Author's Note: I've read a story similar to this, probably on this site – but I can't find it again. If you recognize the storyline and remember the name or author, please leave a note in the comments below.
For now, I'm creating a similar tribute story – as I remember it, with my own spin on it. Many of the details in this story will be significantly different, but I'll try to keep the overall tone about the same.
No disrespect to the original author intended. (Au Contraire!)
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I'd known him all my life. We were friends – good friends, but not quite 'best friends'. We played together outside in the woods with other kids, or rode bikes, went to school, and various other activities, hanging out since before I can remember. We lived on the same block, had the same friends, and grew up together. We turned 18 the same month, and our parents threw a little block party to celebrate.
My family was firmly middle-class – but his family was fairly well off, his dad a successful lawyer, and his name was almost as pompous as their station in life: Roderick Wilson Snipe. They lived in the nicest home in the neighborhood.
Rod was more popular than me, had more friends than me, and had far, far more luck with the girls than I did. Most days, I just considered myself lucky that I knew him at all.
Why is this important? It's not - but it adds to the background.
I'd known Rod for years and was glad to have him as a friend. So, naturally, during our senior year in High School, when we were assigned to be lab partners for the final project in Science class, I was happy to know it was someone who I knew, I liked, and I looked up to, even if I got a sinking feeling in my gut that I'd be doing most of the work. It had been a few weeks since I'd last spoken to him – we were friends but not super-close – and I looked over at my new lab partner and smiled.
Puberty had been good to Rod. His body had fleshed out to a stocky 6'2", 180lbs firm and muscled all around, with rugged good looks that attracted many of the girls in our class. I, however, was 'blessed' with what my mom called a "runner's build", and at 5'6" and 115lbs, I called it 'gangly'. Girls never took a second look at me – and rarely even looked at all.
I was fortunate that most of the classes I took came easy to me, and although I never really considered myself smart, my grades were good, and my college prospects were good too, but I was going to State anyway because of the costs. For the time being, Rod was focused more on football, but everyone knew that college and law school was a sure thing in his privileged future.
"Hey, Poindexter, how's it goin?" He laughed loudly, tousling my hair as I moved to his lab station.
I just looked at him with a pained 'WTF' expression, and he laughed again.
"I'm just Kidding!" he said in a much lower voice, and smiled his charming smile. He always had a nice smile, which made it easy for him with the girls. "I'm glad that Mr. Orasky put us together, you know this shit backwards and forwards, that's all I meant." The way he looked at me, even during his half-assed apology, sent a shiver down my spine, and for some reason, I found myself wanting to stare at the floor.
"My name is Bob." I said. I was immediately embarrassed by the weak and pathetic tone of my voice.
Rod laughed again, and actually tousled my hair again. "I know that, Bobby – I'm just fuckin' with ya, that's all. Let's get started on this project, okay?" I wasn't happy with the diminutive "Bobby" – but it was better than "Poindexter", so I opened my book and we began to look at the assignment.
Over the next few weeks, things were pretty much normal. Life went on, and the lab project with Rod was just one of those things that I'd added to my day-to-day life.
Like I suspected, I did most of the work, and Rod watched and encouraged me, but our conversations were usually limited to his latest activities on the gridiron, or the conquest of the latest cheerleader. There were so many of those, I couldn't keep track! The names seemed to change every few days! I couldn't possibly commiserate – I had never even had one girlfriend, little alone have to keep a dozen names straight! I couldn't remember from one day to the next if he was fucking Melissa, or Heather, Jennifer, Nichole, Monika or Chrissy. At one point in time or the other, he'd chased them all, and fucked most of them. I was pretty jealous – just listening to his exploits made my virgin cock hard with frustration.
Toward the end of the semester, we had to start picking up the pace. Doing most of the work myself wasn't cutting it, and even Rod knew it. He suggested we have study sessions at his house to make up some of the work we needed to complete. His parents had divorced, so his mom was gone and his dad was frequently off with his new, younger 'trophy' wife. We'd have the place to ourselves. I wasn't too keen on that idea, but he wouldn't take no for an answer, so I found myself going over to his place a couple of nights a week. My parents were cool with it – I think they were relieved to get me out of the house once in a while.
Things weren't much different in our after-school sessions – I'd do most of the work and he'd talk about his personal life. Being at home he felt free to drink his dads' beer and talk more openly about his sex life, using far more graphic terms, describing the various positions and acts he performed with all these girls, and the degrading and intimate things they'd do to him. He was quite the incredible cocksman – even if only half what he said was true!
The night of one of the last big senior dances had a dramatic change for Rod. Naturally, with no date in sight, I wasn't there, but the big story all over school next Monday was that three of the girls he'd been regularly having sex with, including one who was rumored to be pregnant with his child, all had a huge fight in the school gymnasium, complete with shrieking, scratching, hair pulling and assorted name-calling.
Initially, this excited the ego of a guy like Rod, having three women fight so furiously over him, but the longer-term issue started to become major down-turn for him – word quickly spread among the girls that he was a "player" and the number of women available to him suddenly dried up – to zero.
The next week, our study sessions continued, but now I had to listen to him complain about how he was doing without pussy, and his growing frustration because of it. Apparently, he almost never went more than two days without a "date" and now it had been over a week. I was supposed to feel sorry for him, but since I'd never been laid – ever – I was having difficulty with more than passing sympathy for a guy whose dick had been dry for barely a week.