"Wake up man," I heard someone say as I felt an insistent nudge against my shoulder.
My eyes opened and I saw Jeremy's face looking down into mine.
"You need to hurry up and grab some breakfast if you want to make it to tennis this morning."
Tennis, fuck! I didn't even like playing tennis, but I remembered that I had agreed to do so last night at dinner.
"Fuck!" I said, rubbing my head and trying to wake up.
"Don't worry," said Jeremy, perhaps misunderstanding my irritation, "It'll work out, cause the luncheon for the cotillion escorts is going to be held at the country club before rehearsal. So we can hit some balls and then you can do what you gotta do anyway."
Great, I thought, could it get any more interesting? Then I noticed Jeremy glance down, and I followed his gaze to see my flaccid cock still hanging out of the fly of my boxers.
"I like to let it breathe," I said, unable to think of anything more creative.
"Whatever, dude," he said, heading for the door, "Dad left you some tennis clothes. We figured you hadn't brought any. I'll catch you downstairs. Be ready in thirty minutes okay?"
"Okay," I said, somewhat ungraciously.
I got up and stretched, realizing for the first time that Melanie was no where around. Other than my vivid memory of our time spent learning unlawful carnal knowledge of each other last night, there was no proof whatsoever that anything had happened between us. Damn, well, if it wasn't real, it had still been one hell of a fine dream.
Mr. Campbell had left me some of his tennis clothes to wear: shorts and a polo shirt. I had not packed appropriately for the activities of this trip. Thankfully, Mr. Campbell and I were about the same general height, although my broader shoulders and build caused the fabric to be pulled extremely tight across the muscles of my chest, and my much thicker arms filled out the short sleeves, so the shirt left very little of my torso to the imagination. After a shower I went downstairs to find the Campbells enjoying a nice full breakfast of eggs, sausages and pancakes. Melanie completely ignored me, which is to say that while she acknowledged my presence in her usual bubbly, infectious manner, she otherwise didn't give me any hint of having shared anything the night before.
Maybe it really had been a dream.
I wasn't given that much time to eat, but I'd never been a big breakfast person anyways.
Jeremy whisked us off to the club in his father's Porsche, where we proceeded to play several grueling sets of tennis. One thing that was clear, Jeremy was an extremely skilled player. I strongly suspected he was dumbing down his abilities so that I wouldn't feel quite so inadequate. Clearly it turned out to be a humiliating series of defeats that did not improve even when we played a game of doubles with two extremely charming and beautiful young women that Jeremy knew from the club. Eventually though I was put out of my misery because I had to get ready for the cotillion lunch and rehearsal. After apologizing profusely to my hot doubles partner for not being very good, I headed off to take a shower and change into my standard service uniform.
The time had come to learn how the ceremony would take place and what our duties as escorts would be. You see the military escorts were responsible for presenting a color guard, escorting our dates, and dancing constantly. The civilian escort accompanied the debutant onto the stage and was there to serve primarily to frame out the overall splendor of his date by providing her with a manly, well turned out arm to walk around on. The attention was to be focused on her, and not us, except in so far as we accessorized her.
Overall our goals and duties were clearly to ensure that the debutants had a good time, no matter what happened.
We ate lunch before rehearsal. There were a number of cadets there from various military academies and also present were a few midshipmen from the Naval Academy and even a third class cadet from West Point. As the only commissioned officer in the room, I was given the proper respect due to my rank and position. The rest of the gentlemen present at the lunch were the civilian escorts, all in casual dress, unlike the military escorts who all wore some form of uniform. Each civilian and military escort for each girl was paired together to get to know one another and we were seated together at tables.
That's how I found myself meeting Dave Roberts for the first time. He was a charming, raffish sort of fellow, not unlike the blokes that I'd hung out with in high school and college. He was in his freshman year at Dartmouth. And I found that, despite Mr. Campbell's warning, I liked him from the word go.
"So, where are the girls anyway?" I asked him after we'd sat through lunch and a couple speeches, talked about the college experience, the Marines and the general state of the NFL.
He leaned towards me and said conspiratorially, "They have lunch separately so their chaperones can warn them about the perils of men and their maidenly virtues."
"Probably not a bad idea," I said distractedly, as my eyes surveyed some of the less than savory characters both at my table and around the room.
"You're telling me," he said, getting ready to dig into his dessert, "Have you seen some of that ass? Half these guys have boners just thinking about it."
I took a sip of my coffee and asked my new best friend Dave the question that had been on Mr. Campbell's mind the night before.
"So, man, is Jenna your girlfriend?"
"Naw, man," he said around a mouthful of cake, "She's just a friend."
I nodded at him nonchalantly to indicate that I understood and took another sip of coffee.
"Now her sister Melanie on the other hand," he continued after swallowing, "That girl has a pussy that doesn't quit."
"You've boned her?" I asked.
"Sure, man," he went, taking another mouthful, "Who hasn't? The girl is a slut, but she's got a nice rack. You're unbelievably lucky sleeping in the same house with her. I would love to tap that ass again, but I just haven't seen her around in months. It's not like we ever tried to be exclusive or anything anyways, it just sort of happened three or four times when we were all hanging out."
"What about her other sister?"
"Lizzy?" he asked, swallowing his last bite, "She's frigid man. I'd worry my dick wouldn't defrost."
"Dude," I said, seriously, "She's smoking hot. She's got those nice titties and a tight looking ass. I wouldn't mind letting her try and tame my bronco."
"Good luck man," he said.
"Surely she's not a virgin?" I said, "The chick is older than me."
"I don't know man," he replied, "Hot or not, that broad has never fucked anyone that I've ever heard tell of."
"What's the story with her brother?" I asked by way of changing the subject.
"Jeremy? I don't know much about him. We don't exactly hang out together."
"That's not what I'm asking," I said.