"I had sex with a black guy and a white guy this weekend," Nikki heard the other girls talking as she pulled her tight fitting lacrosse jersey over her sports bra, "The black guy was so much bigger."
A chorus of giggles followed and echoed through the locker room before coach came through and brought a quick silence from the girls.
"Field in 5," she said as she passed through the locker room and out into the moist Spring air, whistle in mouth.
Nikki grabbed her goalie helmet and followed first while the other girls, now whispering about sexual escapades, slowly followed suit.
Nikki was always first on the field. She had gotten quite a scholarship to play lacrosse, and with her in net, the team had actually done better than .500 for the first time in nearly 20 years. Her white-blonde hair was in a firm bun on top of her head and it bobbed up and down as she jogged out and around the track to warm up.
While most of the other girls, and all athletes in general, were big partiers on the weekend (did they ever stop talking about sex?) Nikki was actually quite reserved. She drank, but usually only casually and in a group of close friends. It was a rare sight to be seen that she would be at one of the big athletic house parties that were pretty much nightly from Thursday to Sunday.
Practice was routine. The girls took their shots at Nikki and she stopped over 80% of them, well on her way to setting a college record for women's lacrosse. From behind the bars of the goalies mask, Nikki could tell she was at odds with her teammates. They either just didn't really speak with her (there were boys to talk about!) or they sort of resented her for her talents. Hawking University wasn't exactly a bastion of athletic success, and most of the other girls didn't take it as seriously as she did. It was supposed to be fun. Something Nikki felt in the pit of her stomach that she never let herself experience.
"You look good as usual, DeMarco," Coach said as a now sweat-glistened Nikki made her way off the field last after doing a couple of extra wind sprints.
By the time Nikki had showered and changed into her street clothes the sun had burned orange and the street lights of campus began to flicker on one by one.
Her roommate, and closest friends, Estelle, had gone home early for the weekend (Nikki resented her for somehow avoiding having a class on Friday) leaving Nikki to make her way to the dining hall on her own.
Like most of the other sports girls, Nikki was pretty proud of her body. A lot of the guys wore tight shirts, and girls wore stomach-revealing tank tops and Nikki was no different. Her white tank ended right above her belly button and the V in the neck exposed her small, but still full breasts quite well. She wore loose-fitting sweatpants as per requirement to let everyone know what team you were on. Hers had 'Women's Lacrosse" and a logo of a Hawk running down her leg.
A couple of the girls on her team saw her come in alone and, strangely, waved her over. Nikki grabbed a salad and a half-sandwich from the cafeteria and made her way over to the team. They erupted into a fit of giggles as soon as she sat down.
"He lasted how long?" one of the attackers, a redhead with giant tits said.
"Maybe thirty seconds," a brunette mid-fielder laughed through her hand as she spoke.
More roars of laughter. Did these girls talk about anything else besides sex?
"Hey DeMarco, maybe you let a couple of my shots by next time? You're making me look like shit out there," the redhead quickly turned her attention to Nikki.
Nikki awkwardly froze, her blue eyes flickering up and down from the redheads face to her very noticeable breasts, "Sorry."
The redhead's lips twisted into a smile, "I'm just fucking with you. Lighten up. If you weren't as good as you were we'd lose every game by like five goals because Layla here couldn't defend a retarded chipmunk."
Another roar of laughter and Nikki felt a slight blush as she smiled along with her team. The redhead, Andrea, patted her on the back.
"You know what tonight is right?" Andrea said, but it didn't take long for the other girls to chime in with a response.
"Thirsty Thursday!" the girls shouted in unison, laughing and cheering.
"What house is throwing it tonight?"
"Basketball team," another voice answered.
"Shit, Becky got wasted last time, do you remember?"
"Guys, I don't usually do tequila,"
"Isn't that where you and Rob first hooked up?"
The chorus of rapid girl-talk filled Nikki's ears to the point her brain turned it off, switching over to humming some Katy Perry song in her head until.
"Hey Nikki, why don't you ever come?" it was Layla who asked.
Nikki remained silent for a period, too long in fact, that the other girls now all seemed to zero in on her.
"I mean, you don't ever hang out with us," Andrea added, "How come?"
"I'm just not very outgoing," Nikki said, smiling sheepishly.
The rest of the team giggled and smiled some more before Andrea offered a plan, "How about you come out with us tonight, and I'll guarantee you have a great time, even if you are a little shy. How's that sound?"
Nikki's mind raced to homework, to her grades, to keeping her scholarship, but it also raced to that feeling she had earlier. That feeling that she never let herself have any fun.
"Okay," the word came out of her mouth but Nikki couldn't believe it was her voice, what was she doing?
The team cheered, "Nikki! Nikki!"
She blushed again, her creamy cheeks turning a blush pink as the girls roused her.
"Be at my place at 9," Andrea said.
Nikki quietly ate her salad and sandwich while the girl giggled and chatted more and more in an endless choir of noise.
It was ten of 9:00 p.m. when Nikki knocked on Andrea's door. The redhead opened it up in nothing but her bra and panties, her noticeable breasts on full display.
"Come on it," she said, turning on heel and marching back to where she was putting on make-up.
Layla and another girl from the team, Sandy, were also in the room, although they were clothed. But of them were drinking some pink concoction from a solo cup.