I was just minding my own business when the girls came along. Naturally I just ignored them. Why did I ignore them, I hear you ask? Because that's just who I am. My name's Tony, I'm still at school, eighteen, an introvert, and socially inept (probably due to the introvert tendency). I'm also what's rudely referred to as a geek and/or a nerd. That appellation has never bothered me because I just took it as admiration for my rather keen intelligence.
One part of being an introvert was that I avoided team games. They were anathema to me. I played chess, did martial arts, and was into acrobats. Right then I was sitting on the parallel bars in the gym, reading, when Becky and Cherry came in. (Real names Rebecca and Cherise, but no-one used them.) Becky and Cherry were senior cheerleaders, both eighteen, and I was surprised they weren't out with the team, practising, especially as they were both in their cheerleading outfits.
"Why aren't you out on the track running around with the rest of the team," demanded Becky.
"What business it of yours?" I asked.
"None," Cherry cheerfully put in, "but we're curious. Coach will be furious if he finds you're deliberately avoiding the run."
"Now would I really deliberately avoid going out for a run with the team?" I asked.
The girls looked at each other and then at me.
"Why yes, Tony, I do believe you would. Where's your school spirit?"
"I drank it and it was quite intoxicating," I replied. "Anyway, I'm not in the team so I don't have to run."
"But the coach is doing tryouts and said everyone had to be there."
"I explained that there was no way I'd ever make the team, even if I wanted to, that I'd be a disruptive influence on those trying to run and the team generally, and we'd all be better served if I retired to the gym to work on the parallel bars. The coach, in his wisdom, agreed and so here I am."
"But you're not working on the bars," Becky pointed out. "You lied to the coach."
"I certainly did not. I said I'd work on the bars. Not with the bars." I held up the book I was studying. "A treatise on microminiaturisation. Quite fascinating."
"Tricky little nerd, isn't he," observed Cherry.
"That he is," agreed Becky.
I decided it was time to turn the tables.
"It was my understanding that the cheerleaders were also out there practicing, but here you are, two senior cheerleaders, skipping the practice."
"We got kicked out as surplus to requirements. We won't be here after this term so they're trying to find replacements for us. There are a few likely prospects."
"I see. You're considered over the hill? It happens as you get older."
"My, my. A bit of snark from nerd-boy," said Becky while Cherry just laughed.
"Well don't let me keep you," I said, waving a hand in the general direction of the change-rooms. "Like I said, I'm working and I'm sure you can find something to do."
"Is he trying to get rid of us?"
"I think he is. Why are you trying to get rid of?"
"I'm not trying to get rid of you. I'm trying to study and you're interfering."
"Trying to get rid of us," said Becky, nodding. "Isn't talking to us better than wasting your time with a book?"
"Oh, certainly. Without a doubt. You are jewels of fair delight and I find myself pining for a smile from your lips. Your radiance unsettles me, leaving my thoughts confused. This means that while you're here I can't study, so go away."
"But we don't want to go away, do we, Becky?"
"No, we don't. We like talking to you. I find it interesting how you keep looking anywhere but at us. Why do you think that would be, Cherry?"
From where I was sitting on top of those bars the answer was obvious. The outfits they had on were low cut and if I looked directly at them I'd be staring down a couple of very pronounced cleavages. Undoubtedly eminently respectable at ground level but from up here on top of the bars? I was too embarrassed to look directly at them.
"I bet I know," said Cherry with a giggle. "Hey, Tony, how much do you see when I do this?"
I'd naturally looked when she called my name, just in time to see her tug the front of her top out, giving me a complete view of her bra and breasts. Not much bra but a lot of breast. I could feel my face burning.
"Oh, I get it," said Becky. "He's looking down our tops. What a perv."
"I am deliberately not looking down your tops," I said heatedly. Also a little late because I turned to address Becky just as she pulled on the front of her top, giving me another view of a small bra fighting a losing battle with a lot of breast.
"Perv," both girls agreed.