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Parts 1 and 2 in my profile.
The win felt like a stolen coin. Bright and heavy in our pockets, but we kept checking to see if it was real. The two-nil scoreline blazed from the sports app on my phone, a brutal counterpoint to the nine goose eggs that came before. We’d played like a different team. Connected. Instinctual. We didn’t talk about why. We just rode the high through the night, slapping backs in the locker room, shouting over each other. But the silence when we parted was thick with everything we weren’t saying.
Now, game day again. The air in the locker room hummed with a different kind of tension. It wasn’t the grim, hopeless dread of the losing streak. It was a charged, nervous energy, like waiting for a starter’s pistol. We’d done a light, final drill, just to burn off the jitters. Our practice jerseys were damp with a fresh sheen of sweat. The smell was familiar. Liniment, cheap deodorant, clean cotton overworked skin.
No one suggested anything. We just moved around each other, changing slowly, prolonging the pre-game ritual. Brock fumbled with his laces for a full minute. Mateo kept rearranging the items in his locker. Jaxon was staring at his cleats as if they contained the secrets of the universe.
I could feel it too. The pull. The memory of the shower wasn’t just visual; it was a phantom sensation on my skin, a low hum in my blood. It was tangled up with the victory, a dirty, thrilling secret at the core of our sudden success. Carson’s voice echoed in my head: That’s what did it.
He was the one who moved. He shut his locker with a definitive clang that made us all jump. He didn’t look at us. He walked to the main door, the one that led to the hall, and slid the deadbolt across. The sound was a cold, final click in the quiet room.
Then he turned, leaning back against the door. His smile was all challenge. “Clock’s ticking again,” he said, his voice casual. “Thirty minutes to warm-ups.”
He grabbed the hem of his damp practice jersey and pulled it over his head in one smooth motion. He tossed it onto a bench. His chest rose and fell with a calm, steady rhythm. He was already hard, a definite thick line straining against his shorts. He made no attempt to hide it. He looked at each of us, his gaze lingering. “You guys gonna keep the uniforms on like virgins? Thought we moved past that.”
Mateo laughed, a sharp, brittle sound. “Who says we’re doing anything, you freak?”
Carson just arched an eyebrow. He hooked his thumbs into the waistband of his shorts and his boxers beneath, and pushed them both down in one go. He stepped out, kicking the pile aside. He stood there, completely naked again, cock jutting out. It wasn’t an invitation. It was a fact. “We’re doing it,” he said simply. “We all want to. Let’s not pretend.”
The pretense was the cage we were all stuck in. His words shattered it.
Jaxon was the first to break eye contact with Carson. He looked down at his own hands, clenched into fists at his sides. I saw the war in the tight line of his shoulders. Captain. Leader. Then his hands went to the hem of his own jersey. He pulled it off, slowly. His torso was lean, defined, a map of tension. He left his shorts on.
It was a signal. A messy, compromised one, but a signal.
Brock followed, ripping his jersey off with a grunt. “Fuck it. For the win, right?” His bravado was thin, cracking at the edges.
Mateo was next, his movements theatrical, like he was performing a striptease for an invisible audience. “Just a team bonding exercise,” he muttered, peeling his shirt off. “Very… hands-on.”
My turn. The fabric of my jersey felt like a lead weight. I pulled it over my head. The cooler air hit my sweaty skin, raising goosebumps. I kept my shorts on, like Jaxon. We all did. A pathetic, last-ditch barrier.
We stood there, five of us shirtless, shorts on, facing Carson who was utterly bare. The asymmetry was ridiculous. He looked at our covered lower halves and laughed, a soft, genuine sound. “Seriously?”
He walked forward, his bare feet silent on the tile. He didn’t go to Jaxon first. He came to me. Stopped right in front of me. I could smell him: sweat, soap, something uniquely Carson. My heart tried to climb out of my throat.
He reached out and pressed his palm flat against my chest, right over my sternum. His skin was hot. “You feel that?” he asked, his voice low. “Your heart’s going to break a rib.”
His other hand went to the button of my shorts. He popped it open. The zipper gave way under his fingers with a soft, definitive rasp.
I didn’t stop him. I couldn’t breathe.
He pushed my shorts and boxers down together. They pooled at my ankles. I was exposed, hard already, just from the intensity of his gaze, the shock of his touch. He looked me right in the eye as he wrapped his fingers around me. A jolt of pure, electric current shot through my gut.
“See?” he whispered. “Better.”
That did it. The last resistance bled out of the room. Zippers rasped. Fabric rustled. Jaxon, with a shuddering breath, shoved his own shorts down. Brock kicked his away like they were on fire. Mateo took his time, rolling the waistband down his hips with a false sense of control.
We were all naked again. But this time was different. We hadn’t started in the shower with the water hiding us. We were dry, under the harsh fluorescent light, fully sober to what we were doing. The shame was sharper. The desire was, too.
Hands found themselves. My own, moving with a will of their own. Brock’s, quick and frantic. Mateo’s, showing off. Jaxon’s, slow and tortured.
But Carson changed the game again. “This is stupid,” he breathed. He moved into the center of our loose circle. He reached out, grabbing Jaxon’s shoulder and pulling him close. Then he pulled Brock in on his other side. “We’re a team. Act like it.”
He pressed them together, chest to chest with him in the middle. Their bodies collided, skin slapping softly, a tangle of arms and grasping hands and the rough fabric of jerseys discarded on the floor around their feet.
The sight was obscene. It was beautiful. It was the most terrifying thing I’d ever seen.
Mateo didn’t need another invitation. He let out a choked sound and pushed into the knot, his front pressing against Brock’s back, his hand reaching around to find someone. anyone to touch.
I was the last. Frozen at the perimeter. Carson looked at me over Jaxon’s shoulder. His eyes were dark, intense, stripped of all mockery. Just an open, raw need. A plea for connection. It undid me.
I stepped into the fray. My chest met Mateo’s sweaty back. My cock pressed against the cleft of his ass. He gasped, arching back into me. My hands found purchase on his hips, my fingers digging into his skin. Someone’s hand, Jaxon’s, I think, slid around my waist, his rough palm flat against my stomach, pulling me tighter into the scrum.
We were a single, shuddering organism. Damp skin slid against damp skin. The smell was overpowering—male heat, pre-cum, the sharp tang of fresh sweat from our drill. Jersey fabric, rough and team-branded, was tangled underfoot, a blasphemous altar.
Moans weren’t isolated. They merged into a low, collective groan. Heads dropped onto shoulders. Teeth gritted. Hips stuttered and ground. It wasn’t just our own hands anymore; it was a mess of shared motion. Brock was stroking himself and Jaxon at the same time, his wrist frantic. Mateo had a hand twisted behind him, working between my legs and his own. Carson was in the center of it all, his head thrown back, one arm locked around Jaxon’s neck, his other hand guiding Brock’s fist on him.
The friction was everywhere. Chests rubbing. Stomachs sliding. The slick, hot press of cocks against thighs, against hip bones, against each other in the chaotic, grasping tangle. My world narrowed to sensation: the pound of a heartbeat against my back, the bite of fingernails in my hip, the hot puff of Mateo’s breath on my neck.
It was too much. It was not enough.
The collapse was simultaneous, a wave crashing through all of us at once. A chain of choked cries, curses muffled against skin, bodies seizing. My own release ripped through me with a violence that blurred my vision, painting streaks across Mateo’s lower back. I felt him convulse against me, his own climax pulsing hot over my fist. The room filled with the sound of ragged breathing, the wet, sticky aftermath, and the profound, deafening silence of what we’d just done.
We peeled apart. Slow. Sticky. Avoiding each other’s eyes. The clean up was wordless, grim, efficient. Wet wipes from someone’s bag. Towels used and tossed in a grim heap. We dressed for the game in silence, the red and white of our match jerseys feeling like a ridiculous costume.
As we filed out for warm-ups, the lock on the door now undone, Carson caught my arm. His grip was firm. He leaned in, his voice a low scrape in my ear. “Told you,” he murmured. His breath was warm. “Luck’s a habit.”
He smacked my ass and jogged ahead, leaving me standing there, the ghost of his touch and the smell of us still clinging to my clean kit. We walked out onto the pitch under the stadium lights, the crowd a distant roar. We looked like a team. We moved like a team. But inside, we were five planets flung out of orbit, held together only by a terrible, perfect gravity we didn’t dare name.
And, we won again. 3 - 1.