Team Manager COACH!
Chapter 26
FRIDAY, the school was buzzing. The day started with assembly so the teams would hear the school cheering for them before they left. One fan bus would leave right after school was out. The cheerleaders had decided to travel with the fans for this game to keep the spirit up.
Dennis was in the locker room at 1:35. He took up his position in the second locker row so he wouldn’t offend any of the new players. He was surprised, though at the state of undress the new players were in when they came to him for tape. Laura and Shelby both shocked him by showing up topless and sitting in front of him.
“Wow! Um… I never thought I’d see this!” Dennis said when Shelby sat down. All she was wearing were her game panties.
“Seeing is all you get to do, but it’s too much fun to tease you a little.” She pinched her nipples casually as he taped her ankles. When he looked up, her nipples were hard points sitting atop puffy cones. Shelby had a nice figure and round full breasts, but the areolae and nipples made cones sticking out from the roundness. Dennis couldn’t help running his hands up her calves and giving them a little squeeze when he was finished.
“You’re all set,” he said.
“I might travel all the way to the Cardinals with my hand in my panties,” she giggled. Dennis sighed, thinking he wouldn’t mind traveling all the way to the Cardinals with his hand in her panties.
By 2:30, the team was on the bus and headed south.
The game was intense through the first quarter with the teams going back and forth with the lead. They were carefully measuring each other to see where the weaknesses were. The big guard facing Natalie soon found out she wasn’t fast enough to steal the ball. Natalie drove to the inside and scored from the foul line twice on her. Bartley led the first quarter 18-14. In the second quarter, the Angelines broke away from the Cardinals.
Unable to stop Natalie’s relentless driving, the Cardinals first made the mistake of double-teaming her. They saw the futility of that when Daniella popped two three-pointers from the corner. Then they started getting pushy and fouled Natalie. Natalie sank her free throws. They didn’t expect a guard to run for the backboard, but Natalie grabbed rebounds as often as her taller sisters. These inevitably went sailing down court to Amy who capitalized on the open field. At the half, the Angelines had stretched their lead to fourteen points.
Ardith didn’t change strategies for the second half, though she started substituting more frequently. Judith came in and replicated Natalie’s efforts on the boards. Having two guards grabbing rebounds was more than the Cardinals could comprehend. Natalie kept shooting and when she missed, chances were that Judith had the rebound up and in.
Late in the third quarter, when Natalie made her ninth out of ten free throws, Ardith started pulling her starters and putting in the freshmen and sophomores who were new to the team. They ended with an Angeline victory 75-56. Natalie had scored twenty-nine points and had sixteen rebounds. Daniella scored twenty.
The girls took their time in the locker room. The Cardinals had very nice facilities and they took advantage of the showers. Dennis and Lana had the tape off all the girls and had seen a lot of flesh, as they all got dressed in street clothes and headed up to watch the second half of the boys’ game.
The boys were a point behind at the half, 24-25. They came back strong in the second half, though, finally capturing a 56-46 victory. There were a lot of sleepy heads on the long drive home. The cheerleaders switched from the fan bus to the Angelines’ team bus for the return trip. Dennis made sure the tape was off all their legs and that their feet had all been massaged. Realizing the Angelines had already showered and changed, the cheerleaders surreptitiously stripped and changed into street clothes, tossing their uniforms into the laundry bags. They’d worry about showers when they got home.
After Saturday morning chores were done, the crew headed for Ames to go Christmas shopping. They chose Ames instead of Des Moines so they could go to Boone to meet Brenda when her bus arrived. The shopping was almost as good in Boone, but they were out more for the time together than to do serious shopping.
“I say we limit anything we get to two dollars apiece,” Roberta suggested.
“Can we get anything for two dollars?” Dennis asked.
“It could get really expensive if we didn’t put a limit on it. You have twelve girlfriends and we each have a boyfriend and eleven girlfriends,” Rosie said. “It doesn’t take long for that to add up.”
“If we’d planned this with any forethought,” Tori suggested, “we could have pooled our money and bought one thing for each person, being from the group.”
“Wow! That’s a good idea,” Natalie said. “Are we sure we can’t do that anyway?”
“What if we all get something sexy to wear at our Christmas party?” Amy said. “The present would be that each person gets to take the clothes off another.”
“Oh, girl. Who wouldn’t want to take your clothes off you?” Daniella asked. They all stopped at a coffee shop and bought holiday drinks, most having to do with peppermint and chocolate.
“Are we having a Christmas party?” Dennis asked. “We really haven’t done any planning for anything, have we?”
“That’s true enough. School’s out early Wednesday for the break and then Christmas is on Saturday. We have to assume Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are family days,” Leanne said. “Is anyone going out of town?”
“Gransy and I are going to visit my parents on Christmas Eve,” Amy said. “Mom already made it clear that she doesn’t have a place for us to stay the night.”
“That’s harsh,” Debbie said.
“Oh, it won’t be too bad. Gransy said she’d make an excuse for us to leave fairly early and Brenda promised to be under my Christmas tree when I get home.”
“That doesn’t sound comfortable,” Natalie laughed.
“Oh, it’s not really bad. My Christmas tree is sewn into the coverlet on my bed. We won’t have an actual tree.”
“Wow! A Christmas tree. I’m so far behind. I should get a tree so Peg will have something to decorate. We had a little artificial tree last year that looked pretty Peanuts, you know?” Dennis said.
“I like Amy’s idea,” Judith said. “Let’s go pick something sexy out for each of us. We can either unwrap the present at our party or we can unwrap each other. Or both.”
“Which brings us back to party,” Tori said. “I volunteer the barn.”
“Will it be warm enough?”
“I haven’t actually tested it yet, but Dad says he’s added a couple more heat lamps so we can do workout videos in cold weather. You wouldn’t believe it, but I saw him and Mom following one of the videos last weekend. They’re trying to get in shape!”
“That’s great, Tori! My mom and Peg have been working out, too,” Dennis said. “And the cheerleaders wanted to know if we’d do any taping over the break. I was hoping to figure out a few new routines for when we get back to school.”
“Let’s do it,” Diane said.
“Oh, it was murder!” Brenda said as she got off the bus and fell into Amy’s arms. Then she went around to all her girlfriends and her boyfriend for hugs and kisses. “I only scored eleven points. What was really disheartening, though, is that I was high scorer for our team. They trounced us 83-55!”
It turned out that they were all shopped out and Brenda promised she would have something appropriate to wrap her present in. They ate at a trendy Italian steak house and were all too full to move by the time the meal ended. The owner took a fancy to them and kept bringing out small plates and saying, “Try this!” Which they did. Dennis thought the total bill was way too low for all the food they ate. They pooled their money together and left a generous tip.
What Peg would sing on the fourth Sunday of Advent had not been announced. But people began filling the pews at Trinity Lutheran half an hour before the start of the service. They crowded in. All children and some adults were sitting on the laps of others. Dennis held Lana in his lap and Amy held Brenda. Most of his girlfriends were pretty tall, so they gathered smaller friends to join them. And still, the church was over packed. An air of expectancy fell over the congregation as Pastor Donnelly signaled for them to stand for the first hymn.
Peg’s voice was certainly part of the singing, but for the first half hour of the service the congregation and choir all sang together.
“I know that this sanctuary is filled with people who await the voice of an angel, so I will keep my remarks brief this morning and ask that you meditate on the concept of expectation and awaiting. We have all experienced this in one way or another and this morning’s service is a lesson in waiting.”
Pastor Donnelly was true to his word and spoke for only ten minutes as anticipation grew in the sanctuary. When he called everyone to prayer, silently asking God to come unto them, the church became very quiet. Into this silence, a simple piano background played, which many thought was familiar but none could name until Peg’s crystal voice crept into their consciousness.
Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
The Latin words were understandable to many people in the congregation who had taken Latin at Bartley High School. But it was not necessary to understand the precise meanings to be moved by the voice that carried them. By the time the last tones died out, there was not a dry eye in the congregation. Nor did anyone applaud as had become a custom when Peg sang. They were too moved by the music to put their hands together. Then one person and another lifted their hands in the air and silently acknowledged the gift they had received.
The entire service was a little shorter than the accustomed hour, but the crowd hung around outside for longer than the cold weather normally would have allowed. Dennis and his girlfriends all stayed in their pews until Peg had removed her choir robe and came out to meet them.
“Sisters!” she squealed, happily running to embrace each of the girls.
“When did you learn that song?” Dennis asked.
“On the radio. It’s a Jesus song,” Peg answered.
“Your coach came in a couple of times this week to help with pronunciation of a couple words Peg was stumbling over,” Mrs. Thompson said as she approached. “But Peg brought this to me and even though it isn’t part of the normal Lutheran liturgy, Pastor Donnelly approved it.”
“It was so wonderful!” Natalie said. “I love your singing, sister.” The crew met Dot and they all walked out of the church together.
The silence that had greeted the end of the song was over out here and as soon as people saw Peg, they began applauding. She blushed and waved at them, then hurried home with her family.
It was hard to concentrate in school Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. In fact, if it weren’t for laws dictating the number of days they had to be in school, they might as well have been gone on Wednesday. Several classmates had taken off early. Ardith worked the team hard on Monday and Tuesday, but even she recognized the futility of trying to practice on Wednesday before everyone was gone for the holiday break.
“This winter break is always hard on teams,” she told the girls. “The rules say no contact between coaches and players between Christmas and New Year’s. Try not to lose all your conditioning and overeat on sweets during the holidays. We will practice on Monday the third, even though school doesn’t resume until the next day. We’ll be on the court against the Chiefs on Friday that week and I want to know you are all in peak condition.”
“We’ll work out,” the girls promised.
“And be careful out there,” Ardith cautioned. “There are crazy people on the roads over the holidays. I want you all back.”
Dennis turned to talk to Olivia and Jayden about their plans for recording exercise sessions Monday through Friday. Both were enthused about it. Not all the cheerleaders would be in town to participate, but there would always be at least five.
“I think the girls are going to plan on participating in the workouts. We just promised Coach we’d be in shape for the start of practice on the third. We should have plenty of people,” Dennis said. “It’s easier to work out new routines with fewer of us anyway.”
“Don’t forget to work in the basketball routines,” Olivia said. “The one we did was cool and popular according to the number of hits it’s gotten.”
“I’d better talk to Coach.” Dennis ran down to Ardith’s office to catch up with her. “Coach? I was wondering if we could borrow a rack of balls over break. We’re working out some new conditioning routines that will involve more use of balls.”
“Hmm. I don’t think that’s a problem. You technically aren’t a coach and this is for your exercise program anyway, so there’s no violation of the rules. Just make sure they’re back here for practice on the third,” Ardith said.
“Thank you. And… uh… thank you for coaching my sister on her Latin for the church music Sunday. She really sounded great,” he said.
“She did at that. I was wedged in a corner in the back, but it was beautiful. I don’t think she understands a word of what she was singing, but the music moves in her with its own spirit. When I found out she was learning the songs she sang from the radio church broadcasts, I suggested a few videos she could get online. I wish I could sing, but I love to listen to music in Latin.”
“I wonder why Hugh Bartley put in that grant that Latin always had to be taught here. I think before you got here there were only, like, half a dozen students in the class.”
“Well, I, for one, am glad he did put it in. I can’t imagine that I’d have found any other school that wanted a combination Latin teacher and basketball coach!”
Dennis rolled a rack of balls out the ramp and pulled his car up to put them in. Tori jumped in beside him.
“Take me home and we can unload the balls in the barn,” she said. “I can’t believe we have to come back to school tomorrow. I’m so ready for a break.”
“Me, too. I don’t remember being this excited about a holiday break before. It’s really something. I guess it’s all different now that I have girlfriends.”
When they got the equipment into the barn, Tori showed him how different it was.
“I told you I’d help unload your balls,” she whispered as they kissed. “I’ve already moved my sleeping bag into the changing stall. Come on. We just have time.”
“Oh, Tori. How can I resist an invitation like that?”
“You can’t!” The two were in the stall and had their pants down in a hurry. The heat lamps weren’t on and the temperature was dipping. They didn’t take their clothes all the way off. Tori got on her hands and knees on the sleeping bag and Dennis moved behind her beautiful ass. “I’m ready for you, lover,” Tori said.
Dennis moved in close and fed his cock into her hot and welcoming pussy. He could feel Tori’s hand busy at her clit as he thrust in and out of her. She was so hot and tight and…
“Shit! Condom!” Dennis screeched as he pulled out of Tori.
“Oh, no! Put it in! I’m almost there.” It was too late by that time. As soon as Dennis’s cock touched the skin of her butt, he started spurting all over it. Tori continued working on her clit until she managed to come as well.
“I’m sorry, baby. I didn’t remember until the last second,” Dennis said, pulling her around to kiss her.
“No harm, no foul,” she sighed. “Next time, though, I want you to ride it out to the end. We’ll be sure to have a condom.”
Both pulled their jeans up and got fastened back into their clothes. Then, after one more long kiss, Dennis drove home.
There wasn’t exactly a no-contact rule for the crew before Christmas, though they had all promised to be with their families to have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at home. After school on Wednesday, they all ended up at Dennis’s house. He stopped by the grocery store and bought one of the last trees left on their lot. He hoped there were still decorations in the garage.
By the time Dot and Peg got home, Christmas music was playing through portable mini-speakers in the living room and kitchen. The smell of baking cookies filled the house and the lights were on the tree.
“We waited to decorate until you got home,” Dennis told Peg. “I found two big boxes of decorations in the garage.
“Christmas!” Peg said happily as she hugged her sisters and began singing along with the music on the speakers.
“We need dinner before people start eating the cookies I smell baking,” Dot said.
“No problems, Ms. Dottie,” Amy sang from the kitchen. “We got dinner in the slow cooker as soon as we got out of school. We set it on high and I’m sure it’s done.”
“You are all such good daughters,” Dot laughed. She began to get into the festive spirit as they decorated the tree and lit candles in the house. She even reached up on the top shelf of the kitchen cabinet and pulled down her bottle of sherry to have a little nip.
Little Spot trotted beside his mother, Big Spot, over the snow-covered prairie, and as he trotted, he thought deeply of all his mother had told him. And as he thought, his eyes were opened, so that by the time they reached the big herd, Little Spot was no longer a wilful young deer. He no longer thought that he knew all there was to know, but he did his very best to try to learn all there was for a wise deer to know. And you know when one tries to learn, it is surprisingly easy.
So, from being the most wilful and unruly of all the young deer, Little Spot became the most obedient and the best-mannered.
Dennis had managed to find a Thornton Burgess book that wasn’t in their collection. He found it at Project Gutenberg and had begun the first week of December reading The Christmas Reindeer, published in 1929. Peg had taken to this story as quickly as she had taken to the Mother West Wind books.
Peg hugged her sisters and kissed her mother, then padded off to bed, happy in the thoughts of Christmas and still singing with the music.
The girlfriends found a Christmas movie to watch and all cuddled together with Dennis on the floor of the living room. Dot stayed in her chair, watching for a while, but then bade the kids goodnight and went off to bed.
“It’s so nice out here with the Christmas lights. Should we just stay out here?” Rosie asked.
“Um… Some of us want a little more intimate time with each other,” Brenda said. “We shouldn’t do that out here where Peg could stumble on us.”
They all agreed and turned out the tree lights. They did their own stumbling as they got ready for bed and went to Dennis’s room. Judith and Natalie got intimate time with Dennis, as did Brenda and Amy. Daniella and Roberta promised they’d get time the next day, and Tori admitted that they’d had time together Tuesday—but she was ready again. Some of the girls got intimate time with each other or with one of the toys Daniella and Diane had brought. When they’d all been satisfied for the moment, they settled into sleep with Lana, Debbie, Rosie, and Leanne cuddled tightly into the bed next to Dennis.
When Dennis awoke in the morning, he felt a hand laid lightly on his penis, pulsing slightly. He let his eyes open to the sight of Lana’s white-blonde hair pressed against his cheek. Her breasts were pressed against his side and chest. She moved slightly, humping her hips against Dennis’s thigh. The motion gradually increased and, as Dennis hardened, the pulses of the hand on his cock became more vigorous.
He could feel his thigh becoming slick with her juices as she humped against him and her hand collected his precome to spread over his cock. She slid up and down, her lips questing against his skin in little kisses as she became more and more aroused. Dennis touched her hair and petted it, placing a kiss on top of her head. The acknowledgement that he was awake brought another level of intensity to Lana’s movement. She shifted so she was more directly on him and his cock was being stimulated against her side as well as her hand.
Her head came up, eyes still closed, to find Dennis’s lips with her own. As their kiss deepened, he caressed her breast and lightly thumbed her sensitive nipple. Lana moaned into his mouth, silenced by his tongue engaging hers. She tensed and he felt a flood of more juices as she wiggled on top of him, trapping his cock against her belly as she continued to move. Her next orgasm was powerful enough that she froze with her tongue in his mouth, managing a high-pitched hum as she gripped his cock and he began spurting.
Their breathing began to slow, though they kept kissing and each pulsed involuntarily.
“It would be so easy,” Lana whispered. “I could just slip you inside me and feel you coming in me. I have so much juice in my pussy that you’d slide right in. You’d like that, wouldn’t you? I would.” She shifted again and for a moment, Dennis thought she was going to follow through on her declaration, but she moved off the sticky mess and turned enough that he could fully cup her breast in his hand. “I’ll be ready sooner than I thought I would be. I love you, Dennis.”
“I love you, Lana.”
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