(Usual Disclaimer Time: Even though this story almost entirely takes place in a high school setting, all the characters in this story are 18 years old or older, and since we're living in the wide wonderful world of porno-land here, where clichΓ©s roam free and things might get a little unrealistic from time to time, please remember it's all in good fun. This story is highly serialized, and though it's not 100% necessary to have read the whole story up until this point to enjoy the content of the chapter, it's definitely advisable to understand some of the ongoing plots.)
(Author's Note: In the beginning, this was going to be one long chapter, but after a lot of work and realizing that just wouldn't work this chapter will be broken up into three separate parts. There's going to be a lot of things going on with a lot of characters, but since this is sort of what I'd call the "season finale" for the first half of Senior Year Memories, I wanted to make this one nice and epic and truly filthy. I'd like to again thank MisterWildCard for acting as a second set of eyes on this chapter, for his honest editing and fantastic suggestions, and for the creation of the character Cleo Price, who may not see much action yet but shall soon. Please check out his story, "Brooke's Wild Ride" in Erotic Couplings, as it acts as a canonical side story to Senior Year Memories starring Regan Hills High's favorite blonde cheerleader.)
Previously, on Senior Year Memories: 18-year-old Ryan Collins' quest to do something nice for each of the nineteen women he's had sex with this senior year before Christmas finally came to its conclusion. After giving cheerleader Kaitlyn Pruitt a test that boosted her confidence in her own understanding of their tutoring and handing a stack of interviews to school paper editor Nadia Barclay, Ryan did his best to help bring out the burgeoning artist in uptight religious girl Sophie Cusack on Christmas Eve. Sealing this new arrangement with hot sex, Ryan finished off his good deeds list by arranging for a large number of friends to help volunteer at a Christmas Eve event that Jade Alvarez was helping run. With the list complete (and a box of sex toys gifted to him by all his new friends), Ryan retired for a quiet Christmas Eve at home with girlfriend Josie Wong in the days before she'd have to travel out of town to visit family.
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In the days after Christmas, I was gifted with something I hadn't known for a very long time: peace.
I'd spent so long focusing so hard on a big plan I often thought I wouldn't be able to pull off, and once I had... I was at peace. I'd done what I'd set out to do, I'd made nineteen women who'd meant something to me these past two months happy, and I was finally free to just go on living my normal life.
Well, as normal as things had gotten since everything changed after September.
With so many of the people I knew on vacations with their families, or busy with other holiday activities, in the days after Christmas I was on my own for a good few days, and don't think I'm crazy but I kind of liked it. I loved all my time with my new friends, and I'll never criticize all of the sex I was getting, but there were occasions where I wanted a little more time to myself, and this allowed me to recharge quite handily.
And that's not to say I was entirely alone, either. Dad was around more than he usually was, and I was Skyping every so often with Rachel McNeil, who was always one of my favorite people to chat with (and have some occasionally very creative cybersex with; man that girl was kinky), and texting as much as humanly possible with my girlfriend, Josie Wong. She'd left the day after Christmas with her family to visit her ailing grandmother in Hawaii, and I felt her absence pretty hard in this period. I loved her, and in spite of enjoying my free time, I wanted to spend my every free moment with her, and since this was the first time we'd been apart for this long, well, I was missing her something fierce.
The most interesting of my long distance connections was also perhaps the most bizarre, in that we were only a short walking distance apart. For a little while now, I'd been exchanging messages with the new girl who'd moved into the house next door to us. I didn't know her name any more than she knew mine, but with our bedroom windows across the way from each other, we'd taken to exchanging notes in the window. Sometimes it was only one a day, other times we actually managed brief exchanges.
I'll admit I was a bit smitten with her, the distance between us adding a little extra thrill to our correspondence. That she was gorgeous didn't hurt either. A pretty black girl with delicate features, big brown eyes and perhaps the sweetest smile I'd ever seen, she was the kind of girl you knew was capable of being a heartbreaker if you let her. With a lean, tightly athletic body, long legs and an impressive afro of loose, dark curls, she had a way about her that left an impression on sight alone.
Aside from her being beautiful, black, and having some truly impressive hair, I'd learned that she was 18, had moved to Regan Hills with her mom after her parents divorced a few months back, and that she seemed to take great amusement in the fact that she'd seen a number of girls come in and out of my house since we'd been neighbors. It was hard to explain via notes in a window what exactly this year had been like for me, but since she seemed to mean her jibes in good humor, I took them in kind.
I couldn't tell you why we hadn't exchanged names yet, or even introduced ourselves since we lived next door to each other, but there was something kind of fun about getting to know someone without actually knowing them. So many of the people who'd been a part of my life this year were women I'd known my entire life, but getting to meet and know new people was still a weirdly intimidating prospect. Exchanging notes like this, it was a stress-free and fun way to get to know someone new.
Even if her sense of humor got a bit pointed, sometimes.
'3 DAYS WITHOUT A NEW GIRL, THAT A RECORD?' she wrote on her small white board, looking at me through the window with some amusement.
At the rate I was going through printer paper, I was going to have to make a trip to Target to get a white board of my own. I scrawled my response, 'NO, THE 18 YEARS BEFORE THIS ONE GOT THAT BEAT'.
She laughed, writing a new note. 'POOR THING.'
I wrote, 'NOT POOR ANYMORE. HAVE A LOT OF FUN & A GIRLFRIEND. IT'S A GOOD YEAR.'
She nodded. 'AT LEAST ONE OF US IS HAVING A GOOD YEAR.'
I responded, 'NEW YEARS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. TIME TO MAKE YOUR OWN GOOD YEAR.'
'YOU'RE OPTIMISTIC,' she wrote.
I replied, 'IT'S A NEW THING FOR ME, BUT I'M ENJOYING IT.'
'SEND ME SOME OF THAT OPTIMISM ANY TIME,' she wrote.
'GIVE IT TIME. ONCE SCHOOL STARTS BACK UP, I THINK YOU'LL LIKE REGAN HILLS,' I wrote, then pulling a new piece of paper to put beside it. 'IF A GUY LIKE ME CAN HAVE THIS YEAR, PRETTY AS YOU ARE, YOU'LL CLEAN UP, EASY.'
She smiled a smile I'd come to like, even from a distance. I was hoping to get the chance to see it up close sometime in the near future to confirm that. She wrote, 'WE'LL SEE.'
Looking to add a joke of my own, I replied, 'STOP STALKING ME, AND I MIGHT INTRODUCE YOU AROUND TO SOME PEOPLE.'
She laughed again. 'NO PROMISES. TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW YOU GET SO MANY GIRLS IS MORE FUN THAN ANYTHING STREAMING.'
'I CAN SUGGEST SOME GOOD SHOWS,' I replied.
'OR YOU CAN CLOSE YOUR CURTAINS AND KEEP ME IN SUSPENSE,' she retorted. I'd never left my window open while I was spending time with a girl, but that I'd made my neighbor so curious was exciting in its own way.
I responded, 'AND END OUR CONVERSATIONS? NAH, YOU'RE TOO FUN.'
She smiled again, a very sweet, friendly, almost fond look. She eyed me for a while before writing, 'YOU'RE NOT BAD YOURSELF.'
My phone started vibrating in my pocket. When I saw the name on the incoming text, I muttered, "Speak of the devil."