We got in the car, I looked at him, and just started laughing. "What’s the giggles, for, Sugarlips?"
"You make me so damn happy," I admitted. Then I glared at him. "Don’t let it go to your head."
" Which head?"
"The one on your neck. You can worry about the other one later," I grinned.
"How about I let you worry about the other one later? I’ll be too busy getting me some honey," he leered.
"I won’t complain."
"I’ll make sure that you never do."
"I’m holding you to that, Braden."
We got to the lake where they held the class picnics every year. The seniors went first, because they got out of school earlier. Then the freshmen and sophomores. The juniors had theirs last, a week before finals. It was a lovely setting. There was, as I said, a lake, perfect for swimming, even in June. There was a clearing, where volleyball nets were set up. Shade with picnic tables, and shaded areas on the grass. One of the shaded areas on the grass is where I found the crew.
We were obviously last to get there. Jared and Amanda were there, as were Mike and Lily, Ed and Natalie, Frankie and Cassie, and Missy and Dave. We took off our clothes and just threw them into Chuck’s car. The gang called out to me, and we walked over. I could see the quizzical expressions on everyone’s faces when they saw Chuck with me-except for Amanda, who knew what was up. It was time to be the sweet, supporting girlfriend. I took Chuck’s hand-he was obviously nervous-and said, "Don’t worry, honey. It’ll be fine." He gave me half a smile.
"Maggie," Ed called out. "Now the party can begin!"
"You bet your ass. Hey, you all know my new boyfriend Chuck, right?" I grinned. It took a minute. Then I saw the absolute stunned look on most of the faces in the group.
"You," Ed gasped, "have a boyfriend? As in monogamous? One guy? Just you and him?"
"Yup," I grinned.
"Congratulations," Ed said. "You must be a miracle worker," he said to Chuck. "What’s gonna happen next, the earth stop spinning on its axis?"
"Natalie will forget how to draw?" Cassie said.
"Ed will stop being funny?" Nat said.
"Jared will forget how to suck pussy?" Amanda giggled.
"Frankie will actually throw a fastball?" Mike teased.
"The Red Sox will win the World Series?" Lily offered.
"Oh, come on now, Lily, let’s not be ridiculous, huh?" Ed said. "Maggie actually sticking to one guy is a lot less far-fetched than that."
"Fuck you," Lily said. We all cracked up laughing.
Amanda, just then, seemed to realize Chuck and I were naked. "Oh, yeah, this counts as part of the program week for you, doesn’t it?"
"Yeah," Chuck said. I should’ve known what was coming next. Amanda got a little gleam in her eye, and looked at Jared. Their clothes came off remarkably quickly. Missy and David, who had also discovered the joys of nudity, followed suit.
"When in Rome…" Mike giggled, and took his clothes off-then reached for Lily’s shirt. She laughed and let him take her clothes off. Frankie, Cassie, Ed and Natalie quickly followed suit. All 12 of us were there, as naked as they day we were born, laughing and ragging on one another.
"I’ve been noticing this all week," Amanda said with a little sly grin. "Chuck Braden, you are fine." Chuck actually blushed! "Hey, Maggie ogles Jared every chance she gets."
"She’s slept with Jared," Chuck said, bemused. Jared looked upset-until he saw the look on Chuck’s face. He was teasing! "Which completely boggles my mind. She’s as tight as a drum." He looked at me. "How in hell did you ever fit him in?"
"Oh, you don’t even know the half of it," I grinned at him.
"I don’t want to know, do I?" he said.
I was still grinning. "Jared’s been in the rear entrance."
"GET OUT!" he yelled.
"That’s what I said. But only after I came. Before that, I was enjoying myself just fine."
"I’ll just bet," he chuckled.
"Believe me, Chuck, she’s the only one that’s been able to ever do that," Jared said.
"I’m working on it," Amanda grinned. Jared and Amanda, being how they were, were cool-but everyone else was looking at us in amazement during this discussion. It was Missy who said something.
"Chuck. You mean you can talk about-it doesn’t bother you that, you know, Maggie’s been…"
"Hey. The past is the past," he said. "If I got all upset every time Maggie came in contact with someone that she once slept with, I’d be upset a whole hell of a lot."
"True story," I grinned.
"Besides," he grinned, "her best friend just told me how fine I was. That ought to keep her in check."
"You hope, Braden. You just hope."
"Shut up and kiss me." Who can refuse an invitation like that? The rest of the crew giggled. I broke the kiss and glared at the rest of them. "You know, we are all couples here. Chuck and I don’t own the kissing concession."
"We’re waiting for after lunch, so we can play spin the bottle," Ed joked.
"You can play spin the bottle. I am going to be playing spin the catcher," Lily said.
"And Braden over here needs to play put the suntan lotion on his girlfriend," I grinned. I handed him the lotion. He did a very thorough job. I’m sure someone would’ve chortled and made rude remarks-starting with Ed and continuing with Lily, no doubt-except all the other girls thought I had a dynamite idea and were getting lotion spread on them by their guys.
There are times when nudity is just too much fun!
Shortly after the lotion-fest was over-and, yes, I had a little quiet cum from Magic Fingers-they announced that the food was ready. We all got in line to get some. Some of the rest of the class was staring at us in our nakedness, but we didn’t care. A couple of guys were blatantly staring at Amanda-and she thrust her tits out at them. She can do that, she has tits. Ah, well. I had to console myself with playing grab-ass with Chuck as I stood behind him in line. Sonuvabitch barely reacted-just turned to me and said, "Payback’s a bitch, Sugarlips."
"What are you going to do about it?"
"Go down on you in front of the whole junior class?" he threatened.
"You forget who you’re dealing with. I’d like that."
"Oh, yeah. Good point. I’ll think of something. Give you a dozen roses in front of the whole class in bio next week."
"OK, now you’re playing dirty!"
We got our food and went back where we were, eating and chatting and generally having a good time. My friends were accepting Chuck, as I had hoped. They’d figured if he was good enough to snare me, he must be OK. Loyalty goes both ways. This group taught me that.
Just then, Mr. Tilling happened over, looking very relaxed in a tee-shirt and shorts.
"Hey, if it isn’t Bob The Matchmaker Tilling!" Ed yelled. "Look, Mr. Tilling-the results of your painstaking program partner pairups. All this luuuuuv."
"That wasn’t the intention," he laughed. "It’s a nice side-effect, but it wasn’t the intention. I actually would have only predicted one of these pairings to eventually end up in a romance." He sat down with us, eating his hamburger.
"Which one?" I asked.
"Jared and Amanda. I kind of suspected that one might burst into flames," he said. The rest of us went ‘whoo-hooo’ while those two just blushed. "Though I probably would have predicted Mike and Lily if I had known Lily better when she got put in The Program."
"The rest of us?" Ed asked.
"Actually, Ed, I thought you and Natalie were both too gun-shy. I thought that Frankie and Cassie were too close as friends. I thought that Dave was too nice for Missy, because I didn’t know, deep down, Missy very well. And as for Maggie-I didn’t think she’d end up with an actual one-guy-one-girl romance even if I fixed her up with the most perfect man in the world." Everybody howled at that one-OK, me included. "Hey, there’s been a lot of kids go through The Program this year. You twelve are the only ones I know that hooked up. Friendships, yeah-and I’m sure there’s been some extracurricular activities." We all hooted at that one. "But The Program wasn’t meant to be a dating service. Believe me, that you guys found people out of it thrills me to no end."