The Dare

It was conceived as a wonderful dare. It broke a whole bucketful of school rules but they were all eighteen-year-old sixth formers so it was completely legal. The girl would be chosen by lot and she would be smuggled out of school and go to the village pub where the plan would be to latch onto a man and get him to buy her drinks. It would be the absolute peak of achievement if she could wring a meal out of him and then go to the loo, slip out of the back door and back to school leaving him with the bill, a raging erection and no girl.

The dangers of such a scheme would have been obvious to any girl from a Comprehensive School but these girls had been behind the walls of their boarding school since they were aged eleven and they really had no idea of what went on in the real world.

Tamsin won the raffle and the whole sixth form pooled their best clothes and their best cosmetics to make her look irresistible. Actually, their lack of experience meant that the make-up was overdone and Tamsin looked like a common tart. On the Friday evening, Tamsin was escorted by two other girls out of the dorm, downstairs and out of the History room window. One girl went ahead as a scout for any wandering teachers but, at this time of night, that was unlikely.

They knew that there would be a bus at 9.30pm and it was only a short ride to the village. When Tamsin returned to school, she would be honor bound to tell the truth of her evening.

The Stockbrokers Arms was quite upmarket and the bar was luxurious, well-lit and welcoming. It did not take long for a dishy man to be drawn to the attractive lone girl. He bought her a drink at the bar and then they moved to a booth. She was drinking rum and coke mainly because she knew that she liked coke. He said that he was a sales rep passing through and only here for one night; she told him that she worked in a bank. She was on the fast-track management scheme and she added a couple of years to her age.

Tammy slipped into the conversation that she was getting a bit hungry but he said that they were only just getting to know each other and the kitchen would be open for hours so they had plenty of time. Of course, it was inevitable that she lost track of how many drinks she was consuming and he kept them coming. It reached the point where Tammy became decidedly woozy and the room started to swim.

He was very good natured and he said that they both needed some air so he escorted her out to the car park. She had to lean on his arm to keep upright. If anything, the effort of standing made her condition worse so he said that he would drive her back to school. So, he had not bought the, “job in a bank” line for a second.

His car was big and leather upholstered and comfortable and he put her in the back where she would have more space. The warmth of the heater and the hum of the engine was sleep-inducing and it was pitch dark in the country lanes so sleep soon overwhelmed her.

She was awoken by the car coming to a stop and he came to her door and opened it for her. Her memory and her senses in general were a bit hazy and she dimly took in the frontage of a large house. The car was parked on the gravel between the house and the lawn. A girl from a Comprehensive would have instantly known that this had to be his house so the story about just being here for one night had to be a lie.

“I can’t take you back to school in this state, you’d better come in and sober up.”

That was how they ended up on a huge white leather sofa in his lounge.