I’d also begun to develop, and was mortified when my breasts began to grow. I should’ve known that I would eventually get them because my mom and older sister had large breasts. The problem was most models seemed to be tall and slim with few curves. There were exceptions, of course, and those few did very well. It was just that they tended to do sessions that are more revealing. If you did high fashion you couldn’t be body shy, but it wasn’t Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition or Maxim.
I talked to Tony about it.
“I think it’s just a matter of experience. Sometimes you act like a little girl. I think you need to find someone you trust and lose your virginity,” was his suggestion.
At the time, I didn’t realize he was offering to be that someone. A month later, I found myself in his bed. I couldn’t put the blame on our relationship solely on him. I was a willing participant. It wasn’t like he was old, either, but eight years did seem like a lot, even to me.
Because of my larger breasts, I started to have problems with my male models. There’s a reason for the rumors about models getting involved in wild parties, drugs and sex, so I couldn’t really blame the other models for thinking I was that way too. Few if any knew how old I really was. Dating Tony made them think I was much older.
There was one instance where it all went really bad on a location shoot. Everything was going well until a gang of teenage boys showed up and started yelling at us. We were in Turkey, so I couldn’t understand what they were saying. The next I knew they rushed us and I was being dragged off. Tony ran, leaving me to my fate. I was lucky the male model I was with rushed in and started to beat the heck out of the hooligans. I broke away and ran for it.
I knew two things for sure after that: I would never do a location shoot without security, and my days with Tony were over.
IT WASN’T LONG AFTER that when I decided I needed to come home for a while. My parents had moved to some backwater town in the Midwest. My younger sister, Gina, loved it. She’d met a nice guy who I figured would be her test boyfriend. From what my mom told me, he was a little nerd who talked constantly. Alan, her boyfriend, had introduced her to his friends, which made the transition to the new school easier.
Emily, my older sister who’d started at State, told me that one of Alan and Gina’s friends was cute. She told me that I should meet this David guy. I figured he was just some hick pretty-boy whose greatest desire was to get a job at the local tire store and someday make it to management.
When I came home, Gina told me that her school was having a Halloween dance. She arranged for me to go with Jeff, one of Alan’s friends. He was a nice boy, with the emphasis on boy. Everyone seemed to be excited that I meet David. I went along with it until I saw him.
He was dressed up like Superman. I mean seriously, he must have paid extra to get them to sew in all the muscles. I knew right then he was a poser and didn’t want anything to do with him. When we talked, he made it clear the feeling was mutual.
The next time I saw him he took his shirt off in the middle of a restaurant. All I can say is, damn. I work with models all the time, but damn. One surprise was, he was younger than me. How did a freshman get a body like that?
The other surprise was, people just seemed to be drawn to him. It wasn’t because he was so good-looking, either. It was because people genuinely liked him. I think my brain left me because I chased him.
Do you know how humiliating it is for a boy to reject you? David didn’t want to have anything to do with me. That made me want him even more. I’d never had a boy do that before. I soon found he was funny and smarter than the average guy I’d been around lately.
All was fun and games until he kissed me. What did I say earlier? Damn! I knew exactly where it was all headed when he began to cry. The poor boy was an emotional mess. I tried to force the issue, but he had more backbone than I expected.
I FOUND MYSELF IN HIS bed, just cuddling. David had me off-balance. I knew I wanted us to do naughty things. He just had an animal magnetism that drew me to him. The problem was I would be leaving soon. I wasn’t completely sure I wouldn’t give up my career to be with him. That scared me.
I’d just gotten out of a relationship like ten minutes ago. Tony had been my first everything, and I was contemplating David. Deep down I knew it would never work. He was in high school, for god’s sake. How would we ever make that work? But damn!
I decided to just play it by ear. I was just worried that would get me into trouble, but with David, I expected that to be fun.
Chapter 1 – Mending Fences
Saturday November 2
I WOKE TO THE SOFT snoring of a beautiful woman wrapped on top of my body. The morning light was diffused, which gave her a soft glow as her black hair glistened. She had on one of my t-shirts. I slowly worked my way out of bed so I could pee and take a hot shower. My back had stiffened up, and I needed to go in for a treatment before it got worse.
I came out of the bathroom with just a towel on. I found a pair of boxers and dropped the towel.
“David, turn around. I want to see what I missed out on last night.”
I turned around to give her the Full Monty.
“I was wrong about that also. You weren’t stuffing your pants.”
I got dressed. Kara slipped her jeans back on and put her hair in a ponytail, and she was stealing my t-shirt. I wanted to see her later.
“I’m spending time with friends tonight. We’re going out for dinner and a movie. I’d like you to meet them.”
“Yes, the brother and sister.”
I thought about it for a moment. Tami. She tells Alan who tells Gina who tells Kara. This game was easy once you figure out where Tami falls in the equation.
“Then you know that I have a friends-with-benefits arrangement with the sister.”
“No, but thanks for sharing. I would love to meet the girl that can get you to put out. I promised Emily that I’d go to a play with her tonight. I want to spend time with my sisters since I was on the road for four straight months. She wants me to get to know her new boyfriend, Alex.
“Could we meet for lunch?” she asked.
“No, my quarterback coach is leaving, and we’re having a farewell lunch for him. Tomorrow I have church with my mom, but we always have a big brunch. Come over, and I’ll introduce you to my nephew.”
“That sounds like fun. What time?”
“Be here around 11:30. We’ll eat at noon. Hey, can you take me to the school? I need to get some treatment for my back.”
“No problem, I need to go home for breakfast. Gina wants a full report on how I failed last night.”
“You talked your way into my bed.”
“There is that. David, I understand you want to go slow. I’ve never done that before, so I might push. I hope we can spend time together. I want to get to know you.”
“Kara, there’s no way you’re getting rid of me anytime soon.”
She kissed me, and then we headed to the high school.
BECKY AND JILL WERE waiting for me in the training room. Wolf Tams, our brand-new tight end, was seated in the ice bath. He looked like he was on his last legs. I looked at the evil twins and arched my eyebrows.
“Wolf, that’s enough. You can get out now,” Jill said and blushed as she realized what she’d done to the poor boy.
When Wolf stood up, I saw he had a few bruises. My first thought was to call him a wuss, but he never had Kevin lay him out, so he didn’t know what getting hit really felt like. I took pity on him.