back arched off the bed again and again, her thighs trembled, and she clutched at the headboard so hard it shook. At the point I feared Iona’s heart would explode, I pushed Barbie Lynn’s hand away and she looked up with her lips slick with the saliva generated by sucking on Iona’s tits. “She is the best friend I’ve made all year,” Barbie Lynn confided in me. “Better than me?” I questioned. “Honey,” she drawled, “I think we can agree you’re a tad more than a friend.” “What am I, then,” I teased; “pen pal, cyber-fan, bosom buddy?” “I think bosom buddy, ” she grinned as she squeezed her magnificent orbs together, “, is closer to what I’m aiming for.” “My pussy is still quivering,” Iona mumbled in a tiny voice. “Did I lose my virginity?” “No, Baby,” Barbie Lynn cooed to her, “You had a really good one is all. That is what an orgasm is supposed to feel like. That is what Zane does to me every time.” Huh? I do? “Oh,” Iona sighed dreamily, “I like that. Isn’t it your turn now?” “It certainly is, and Zane knows what I want, don’t you,” she winked. “I’ll get it,” I feigned annoyance, “but I’m still going to take my time with you. I’m not rushing into anything.” “I like the way you think,” Barbie Lynn purred. She laid out on the bed, her beautiful breasts spreading out and her hair cascading over the pillows she rested on. It hurt to move away from the sight of her. I got a small tube of lube, crawled over to her, and wedged the tube to the small of her back. Letting her body warm it up would make the sensation more pleasurable. “Whoa, that’s cold,” she gasped and wiggled. “Let me warm you up, then,” I grinned. I moved underneath the sheets and then between her legs. “Hello,” she said demurely, my body poised over hers, our faces nose to nose. She rested her elbows on my shoulders with her arms up. “This feels good, Zane, feels right.” Her thighs pressed against mine and my cock rested on her pubic mound. I moved my face down and stole a quick kiss. Barbie followed suit and soon we were lip-locked. In time we were trading kisses on the neck and earlobes, our heads playfully moving back and forth. When I reached the top of her breastbone, Barbie Lynn flinched; she’d tried to loop her bum knee over my leg and the pain had been a sharp reminder of her limitations. I lowered myself and took a nipple into my lips and tickled it with my tongue. “Does that make it feel better?” I teased her. “Uh-huh,” she purred, “now get back to it.” I hardly felt inclined to deny her request and began alternating each nipple and breast. I let my lips and tongue go over every inch of her breast, especially along the base where a slight taste of sweat mixed with the scent of her body soap. “Zane, I want you in me,” she pleaded with sultry passion. “But I want this,” I responded, running my hand along her puffy cunt lips. “I promise we can do that later, you know how much I love your tongue, but I’m missing something else even more,” she expressed her desire. I thought about the body dynamics of the situation and decided the best solution was to roll Barbie Lynn’s hips on their side, lifting her left, uninjured leg to my shoulder. Retrieving the warm lube, I rubbed some liberally over her butt hole and two of my fingers, pushing the middle finger gently in first. Barbie Lynn flexed her body and moaned as the finger pressed into her. Soon she was rocking her hips and pushing down on my hand. “That still looks painful,” Iona whispered as she moved in for a closer look. “The pleasure far exceeds the pain, Shugah.” Barbie Lynn expressed what was about to come. I leaned/crawled over her hips, one hand still working Barbie’s tits over while I kissed a nipple and tugged on it with my teeth. Barbie was letting her arm roam around when Iona intercepted it and put the blonde’s fingertips to her mouth. Unbidden, Iona began sucking on those fingers and I could see that Barbie was torn between the eroticism of the act and the fact it was innocent little Iona who was doing it. Barbie Lynn used her free hand to push her succulent boob deeper into my mouth, not that there was any way I could get it all into my mouth. Iona went from finger to finger, spending extra time on the thumb. Barbie’s chest began heaving from the excitement and took a jolt when I sunk my second finger into her rectum. “Are you okay?” Iona worried. “Yes, yes, yes,” Barbie Lynn exulted happily, “and it’s going to get better real soon.” I decided to move two fingers along her sopping wet slit and let my thumb depress her clit and rub it around. “Aha, ah, oh, yeah,” she panted as my hands began working in tandem. I could tell Barbie Lynn was fighting a losing battle against her orgasm and I wasn’t in a mood to make things easy. I rammed my two fingers deep into her ass while biting her nipple and strumming her clit as fast as I could. “Lord Jesus loves Me!” she went off. “Gah! Yeah, yeah, oh, ugh, baby, Yes!” Barbie Lynn went on and on with increasing volume. Her pussy dripped all over my fingers, slick and sensual to my touch. I brought those fingers to my lips, going back for a second taste while her body still shook from her climax. “Don’t mind us,” Rio announced as she strolled into my room, pulling a reluctant Mercy behind her. “My bitch is here and I’m going to bite a chunk off.” “Hi, Mercy,” Iona waved. Mercy shot her an embarrassed smile. Rio led her to the far side of the bed. I was a bit concerned that too many people were coming into my room but I couldn’t look everywhere and pay attention to Barbie Lynn and Iona too. I took up the lube and coated my cock. Before I could spread it out evenly, Iona reached down and did the job for me, even sharing a shy smile with me as she did so. She even helped me lodge it against Barbie Lynn’s anus. Iona felt the tension along my penis until Barbie’s sphincter gave way and let me in, then she moved her hand away. “Wow,” she whispered, even as Barbie Lynn sighed in satisfaction. As a counterpoint, we heard “On your knees, Slut-Bunny,” Rio barked to Mercy. She pushed Mercy forward face-first on the bed, flipped up her skirt, and took a bite out of her butt. Mercy yelped and buried her face in the sheets. Sometimes Rio could be sane, but totally nuts was her default setting. I measured the tremors in her body as I gently pressed my body onto Barbie Lynn’s hips, deepening the penetration of my cock into her back passage. “Oh, God, Zane,” she moaned. “This never gets old, filling me up like you do.” I slapped her meaty butt cheek hard enough to leave an angry red handprint. Barbie gave a deep intake of breath that became a squeal of joy. Mercy grunted as Rio yanked her panties off her butt and down her legs. “Crawl over there and give Barbie Lynn a kiss,” Rio demanded. Mercy gulped and hesitated to respond so Rio hauled off and smacked her butt hard enough for people outside the room to hear. Mercy’s eyes grew wide, her mouth gaped open, and her cheeks flushed, then she smiled. She made her way slowly across the bed, clearly enticing Rio to spank her several more times. Mercy first brought Barbie Lynn’s gaze over toward her by tipping her chin with one careful hand. The first kiss was tentative and tender. SMACK! “Kiss her like you want to be kissed, you whore!” Rio taunted Mercy. As she spanked her with one hand, she drove two fingers into Mercy’s cunt with the other. I had to assume that Mercy was already pretty wet because instead of pulling away from the penetration, Mercy leaned forward on her elbows while thrusting her hips back against Rio’s intrusion. While I was being sensitive to the slow burn Barbie Lynn was going through, Rio drove her hand rapidly like a maniac. It was a good thing that Mercy liked it rough, but then she chose to be with Rio as much as Rio chose to pick on her. At the opposite side of the expression spectrum, Iona curled up against Barbie’s other side and let her lips gracefully flit along the shoulder and arm. Mercy returned for another kiss at the same time I reached my full expansion inside of Barbie Lynn. “Oh, my,” Barbie gasped. I waited as she adjusted internally while Mercy kissed her with a lot more passion and intensity. That didn’t stop Rio from administering a few more sharp smacks to Mercy’s bottom, compelling Mercy to rumble with a hunger for more. Iona let her lips migrate from arm to hip, and leading up Barbie Lynn’s hip to my stomach. “Reach a hand back here and take over, you slut,” Rio told Mercy. When Mercy made the maneuver, Rio began stripping down. Unlike this weekend, she had only her two labia piercings in, though she still had her tattoo along the hip. She gave me both raised eyebrows to go along with her insane grin as the clothes finished coming off. I partially withdrew my member from Barbie Lynn, eliciting a moan. Iona settled up against me, resting her hands on my chest and hip. I kept a grip on Barbie’s hip and slipped a hand around Iona’s hip and buttocks, rubbed it along her anus, ending at her pussy. “Ugh,” Iona grunted, as I stroked her kitty and sunk a finger inside. The group of us got into a rhythm once Rio knelt behind Mercy and began lapping up her pussy and squeezing her ass. By the way Barbie Lynn was pushing and rotating her hips, grabbing the sheets in tight fists and moaning between her kisses with Mercy, she was approaching her second orgasm. “Zane, Jesus Christ, Zane, oh, God, Baby, ah, aha, Yes!” she screamed. Her ass muscles gripped, twisted, and squeezed my cock so hard, it took all my concentration to not shoot off into her rectum. Barbie Lynn kept pulsing and rocking over the sheets as waves of intense pleasure crested and slowly worked its way through her system. Iona and I started seriously kissing as she stood on her knees beside me. “I want to try something,” I told her. “He wants to try something?” I heard Valerie’s voice talking to an unseen party. “Somehow the current five-way isn’t enough for him.” There was a snort in agreement of that. I pumped Barbie Lynn four times in quick succession, then leaned back until my cock was at the very edge of leaving her butt. My torso pivoted, I slipped my arms between Iona’s legs and pulled her up by her buttocks and to me. “What?” she gasped. As Iona rose up and I twisted back to a face-forward position, I licked and tongue-tickled my way from her chest, to her stomach, and finally to her pubic hair. “Ah, oh, okay,” Iona exhaled with pleasure. She put her hands on my shoulders, moved higher, and moved her legs over my arms and rested them on my shoulders. I still had to hold tight to her ass and raise her to the point I could get my mouth fully on her clit and moist lips. “Oh, damn,” Rio giggled, “Zane’s making me pull out my toys.” Smack! “Mercy, you behave.” Rio moved off the bed, stopped, and said, “You had better not remember where I’m getting these from,” to another person. “I wouldn’t think of it,” Dana Gorman allowed. Clearly my surprise showed in my body because she spoke again. “I wanted to see what all my girls were giggling and whispering about in the showers. I put it down to standard virgin girl hysteria. Now, ” “I half expect some porn director to say 'Cut, print’ at any second,” Valerie added. I really didn’t need my sex life critiqued at this moment. I was balancing one girl on my face, licking her silly, while pounding Barbie Lynn’s ass. Seriously, can’t a man have a simple three-way with two college girls in his room in peace? I was soon too overwhelmed by the price of my sexual ambition to worry about that question. I drank deep of Iona’s nectar, licking along the folds from top to bottom while letting my upper lip press against her throbbing clit. She took one hand from my shoulder, wrapped it up in my hair, and cautiously pushed my face deeper into her cunt. “Oh, God, Zane, ah, yes, yes, yes,” she panted. “That’s it, right there, Ah!” Iona began riding my face with greater and greater vigor. Barbie Lynn gyrated against my crotch. I heard a vibrator cut on and Mercy groaned as Rio did something to her. I suspected that was moving her off Barbie because Barbie began using greater force against me. I began to feel a tightness building up in my guts as my blood pounded from the exertions I was putting myself through. To be continued. By FinalStand for Literotica
