Authors: Carly White
ROMANCE: SPORTS ROMANCE: Tight End (Bad Boy Football Romance) (New Adult Alpha Male Sports Romance)
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Table of Contents
Tight End
Chapter 1
“Lou, what are you doing after class?”
Lou shrugged. It was Friday night and while she was supposed to be out like most of her friends, Lou was more interested in getting her project done early. Her friend Charlie knew that she wasn’t going to go with her by the way she looked.
“Come on Lou. You promised.”
“Don’t be dramatic. I didn’t even say anything.”
“I’m not. You were giving me that look while you tried to think of an excuse.”
It was exactly what she was doing and she wished sometimes that she didn’t always know her as well as she did. The two had been friends for years and while they were as different as two people could be, Lou couldn’t have asked for a better friend. Even though she got drug to too many parties to count, Charlie would come with her to the planetarium or something as equally dull to her bubbly friend.
“Okay, I don’t really want to go, but I said I would though. I will.” Lou groaned inwardly as she walked towards their apartment on the other side of campus. They had been living together for the last year and it was working out well, most of the time.
“Don’t sound too thrilled.”
“I won’t. So who’s parties is it anyways?”
“The jocks.”
Another grimace. “Ah, just when I thought it couldn’t get any better. You want to go get drunk around a bunch of meatheads?”
“They are pretty to look at.”
“Yeah, as long as they don’t talk too much.”
Charlie was braiding her hair as they walked. The woman couldn’t be bothered to bring anything besides her phone to class. No books, notepads, folders, color-coded anything, while Lou was carrying half her weight in her backpack. Charlie was the type to breeze through everything that she attempted, Lou had to work double for everything it seemed. It was no clearer to her then, as to watch her friend walking beside her with not a care in the world.
Lou was the pessimistic, while her friend was the one who knew that there was some cosmic plan that would make everything turn out okay. It was a mixture between relaxing and irritating to be around and today it was pushing towards the latter feeling.
They got back to the apartment and made lunch. Both girls had class that evening as well, though Lou had one of her law classes, while her friend had taken an art class for her elective. Lou sometimes wished that she had taken a few classes for fun, but she was driven towards her goals and it had just seemed a waste. So instead she was taking some extra law classes to help her when she worked on her masters. Every move was figured out already and sometimes she wished she could just be as relaxed as Charlie was.
Charlie came back in the room and she had changed into a pair of paint splattered overalls. She looked ridiculous and Lou told her so, but Charlie couldn’t care less. “What does it matter what people think Lou? They are comfortable and I was sick of getting all of my good clothes messed up.”
Lou just shook her head. “So what are you guys doing today?”
“We have a project. You should have seen it last week, we had nudes. Enough of us girls complained that it was always a woman and they ended up paying one of the football players to do it.”
“Really? Who?”
“Phil.”
Lou couldn’t believe it. Phil was the star tight end and at his last year in school, everyone knew that he was going to make it big. “Why would he do that?”
It didn’t make sense to Lou. The man came from money and he could have anything he wanted. Surely he didn’t need to make a few dollars on the side running around nude for the art class. Charlie didn’t seem to see the problem. “I don’t know. He has a big wanker. Maybe he was just trying to show off. You know how guys like him are.”
Lou nodded her head, but she still didn’t get it. She would never get naked in front of a bunch of people, no matter how much money they wanted to pay her. Lou had no extra money and she still couldn’t see why someone would do it.
Charlie saw the look on her friend’s face and wanted to shock her. “Do you want to see it?”
“See what?”
“The drawing.”
Lou shook her head that she didn’t. “No, I think I am good.” Her friend had a painting style like Picasso and she figured it wouldn’t be that good anyways. Not what she wanted to see it of course.
“Oh come on, I used a realism technique. It’s like practically having it in front of you.”
Her friend’s face started to get red and she went into her bedroom to get it to show her. She didn’t mention how big the canvas was and when she saw it, she was shocked. “Oh my God Charlie!”
“I know.”
“That can’t be real.”
“Well it is.”
Lou turned her head sideways and once again wished with all of her might that there was some way that she could get into the art class. “Wow.”
“I know right? I can kind of see how he gets those crazy women that chase after him.”
Lou nodded, not being able to take her eyes off of it. It wasn’t just his package that caught her eye, but the hard ridges of his chest and stomach. The man was as close to an Adonis as she had seen and Lou was starting to feel a little hot under the collar.
“I get that he is hot, but what are you supposed to do with that thing anyways?”
Charlie just shook her head and started to put the picture back in her room. “If you don’t know what to do with that Lou, I don’t know what to tell you. I can think of several things that should be done with a man like that.”
Lou’s face was red when she got back out and she knew that she would never be able to look at him the same. She suddenly really hoped that she didn’t have to run into him at the party. It would be quite hard to not look at him and not blush.
“Are you coming?” Charlie looked back at her friend in amusement.
“Yeah I am coming.” Lou grabbed her bagged that weighed sixty pounds and sighed when the straps cut into her back. “I really need to take some more electives.”
“Yeah I can see that. Do you want me to see if they have any more room in art class?”
Lou shook her head. “No, the first time someone drops their pants, I am out of there.”
Chapter 2
Lou couldn’t pay attention through class. All she could think about was that painting that Charlie had showed her. She wished that she hadn’t seen it, but it was something that couldn’t be unseen, no matter how much she wanted to. It was distracting to say the least and after the class, Lous didn’t think that she had really heard anything that the teacher was talking about.
She met up with Charlie after class and asked how Art was. Lou secretly wondered if there were any more nudes that she had painted or if she had seen Phil, though she couldn’t ask any of those questions. Charlie said she had a good time, but didn’t elaborate. “It was alright. I will be happy when it is over. The teacher is kind of a drag.”
“A drag? I will switch classes with you in a heartbeat.”
“Well next term take something you would actually like Lou. College isn’t going to be all about what you can put on your resume. Ten years from now, you will wish that you had gone to more parties and had more fun.”
“Maybe. Though I said I was going to go tonight.”
“Are you actually going to drink?”
She shrugged. “Maybe.”
Lou was still working on loosening up, but it was hard. Every time she got to drinking, she did something stupid and she was still trying to get over some of the things she did when she was a freshman.
“You should. I won’t let you get too crazy.”
The reminder wasn’t needed and Lou didn’t say anything. “Don’t worry about it Lou. People barely even remember it.”
It didn’t matter if someone else did, she remembered and she remembered how fast the short video had spread through the college. There weren’t very many people on campus then that hadn’t seen her drunken strip tease. “I know. I can go through most days without the looks, but I think that is because Dante doesn’t go to school here anymore. He liked to keep it going.”
“Yeah, well he is gone and didn’t even get drafted. So who really cares what Dante said?”
Lou agreed in some ways, but there was still a heat rising to her face with the memory. Lou had almost quit school over it and if it hadn’t of been for Charlie, she knew that she would be back in her home town, working as a bagging girl at the grocery store. It was not her dream and even though she stopped doing much of what she had before, it had passed and Charlie was right. It was a growing pain that she didn’t want to go through again.
“I know but, I am a light weight nowadays. I don’t even really drink anymore.”
Charlie just shook her head. “People will never know how fun you used to be.”
“I’m still fun.”
“You are, but now we have to party at the house. Just one night, let’s forget the past and just have a great time.”
Lou said she would try. “As long as you promise nothing else.”
She was talking about the X that Charlie liked to do. It would make her disappear in the middle of the party and she would be left by herself. “I’m not. Tonya is coming though too. She is even more uptight than you are.”
“I’m not uptight.”
“Honey you have your panties on way too tight, trust me. A night out will do you good. It’s been almost a month since you and Danny broke up.”
“Don’t even mention his name.”
“I heard he is going to be there. With Becky.”
She tried to act like she didn’t care, she did though. All she wanted to do was stay home and away from all reminders of her ex. Charlie saw her shoulders slump slightly. “No we are not going to be depressed Lou. We are going to get dressed up, get all hot and you are going to make him eat his heart out.”
Lou giggled. Her friend had an expression to go with her orders that was hilarious. There was something about her that made her love her even more. “Fine, that sounds like a good idea.”
“Just remember your underwear this time Lou.”
She gave her a grim look and Charlie just laughed, not able to be bothered about any of it. “Haha.”
***
Lou had let Charlie pick out her clothes. They were more colorful and more revealing than she was used to, but after a couple of drinks at the apartment, Lou didn’t really care how she looked. She felt sexy and the mirror image told her that she was. For a few moments, she wanted to run into Danny. Just so he could see her like that.
Her black hair was short and curly around her face, while her skirt and shirt were tight, showing off all of her curves. She had to stop herself from pulling it away from her body, but she resisted. Charlie had her long, brown hair down and she was in one of her colorful skirts that went all the way to her ankles. The shirt was more revealing though with a strong V-cut down the front. She looked as she always did, with an ease that the woman embodied.
“So is James coming?”
Charlie shook her head that he wasn’t. James was her on again, off again boyfriend, but Lou hadn’t seen him in a few weeks.
“No, I told him that we needed a little break.”
“Why?”
Charlie kind of sighed to herself. “Because he always wants more and I don’t have that kind of energy for him right now. Ever since he graduated, all he wants to talk about is going to the next level, marriage, kids. It’s just too much for me.”
“Most girls would love for their boyfriend to talk about things like that.”
She didn’t care, it was clear. “Yeah, I guess so. I am only twenty-two. I am not trying to get married. Why would anyone think about such a thing yet?”
“Don’t you love him?”
Charlie wasn’t so sure that she did. Every time he talked about the future, it was almost like she got the hives. “I don’t know. I feel something for him.”
“Yeah well I feel something for Phil, but it doesn’t have nothing to do with love.”
Charlie smiled at her friend. The rum was kicking in and she suggested that they leave. “I thought we were waiting for Tonya?”
“She’s not here, so let’s just go. I will text her that we will meet her there. She probably isn’t ready yet. You know how long she takes.”
Lou agreed and finished her drink before they left the apartment. The old sorority house where the party was happening was loud as they walked up. There were so many people there that if Lou had been sober or alone, she would have just turned around and let. But Charlie knew her pretty well and stopped her by looping her arm in hers.
“Come on Lou. Let’s have some fun.”