Being a team player

She was a cheerleader at the State College and was also doing her student teaching that fall semester at a local high school. The afternoon football game was the last of the season, the last of her college career and traditionally there was a heck of a party put on by the team after the game. This is the story of that party and team spirit. And, oh, what team spirit she had!

Jackie knew better but when the star halfback of the college football team had asked her to go over to his place to listen to some music she just couldn’t resist. As a cheerleader she had watched him play and seen him often in the field house after games and practice, often without a shirt on and she had marveled at his dark skin and chiseled features–he was a handsome man. And, when he had approached her at the end of the season party her alcohol altered inhibitions melted away.

His living room was a large central room in a renovated warehouse that had several other rooms, formerly offices, radiating off two sides of it that served as kitchen, bedrooms and bathroom. The couch was centered in the middle of the large room that had high ceilings. A dining room table and chairs piled high with books and clothes shared the large space and the entertainment center was poised in front of the couch and coffee table at some distance.