Vanessa Atler
"Nessa"
Elise Ray
"Eray"
Gymnastics Girls
Chapter Two
"Meet Me In...Michigan"
Written by TVM
Copyright © 2007
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Summary: In ALL NEW 2nd episode of 'Gymnastics Girls', Vanessa returns to detail the events in her turbulent life after her first unexpected rendezvous with then friend Elise Ray. The second chapter in this saga picks up soon after the first one ended with a shocking call from Elise about a major oppurtunity she's set in motion for 'Nessa'. What neither realizes is the ramifications of this decision will change two lives forever.
Story Codes: No sex
Hiya guys, it's 'Nessa again. Yeh I know you prolly thought my first story would be a one shot (no pun intended), well it was intended that way. Mostly due to the fact that my 'on the side' lover Elise really didn't wanna have her name smeared by appearing in an internet porn story. Well she finally came to see it my way on my last visit to the U of M campus in the spring of 2002. I made her sit down and read my story all the way through, and to my shock and delight, she loved it. So she gave me her permission to write about some of the events that took place in the coming months. Which would result in some of my favorite memories of my young life as I would experience things that no girl should be forced to miss. Hehe. Details coming up of course.
OK, so I think I should start by getting you caught up on my life. In 2001, I graduated High School and started in College the following fall. Which is where I met my Boyfriend (yes I'm serious) of the time and the lady who would give me a job to once again do what I love most in the world, Gymnastics. She hired me on weekdays after classes to help train the pre's at the facility she ran downtown. In general the kids were between 6 and 10 and I really did a good job she said. So not only was I in a stable relationship, had a job that paid cash for doing something I'd do for free but I was also doing very well in college thank you very much. That all changed when I decided to move out of my parents pad and into an apartment in the city with my 'loving and attentive' boyfriend (who's name won't be used). Major fuckin mistake there. He turned from being loving and supportive to a total dick-head in like 5 months. Making me feel like total shit on a daily basis, just to make him feel better. Ugh god what a fuckin dickless loser I picked. So after 8 months and me dropping out of college to work full-time at the gym to make more money. We had a huge blow up. I had had more than enough and left for home. God what a bad time in my life. I cried myself to sleep almost every night for weeks over my so-called 'love' and even thought about getting back together with him. But on the very day that he was coming to pick me up for our first date, my life changed forever, for the better. My girl on the side Elise called and invited me out for a weekend and we had so much fun and 'fun' that I swore off guys for a while. God that girl can hand out pleasure like no one's business.
Anyway's lets skip ahead a little. By the same time the next year, I was involved not only with Elise but with a younger girl at work. I'll call her "Kimmy" for now. She was 16 to my 20 and was one of the Nations top Elite level gymnasts in the region before she got hurt. Our relationship from the outside was a normal enough one, two giggling girls who liked hanging out with each other. But behind close doors and outside of the view of others it was very private and loving. I had once again moved out of my parents place and into a nice new apartment and we spent an unknown number of nights on the couch of said apartment just being close and enjoying the feeling that we wanted to be with that other person. We made sure to keep our distance at work and only showed real effection for each other behind closed doors. Which isn't the smartest idea, but we both felt more comfortable that way. Now I know what you are waiting for, the big description of the hot sex that happened between me and Kimmy. Well.....nahh sorry. That's private. Between me and my little Kimbug. So...moving on.
It's 2003 now and life had kicked me in the ass. Kimmy broke up with me when it was revealed that we had possibly grown to be more than friends. We both denied it till we were blue in the face, but I still ended up losing my job and Kimmy's dream of being a National champ died with it. More due to her parents anger over the situation than her injuries at a meet in the fall of 2002. We still manage to stay in contact with each other over the net, but it's not the same and sometimes I wish she would just stop emailing me. So without a job or income, back to the homefront I headed. I'd say it was two months or so after that all had blown over when I got the call that would really change my life.
My family was out for the day and since it was a boring day in Canyon Country and I decided to take a nap to pass away the day and get my mind off my worries. I guess I'd just slipped into a good sleep when the phone rang and woke me. I cursed like a sailor as I got out of bed and made my way to the phone on my desk.
"HELLO?" I said in a noticably angry voice. I knew instantly who it was just by the name the person used in her opening line.
"Hey my sexyiNes" Elise said from other end as my anger faded.
"God am I glad to hear your voice" I said as I plopped down in the desk chair. "Wassup Eray?"
"What would you say if I said these words..." Elise said in a very dramatic voice and stopping for a long moment for effect before she went on. "...Assistant Coach for the University of Michigan gymnastics program?"
"So you got a new job?"
"Nooooooo dumby" She cracked as she laughed at my apparent confusion. "You do."
"Whaaaat?" I asked, now in a real state of confusion.
"Oh god, Nessa use the brain in that pretty little head of yours my girl" She said as she giggled, "I got you a job."
"WHAT?" I screamed into the phone in excitement. "Are you serious?"
"Calm it down Ness I need this ear and yesss totally serious" Elise said as I got up and started bouncing around the room as she giggled. "I talked to Coach Plocki about two weeks ago when the job came open and she seemed interested in you, both from a coaching angle cause you've done that and you've competed. But also cause of your name."
"Wow" I said as my one word reply.
"Yeh, wow, and it's a good job Nessa" Elise replied, "Please tell me you'll take it?"
"Why you want me there so bad?" I asked and heard a long silence on the other end, "Eray?"
"I miss you ok" She said as my heart beat a little faster. "A lot."
"Me too" I said as the first smile in weeks formed on my face. "It'll be nice being to be with you all the time."
"UMMMMMM....yeah" She said as she seemed to be battling some thoughts in her mind.
"Hey, listen Ray, I don't have to come if it's gonna be hard on you" I said, "I'm not suggesting a relationship you know, all I'm saying is..."
"We'll see what happens when you get here ok?" She asked as I felt my heart beat a few beats faster.
"Yeh you'll be off the squad in two weeks" I giggled to her as she asked, "And why?"
"Won't be able to keep your hands off me" I replied and I knew I made her blush.
"Shut up with that" She whispered and I giggled, "my teammates are around."
"Sorry but it's true" I said as I smiled brighter.
"Yeh so?" She asked challenging me, "You can't either."
"I know...can you blame me? I'm fuckin hot"
"Not you smart ass. me" She said with a teasing laugh.
"You what?" I asked as she began to get a little frustrated.
"I can't say that" She replied, "But you know it's true."
"Yeh I miss you Ray" I said as a silence developed on the other end of the line. "And it's not just the sex."
"You sure about that?"
"Yeh pretty sure" I said, "Right now...if you was here I'd grab you and hold on."
"Doesn't sound so bad" She said with a sweet sound to her voice. "I think I might be ready for that."
"Ray...."
"Yeh Nessa?"
"I think I might be fallin...." I started before she cut me off with loud squeal as she laughed.
"Stop it!" She giggled as someone apparently snapped her with a towel. "I gotta go Ness, the teams going out for pizza, I'll have Coach Plocki call you and set up your travel ok?"
"Yeh ok bye Ray" I said as I hung up rather quickly and wondered if it was really all that good of an idea to take this job. It's amazing in life how you can go from flying high as a cloud one second and then come crashing down to earth the next and feel like crap. God I dunno how I do this to myself sometimes. I lay there for a moment, recovering from the roller coaster ride of emtions over the last ten minutes and slowly my heart broke as it sunk in that I had somehow and for some unknown reason developed feelings for this girl and that she didn't return those feelings. "We'll see when you get here?" Ha, bullshit I muttered to myself as I ran over the conversation in my mind and twisted everything around to make it what I wanted in that moment. I put my hands over my eyes and started to cry, my safety valve and this time it was a good one. All day and most of the night good as a matter of fact. I did sleep good that night though as I had a dream about me and Elise that was both romantic and just a bit erotic at the same time. I woke up early and took a long hot shower and pretended to be in a better mood for my parents sake during breakfast. I was headed back to my room for some peace and quite when the phone began ringing.
"Yeh?" I asked snatching up the phone as my mother gave me a weird look.
"Nessa?" Elise said from the other end of the line as my heart, against my wishes, began beating faster. "Are you packed?"
"For what?"
"The job silly, you are coming out today right?" She asked in a over enthusiastic voice that I thought must have meant she had just finished a great practice. "Right?"
"Uhhhh no, this is the first I've heard of it" I responded as I began to search my mind for a way to get off the phone the quickest.
"OH god you are so goofy sometimes" She said in a giggle as I started to get angry at her lack of attention to my feelings. How could she do me this way? What was the point of me moving to Michigan for anyway? To be her secret love slave? I don't think so.
"Who the hell are you callin goofy?" I snapped as her giggling went quiet and I got another weird look from Mom. Ducking into the bedroom I heard her reply. "You are sexy."
"Sexy? Is that all you think of me?" I asked in a harsh tone. "Cause I'm not your damn slut."
"HUH?" She asked in total confusion, "Nessa what's wrong?"
"I'm sick of being your little secret on the side" I said with an honest anger in my voice, "I'm doing it anymore. I have feelings you know and feelings for you."
"You really think that's all I want from you?" She asked in a soft voice, which meant I had made her cry and now I felt even worse.
"Well...sorta....sometimes" I stammered from my end of the line as hers stayed quite.
"God...I guess you don't know me at all huh?" She asked as I felt my heart break into a million pieces and with tears streaming down my face I looked at the picture of her on my night stand as she went on, "I was calling to tell you, that Coach was busy with the team last night and that you should check your email for your travel arrangments to come out here.......so yeah that's what I wanted to say....I just thought it would be....nice."
"Ray..." I started before she cut me off and said, "I got practice in 15 minutes, so if you come, great...if not...whatever. Bye."
The phone went silent as she hung up. I was literally froze in place for the next hour as I tried in vain to figure out what in the world was going on between us and how anything could be this fucked up. With a clearer head brought on by the morning light I begin to re-examine some of the conversation that I had had with her last night and to my shock it seem to say something totally different that I had convinced myself of the previous night. God what a screw up I am. I looked at the clock and then back at the phone as an anger came rocketing through, not directed at someone but one directed at myself for being so stupid and blind. That moment I think changed the course of my life for the better, cause it was then that I decided to go to Michigan and see Elise in person and resolve this once and for all. I got up and started up my computer as I made my mind up to see this through, a twinge of excitement surged through me and a smile formed on my face as my mother came into see if I was alright.
"Honey are you....." She started as I grabbed her and spun her around in excitement and relayed the news about me and Elise. Yes, I finally came out to my mother and she didn't seem a bit shocked, more to the point she was grateful that I was honest with her and that something or someone was making me this happy. All the sudden chaos almost caused me to forget to check my email as Elise had said. I squealed in excitement when I found out that my flight was leaving in less than 4 hours, so I stuffed, with mom's help, every piece of warm clothing I had into my carry-on cruiser and kissed her cheek as I hopped into the car and headed for the airport. My hands shook as I nervously ran through the aisles and asked anyone who would look my way were my gate was. I reached it at the last possible second and begged on my hands and knees to be let on board as I showed them my boarding pass.
"My best friend in the whole world is waiting for me at the airport and if I don't get on that plane she may never speak to me again" I told the elderly and kindly looking lady standing by the gate. She looked to the guy who was about to close the door to the hallway leading to the plane and motioned for him to open the door one final time for me. I screamed and hugged her as I grabbed my bag and went running down the hallway and made the plane as they again almost shut me out. Ten minutes later, I crashed down into my seat beside this girl in head phones as the world spun around me. That's when it hit me that I maybe making a stupid mistake and that since Elise had no idea I was coming, I'd have to find my way to her. UGH. Little price to pay though to see her again, I hoped.
"Welcome to American Airliners Coach Special to Minnesota..." The Stewardess announced a moment later as my ears perked up and I thought no, I'm going to Michigan, not Minnesota.
"Miss...misss. miss" I said jumping up and grabbing the first attendant I saw and spinning her around, "I have to get off, I'm on the wrong plane."
"Honey calm down, that's highly unlikely" She said with a very reassuring smile. "Let me see your boarding pass?"
"Here, the woman said Minnesota and I'm going to Michigan" I rambled as she smiled.
"With a two hour lay-over in Minneapolis" She said as she showed me on the ticket. "It's coach honey...you get what you pay for."
"It's paid for by the college I'll be working at" I said as a feeling of relieve washed over me. "Bunch of cheap skates."
"Not so bad" She commented as she handed me my ticket back. "I once flew coach from Atlanta to Bangor, Maine and it took 17 hours. Two lay overs of four hours each."
6 and half hours or so later, we landed in Minneapolis/St. Paul and had to layover as they cleared the runway and made some minor repairs to the plane. I took a seat in the cafeteria after being informed it would be at least 4 hours before my connecting flight to Ana Arbor. I was reading some kind of tour guide to the local area when I sensed someone was standing over me. Nervously I looked up.
"Are you..." The Cute Blonde stammered nervously, "...Vanessa Atler?"
"Yeh" I said as she excitedly bounced around and squealed, "I love you. I mean not love love, but I adore you. You're my all time favorite gymnast."
"Thank you" I said with a smile, "Always nice to hear from a fan."
"What are you doing...well...here of all places?" She asked, "Oh god I am so dumb, you were reading and I'm bothering you, I'll go away now."
"Nooooo wait" I said getting ready to stand up as she turned and then stopped as she heard my words. "It's ok, I don't mind, here sit."
"Very cool" She said with a huge grin, "I'm Carol McNamara, future Michigan Wolverine."
"No shit?" I asked as she giggled and I nearly fainted. "I'm heading to Ana Arbor to take a job too, with the Wolverines Gymnastics program."
"Coach Atler?" She asked as she squealed again and bounced around in the chair, "You'll be my coach?"
"And you're gonna on the Gymnastics team?" I asked as she nodded her head.
"Freshman in 03 baby" She said. "I'm from Hastings in the lake state and for some reason they wanted me."
"Michigan is a great school my lo...friend..goes there" I stammered as she gave me a puzzled look and asked, "Your lo..what? Sound you about said love?"
"Huh? No don't be silly" I said as she laughed. "My good friend Elise Ray."
"She is so nice I love her to death, she like came up to my hometown with Coach and recruited me" Carol said beaming. "We hung out all day, oh my god listen to me you'd think I've got a crush on her."
"You do huh?" I asked teasingly and was floored by her calm confident response. "If I did it certainly wouldn't bother me I'm comfortable with whatever, you know?"
"Whatever?"
"Like two girls or two guys or two girls and a guy" She said with a devilish grin as I blushed. "I've had experience's with both. Only kissing and so but they count."
"True" I said as she giggled and then shot me a warning but playful look when I said, "Virgin."
"Not like I'm saving it" She commented as she blushed and then snapped back to reality and asked, "How it is I met you like two minutes ago and you already got me telling you my whole life story?"
"I dunno" I said as we both giggled and I let a smirk form on my face as I said. "I guess it's obvious you wanted me to know you like girls too huh?"
"Shut up" She said as rolled her eyes and blushed a bit. Right then we heard the announcement for the connecting flight to Ana Arbor, an hour later we were buckled in and 20,000 feet above the ground headed for our final destination. A funny thning did happen as we were allowed to unbuckle and move around a little, Carol came up to the front where I was and negotiated a seat switch with my original neighbor. The poor lady, a Miss Gloria Fellows-Roger, never knew what hit her as Carol hit like a hurricane and never let up.
"And what makes you think I wanted to sit by you again?" I asked, trying to hide the fact that I was glad to see a familar face and that now that she was out of her coat I was checking her out.
"Well you don't really have a choice now do you?" She said with a wide grin as she turned towards me and to my shock poked her chest out and asked, "There get a good look, I'm proud of them."
"Ohmigod stop that" I said as I nearly fainted and thanked my lucky stars that only a few people seen that. After nearly two hours of her non-stop chatter, I soon learned why Carol was a gymnastic, with all her energy if she wasn't she'd flame out and go nuts. She could barely stay still long enough for them to land the plane. Which I was sorta dreading and excited for all at the same time, cause now it meant I had to face Elise.
"Did you bring any luggage?" Carol asked and snapped me out of my thoughts.
"Huh? No just my carry-on" I said in a slight daze as we made our way through security.
"Oh ok I'mma get my bags and meet you by the University Van, k?" She asked.
"Uni what?" I asked as she laughed.
"The University Van..you know it's supposed to pick us up and take us to the campus" She said as I shrugged.
"Meet me down there in twent minutes or so k?" She said pointing to the bottom of the escalator at a bank of seats with only one girl sitting in them. Strangely she was wearing a Michigan jump suit it looked. "Ok?"
"Yeh yeh ok" I said as my heart quickened when I thought I recognized the hair-do. "Be here in a week..."
"Huh?" Carol said as I slung my bag over my shoulder and went plowing down the escalator like a mad person, my heart beating ever faster as I got closer and closer and I became more and more sure of who it was.
"No way it can't be" I said as I reached the bottom of the escalator and walked a few feet closer, I thought it had to be her, so after a deep breath I said with a shaky voice, "Elise?"
"Nessa?" I heard the voice ask as she turned and I nearly fainted when I realized it was her. That gorgeous dimpled smile and she was smiling at me, almost like she was happy to see me. I was froze as she moved me towards, but when the frost thawed I through my arms around her and held on as she giggled and hugged me back, "Good to see you too Ness. I missed you like crazy you know?"
"Yeh?" I asked as I found myself still wrapped in her arms, one then moving to my cheek as she cleared the hair out of my eyes. Was I imagining this or what? I asked myself as I watched her watching me. She grinned and blushed Eray style and tilted her head ever so slightly and leaned in as to kiss me and of course me being me, I did the same and we broke out in a fit of giggles and the moment passed as we took a seat, her holding my hand the whole time I might add. Something was different about this I noticed from the first moment we sat down. It took both of a couple of moments to catch our breath and I found myself squeezing her hand a few times to make sure it was really in mine.
"Missed you too..." I said softly as her smile returned and her eyes again locked on mine. "...a lot."
"Not more than me" She said with a huge smile and kissed my cheek and uttered three words that changed my life forever, "I love you..."
"Excuse me..." I tried to ask in an attempt to clarify, but before my sentence even got finished her lips met mine in a soft gentle kiss that felt so way different than any other we'd ever shared. A second later she moved away and we both smiled and touched foreheads as she repeated her previous announcement, "I said I love you Nessa, I want more."
"Are you sure?" I asked as she giggled and rolled her eyes and that gave me my answer as my heart sped to a speed I never knew and I said with confidence as I touched her cheek with my hand, "Yeh things changed for me too, I love you too Eray."
We kissed again soon after and well....it's really great. *Happy Dance*
I thought you guys might wanna know how it all turned out after my first story. Pretty great I'd say. The epilogue to this lil saga goes something like this: Me and Eray dated through the summer and fall, when I officially became an entry level assistant (while finishing my degree on the University's dime), we shared a cozy off-campus apartment with Carol. Whom we both adore. With a little help from Elise and the U of M counseling staff I am much more confident and as a bi-product much happier now. Cause now that Elise is out of college we have more time to "explore" each other and oh yeah Elise just recently proposed the idea of a threesome with Carol! Talk about fulfilling a fantasy. Whoa. Ummmmm....write me and let me know if you'd like to read about that, hehehe. Ok, well enough of my babbling, thanks for reading, never know we might talk again soon. Bye.
To be Continued...
this was a horrible story.
CC wrote this:
Holy Shit. I can't believe I read through all of that. That was the worst story I've read on this site. I don't know what you were thinking but I think you should rethink it.
Red Wrote this:
I really loved this story. I would love to see where it goes from here. I would also love to hear about your adventure with Kim.