"I've always wanted to blow the entire lacrosse team."
Damian chokes on his beer at my words. It's just the two of us in the hot tub. Tonight's party is winding down, and everyone else is inside.
"I'm
on the lacrosse team," he says.
His arm rests along the edge of the hot tub, and his fingertips are an inch away from my shoulder. We're sitting close, but not too close.
"Oh, are you?" I stretch luxuriously, water soaking my red bikini top. "Yeah, I guess you are."
I met Damian on the first day of college. Freshman year, we lived across the hall from each other. It's been three years, and I've always seen him as a friend β nothing more. He usually has a girlfriend, though not at the moment. And me? I prefer to be unattached.
But now, I look him over. His firm shoulders, the water dripping down his chest, his cute curly dark hair that could use a cut. His fingers that can't stay still on the rim of the hot tub.
He shifts in the water. I wonder if he's getting hard.
"Can you...elaborate?" His eyes flick to my face, then away.
"Of course. They're all β excuse me,
you're
all lined up in the locker room. You're sitting on a bench in one long row. Naked. Rock hard." I watch his expression. Tough to tell in the dark backyard, but I swear his cheeks are reddening. "It's silent. No one can talk unless I say so. No one can touch me unless I say so. You're all so fucking desperate to come, desperate for my attention, and I'm the only one who can give that to you. It's just, oh my God, this forest of cocks, and I'm sucking on all of you, and it's more cock than I can even imagine..." I laugh, kicking my legs in the water.
He looks stunned. "You are so drunk, Alana," he murmurs.
You're so turned on, Damian.
"Maybe." I give a little shrug. "But in this fantasy, everyone is stone cold sober."
I lean across him in the hot tub to get my beer, and the tip of my breast brushes his shoulder, then his cheek. He sucks in a breath.
It's cruel, to tease like this. But I can't stop. It's too much fun.
"What's in it for you?" He smiles, but his eyes are glazed. "Don't you want pleasure too?"
I move closer β just a bit. The hot water foams around us.
"There's lots in it for me. I get attention. I get control. I get masturbation material that will last me for
years.
I come better when I'm alone, anyway."
I don't tell Damian that alone is the only way I come.
"You're a tease, aren't you?"
"I guess." I tilt my head to sip my beer. "But this is a dream that's never going to happen. I've resigned myself to that. My favorite fantasy will always be a fantasy."
"You sound so sure."
"Of course I'm sure." The stars look so pretty overhead. I squint up at them. "It would be crazy to try it in real life. There's no guarantee that the guys would be respectful, that they wouldn't gossip or secretly tape it. That it would go the way I want it to."
"Why lacrosse?" His fingers brush my shoulder, and I tense. It feels good, but I'm not asking him to hit on me.
"Oh, you know." I toss back my long wet hair.
"No, I don't know." He's looking at me more intently. "Enlighten me."
"Football's a cliche. Basketball players would never sit still. Soccer players...don't get me started on soccer players."
"So it's all the things we aren't." He's definitely turned on.
"No," I giggle. "It's all the things you are." I sink below the surface of the hot tub until my head is submerged in warm water.
*****
Two days later, in the middle of a lecture, my phone buzzes with a text from Damian.
Call me.
I immediately feel tingly, surprised by the fizz of excitement. I mean, it's just Damian. After the party, he walked me home and made sure I got inside okay, because he's sweet like that. And I teased him some more on the way home, because I'm a bitch like that.
I didn't expect him to linger on my mind afterward.
I wait till I'm back in my room to call. He answers with a question.
"Do you want your fantasy to come true?"
My stomach flips. "What are you talking about?"
"The fantasy you told me about in the hot tub, with the lacrosse team."
"I know what you mean. I'm asking about the coming true part."
He exhales. "I know some guys."
"What?" I sit down on my bed, fast.
"Not the whole team, I definitely wouldn't recommend that. But part of it. These are decent guys. They'd be down for this, but respectful."
My mouth opens and closes, but no words come.
"You'd be in control. I didn't tell them your name. To them, it's hypothetical. And, uh, not in the locker room. But that's better as fantasy anyway. You wouldn't want to actually do it in the locker room."
There's a long silence.
"Damian, are you for real?" I finally ask.
"Look," he says quickly, "I'm offering. But I know you didn't ask me to do this, and I totally get it if you're not interested. Just say so, and we'll never talk about it again."
Holy shit.
He's offering to make my craziest fantasy a reality.
I don't doubt the guys would be respectful; Damian would make sure of that.
I'm in shock, and I can't answer right away, because my vision swims with a group of nameless hot men, naked and straining and desperately turned on. Needing the relief that I can give them.
And one man who's definitely not anonymous.
I catch sight of my reflection in the mirror. My long brown hair is a tousled mess because I've been running my fingers through it. I'm not a blusher, but my cheeks are pink, and my eyes are lit up with excitement. My nipples are hard, and my whole body's tingling.
"Alana?" Damian asks.
I want him to moan my name. I've never fantasized about Damian before, but suddenly I want to hear him beg. I want him to plead with me to let him come, while for one night I'm the center of his world.
"Who are the other guys?" Coming back to earth, I picture the lacrosse team.
"You don't know them. They're strangers. They have no idea who you are. I told them this would be with a friend of mine and she's cute and nice. And hot."
"I'm
nice?"