Chapter 366: Cecile XXXII—Complete Disaster

“That’s kinda ironic for Jennifer don’t you think?” Brandi Blake said coolly as she fiddled with the straps on her goal pads. As far as Cecile could tell, Brandi was the only woman in the locker room who didn’t look sickly pale with nervousness, or even excited or jittery about the game they would play tomorrow. Cecile had once commented on Brandi’s rather cool nature to Tammy Keane who replied without humor, valium and lots of it. Cecile decided that Tammy had been joking.

“What is?” Debbie asked.

Brandi raised her eyebrows. “Well first she got no sex from Adam and now she’s knocked up. Poor women can’t get a good inbetween can she?”

The women laughed.

Cecile felt her cheeks warm, but she didn’t say anything or react. It wouldn’t do to fit in with these women who would be in effect, her only family, if she kept rebuking and chiding their every whim in conversation. They all were, after all, her elders and she had to show some proper respect to them. There had to be a compromise, a middle ground for her to be comfortable and allow them their ease as well.

“Well I hope she at least got something decent from it,” Rory said with a sly smile. “It would suck if Adam weren’t even that good being so rusty and she just gets pregnant regardless. I swear sometimes, Chris is so short I doubt he even has the staying power to get anyone pregnant.”

Cecile felt her ears warm now, and the other women gasped except for Michele Roy who burst out laughing. “Oh Rory he isn’t so bad is he? That fiery boy, I don’t believe it.”

Rory shrugged. “Naw he can do it pretty good sometimes but hell my kingdom for just a little consideration for my timing! I mean come on I’m not the only one here am I? Someone else has with this problem? Don’t make me the only one.”

“Oh you’re not the only one,” Tammy Keane said in a loud, dry voice, “Mike can’t do much unless there’s a sport on at the same time, the coot.” Michele giggled and Cecile noticed Tammy frown. “What’s so funny? Oh wait, you’re husband is perfect right?” So women competed with sexual prowess just as much as men did? As disgusting as Cecile found that, she also found it somewhat amusing, in a weird way. Here this whole time, she had thought at least her little circle of acquaintances as little better than Danny’s teammates, but here she was proven wrong.

Michele held up her hands. “I never said he was perfect, Patrick is superstitious so put that and winning or losing streaks together yes and see what happens it can get infuriating.” Her smile remained though. Cecile swallowed when Michele looked at her. “Oh and really we shouldn’t be disturbing Cecile with this yes? Poor thing.”

“Oh no really…” Cecile felt her lips burning now too and she didn’t know what to say. No really go on with sex talk I find it fascinating? She couldn’t find anything truthful to say. “I…”

“Oh yeah,” Mrs. Morris said slowly, “You’re still a virgin aye? How sweet, yes let’s not scare her. Don’t worry dear, Danny’s young; it’s only when they get older that they don’t put out very well.”

“Oh I wasn’t…” Cecile breathed. “I mean I’m not a little kid… um… don’t… don’t let me get in the way of your… what you want to… what… want…” Now her neck burned as well. She pressed her hands to her cheeks and her palms already felt warm and damp.

“Ooo!” Michele giggled. “Dear if you want to listen don’t be ashamed, how else will you learn? You wouldn’t want your first time to be a horrible disaster yes? I don’t think God will frown upon you getting a little education yes?”

Cecile gulped and raised her eyebrows helplessly. “It can be a disaster the first time?” She couldn’t help herself asking because she had honestly never, ever thought of that possibility that her first time with Danny, on their wedding night, could be anything less than a perfect culmination of their devotion and love. How would poor Danny feel?

All the women exchanged glances and then said in unison. “Oh yeah.”

Oh no she did NOT need to hear this now! She knew it already, this was a jinx things would have been perfect for them if she just didn’t know that things could go wrong. Now she would be waiting for something bad to happen and everything would go wrong just because of this stupid conversation! And now she was going to ask and she couldn’t stop herself. “What could go wrong?”

“Well the pain for one thing can take you by surprise if you’re not ready for it,” Brandi said, “And the sweat, the mess, the smell, your hair getting messed up, it’s a pretty nasty experience and it’s rare to climax on the first time the list goes on.”

“Oh dear heavens!” Cecile cried and she covered her face. She didn’t want to imagine any of this! “I’m sorry I asked!”

“Oh it’s okay, hon,” Josefina said kindly and Cecile felt her pat her back. “They’re just being mean to scare ya, everyone’s mean to the virgins, especially THE virgin which is you. Just ask Danny to be gentle and things usually go okay, a good guy knows what to do.”

Cecile swallowed and she looked at Jo’s super model face and forgot completely about her surroundings. “But Danny’s a virgin too!”

Gasps all around. Expressions of disbelief and Jo’s eyebrows skid up and she half grinned. “Well then hon, things might not go too well but at least you won’t be the only one to take blame for it, in fact you can just blame Dan for everything the next morning and he’ll believe it.”

“Oh thanks,” Cecile said glumly. Josefina hugged her and held onto her and Cecile leaned into her feeling a small amount of comfort, small compensation really for the complete and utter terror the women had just instilled into her.

What she knew of this pleasure was Dan’s kisses, his breath and warmth, the feel of his hard body pressing into hers and other things as well that she knew weren’t hers to enjoy just yet. She knew how it felt to have her blood race with lust and titillate her until she thought she would burst if she didn’t give into him now and his lips on her throat. The darker, forbidden side of this pleasure she knew from just that brief interlude with Michele’s husband, and it filled her with guilt and it also tickled her tastebuds with a flavor of that passion that the devil used to lead so many into ruin.

And the good and the bad, she didn’t think at all that sometimes things just wouldn’t work, that feeling she had with Dan could possibly fizzle into an awkward mess. But of course things could fray and fall apart, because everything did! Now she had just become aware that making love was not immune. And she couldn’t pray for God to make things go right, that was something out of the moral question!

“Since we’re on the subject,” Debbie said thoughtfully, “Joe’s been a real nuisance lately; he doesn’t let me get anything done! It’s like being pawed at all the time by a dog or something.”

“Just use a rolled up newspaper,” Brandi said coldly. “It works on Great Danes and husbands.”

The woman squealed in delight and Cecile closed her eyes. Now she really, really didn’t need to know this! There were numerous times lately where she couldn’t find either Mr. or Mrs. Sakic or they wanted her out of the house immediately with the kids. Of course she wasn’t naïve or dumb but, she just chose not to think about it and now, she would always suspect they were…… “Oh heavens above!”

“Still,” Debbie said with her finger on her chin, “There has to be a trick for getting a little more out of him, because he’s usually done before I can get a whole ton out of it. Quality not quantity right?”

“Amen!” Half of the women said with determination.

Cecile cleared her throat and swallowed a hiccup.

“What is it with our husbands being such fast finishers?” Tammy asked, “Is it a hockey thing? Are they just trained that way? I mean I don’t remember Mike being that way when we were dating.”

Now Mike Keane finishing fast or not was an image Cecile had never ever before let cross her mind and now she wanted to claw out her entire brain and scrub it clean.

“Ha speak for yourselves,” Josefina said, “I wish I had your problems. When Peter and I have sex he just, he just, goes on and on and on, I mean seriously it’s like I’m stuck on a water bed or something and just going up and down and up and down and…” And as Jo continued with her colorful narrative Cecile held her breath realizing that Peter was not so disagreeable an image as Keane and she really, really needed to stop listening now. She let a half smile slip though, seeing the women staring at Jo with glassy eyes and slightly open mouths like transfixed kittens. “…and I swear I’ve come like four times and he’s still going like he’s some sort of Viking war God and he’s trying to prove some sort of stamina to me that I learned like ten years ago and I really just want to sleep I swear to GOD that man created tantra or something because lately I’ve just resorted to hurting him to make him spurt and my luck I think he’s starting to LIKE the pain and I am not gonna buy anything in whips or leather to appease the S.O.B.”

Silence you could cut with a knife and Cecile really felt warm and uncomfortable especially with Jo’s arm still draped around her in a hug. She had a feeling she would be unable to look any of Dan’s teammates in the eyes again ever without imagining them in some sort of form of…. Her mind shrieked.

“Say that again I didn’t… I didn’t quite hear all of it….” Michele Roy murmured with a gleam in her eye. “What was that last part?”

“Are you insane!” Debbie cried. “You’re blessed woman!”

“Eh,” Jo said in her flippant voice, “Maybe I’m just getting sick of him or something, it happens.”

“Are you okay, Cecile?” Rory asked.

“I feel a little sick,” Cecile said honestly, her stomach churned horribly.

“Oh let’s change the subject,” Debbie said. “We’re really scaring her now. Hey, now that Jen’s gone did you hear who is replacing her?”

Cecile sniffed and looked at Debbie, grateful for the reprieve, although her palms and neck felt absolutely slicked with sweat now. “Who?” she asked. And she also wondered about Alex Tanguay, because he was the only one without a girlfriend.

Debbie grinned. “Mimi you don’t know? How could you not know?”

Michele raised her eyebrows but otherwise looked as if she could care less. “Why have they cloned me?”

Debbie rolled her eyes. “Your son, Jonathan! Patty didn’t tell you? Jonathan’s gonna be a goalie in Jennifer’s place and Coach Hartley’s son will take the other empty spot on the roster.”

The women laughed and Cecile smiled, how cute was that? The fans would definitely like that. Michele wrinkled her nose but she also smiled. Cecile swallowed and took a deep breath, tomorrow then would be that game. She hadn’t even asked how the ticket sales for it were doing but she was determined to have a little fun, and it was something she would be doing with Danny and oh….

Her stomach churned again. Please don’t let it be a disaster and anything else concerning her future interaction with him for that matter….