Mayhem in a PillChapter 43 Everything Changes Tonight
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The congratulatory pats on the back and raucous shaking from the freshman football team still in the locker room were easily heard outside the locker room where many parents and fans were waiting for the player-of-the-game to come out.
Tim finished transferring his stuff from the freshman locker area into the JV locker room. Johnnie and the rest of Tim’s friends were sitting around waiting for him so they could make an appearance at the Sombrero Rosa’s across the street where many of the team and their families would be waiting to congratulate the team on a well-earned win. Most were also anxious to congratulate Tim after his comeback from an apparent injury to take over the game.
Johnnie was out front with Tony, Jeff, Mark and bringing up the rear, Tim, wearing a smile from ear to ear. The first warning of a problem was when Tim could hear Johnnie, first, followed by the others.
“Uh-oh. No, he’s okay. He’s right behind us.”
Tim’s supposed friends parted like the red sea, and two blurs ran up the small set of stairs to the locker room door. One of the blurs tried to envelop him in a vice-like embrace while the other did the same but to just one leg. It took a moment for Tim to recognize his sister checking over his leg and his mother examining every other part of his visible body. The circuitous ramblings from the two most important women in his life slowly settled down.
First thing first ... Tim was able to remove his nearly manic sister from around his leg, then he gave her a strong hug and picked her up, putting her on his shoulders. It had become her comfortable place with her big brother. His mother had the decency to stop her questioning while the two siblings said all that needed to be said to each other with the brief warm embrace.
Tim’s father, Raymond, as well as a few other Roosevelt football parents watching the game, will have a life-long memory of how hard it was to keep both his wife and daughter from charging onto the field! Luckily, they were able to calm them before the police would have needed to be called and the jaws of life applied to remove Juanita’s hands from around the neck of one of the Clark players. At that time, she didn’t care which Clark player! Any of them would have sufficed.
“Timothy, are you hurt? I saw what happened, and it looked like they tried to rip your leg off. I swear they need to put those two boys down for trying to hurt you. I have half a mind to go into that coaches office and pull you out of football right now!”
The collective inhaled shock as well as a few giggles from understanding parents still outside was audible enough for Juanita to hear. She turned to see behind her, and the large group of maybe forty people waiting just outside registered with her. That was the moment she first really noticed a large group of people was waiting outside the boy’s locker room. The number of other teens also waiting did not go unnoticed. The fact a large majority of them were girls about the same age as her son also hit. That realization made her step back away from the crowd and her son. Besides, they were fans there to give her son his well-deserved kudos.
Raymond, one hand around his wife’s waist, continued pulling his wife away from the crowd and whispered in her ear. “You see, Juana. He got hurt, but not injured. Yes, when those boys started playing dirty and went after his knees, it did look like they were trying to injure Tim, but he was able to fight back.”
The confusion on his wife’s face was easy to read. “Hell, yes! I wanted to go out there and tear those two bastards a couple of new assholes, too, but look, your son is growing up. Now, let’s watch and, every once in a while, hopefully, he’ll come back for our help and let us nudge him back on the right track with either a soft word or a two-by-four across his thick skull.” Her smile was warm and thankful. A quick peck on the lips and they both returned their attention to their son as he was talking to the fans.
Tim’s parents looked over the crowd clamoring for position to congratulate their son for his performance this morning. Their baby was trying to get everyone to calm down so he could say something to them.
“Hold on. Hold on. Thank you all for watching the game and for cheering the whole team on to a hard-fought victory.” The cheers were loud and went on for a lot longer than necessary. “I do have some news to share, and it is why I was so late coming out.”
He smiled and calmly said, “I just got promoted to the JV and, starting next week, I will be playing with the JV team.” The cheering was almost as loud as they were during the game. The congratulations came full-swing with slaps on the back and high-fives throughout.
“Fellas, I’ll see you later. I’m gonna go home and get some rest before I have to go with the team, tonight,” Tim said to his friends who were waiting for him so they could all go to get tacos and receive their congratulations from the choice freshmen girls waiting for the ‘after the game’ party at Sombrero Rosa.
Raymond interrupted, “No, Tim, go with your friends. Do you have a ride home afterwards?”
Tim looked at his friends, and Mark was nodding his head ‘yes.’
“Yeah, my sister has the car today, and she was told to pick me up whenever I was ready to go home. She said if we won she would give us all a ride home.”
“Dad, I’m gonna go with my friends then, and I’ll be home for dinner because the coaches want me to go the game tonight with the team to see how everything works.”
“Okay, Tim. We’ll see you later for dinner.”
Tim bent over and let his sister get off his shoulders. “That was fun, but it got scary when they tried to hurt you.”
“Don’t worry about that. If anyone tries to do that again, I’ll tell ‘um they gotta deal with you, and there ain’t a single person in the world stupid enough to try you.” He gave her a quick kiss on top of her head, and she smiled as she jogged to catch up with their parents.
“All right, everybody, let’s go get some tacos!”
The crowd of twenty to thirty high school aged teens made their way out of the athletic parking lot to the crossing corner, then spanning the six busy lanes of Walzem Road to the quickly-filling Sombrero Rosa. The cheering was loud, and the radio was blaring out of the restaurant’s speakers, occasionally interrupted with an order number ready for pick up.
The guys found a seat after ordering and were busy accepting congratulations from the other teens and even a few older people eating at the inexpensive restaurant. The fact that they dared to deal with the raucous group of young teens highlighted the love of the tacos from multiple generations of Roosevelt students and parents.
“Dude, are you gonna dress tonight for the game?” Jeff Green asked just before shoveling a taco into his mouth.
“Nope, not tonight -- just in regular clothes. They want me to learn what warm-ups they do and when and how we are supposed to act when we get to the stadium and shit like that.” Tim answered and took another bite of his taco. “I’m supposed to teach you guys what to do before you get up to the varsity, so you know what to do, and they don’t have to tell you.”
“So, I guess we gotta get used to playing without you.” Johnnie quickly inhaled another half of a taco in one bite and continued. “But don’t worry, we’re all gonna get promoted to JV as quick as possible so we can play together again. Besides, somebody had to clean up after your mistakes,” Johnnie joked and had to duck from the hot sauce packets and napkins the others at the table threw at him.
“What I can’t figure out is how come it took you guys so long to beat Clark. I mean, shit, it was Clark. Everyone knows they can’t play worth shit!”
Tim and his friends looked up to see a group of five guys, dressed in red and gray t-shirts with the Judson Rockets logo proudly displayed for all to see. The tension on Sombrero Rosa’s back patio rose considerably. The grandiloquent leader made his way through the crowd, toward Tim’s table, and backed by four other Judson Rockets.
“When our freshmen played them last week, they won 70-0. You guys could only muster 63. That is absolutely pathetic.”
Tim and his friends stayed seated at their table and calmly continued eating, waiting for the blustering five to make their way through the dividing crowd. The crowd wasn’t leaving the patio, they just let the five into the area and then quietly, slowly surrounded the five boys.
“So, I understand you are Tim ‘Mayhem’ Murphy.” He made air quotes with both hands when he said mayhem. The five degenerates visibly looked up and down at the still-seated Tim as he continued eating his tacos. “Nah, I don’t see what the big deal about you is. Anyone can take steroids and get themselves all swollen in a summer.”
Tim quickly found his attention waning from this laughingly stereotypical jock confrontation. Normally, he would slink back behind much more upfront personalities, but he recognized his current standing forced him into that role.
While Tim was wrestling with his inner demons, everyone on the patio was waiting with baited breath, and the loud-mouthed leader threw his insult once again.
“Yep. Nothing much to see here. Mayhem is definitely well-oversold. He ain’t shit for us to worry about.” The air quotes were used again.
The mainly high school audience on the patio answered, “ooooohhhh.”
Tim smiled as he replied, “So that’s why you had to spend your Saturday morning watching a freshman high school football game, on the other side of town -- because you were worried about little ol’ me.”
Tim stood up, and people started backing up trying to keep from getting involved with the obviously physical confrontation getting ready to pop off. Tim, however, just picked up his tray with the wrappers and paper bag from the tacos he’d finished eating and threw them away in the trashcan nearby. He did save his drink before it fell into the can since he was not yet finished with it, and he could get a refill before they left. He sat back down in his seat, again looking up at the ringleader.
“All the way across town, because you were worried about little ol’ me.”
The leader’s face turned as red as the cubed tomatoes in the salsa bowls on every table of the restaurant. “Hey, listen up, you mother fucker. We went to see your game ‘cause we were tired of hearing about the great hope. The gifted one. The one player who might be able to bring a win over Judson to it’s much littler brother school, Roosevelt. We heard all about how great of a player you were supposed to be and wanted to see it for ourselves and, to tell the truth, I ain’t that impressed.”
The high school audience groaned again, “oooohhhh.”
“Well, we know who this is,” Johnnie said, pointing to Tim who was once again comfortably seated and probably the only person in the restaurant still that way. “But who the fuck are you?”
“I’m Rodney Valentine. I’m the starting running back for the Judson Rockets.”
One of his fellow Rockets patted him on his shoulder. The others gave encouraging non-verbal grunts of affirmation. Valentine turned and gave him a slight nod of thanks, and he turned back to Tim who was rising from his seat.
“Well, Rodney, it’s good to meet you, and I bet Clark is happy you came to see the game and also for the $2 admission charge.” A smattering of laughs streamed from several people within hearing distance.
The uptick in tension didn’t go unnoticed by the management of the restaurant.
“All right, fellas. All right. You know the rules. No fights or I close up and kick everyone out,” the manager announced as he made an appearance, standing between the five Judson Rockets and the table of Roosevelt players.
“Oh, don’t worry, sir. There’s not going to be a fight,” Tim turned toward the Judson players. “Isn’t that right, Rodney?”
The undercurrent growl from Tim even unnerved Johnnie and the others a little.
“No, you’re right, Tim. We didn’t come for a fight. We just stopped by to give congratulations and to tell him we can’t wait until he becomes a junior and his coach finally lets him play varsity ball.”
Rodney’s friends laughed like the henchmen they were, but they didn’t get why some other patrons on the patio laughed at their leader’s joke, too.
“Guess you fellas didn’t hear. Tim, here, got promoted to the JV and is dressing out for the Varsity game tonight. He is just one injured or under-performing player away from lining up across from you,” Johnnie added as he sat back down and began inhaling another taco. The others began to slowly sit down as well when the Judson boys backed out of the restaurant door and made their way toward their two cars.
“Did you see the look on Rodney’s face when you told him Tim got promoted to JV? Christ! I thought he was gonna puke all over himself. It was the funniest thing I have seen in a long time,” Jeff Green said while adding more sliced jalapeños to and pouring more hot sauce and salsa on his tacos.
“I have to admit, the smug look on his face changed pretty damn quick once he heard about your promotion, Mayhem. Say, you don’t think there is a chance you could play varsity next week against Judson, do you?” Jeff asked before finally taking a big bite of one of his five-alarm hot tacos.
“Anything is possible. The coaches are happy about having the chains removed and getting to coach closer to the way they wanna coach. Well, that’s my take on it, anyways,” Tim answered while he drank a little more from his iced tea. “Anything is possible, but I’d have to beat out not only Mike Smith and Tommy James for a chance at either defensive end spot, but then I’d also have to beat Mike’s older brother Jeff. He’s got a shot at all-city this year – the way he has been playing.”
The conversation closed for a few minutes while the patio got back to what they were doing before the visit from Judson’s current prized running back. The last seven players who were starting running backs for the Judson Rockets found themselves with scholarships to good division-one college football teams at schools all over the country. Rodney Valentine’s recruitment was well-chronicled and began toward the end of his freshman season when he was the top substitute in the playoffs.
The Judson faithful were salivating at the chance for a top-tier talent playing the star position of the Judson Rockets offense, and he was there for at least three more seasons. When counting his college scholarship offers, it was easier to count the schools not recruiting him – mainly schools where academic standing was not as important than athletic prowess. Rodney Valentine was not an unintelligent young man; he just did not work at that part of his life. He was going to play football, and that was going to be his profession.
“Dude, you are already tons better than Mikey or Tommy. You can beat those two into the ground after Monday’s practice,” Tony Parker said while also scoping the patio for unattached ladies to go after.
“Yeah, Tim, Tony’s right. You can beat both of them now. Easily. I think if you work hard, you’ll be better than Mikey’s brother and/or Tommy James. Shit. If coach is smart he’ll change one of those two down to tackle and get an incredible push with three of the best defensive linemen in Roosevelt history,” Johnnie added.
“Yeah. Jeff Smith is pretty damned good, and I bet I can learn a lot from him. Tommy James is almost unstoppable once he gets going. Maybe I’ll move inside so that we can keep the three best pass rushers on the field at the same time,” Tim said off-handed while contemplating the future.
“Holy shit. Did I hear that right? Did Mayhem Murphy just call himself one of the three best pass rushers in the school?” Johnnie stood up next to Tim and looked down at him like an overbearing parent. “Who taught you how to act like that?”
Tim gave a little smile and loudly answered, “You, alright? I learned it by watching you!” The jeers came at them from several tables as well as several packets of sugar and hot sauce.
“Dude. Did that guy say he was promoted to the JV? I thought they never promoted freshmen to JV – not until they were at least sophomores,” one of the Judson players asked from the back seat as Rodney Valentine sped back to Judson High.
The entire drive back to the locker room was quiet since the one question asked as soon as they left Sombrero Rosa’s. The perks were plentiful for the young and highly skilled running back, including a student parking spot in the front row just outside of the locker room. His white 2018 Dodge Challenger rumbled into the parking spot set aside for Rodney. It was a gift from the Judson administration. The sign indicating only Rodney was allowed to park there was paid for by the Judson Sports Booster Club.
“Rod, I told you going there would be a mistake. Besides, Coach said he wanted the film of the game as soon as it ended.” Damon Baker could have been talking to a wall for all the reaction he was getting from his friend, Rodney Valentine. It was all he could do to keep up with the football star as they entered the Judson football locker room area.
Once inside the locker room, Rodney finally stopped and acknowledged everything his friend was saying. “Hey, man, I needed to see him for myself. I needed to see just how good he was, and it looks like, for once, the internet and the high school football talking heads are actually underselling him. If anything, he might be the best player in the state – right now!” Rodney exhaled visibly. “And I know what coach said, but I think he will want to know that the guy he told us not to worry about has just done something no one thought would ever happen. He got Roosevelt’s coach, Big John Fontana, to change one of his fundamental rules!”
Not Damon, Rodney, or any of the other three football players who went to the Roosevelt-versus-Clark freshman football game had seen their head coach, John Baker, sitting on a bench around the corner.
“What are you and Mr. Valentine talking about, Mr. Baker?” Judson’s head coach asked loudly to get his players’ attention. He also motioned for the boys to follow as he walked into the coaches office. “And where is the film I asked you men to get?” Damon quickly turned the iPad he was holding over to the coach.
“Coach,” Rodney began. “We stopped to get something to eat, and we heard a rumor that we need to verify because it will involve us pretty soon.”
“What rumor?”
“Tim Murphy from Roosevelt has been promoted to the JV.”
“Who?”
“Remember the video I showed you? They called it ... um...” Rodney looked to his friend for help.
“The perfect defensive player.”
“Right. The perfect defensive player.”
The recognition quickly overcame the coach’s face. “Oh yeah, that player that got you all worried. What happened to him? Did he get hurt or did he quit?”
“No. They just played his second game, and they beat Clark and won easily,” Rodney stopped and swallowed heavily then looked at his friend. Damon shook his shoulders in a universal ‘I don’t know’ shake. “Tim Murphy got promoted to the JV after today’s freshman game.”
“Oh, is that all? Jesus Christ! I thought you were gonna tell me something like one of you got in trouble or something!”
Coach Baker wiped the sheen of sweat on his forehead threatening to turn into full-on deluge down his face, with the back of his hand.
He stood, put his hands on Rodney’s shoulders and looked deep into his eyes as he said, “Rodney. I told you then you didn’t have to worry about some guy playing for Roosevelt. If he lines up against us, then we deal with him.” Rodney was about to say something when the coach stopped him and continued. “He played two games so far, right? Clark and who else? What? Warren? He ran up against two going-nowhere teams. Our JV can destroy both of their varsity teams.”
The coach spun Rodney around and began slowly marching him and Damon out of his office. “There is nothing to worry about from just one player.” He walked the two out to the main locker area where the Judson football players were milling about getting ready for their game that night. Their entrance caught the attention of the players in the room. “The only thing you guys need to worry about is what you are gonna do to Lake Travis, tonight.” Coach Baker projected out to the rest of the team. He motioned for the two players to get to their lockers.
“Go ahead and pack up, the bus leaves for Austin in about an hour. We gotta go to our pre-game meal, first. Let’s go, ladies!”
With something new to focus on, the two Judson players put their face-off with the Roosevelt freshman out of their minds. After all, Coach Baker was right. They had work to do, but Rodney Valentine could just feel he was going to see if the press was right about Murphy sooner rather than later but, tonight, he was going to let out his frustrations by running all over Austin’s Lake Travis Cavaliers.
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-Sumalee- I was happier than I probably should have been when Daniel walked into my lounge again the next day and sat down at the bar. I could not tell you exactly why I was happy he had returned but I was. I mean ... looking at him through unbiased eyes he is not particularly handsome, other than in an everyman, rugged sort of way. But he was nice and listened, laughed at my silly jokes and seemed to be enjoying talking to me for a reason other than just a ploy to separate me from my...
-Sumalee- It was still dark when I woke up that first night although I could see a little in the dimness from the small amount of moonlight shining in through the window. I rubbed my cheek on the warm surface I was sprawled on and smiled when I was rewarded by the scratchy roughness of Daniel's chest hairs. I hadn't moved a centimeter from where I had fallen asleep and neither had he. I was still face down on his chest as he lay on his back. He was not snoring but I could hear and feel the...
-Mr. Black- "Do you have the vest made up?" Black asked as Green frowned at him. "Yeah, sort of," Green replied. Before Black could ask the obvious question he continued. "The gel is setting up and will be ready at the same time everything else is. It'll go off; no problem. No, the problem is the detonator; actually the remote activator for the detonator. This wasn't exactly in the mission plans so we didn't bring that kind of equipment with us. I was able to adapt an old raghead...
-Sumalee- To say it had been an interesting evening would be an understatement. The relationship Daniel has with his team would make for a lifetime study by any clinical psychologist. We met two more of them that night: the brothers Stanley and Samuel. Their reaction to Lidia and myself was fascinating. It was almost like they had known us as long as Michelle, Brian and Nathan; almost like they had shared memories. As I said, fascinating, exciting and just a little intimidating. Not that...
A Man of Wealth and Taste Raymond Murphy had trouble keeping the smile off his face. His son Tim was going on and on about how cool it was being on the sidelines for the varsity football win against the Clark Cougars. The first half of football featured an unsure Roosevelt team going up against a Clark team who, though good, was not up to their usual standards and was going to have a down year. Roosevelt was not expected to make the playoffs. “I’m telling you, Dad, Frank Robinson looked...
Leonard Huffnagle was having a lot of trouble looking for dirt on Tim Murphy from San Antonio Roosevelt High School. The only tangible thing he was able to confirm was that Tim had gifted the Trojan iPad, given by Coach Andrew Thomas of IMG Academy, to his little sister, Carmen. IMG was known for recruiting the best high school football players from across the country and giving them highly specialized coaching to better prepare them for college football. Kids graduating from IMG often...
Rodney Valentine’s throat was sore from his screaming. His knuckles were scratched and bruised from pounding on that poor, unsuspecting asshole who didn’t know any better. Rodney was especially pissed because no one could figure out why he was so pissed off in the first place. Valentine and his posse of teammates arrived at the house party a little bit later than everyone else, as usual. It was an unwritten rule that the host of the party would have the game highlights from that weekend’s...
Tim, Troy, Rob, Frank, and Jeff were quiet most of the way on the drive to the address included with their multi-colored cards found in their lockers after the beating the Rough Riders had given to the Johnson Jaguars. The five young men crammed into Jeff’s GTO were mostly quiet, daydreaming about the story Troy had told them. “I think I know what this is. You guys feel like having an experience?” Troy asked with a strange, tilted smile. “My dad told me a story that he said I could never...
A Messy Situation Once Tim Murphy closed his bedroom door and turned on the bedroom lamp, he blew a quick kiss to his one-and-only Cindy, taped up on the wall, and collapsed on the bed with the biggest smile of his life. Tim was quietly reliving what had happened to him after the game. When he laughed to himself, he realized he didn’t even think about the game when the great time he had that night ran through his mind. The quiet knock on the bedroom door alerted him to the here and now. The...
Tim Murphy and the nanites in his body had already written the two reports – one for his English class and the other for his US History class. It was just a matter of typing and formatting the report in the proper sets. All in all, the two assignments only took a few minutes to type, save, and email to their respective teachers. When he sent his English paper, he had a flash of remembrance of his short relationship with his English teacher, Julianne Holmes, considered one of the hot teachers...
The week of practice started with a few announcements from Big John on Monday morning. Big John had canceled morning practice with a sign written on the giant dry erase board along the long wall in the locker room. He didn’t cancel all practice, but it would be just no helmets or pads. That meant a full hour of lifting weights rather than working out on the practice fields in full pads – a day off for sure. Before practice would have typically begun, the Roosevelt football teams met in the...
Going into downtown San Antonio for evening dinner was rare for the Murphy family. Of course, they went out to dinner occasionally but not very far from their neighborhood. Raymond had ordered the women in his life to a day of indulgence at their favorite beauty spa to get pampered and eventually have their makeup done. While the womenfolk were enjoying their day of pampering, the men folk went to fill a glaring hole in the younger Murphy man’s life: the lack of a nice suit. Tim had never...
As they did so often, the Murphy family sang along with the music on the radio. The Murphy parents both enjoyed all genres and encouraged their children to listen to all types of music. Juanita had her favorites and listened to them with the specialized music channels through the cable provider. She preferred the popular hits from the 1980s and 1990s, while Raymond also preferred that and rock music from the 1970s. The patriarch of the family steered into a parking lot nearby the...
The next day was moving day. I've heard how being out on tour with an entertainer can seem a little like riding a tornado without a safety belt but you couldn't tell that by me. I've heard how some tours play twenty cities in twenty days but that isn't how things are done in Ireland. Time seems less important and venues aren't always open when you want them to be. We were doing 25 shows in three months and that included a two-week break in the middle to "relax." Not exactly an arduous...
The next few weeks were just plain work. It probably seems like touring with a popular band would be great fun and endless adventure but mostly it was a lot like combat: endless hours of boredom interrupted by moments of shear terror. Well, terror is probably a bit of an overstatement, maybe agitation and concern would be more appropriate. Anytime the girls were heading into a large crowd there was a concern; happily we hadn't had anything like the clusterfuck we'd seen in Clonakilty but...
Book Eight: Labyrinth of Love Chapter Nine: The Knight's Passion By mypenname3000 Copyright 2016 Knight Kevin – The Free City of Grahata, Yalut Island The night wore on as we stood our watch in the overgrown Labyrinthine Gardens. The trees and bushes were so thick, the stone buildings of Grahata were completely obscured. There was almost no light, the night sky half-overcast, the moon struggling to shine through black clouds. But our eyes had adjusted to what light there was. The...
CARLY'S STORY Chpt. 4 FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Friday had arrived. In one short week, my life had been changed completely. From a fairly masculine, self assured player, to a subservient sissy cock slut. A deranged group of sex freaks had taken over everything in my life. I was under their control until they tired of me. They had access to all my accounts, knew everyone I knew, and I had to do anything they said. Raven, who seemed to like me, shared with me that whatever the Doctor...
I want share a story about the horniest weekend of my life involving 2 different women. I had started seeing this girl recently and it wasn't too serious as we had only been out once or twice on a date. I had early in the week to meet her on Saturday night and I was hoping I could finally get her into bed to have sex with her. She was very sexy, black bobbed hair, slim and nice tits or so they looked. I couldn't wait but was very nervous on how our date would go. There was a work night out...
Book One: The Quest Chapter Seven: The Knight's Sacrifice By mypenname3000 Copyright 2016 Note: Thanks to B0b for beta reading this. Acolyte Sophia – Western Deorc Forest, The Federation of Deoraciynae The two other elf hunters appeared silently out of the woods. Like Xera, they were gorgeous, tall and lithe, their bodies painted in greens and browns to let them blend into the woods. Their keen eyes flickered at Angela and me, their ears twitching in obvious curiosity at the sight...
Friday night in our town is always football night. And that didn’t change after my divorce. I still went to the games with friends, it was our meeting place before going for a drink. This Friday my regular friends were all out of town for one reason or another but Hey I thought I would still go, I know other people there. After a easy win a few local were still tailgating and I was invited, nothing else to do so I went over and introduced myself. I had a good time but by the time midnight came...
I’d met him through work three years before, and we’d been living together for a year now. He had, in the last year, become gainfully self employed as a drug dealer. I’d fancied him from the first time I saw him. He was tall, dark, muscular, with piercing green eyes, and a rugby player’s physique. And he looked dangerous, which nice, but obviously stupid girls like me always love! One of the first things that I’d noticed about him were his huge, strong hands, and long, thick fingers....
Feb 12, 2011 10:24 Am You were supposed to have checked out of the hotel by 11 am. The bags were packed but you had needs that must be tended to before leaving. A long flight awaited you at the airport and knowing you couldn't stand to be this horny all the way home you decided to take matters into your own hands one more time before leaving. I had been given the key to your room from the hotel manger. This was a room that was scheduled for remodeling and my contracting firm was putting in a...
A by product of time travel that no one knew about was the momentary blindness and nausea brought on from the rapid assault to your senses immediately after travel. But for some reason only on your return. When he re-materialized in the time travel chamber, Tim Murphy needed to shield his eyes from the suddenly ultra bright lights. He also needed to make a concerted effort to control his nausea. Nausea controlled and his sensitivity to light diminishing, Tim decided it was time to see how...
The drive to the hospital was uneventful and easy enough. Tim’s mother, Juanita, parked the family SUV in a General’s parking spot, right outside the front entrance to the emergency room. Tim’s father, Raymond, who was standing just inside the ER doors, knew from the frantic sound of his wife’s voice on the phone that she would not obey the parking rules and would take the first available space she found. Raymond quickly reached the SUV before Juanita could turn off the engine. He stuck his...
Summer two-a-day practices are a rite of passage for the Texas high school football player. The players arrived at their new high school, two weeks before the start of the new school year. Sure, they were only going to the football locker room, the football practice fields and also the weight room; but the psychological advantage of being able to GO to high school, earlier, was a definite positive feeling for the young soon to be high schooler. Freshmen did not have their own cars ... yet....
To say Tim was excited, would be a major understatement. “It was sooo cool, Mom,” Tim was almost jumping up and down in the front seat of the SUV while his mother was driving them home. “I was sitting there reading, and the librarian came up to me. I didn’t even hear her, as I was paying attention to what I was reading. She actually scared me when she touched my shoulder to get my attention. Standing with her was Coach Barrett, her husband. He’d come all the way to the library to just meet...
The lights turned on in the cell at half past six, every morning since Tim got back from his trip to the past. About a week after returning from the past, his nanites confirmed his hypothesis that no one he had met, yet, had any nanites of their own. Tim theorized to himself the interrogators did not have any nanite improvements since they constantly made mistakes in their questioning and also in their answers to his questions. Oh, they answered the questions as he believed they would but...
A good hundred or so young men full of testosterone and desperate to show they were not afraid, were indeed afraid. Afraid of not fitting in. Afraid of being shown they were not good enough to make it on the freshman football team. Afraid they were good enough to make it on the freshman football team. Afraid of the high school girls. Afraid of the high school guys. Afraid of the work their new teachers were preparing to pile on them. Afraid they would not be able to finish the work their new...
With the day’s drama complete after finishing with their equipment, they began leaving the locker area to try and enjoy their final day of relaxation before the two-a-days started. Tim and his friends crossed a very busy Walzem Road, right in front of the high school. Walzem Road’s three lanes headed northeast and three lanes going southwest were divided by a median island running the length of the high school. Once beyond the high school, the divider island changed into a turning lane....
The tacos were just great. Tim was still not doing anything to jeopardize the loss of the twice-a-week breakfast tacos treats. George was still bringing in the savory, artery-clogging breakfast tacos from everyone's favorite family restaurant. In fact, George was now adding an extra taco, since he understood the body's instant response once it smelled one of Yolanda's tacos. Whether breakfast tacos dripping in the grease of the Mexican sausage and fluffy egg combination, or the...
First day of school for both Murphy kids saw a return of a family tradition: Mom fixed a full breakfast for everyone. Pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, fruits and all kinds of baked goods. She generally cooks for the family, then the mothers from the neighborhood carpool come and enjoy a wonderful meal at their own pace. There were usually a few empty bottles of wine in the trash when the kids returned home from the first day of school. Rumor has it the same carpoolers also got together toward...
“Hey, Joe, what do you mean the freshmen offense knows fourteen plays already? I thought Big John only wanted the freshmen to concentrate on getting in shape, until at least the first scrimmage,” Kevin Krebsback, the JV and Varsity defensive backs coach asked, once the freshmen left the coaches office for second period. “It’s exactly what I said it was, Kevin,” Coach Alvarez said. As he sat back down at his desk, he saw he had everyone’s attention, including Coach Barrett. The freshman...