Summer Break

We quickly ran to the elevators. I looked back at Dave and saw him dialing the phone. I figured he was probably calling the police. We wouldn't have much time. Damn elevators always seem slow when you're in a hurry. We found room 403. It sounded quiet inside. Hopefully we weren't too late.

"Room Service," I said as I knocked on the door.

"I didn't order room service. You can clean the room later. Go away." The man seemed agitated that he was being bothered.

Bubba took a couple of steps back and plowed into the door, breaking it clean out of the jamb.

We went in quickly and saw Lisa passed out on the bed. He had already unbuttoned her blouse and had a butcher knife in his hand. He was leaning over Lisa. I figured he was going to cut off her bra but we interfered. The camera was sitting on the bed. He must have been taking pictures of Lisa while she just lay there passed out.

He came toward me with the knife. All he got out was, "What the fuck," before I kicked the knife out of his hand and hit him hard with a round house right to the left side of his face. He went down.

"Where are the fucking disks Asshole?" I yelled at him.

He pointed to a briefcase setting on the bureau. Bubba opened it and it was full of disks. I told Bubba to hold the asshole down while I looked at the dates on the disks.

Bubba meanwhile was standing with one foot on this guy's throat. He wasn't going anywhere. I told Bubba to take the disk out of the guy's camera which was lying there. I found two other disks dated the week the girls were there.

I took the three disks and dropped them in my vest pocket. I heard a noise at the ruined door and turned to see two patrolmen standing there with guns aimed at us.

"Get down on the floor now, all three of you!"

"Officer this man..." I didn't get anything else out.

"I said, down on the floor now. I'm not going to ask again." We were all lying on our stomachs within a second!

The bartender was behind the officers. "Yes, that's the two guys that came in and asked about the girl." They could see Lisa passed out on the bed with her blouse still open.

They called for paramedics for both Lisa and the asshole who's face was swelling up. "I want to see some ID's from all three of you right now. Take your wallets out slowly."

After removing our wallets, one officer put cuffs on us and did a quick frisk for weapons.

He looked at my ID then Bubba's. "You guys came a long way to cause trouble in my precinct."

He looked at the asshole's ID and said, "Joe Wilson, we've been looking for you. We have a number of warrants out for your arrest. It seems that you've been taking pictures of a number of college visitors and then blackmailing them."

"Do either of you college boys want to explain what you're doing causing trouble in my precinct?"

He let us at least sit up but did have us all handcuffed sitting on the floor. Within minutes two paramedics arrived and one went to Lisa and the other to check the swelling face of Joe Wilson.

"Is she your girlfriend?" the officer asked me.

"Yes sir, she is." The female paramedic looked over at me with sympathetic eyes and began to button up Lisa's blouse. I felt she knew what had happened.

I told the officer the whole story about the wet t-shirt contest and this Joe guy basically blackmailing them. I explained that the reason the girls didn't call the police was that the girls didn't have the proof of the accusations. It was just their word against his. He called for backup to go question the other girls in the condo to verify our story.

"Well, there is plenty of proof now. We have four similar warrants out for Joe already. Your girlfriend and her friends probably won't have to come back and testify but we do need all their statements.

"You can't use that evidence," said Joe. "They broke into my room illegally. The evidence is inadmissible in court, you don't have a search warrant."

"Wow! Mr. Wilson knows the law, but not all of it. We didn't break into your room. We're here because of a breaking and entering. We then realized that we have warrants out for you. We saw evidence that is in plain sight as we entered your room. Yes we have probable cause to check it out," said the officer while grinning at Joe Wilson.

The officer saw the butcher knife on the floor and quickly picked it up using a tissue. "That's not mine," yelled out Joe.

"Fine," said the officer, "Then your fingerprints won't be on it."

The officer asked Joe Wilson if he had anything else he might want to say. He said he had nothing to say till he saw his lawyer. The paramedic put an icepack on Joe's swelling face and one officer led him out to the cruiser.

The other paramedic had revived Lisa. She looked over at me and Bubba with tears in her eyes. "I'm so sorry Jess," she said as the paramedic helped her to the bathroom. She needed to throw up.

When she returned she told the officer everything she could remember. The last thing was being led into the elevator and now being woken up.

"Does she need to be taken to the hospital for any observation or tests," the officer asked the female paramedic.

"No, she was drugged but undoing her blouse was as far he got thanks to these young men," she said looking over at us.

Beside the photo disks he also had more drugs in his briefcase. I looked over at Lisa and she looked relieved.

"Well boys, we have a problem. We were called here for a domestic disturbance. You two broke down this door. Now what are we supposed to do about this dilemma? Granted you were worried about your girlfriend but you still broke the law," said the officer.

Lisa spoke up. "Sir, if I pay for repairing this door will that be enough to free my friends? All they wanted to do was help me."

"Let me contact the manager and see if he wants to file charges against these men."

He was back in no time. "The manager said if you pay for the repair of the door he won't file any charges against your friends. He said these are special doors and jambs and you'll need five hundred dollars. Do you have that kind of money with you?"

"I won five hundred dollars in the contest that started this whole mess. I guess what they say is true. What comes around goes around," said Lisa. She reached in her back pocket and took out five folded one hundred dollar bills.

"I was going to offer the pervert the money in return for our disks," said Lisa.

"Sorry, but all the disks and drugs are evidence. We have to take it all with us. You can be assured it's in safe hands. Another officer with gloves on picked up the knife and closed the open briefcase and left.

The officer took off our handcuffs and we all walked into the lobby of the lounge. All the girls were there. The girls were taking turns hugging Lisa.

The officer took all our statements and said he would call us if we were needed for the trial or needed any other information. We headed back to the condo to gather up our stuff and head for home. Lisa rode home with me and Bubba rode with Cerise and the other girls.

On the way home Lisa apologized to me over and over for being so stupid. She asked me where all of this put our relationship.

"Lisa, I love you. What you did entering that contest was really stupid, but what was worse is thinking you could solve the problem alone."

"I didn't want you to know. I was afraid you wouldn't want me as your girlfriend anymore. There's nothing I wouldn't do for you," she replied.

"Well right now you ought to lay back and rest. The paramedic said you needed to get some rest till that drug is out of your system."

"Know what is really sad, Jess? Everything was for nothing. I showed my tits which was totally stupid. Even though I won, my winnings went to pay for a silly door and now to top it all off the police have our pictures. God, I hope no one sees them. At least we'll be able to be cheerleaders starting our senior year."

She cuddled up on the front seat and went to sleep. She had her head on my lap. I couldn't help but love her. I thought I'd wait till we got home before telling her I had the disks of the pictures that were taken.

Lisa finishes telling the story:

I couldn't believe that I was stupid enough to get drugged. I guess I was so nervous that I drank the orange juice without thinking. The next thing I knew was being awakened by a paramedic. I was both shocked and embarrassed when I woke up and saw Jessie and Bubba in handcuffs.

I was happy to see that I was still dressed. I shudder to think what might have happened if Jess hadn't shown up. It was so stupid to think I could do anything to get the disks back acting by myself.

On the way home I had to wonder what would happen with those disks. Do they use them for evidence and then destroy them? At least they weren't in the hands of a porno dealer.

After getting home, back to the dorm, the girls told me about the guy unbuttoning my blouse and taking more pictures of me. God, the more I think of the position I put myself into the worse I felt.

Even though I was mad at Cybil for calling Jess, I'm now happy she did. If he hadn't shown up I have no idea what might have happened.

On Sunday Jess and Bubba came by the dorm and told us girls they had something to show us. Jess had the disks. He and Bubba confiscated them before the police got there. Our punishment for entering the wet t-shirt contest was that we had to watch it on tape.

Jess put the first tape in and it wasn't the contest. The first two disks were of us girls every day on the beach. We had no idea that that freak was following us and taking pictures all week. He had pics of us as well as other girls on the beach, in the water, and even in the lounge.

After watching most of the first disk I told Jess I didn't want to see anymore. It really gave me the creeps knowing that freak was stalking us all week and we didn't even notice him.

We learned our lesson and from now on would pay better attention to our surroundings. Jess put all three disks in an envelope put it in a metal trash can and set them on fire. He and Bubba wanted to make sure no one ever saw them again.

I couldn't help but put my arms around Jess and cry. He wasn't only the love of my life but also my hero.

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We all started our senior year. It was going to be a busy one. Jess and I didn't have any classes together but we did meet twice a week in the library and did our studies together. Just being near him made me feel good. Our sex life was pretty much put on the back burner. We were lucky if we made love once every couple of weeks. There was just too much going on.

Toward the end of football season we were going to have the senior's game. It was a regular game but all the seniors from band, cheerleading and football were recognized before the game.

My parents and Jess's parents both showed up for the game. We introduced them and they would be sitting together for the game. We all received two tickets that we could give to someone to attend the seniors game.

The stadium was filled with nearly a hundred thousand people as well as being televised. Of course all the seniors wanted to do their best.

The band played as they marched onto the field with everyone standing and cheering. The announcer called out the names of the senior band members one by one and said something about each one such as what degree they would be graduating with.

Each one stepped forward as their name was called. Next were the cheerleaders. As our names were called we ran out on the field and stood with the senior band members. I felt so good seeing Cybil, Cerise and the other running out on the field. We went through so much together. I was the last one called and it felt so good.

Next the whole football team ran out into the end zone to a standing ovation. The names of the senior players were called out. The players in turn would run out to be with the senior band and cheerleaders members. I can't tell you how good I felt when they called out Jess's name. I felt as good as when they called out my name earlier.

After all the seniors were called the announcer said, "Here are your seniors for State this year." I know I was crying along with many others.

Then the announcer said there was a special announcement. One of the junior cheerleaders ran out on the field and as we all watched she handed a microphone to Jess. Everyone including me was wondering what was happening.

Jess came up to me and knelt down on one knee. I thought "Oh my God, is he going to propose to me, here, right now, on TV and in front of everyone." I looked up at the monitors and all the cameras were focused on us.

"Lisa, we've been through a lot the last year and a half. In that time I have fallen in love with you. I want to know if you will be my wife. We'll get married shortly after graduation so we won't have to be apart ever again. You'll have until next summer to plan our wedding."

It was hard to believe that a stadium this big was almost in complete silence other than a few people yelling out, "Say Yes."

I took the microphone out of Jess's hand and spoke. "Jess I love you with all my heart and soul and 'Yes' I will marry you." Jess slipped an engagement ring on my finger.

The stadium erupted with cheers and applause. The camera scanned to our parents in the stands who were all crying. I couldn't hardly remember running off the field for the game to start. Of course everyone on the sidelines was congratulating me. I remember hearing Cybil say how she made the biggest mistake of her life not staying with Jess. I just thought, "Her loss, my gain."

Jess had run back to the team and they made their grand entrance onto the field.

When the game started I was one of the happiest people in the stadium. I cheered for State and for my future husband, number twenty-five.

For Jess, he played the greatest game of his career catching two touchdown passes and running for a third.

Things were hectic for the remainder of the season but I had a ring on my finger to remind me where my life was headed and that made me happy. I could hardly wait for next summer to get here.

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