Team Manager CHAMP!
Chapter 13
“COACH ARDITH is depending on us to be ready for Tuesday’s game against the Trojans,” Dennis said when they gathered together in Tori’s barn. “Then we’ll only have two days of practice for her to correct everything I’ve done wrong.”
“Boo, hiss,” the girls chorused.
“We trust you, Coach Dennis,” Janice said. “We know you’ll lead us right.”
“Well, I’m depending on each of you to live up to your potential. The games after New Year will come fast and furious right up until tournament time, and then they’ll be non-stop until we win the championship. So far, we’ve played nine. There will be twelve in January and the first week of February. Then we’re on to the regionals,” Dennis said. “But we aren’t even thinking about the tournament that starts in February. That’s a lifetime away. Tuesday night next week is all we need to think about. Why?”
“Because every game is the championship game!” they called.
“Good. Now let’s work that inside game some more. Diane, Natalie, Rosie. Make that rotation under the basket and break loose to the outsides. Let’s not let them know who is driving and who is fading. Ready? Amy and Tori. Bring it in.”
Dennis rehearsed them on every play in their book and they were all ready to get home for hot showers after the practice.
The five teens remaining constant in Dennis’s family spent New Year’s Eve together and celebrated midnight with orgasms. Dot and Peg were staying out at Tom’s for the night, so they had Dennis’s house to themselves.
“I love you,” he whispered to Lana.
Four voices responded, “I love you, too.” Then all five started giggling.
Dennis pulled out of Lana and rolled to her side.
“Happy New Year!” he said to all of them. Natalie kissed him while Amy sucked his cock into her mouth and Brenda dove between Lana’s legs.
“Oh, happy, happy, happy!” Lana squealed as Brenda licked her clit.
Dennis finally recovered under Amy’s oral ministrations and she moved up to kiss him in place of Natalie as she settled her pussy down on his cock.
“Oh, wow. This is the first time you’ve been in me bareback. Does it feel different to you?” Amy asked.
“It’s incredible. I can’t believe we’re all doing this without protection. Whatever happened to rule number two? I feel incredibly wicked coming in your pussy,” Dennis said.
“We’re protected,” Brenda said. “There are two things. First, we all have our birth control in place and we’ve chosen long-lasting contraceptives instead of pills. Natalie’s got an IUD and the other three of us have implants. The additional margin of protection a condom gives against pregnancy is miniscule. And secondly, we’re a closed circle as far as STDs go. We can’t catch what we don’t already have. As long as we stay a closed circle, we’re safe.”
“I guess they always tell us about the exceptions to the rule in school. We think we’re safe, but one of us ends up pregnant or we suddenly find out we’ve got crabs or something,” Lana said as she cuddled Brenda and watched Amy slowly working her way up and down on Dennis’s cock.
“Condoms don’t help with crabs,” Natalie said. “Remember that scare we all had in kindergarten? Oh, maybe you and Amy missed it. Somebody in our class had head lice and suddenly everyone was itching, whether we had them or not. I just remember getting my hair cut short and having a stinky shampoo Mom scrubbed me with. Then our beds were stripped and wrapped in plastic with all the bedding washed with hot water and a special detergent. Any kid caught scratching his head from that point on was sent home.”
“Oh! Amy, that’s… Mmm… What you’re doing with your pussy is making me…”
“Are you ready to come again, lover? I’m ready for you. I hope you’ve got enough left that I can feel it,” Amy purred. “Do it, Den. Let me feel you come in me. I want to feel you. All of you.”
Dennis arched his back, pushing as deep into his lover as he could as his cock pulsed. Probably not as strong as the three orgasms he’d had earlier, but definitely enough to feel. Amy shuddered and clamped down on him with her pussy as she came, too.
In a few seconds, Amy rolled off Dennis and Lana kissed her way down her girlfriend’s body to lap at the creamy center.
“Oh, baby! I never knew I had such a hot classmate who would do what you do to me,” Amy moaned. “I’m so glad you’re my girlfriend.”
“I’m so glad you two get along so well,” Dennis sighed. Natalie sucked on his cock, but it was spent for the night. “At least you’ll have each other when we aren’t home.”
Amy pulled Lana up toward her face and kissed her. The two girls looked at each other and giggled, but wouldn’t say anything else.
“I should get at least a little sleep,” Brenda said. “Ardith didn’t say how far we were driving this afternoon. I’d be a poor companion if I got in her car and went to sleep.”
“I keep thinking about what she has going on. I hope she’s okay. You’ll take care of her, won’t you, Brenda?” Natalie asked.
“I’ll do the best I can. You know, once you get one-on-one time with her, it’s hard not to fall in love,” Brenda said.
“Believe me, I know,” Dennis said. “We’ve worked really closely together over the past two and a half years. I think I started falling for her the first time we played basketball and she said she liked my moves.”
“Did you ever… you know… do anything else?”
“Um… There was this one time, you know. I was trying to sort out what was happening to the guys last spring and I went to see her. She let me into her house and turned off her computer. She’d been working out to one of our videos. And she was in workout clothes. Um… I mean, really short shorts and a lightweight sports bra. We just sat and talked while I kept getting harder and harder. Then when I left, just before she opened the door, she turned and kissed me. Or I kissed her. We kissed. It wasn’t like we had a tongue battle or anything, but I still almost came in my pants. It was all I could do not to grab her buns in both hands.”
“I’ll bet she almost came, too. Damn, I wish she wasn’t our teacher,” Natalie said. “I just want to hold her in my arms and never let go.”
“Well, I’ll do my best to convey all our love to her while we’re gone. You do your best to be prepared to win Tuesday night.”
Ardith picked up Brenda at three that afternoon. She came into Amy’s house where the five were still gathered and dared to give each of them a loving hug.
“I know this is hard, but I’m doing my best to keep things legal,” she said. “Just know it’s every bit as difficult for me as it is for you. I love you all.” With that, she took Brenda’s hand and went to her car.
“Are you okay?” Brenda asked when Ardith was behind the steering wheel and wiped at her eyes.
“I just need you to tell me I’m doing the right thing,” Ardith said. “It’s going to change all our lives and might affect others, too. I… I’m thinking of quitting my job.” They pulled out of town and headed south.
“You mean at the end of the year?” Brenda asked.
“No. I mean right now. Brenda, is it all real? Am I really in love with the five of you?”
“We all really hope you are,” Brenda said. “We’re crazy about you. What would happen to the team, though, if you left them now?”
“Well, that’s part of what I wanted to talk about. Do you think Dennis can handle them? They’ve accepted him as a coach as much as me.”
“How long have you been planning this?” Brenda asked. “You’ve been grooming Dennis to take over as coach when you leave, haven’t you?”
“Um… Only sort of. I didn’t really see any way around our situation until recently. It’s not like I’m independently wealthy. I need the job.”
“What happened?”
“Recruiting.”
“You got recruited?”
“Yeah. I’ve got a job offer and I’ve pretty much done everything but sign the final papers. That’s what Monday is about,” Ardith said. “Tonight and tomorrow are getting a look at the campus. We’re almost there.”
“We’ve only been on the road an hour and we’re almost there? And ‘the campus?’ Do you mean to tell me you were recruited by a college? Ardith, that’s spectacular!”
“Wait till you hear the rest of it. Here we are.”
“William Salter University? You got recruited by Salter? You know that’s our number one pick?”
“Yeah. I know.”
They did a quick tour around the campus while it was still light and then went to a small hotel across from Walmart, about a mile from campus. They grabbed their overnight bags and went up to the room. Brenda looked at the layout of the room and smiled.
“Two beds?” she asked.
“I didn’t want to be presumptuous,” Ardith laughed.
“Why don’t we use that one to put our suitcases on and this one to sleep in?”
“Oh, Brenda. I haven’t been with a woman—or a man for that matter—since I left college. I hardly know what to do anymore,” Ardith said.
“We start by just having a little kiss,” Brenda said, turning Ardith toward her. “And then we go out to dinner.”
Brenda and Ardith had had little kisses before. They’d been meeting for a casual date with coffee or dinner once or twice a month this fall. But the kiss they shared this time was an order of magnitude more intense than any they’d had before. Both women were panting when the kiss finally ended and were near to falling on the bed and continuing. Ardith was a good six inches taller than Brenda, but not as busty. They seemed to fit together.
“Dinner,” Ardith breathed. “That’s a good idea. I saw a Mexican restaurant that’s open between here and campus.”
“Sounds good to me,” Brenda said.
They grabbed their coats and headed out of the room.
When the team heard that Dennis was going to be coaching them for their game against the Trojans Tuesday, they requested an extra day of practice on Sunday afternoon. Dennis was pleased and worked the girls hard. Then he introduced them to a new shooting drill in which they shot from the three-point line halfway between the top of the key and the corner. A rebounder passed the ball to the corner and it went from there to the former shooter, now the rebounder. Then the ball was passed to the next shooter and the corner got in the line for shooting. The drill was run from both sides of the court at once and when they got into the rhythm, it was an effective passing and shooting exercise.
“How’d you figure this drill out?” Leanne asked.
“I watched some basketball over the break,” Dennis answered. “I think it was the University team that was running the drill. It took me a couple of times watching it before I could get the pattern drafted out.”
“You mean you were watching basketball other than us every day?” Janice asked. “I thought you had, like, girlfriends and stuff.”
“We all like to watch,” Natalie said.
“I guess that would be a requirement with all of you in the room at the same time,” Jennifer snarked. Everyone laughed at that one.
“Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it,” Judith said. “Um… Not that I’m inviting anyone else.”
“When we get in the gym tomorrow, I have a new scrimmage game I’ll introduce you to,” Dennis said, trying to get the conversation back on track. “It will be fun and allow fifteen of you on the court at once. I want to get more people into the rotation and get you all performing at the peak.”
“All we really need is to have Natalie on the court,” Shelby laughed. “She outscores all the other team combined.”
“It might seem like that,” Dennis said. “And I’m not taking anything away from Nat’s stellar performance. She’s averaging twenty-one points a game. But I need to point out that she gets fouled more frequently than any other player. And hitting 80% of her free throws has given her fifty-one extra points this season. And congratulations to Amy, Diane, Tori, and Rosie for all hitting free throws at that percentage or better. They just don’t get fouled as much. But what’s more is that most of the schools have one shooter they depend on. They aren’t at the level of Natalie, but they score as much as half the points their team gets. The difference is that while Diane, Tori, Rosie, and Janice are all shooting in double figures on average, our other opponents have no depth at all. And we’ve got Tori and Amy setting up more assists than any of our opponents have scored. Ladies, it’s the depth on our team that is giving us such an immense scoring edge. I want to bring all of you up to that level.”
“Honestly, when did you have time to review all our stats?” Chris asked. “Don’t you go to school?”
“Well, I did get out earlier from DMACC and don’t go back there until the tenth. That makes my daily load seem like less, but I’m having to do more study independently. Let’s cool down a little with some foul shots and get into the right headspace for our games.”
The team got busy and were soon in the rhythm of shooting free throws. They all put their warmups on before going out into the cold January air and going home.
“How about that game of one-on-one, babe?” Ardith asked. Their previous night had been comfortable and kind of intimate, but they had kept their playing above the waist, not wanting to rush things, especially since Ardith could only be intimate with Brenda and not with any of the others.
“Let’s do it,” Brenda said. They dressed for a workout and went over to the school gym. Ardith gave Brenda a tour before taking her to the locker room to stow their bags. “And this is the fitness center. Fully equipped. Look over there. They’ve got an entire room dedicated to wrestling with two full-size match rings. The biggest downside is converting the basketball court to volleyball, but most of the time we won’t need to be in conflict. Did you see around the top of the gym? It’s an eighth-mile indoor track.”
“You’ve been down here a few times already, haven’t you,” Brenda laughed.
“Yeah. I guess so. They started in on me a couple of months ago. Their women’s basketball team has been without a full-time coach this year. They’ve refused to work with a male coach. I’m afraid our record so far this season has been the result. The women’s team is only seven and six for the season so far. But they’ve really got talent. They play hard and just need some good coaching.”
“You’ve managed to come to games?”
“No. This is a Division III school. Nearly all their games are broadcast on the school station. I’ve been watching the recordings late at night on the stream.”
The two women settled into a game of one-on-one and quickly worked up a sweat. Ardith found that Brenda had improved a lot since her days of playing in high school. Brenda discovered Ardith wasn’t just a coach, but had some good moves herself. It was when Ardith moved to block a shot that Brenda hit a perfect fadeaway jumper. There was applause from the sidelines.
The women grabbed the ball and went to greet the half-dozen women watching them.
“Hey, you the new kids?” one of the women asked. She was easily six feet tall. In fact, Brenda figured none of the women was under five-eight.
“Yeah,” Ardith said before Brenda could say anything. “Just got here last night and thought we’d get a little workout in.”
“We all got back this morning so we could get in the swing of it. Classes don’t start till the tenth, but we’ve got two games before then. Rest of the team will be back tomorrow. Too bad we don’t have a coach,” said one of the women.
“Join us for a workout?” said the first.
“Sounds good. I’m Ardith. This is Brenda. She’s a mean shooting guard.”
“We could tell. Let’s choose up and get started.”
There were only enough for four to a team, but they played the full court and the girls quickly figured out they shouldn’t have put Ardith and Brenda on the same team. No one was expecting Ardith to inbound the ball halfway down the court to a breaking Brenda for an easy layup. From then on, the women took the newcomers seriously.
They discovered both were just as good at setting up plays and delivering assists. After an hour of hard playing, they called a halt and headed for the showers.
“Don’t give anything away,” Ardith whispered to Brenda. “I want to learn to know them. We’re transferring from DMACC.” Brenda nodded and decided to play along.
The shower was refreshing and the women all got along well. There was not shower playtime with this group as the showers were all individual stalls. Brenda wondered if the other women did play together. They seemed to have a close team.
“We uh… have a commitment tonight and can’t put it off,” said Payton, the tallest of the women. “Otherwise, we’d ask you to join us for dinner. All we have going tomorrow is practice, starting at 1:00. We can all go out for a team dinner and get you introduced to everyone properly. Okay?”
“Hey. That works fine by me,” Ardith said. “We’re still trying to get oriented and in sync with the community.”
“Try the Salamander Grill out at the country club. It’s pretty good food and they give students a discount.”
“Thanks. We’ll do that.”
“What was that all about?” Brenda asked.
“Kind of a last reality check on whether I could get along with them. What did you think?” Ardith asked when they’d been seated for dinner.
“Great team! It’s like a whole different level from community college. Not that I don’t think we could give them a run for their money if we matched up, but I’d play here next year,” Brenda said.
“How about this year?”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“I want you to be my first recruit. Will you stay here with me?” Ardith asked. “We’ll go home at least every weekend. I’m not trying to take you away from the crew. But I want Natalie and Dennis to join us next year, and I have the privilege of recruiting them.”
“I’m not finished with my AA yet,” Brenda said.
“You sent your transcript over here when you all applied last spring. Everything transfers. Only instead of getting a two-year associate, you’ll be on track for a four-year degree. Dennis should have his full AA by mid-summer and could come in here as a coaching intern in the fall. And Natalie will be able to get her four-year degree in physical education/teacher education. I really investigated this thoroughly before I made any kind of commitment.”
“You already committed, didn’t you?”
“Everything but signing my contract tomorrow morning. Brenda, I wanted to find a place where we could be together. I mean, not just you and me, but Dennis and Natalie. And when they’re ready, Lana and Amy, too. I’ve been promoting you to the department since the first of the school year. I guess that’s why they offered me the job here. I’ve been on the phone to the school so much, they just started interviewing me for the position,” Ardith said.
“I know Natalie and Dennis already have acceptances here, but they haven’t been offered any positions or aid yet,” Brenda said. “The school is kind of expensive. That and you telling them not to commit to anyone yet is all that’s keeping them from deciding.”
“If… um… If for some reason it doesn’t work out for the five of us to be together, um… you’ll still be protected and part of the team. I know we are still really exploring our relationship and we don’t know exactly how we’ll do as a family, but I feel like I know you all so well that I want to be with you,” Ardith said.
“I’ve got an idea,” Brenda said. “Let’s skip dessert and go back to the hotel to explore our relationship a little more.”
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