SOCCER—CHAPTER TWELVE

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Being a much bigger club my team in Germany had a huge fan base. The stadium held around 50,000 and had been used during the 1974 World Cup. While it didn’t fill up the first season I was there—we were in second division—the stadium and crowds dwarfed what I’d experience in England. The club was much more organized with structured fan clubs and interactions between players on all levels with supporters. I had done clinics with some of the local schools and clubs with my teammates. Sometimes when we broke from training there would be a bevy of fans wanting our autographs, not just from the known players but more anonymous ones like me.

The first time I noticed Beate was among a flock of adolescents after a youth game. I think the club had given out free passes to boost the crowd. After we showered and changed there were a hundred or so teenagers, slightly more girls than boys, waiting outside the locker room between us and the bus. As we made our way to the coach they cheered and patted us, and some shoved pieces of paper or notebooks to sign.

I pretty much ignored the whole thing since I was one of the less known players, but someone grabbed by elbow.

“Bitte! Holden!” shouted a voice, “Kannst du unterschreiben?” She pushed an autograph book and pen into my hands. I was pleased just to be recognized. She looked pretty like a typical schoolgirl and initially not all that pretty. A squarish face with a pointed jaw and marred by a couple of pimples. She wore glasses and her nose was thin and angular. Her black hair was long and tied back and braided into two ragged plaits that framed her face. Still I was pumped that someone knew who I was.

“Wie heißen Sie?”

“Beate.”

I wrote in English ‘To Beate’ and scrawled my name on the empty page of the notebook and gave it back.

“Dankeshön Holden” she swooned.

“Verdammt Autogrammjägerin!” swore the unlovable Karsten knocking the autograph book out of her hand. I picked it up and gave it back to girl.

* * *

The next time I saw her was one of those dark wet evenings. I’d eaten with some of the other foreign youngsters and we had a mandatory German lesson. I was planning on walking the few blocks home but at the exit of the fence around the stadium were three or four figures. One of them was Beate, bundled up in a thick anorak against the Artic cold.

“Das gehört dir.” She pushed a small package into my arms and ran off into the shadows.

When I got home I looked at the package. It was in a plastic bag to protect it from the rain, and inside was a book-size box wrapped in yellow paper. There was a card that I opened. Inside I read “Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag! Leidenschaftliche Liebe, Beate.” I had to get a dictionary out to translate: Best wishes on your birthday, with deep love, Beate.

Inside the package were two types of cookies, chocolate chip and something from oatmeal. I ate a couple. I hadn’t even remembered it was my birthday. I pretty much finished the lot off before bed.

“You have a fan,” observed Frank the next morning looking over the card, shreds of wrapping paper and crumbs in the cookie tin.

“I guess.”

* * *

A couple of weeks later, it must have been late October or early November, I was trudging home around eight. There was a bus shelter on the street outside the apartment I shared with Frank but my roommate was out of town playing a game in Berlin. The rain was pelting down almost horizontally in the strong wind. I was jogging just to get inside where it was warm and dry.

As I ran past the bus stop a female voice cried out for to wait in German: “Wartezeit”

I turned and peered into the inky shadow of the shelter.

“Was zum Teufel...?” What’s going on, I asked. There was silence. “Wer ist da?” I tried again, asking who was there.

After a moment of silence a plaintive voice said “Beate.” She emerged from the shadows, her hair matted down from the rain and shivering despite the thick navy-blue anorak.

“Was ist los?” I asked her what was going on. She didn’t say anything. The rain streaked across her face.

“Come,” I commanded and headed toward my front door. I pulled out my key ring and searched for the key. I could hear the click of shoes on the pavement behind me.

“Herein!” I said once I got the door open and gestured for her to go. I followed her in, hit the light switch, and shut the door behind us.

Beate stood shedding a pool of water around her feet. I was doing the same. What I thought were pimples weren’t. Well some of them were, but she had a freckled complexion.

“Kann ich Ihren Mantel nehmen?” She unzipped her anorak and handed it to me. I hung it up with mine in the closet.

“Do you speak English?” I asked.

“Some little… “ she said hesitantly.

“Would you like some hot chocolate?” She nodded. I put the kettle on and found a couple of mugs. While I waited for the water to boil I went back and checked on her. Beate was still standing by the front door. I sat on the couch and asked her to join me. She sat in one of the easy chairs opposite.

“What can I do for you?”

She had a plastic bag in her lap and opened it. Out came a replica shirt for the club I played with. Unfolding it I saw it had the number the team had assigned me at the beginning of the season. 37. Definitely not close to the first team. The shirts were expensive, fifty or sixty bucks in the stadium store plus she had to pay for the numbers to be ironed on.

“Can you…” she struggle for the word and went to German, “ …unterschrift?”

I shook my head to indicate I didn’t understand. She was flush and carefully formed her words as tried again, “ …signatur.” I nodded in the affirmative.

She wasn’t wearing glasses this evening. The kettle started whistling so I went back to the kitchen and fixed the cocoa. When I got back she had laid the shirt on the coffee table and was sitting on the couch. I looked her over as I put the mugs down. She was wearing white knee socks and a plaid skirt pinned with an oversized safety spin. She wore a dark blue v-neck sweaty and a white boys shirt under it. Obviously a school uniform. I tried to guess her age and figured she was 15 or maybe 16. She was plain but also kind of cute.

“Do you have a pen?”

She nodded and went to the closet and searched through the pockets of her coat. She shivered as she proffered a thick felt pen.

“Are you cold?” Beate nodded. I felt the wool sleeve of her sweater. It was damp from the rain.

“Can I take your sweater?” She looked at me blankly. I searched for the word, “ …Pullover?”

She nodded and pulled the sweater over her head. As she struggled to free her head I noticed that the moisture had seeped onto her shirt and these stuck to her skin. The white outline of her bra was visible through the damp patches. Beate had small but noticeable breasts. I took the sweater when she freed herself from it and laid it on a dry towel on the radiator. I could see she was still shivering and turned up the thermostat before sitting down.

I signed my name flamboyantly on the back of the shirt. Beate carefully folded it up and put it back in the plastic shopping bag. I handed her a mug of cocao. I wondered what she was doing here. More I questioned why I had invited her in. She didn’t seem much older than Zair or Lindy and that had landed me in trouble. Beate had this puppy-dog look when she glanced at me.

“Mögen Sie mich?” she asked quietly, holding my gaze.

“Yes.” I said slowly. “I do like you.”

Beate put her mug down on the table and hugged me around the neck. She kissed my cheeks enthusiastically and found my mouth. I clasp my arms around her shoulders and kissed back. Beate was a good kisser. She had plump soft lips but didn’t press them hard against mine. Her tongue tantalizingly probed but didn’t force itself deeply into me.

Her legs didn’t have much flesh and while she was bony Beate wasn’t as bony as Zarah. She let me stroke her thigh under the tartan skirt but firmly closed her legs when my hand ventured too high. She rubbed my chest urgently through my sweatshirt. I fondled her breasts and met with less resistance though she stopped me when I tried to undo a button. Then her wristwatch bleeped.

“What is it?” I asked.

“Nine hour. I… Ich muß gehen.” She had to leave. “Can I here come tomorrow?”

I thought for a second. Frank would be back but since it was Friday he was likely to go out in the evening. I nodded assent.

“I come here five hour?”

Frank would still be around, so probably that wasn’t a good idea.

“Maybe we should go to dinner. At six?” I gave the name of a pizza place that wasn’t too far away. Beate grinned at the invitation.

She tucked her shirttails into her skirt and fussed with her sweater. I noted she had a tight little ass. I helped her put on her coat.

The weather outside was still horrible. She started down the path with the hood covering her head.

“Beate, bitter,” I called out after her, “Wie alt bist du?”

She turned around. “Siebzehnjährig.”

Seventeen years old. She didn’t look it. And that was over the age of consent.

* * *

We met for pizza the next evening. Beate was wearing her school uniform, only a green sweater instead of the blue one. She was a year and half away from finishing high school; there the normal graduation age was nineteen. Beate knew a lot about me and asked me questions about America and England. I tried to find out more about her.

She had an older brother and sister but they were much older and no longer lived at home. Her parents had had her late; her father was some kind of businessman and her mother worked part-time. The family holidayed in Spain each summer and skied each winter. Beate had also been to Ireland and Tunisa.

We struggled a little to communicate since neither of us had a command of each other’s language. Her English was better once she lost her nervousness though the syntax was a little awkward. I’m sure my German was equally awkward. But we laughed a lot communicating and she had an infectious laugh.

When we left the pizza parlor we headed back to my apartment on autopilot. Seamlessly Beate slipped her arm through mine. She was five six or seven, a few inches shorted than me, and her head came above my shoulder. We totted down the wet pavement.

Frank was still there. I could hear him singing in the upstairs bathroom. He was a gregarious character with a penchant to singing opera. Frank was also a bit of a dandy. I was nervous about how he’d react to me bringing a girl home. And then it occurred to me that Frank rarely brought anyone home, though he’d stayed out all night a few times. Was I violating club rules by having mixed company? Maybe Frank was gay?

I fixed some cocoa while Beate loitered in the kitchen. We didn’t keep much food about the place since Frank and I both ate at the club facilities.

“What have you here?” boomed Frank. He was all spiffed up for a night on the town and winked at me when Beate wasn’t looking.

I introduced them to each other. They wandered off to the living room and I could hear them speaking German too fast for me to understand. Frank into the kitchen as I was pitching boiling water into the mugs.

“You boys and girls have fun.” He winked at me again.

Beate and I sat uncomfortably sipping our drinks. But when I put my hand on her knee she slipped easily into my arms. Our kissing got kind of sloppy but like I said before Beate was a great kisser. She pawed my chest and let me slip a hand under her shirt. Her breast were tiny, barely bumps on her chest. They were also very soft, almost watery, in my hand. I squeezed them through her bra and was able to slip my pinkie into a cup. There I found a rock hard round nipple. It felt smooth against the rough skin of my finger.

I bent to put it in my mouth. Beate let me nibble the erect nipple through her shirt. I had pulled the little hill out from the bra-cup but she still had on her shirt. When I tried to undo a button and make direct contact she pushed me back. We went back to smooching and I felt her legs under her wool skirt. Again when I got close to my destination she blocked my progress. I played it cool and started kissing her neck and face.

Her wristwatch alarm went off and she pushed me away. It was nine-thirty.

“I must to home now,” she explained simply.

“OK.”

She used the bathroom to smooth out her hair and wash her face. I sat on the sofa waiting for my throbbing hard-on to die down. It felt like I was back in Ohio with my girlfriend all over again, getting all hot and heavy and then no reward. I offered to walk her home, not only was it getting late but I also wanted to cool down and the night air would do that. Beate declined but asked if she could come over the next day. It was a Saturday and I had an away game—the coach wouldn’t get us back till around mid-night.

She promised to call me Sunday.

* * *

Communicating on the phone proved more difficult, there’s something about face-to-face contact that lowers language barriers, but I was able to work out that Beate couldn’t see me until the next weekend. During the week I realized I really liked her. She wasn’t the most beautiful girl, Belinda back in England was much more of a looker, but she was bright, funny and had a real nice smile when she let herself display it. She was also very prim—I guess it was the school uniform—but a great kisser on the couch. But that was the thing that gave me reservations. I had done too much to want to get into a chaste relationship with a sweet girl. I wanted something more.

Frank teased me about Beate in a good-natured way. While it put me on the defensive it also made more protective or attracted to her. Beate called again in the middle of the week to confirm we’d meet Friday at the same pizza restaurant as before. It struck me that maybe Beate was a virgin; maybe that was why she was somewhat coy. I didn’t even know how to ask her that in German, and doubt if “losing your cherry” was something covered in her English class. I asked Frank for his advice.

I was waiting when Beate got there. I was a little disappointed that she didn’t come alone. Her friend was a schoolmate, a plump and rather ugly girl called Renate, who didn’t speak English. I couldn’t work out why she was there. We ate and the two girls seemed to be cracking jokes about me that I didn’t understand, and giggling. I was getting quite frustrated if not a little bit angry. After the meal Beate said she had go home with Renate but would call me later. All that did was make me more upset and I went home in a pretty pissed off mood.

She did call late that night. She sensed I was angry but her explanation did a lot to placate me. She was spending the weekend with Renate and her parents were going out of town tomorrow. Beate couldn’t risk not being at Renate that night since her parents were sure to check. Tomorrow the girls had devised some elaborate ruse, that I didn’t quite understand, for Beate to be free tomorrow. What time could we meet?

We settled for three in the afternoon at the downtown market. I’d been there once: it was an area that was blocked off for pedestrians. We’d meet in front of the church.

* * *

On Saturday we wandered around the old town and then Beate took me down the trails of a riverside park that abutted the town center. This was the first time I’d seen Beate wearing anything other than her school uniform. She still wore a skirt, a maxi one with a grey-cream pattern, and an Icelandic wool sweater underneath a fleece jacket. Beate also didn’t have her hair braided, instead having it pulled back. For the first time she also wore make-up, a pale rouge lipstick and powder. All this—her dress and hair—made her seem older.

It was a bright cloudless day but a harsh Artic wind soon had us chilled to the bone. Beate suggested we go back to my place. We warmed up slightly on the bus out to the stadium and started freezing on the walk from the bus stop to my home. The first-team were playing away that evening so Frank wouldn’t be back till morning. We got some take-out dinner on the way to have something to eat.

We munched on the kebabs and watched the game on television. Frank came on at half time and the club pulled back a two-goal deficit to tie the game. It was pretty exciting to watch but we found enough time to play kissy-kissy in the dull spots. The game was over close to ten. I thought she’d want to leave so I tried to distract her by holding her tight and kissing her. She let me massage both her nipples through the rough wool sweater and bra and was amazed how they could transform from flaccid flesh to hard nubs with the slightest touch.

After half-an-hour of this she went to the bathroom. I expected her to clean up and leave, and that thought seemed confirmed when she started rifling through the closet by the front door. My raging erection had only half calmed down and I felt blue-balled again.

“Hold-en,” I heard a voice behind me. She always said my name with a curious inflection. Beate was standing on the first step holding her backpack in one hand. “Wollen Sie Obergeschoß mit mir?”

Silently I accepted her invitation and followed her upstairs to my room.

* * *

Beate was already sitting on the bed and untying the laces of her boots. While she was looking stoic I detected nervousness in the difficulty she was having undoing the knots. I felt pretty nervous too. She looked up exasperated and smiled when I bent down to help her. She ruffled my hair in thanks when I extracted her foot from the problem boot.

She stood up when I did and started unbuttoning my shirt. Beate had a thing about my chest hair and let her fingers flow through the strands. I kissed her lightly on the forehead.

“Have you done this before?” I asked in English.

“Bitte?”

I tried again in German: “Haben Sie dies vor gemacht?”

“Was?”

I tried to think of the words Frank has added to my vocabulary earlier in the week. I couldn’t think of a delicate way to ask but I tried in English. “Are you a virgin?”

Beate looked puzzled and silently mouthed the word ‘virgin’ trying to get her lips around it. I tried in German knowing it sounded grotesque and crass. “Hast du Jungfernhäutchen?”

Beate looked down. I thought it was with embarrassment but she was smiling when she looked back, almost like she was suppressing a giggle.

“Nien… und sie?”

I shook my head.

“Gut!” Beate declared. She started pulling my shirt out of my pants and took it off my back. She lay down on her side on the bed. I kicked off my shoes and lay facing her. We started kissing again. I was half naked and Beate’s hands were all over my upper torso. She was still fully clothed but I was able to get my hands under her sweater and caress her breasts. It was tight under the sweater and eventually she pulled it off but kept her bra on. I nuzzled her nipples through the nylon cups and started working on thighs. When I got close to her panties she grabbed my butt and pulled me closer.

It stopped my hands getting to her crotch but it also meant my erection pushed against it. Beate unbuttoned my jeans and half unzipped the fly. My meat strained to be released. We kept kissing and feeling over each other’s bodies. I got the straps of her bra off her shoulders and exposed her breasts. Beate’s tits were tiny; I could squeeze the whole volume of each into the gap between my thumb and forefinger and point the nipple into my mouth. She had tiny aureoles, almost as pale as her skin and like a boys’. Her nipples were small and hard and hurt when I bit them with my teeth.

Beate was haphazardly rubbing my groin. Most of my privates were still shrouded in jeans and underwear, but the top couple of inches of my prick were exposed. Deliberately Beate seemed to avoid making direct contact with the hard flesh. Her rib cage seemed tiny and thin. My hands reached the belt of her skirt and struggled. Beate reached behind and unhooked and unzipped it at the back and wiggled out of it. She was wearing panties that matched her discarded bra.

I kissed her flat belly and tickled her navel with the tip of nose. Beate was tousling my hair and rubbing my neck. My fingers gripped the elastic waistline of her panties and pulled them down, revealing a thin patch of dark public hair. It was almost as scant as Zarah’s and for a moment I thought Beate lied about her age. Inspecting it closer I could see the roots were thick but her bush neatly trimmed. Her legs remained locked closed but from between who thighs I could see her clitoris’ hood. I stroked around it at the apex of her pubic patch.

“Haben Sie mit vielen Mädchen geschlafen?” she asked. I counted the number of girls I’d fucked in my head.

“Vier.” For some reason I said four and then wondered which was the one I wanted to forget. “Und sie?”

“Mädchen?” She laughed. “Keine Mädchen… Zwei männer.” No girls, but two men. She started pulling down my pants and underwear. My thing flopped out and she stared at it as shook of my remaining clothes.

“Das ist so groß!” she exclaimed. I got a kick of her being impressed with my size. Her eyes narrowed.

“Erschrickt es Sie?” I asked if the bigness frightened her.

She shook her head but then said “Ein wenig…” some. She frowned and then said almost defiantly, “Wollen Sie ficken?”

Did I want fuck?

“Yes,” I said plainly in English.

Beate sat up on the bed and pulled down her panties from mid-thighs and started looking for something in her backpack. I could see her profile and just the hint of curvature of her breasts, the nipples pointy and aggressive. She pulled out a condom package. She tossed into my hands, “Sie müssen dies tragen.”

I struggled to open the foil and while I was fumbling she took it from my hand. Carefully she placed the latex disk and rolled it down the length of my dick. She smiled when she had finished. It was the first time she touched it directly with her hands.

I took her wrist and pulled her me. She fell easily on top of me. I kissed her cheek and neck and then we lip-locked, our tongues swirling round one another. I caressed her buttocks and felt between her legs. She was dripping wet.

Still kissing her I rolled on top of her. I pressed my cock into her crotch but it slid atop her pubic ridge. I tried again but couldn’t find my aim. I reached down and held the base of my prick and blindly directed into where I thought her opening should be. It caught and slid into canal. Beate gasped as I entered her and her nails tore my back.

The whole seven-plus inches were embraced in that first thrust. There was no reluctant tightness—just the firm grip of her cunt muscles on my member. Somehow I sensed I had to go slow. Beate didn’t want to be fucked; she wanted us to make love. And so we did.

I pushed in and out of her with gentle strokes. Beate’s body heaved with mine, to-and-fro. Her nails tore at my back while I bit her shoulder and nuzzled her ear. I tweaked her nipples and that made her gasp. My other arm wrapped behind one shoulder and clasp the other. We kissed and could judge the urgencies our bodies needed. I moved into faster, feeling the glow of her desire intensifying. Her body quivered and then shuddered and she clung onto me harder. Her tension fed into mine and I started fucking her harder, I could tell she was close to coming and realized I was too.

I watched her upper lip curl, as is in slow motion, over the thicker lower one, the lipstick slightly smeared from all our kissing, her front teeth then bit her fleshy lip. Her hands no longer clawed me but were fisted and beating a tattoo on my back that matched the deepest thrust of my prick. Her eyes rolled over and she yelped as the first of four or five automated climatic thrusts of my dick machined into her, spilling seed into the latex sack at the end of the rubber.

Our timing innately matched. Our bodies entwined, slick with sweat, and cooled as one.

* * *

“War das gut?” Beate asked.

We were lying on our backs and her headed rested in the crook of my arm.

“Yes…” I exhaled satisfied. “Was it good for you?”

“Ja… das am besten.” Beate snuggled even closer to me. I tried to count the freckles on her shoulder. There were small ones and large ones scattered like constellations on pale skin. Some were black and some were reddish.

Beate’s reached for my groin. My dick was limp but stirred as she touched. She pulled back the sheets and examined my groin. The condom loosely sheathed my member and she carefully removed, tying the opening in a knot. She pulled a blanket around her, modestly, and went to the bathroom. I heard her tinkle and then the faucets being turned on. It seemed to be five minutes before she came back and nested on the sheets.

She was completely naked except for a gold chain with a cross. It shimmered in the half-light of the bedroom. As I played with it the base of the cross just touched her tiny placid nipples when I stretched the chain, stirring them awake. Beate giggled as the sharp edge scratched the delicate flesh. As they got harder I pressed them between my fingers. I grabbed what I could of her breasts, they were so tiny that it was hard, and began to kiss her nipples.

“Was machen Sie?” I thought it was pretty obvious what I was wanted to do. Still alternating the suckling of her breast I ventured to her groin. Before she pushed me away I was able to dab a finger between her lower lips and ascertained she was getting wet. While she didn’t like me touching her there Beate didn’t have a problem rolling me on top of her. My dick was hard and pressed against her thigh just above Beate’s knee. I nuzzled her breasts and then slowly scooted up to kiss her chin and then her lips. Her tongue darted into my mouth. My hard-on rested at the top of her thigh with the tip nestling in her short, sharp public hair. I tried to steer it toward her opening.

“Nien!” she exclaimed as I pushed between her lower lips. Fumbling on the floor she got another condom, ripped open the package and gave me the protection. I rolled down the length of my prick. It was lubricated and left a slightly oily scent on my fingertips.

Rolling back on top of her I entered her. Again there was almost no resistance and my tool penetrated into her.

“Sie füllen mich auf!” My erection was buried to hilt filling her cunt. I lay still on top of her for a few moments enjoying the feeling of being buried in her tender flesh.

Beate grasped my buttocks and tried to heave me deeper into her. I pulled back to only the helmet of my prick nestled in the folds of her plush labia and slowly inserted it all the way back in. I waited, counting to three, and then laboriously almost extracted myself from again before implanting my meat into her. Each inward and outward stroke took four or five seconds. With each deliberate plunged I resisted the urge to stab hard and fast, instead relishing in the feel of her lubricated cunt. She gripped my buttocks harder and I could feel her nails cutting wheals into their surface.

“Schneller!” implored Beate. I picked up the pace gradually. I could feel her canal and the latex ripple as the sandwiched my pulsating prick. Beate was tingling at my exertion and her breathing speeded up with my movement. I was dropping sloppy kisses on her face but she started writhing and swinging her head from side-to-side.

Her hips started bucking against me and I clawed at her shoulders to keep riding her.

“Ach Gott!… ach Gott!” she squealed as orgasms hit her, “Ach Gott Härter!”

My prick was sliding as fast as I go but with each down-thrust Beate pulled me harder into her. The load was boiling up inside me and was about to explode.

“Ach ja!” Beate cried out, “Ja! Ja!” And I erupted into her.

I rolled onto the mattress beside her. Her cunny tried grip me close and almost pulled the condom off. Beate rolled onto her side and rested her head on her hand and twirled chest hairs between her fingers. I stroked her fizzled black hair and pulled it behind her ear.

“Was that good?” I asked her.

“Das war sogar besser.” The second time was even better.

* * *

Beate and I slept together. I really relished doing that; there is an intimacy in waking up and hearing a lover breathing, mumbling and stirring in their dreams. Most of the night she lay on her front with her head pillowed by my armpit while I rested on my back. In the middle of the night we both woke up and did it again. It was the third time in a row in the same missionary position but it didn’t seem old. Each time I picked up different nuances in the way she wrapped her body around mine and pulled me into her.

In the morning I wanted to have sex again, but we’d used all the condoms that Beate had brought. We showered together and while I try to initiate some safe action by placing my mouth to her sex she would have none of it. I’d find that there were some things she was strictly conventional about, though in other ways Beate was quite adventuresome.

In the late morning I walked her home. Her parents were due back after lunch and she showed me around her house after I promised to leave soon. It was obvious her parents were well off. The house was in a wooded suburb and protected from the street by a gate and high hedges. It was mock Tudor with rich furnishings and antiques. Beate’s room was neat and organized, but there was a closet that she opened to reveal a desk and posters typical of a teenager: rock bands, fashion ads, a photo of me from a game program, and the shirt I had autographed. We hung out in her room and necked until she started getting nervous that her folks would come home.