Last Minute Action

Andy arrived at the game in time to introduce himself to Tina before kick off. She walked over as soon as she saw him, a big smile on her face. Tina was a friendly person by nature, but this felt significantly warmer than her greeting on the last run had been, immediately confirming their afternoon at the races had made the positive impact he had hoped, and that the goalposts had been shifted in his relationship with the goalkeeper.

They didn't have long to chat before Tina had to dash off to the changing room to prepare for kick off, but it was all Andy needed.

The first half went exactly the same way it did last time. If he didn't enjoy ogling Tina's athletic body so much, having to repeatedly watch this goalless forty five minutes of amateur football could have gotten old fast. Eventually, the half time whistle blew.

This time, rather than just waving to Andy en route back to the changing rooms, Tina stopped to check in on him.

"Hey, you still with us? Sorry, we kind of suck"

"You don't. It's a miracle you've managed to keep a clean sheet with how many shots you've had fired at you" Andy complimented her, before playing his ace card "Besides, I'm a Leyton Orient fan. I'm used to suffering"

He tried not to look too smug as Tina's pretty face filled with excitement.

"No fucking way! You're an O's fan as well?"

"Are you messing with me?" Andy asked in feigned shock "You don't seriously support the Orient do you?"

"Only since I was five years old!" Tina confirmed proudly

"Wow, what are the odds? I was going to watch their match after this. Maybe we could head to the pub together, if that's not top weird since we've only just met"

"Not at all, I'd love too"

Tina paused for a moment, as if weighing something up.

"Now it's my turn to be borderline inappropriate, but I only live about five minutes from here. We could just grab a few beers and watch it at my place? It would be way cheaper that way"

"Cool, sounds like a plan!"

"Perfect! Give me ten minutes or so to shower after the match, then I'll come find you"

Unbelievably, this meant Andy was passing on, or at least delaying, near definite sex with Aurora. However, that was already practically in the bank to be cashed in on another run - he needed to strike while the iron was hot with Tina.

Also, fucking Aurora would send him back to the start of the week, without the chance to keep pursuing the brilliant start he had made with Leah this run, dazzle Elaine with his mind reading trick, pursue the hot teacher and star student threesome he now couldn't get out of his head (however unlikely it seemed) or see Gemma again on Friday.

Now he was starting to make serious progress with a number of girls, the 'fucking resets the run' rule was going to become a pain in the arse for Andy, he began to realise. Perhaps he could find a way around it.

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Andy should have guessed, but Tina lived in a house share arrangement with three other female third year students, who had no interest in lower league football. That meant they wouldn't be watching the game in the lounge, but Tina's bedroom. Not that Andy was complaining.

"You won't be too scandalised if you see me in my underwear for thirty seconds, will you?" Tina asked, remarkably casually.

"I, uh...." Andy began to stammer.

"It's just that I'd rather not watch the match in my goalie kit and it might look a bit odd to the others if you're just kind of standing around in the hallway outside my door."

"Sure, I don't mind"

It was the understatement of the year by Andy. In fact, Tina was in her skimpy and semi see-through bra and panties for way more than thirty seconds, since she stripped down before choosing what to wear, then turned out to be quite indecisive as to what that should be.

Andy was back to ogling her from behind, but from much closer up and with a way better view than he had at the match.

Eventually, the sports star settled on a cute pink top and short, denim skirt.

"There, what do you think?" she smiled as she turned back to face Andy.

"Wow, you look stunning!"

"That wasn't actually what I meant" Tina giggled "But I'm glad my outfit meets with your approval"

She sat herself down on the bed, opposite a TV screen she had mounted to her wall, and gestured for Andy to place himself next to her.

"Any predictions?" she asked as she passed Andy a bottle of beer.

"A two one victory for us, with a last minute winner from Ballard"

"Wow, that's extremely specific!" Tina noted "I'm not so optimistic considering our recent form, I'm going for a one all draw"

Andy quickly realised there could be no better unofficial date with Tina than watching her favourite team play in her bedroom. The game definitely did something to her, playing with her emotions and causing her to switch between tense, excited, happy, annoyed and, when her side scored, ecstatic to the point of losing all sense of restraint.

It was the opposition who scored first. Andy knew that was coming, and was preparing to console her, but she jumped up from the bed in anger before he had the chance.

"Fucking useless twat! I would have saved that!"

Andy decided to give his companion a moment to cool down as Tina, normally all sweetness and light, continued to jump up and down gesticulating crudely at the screen.

By half time she had calmed down, and they were able to converse normally as they sat on her bed sipping their beers. As a drinking companion, Tina was a wonderful combination of easy going, engaging and effortlessly sexy. Andy knew there would be both an equaliser and a last minute winner coming in the second half, and he was very much longer forward to being around her for those, especially as the **** would have further lowered Tina's inhibitions by that point..

"Still think we're winning this?" she challenged as the second half kicked off.

"I literally know we will"

"I love an optimist" Tina raised her eyebrows sceptically as she passed Andy yet another beer and clinked her bottle against his.

If anything, Tina was even more animated in the second half, jumping off the bed and walking right up to the TV every time Orient went near the opposition goal. Andy decided he should do the same,not wanting to seem any less invested in the result.than she was.

On the hour mark, as anticipated, the equaliser came. It was like the horse racing all over again as Tina squealed with joy and jumped up onto Andy, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his torso, smothering his cheek with kisses as he happily cradled her butt.

After putting her down, Andy would spend the next several minutes hoping the erection that celebration had left him with wasn't as obvious as it felt. Thankfully, Tina was too focused on the on-field action to notice.

Andy couldn't wait for the winning goal.

As the game moved into three minutes of injury time, it seemed Tina had all but given up on the win.

"Called it. A one all draw, I should have put money on"

"Nope, we've got this. Ballard is scoring"

"You really believe that, don't you?"

"I do. Will I get a kiss from you if I'm right?"

"Sure, why not!"

Tina smiled at Andy and linked arms with him for what was left of the game as they stood together in front of her TV.

In the final seconds of injury time, Orient won a corner.

"Okay, last chance!"

Tina took a deep breath and tried to compose herself. As hard as it was for Andy to comprehend, he could sense she was genuinely anxious about this, more than he remembered being about receiving his exam results. He put a comforting arm around her waist, and she responded by returning the gesture.

"We've got this, trust me!" he assured her, with an affectionate kiss on the cheek.

The corner was whipped in. Tina let out a gasp as it was headed towards the goal, then an anguished groan as the goalie punched it away. However, it fell straight into the path of Ballard, who smashed int into the back of the net.

"OHMYFUCKINGGODYOUFUCKINGBEAUTYGETIINTHEREHAVESOMEOFTHAT!"

Andy wasn't sure he had ever seen anyone this excited as Tina bounced delightedly around the room, almost unable to control herself.

"HOW DID YOU FUCKING KNOW?"

She hugged Andy tightly, before pushing him down onto the bed and landing on top of him. It had been intended as part of her celebration, but now something else was happening. and the kiss Andy had been promised quickly descended into a passionate make out session. The footballer sat up, so she was straddling him at the waist, and pulled her top off, so he now had a front side view of her bra which, it turned out, was more see through than he had initially realised.

"So how come I've never seen you around here before" Tina asked as she let down her hair and ran her hands through it seductively.

"Well, it's only my third day"

Technically, it was closer to his twentieth, but there was no need to get into that.

"Third day?" Tina repeated with a look of slight concern.

"Yeah, I'm a Fresher"

"Oh fuck, I'm so sorry!"

Tina climbed off Andy and put her top back on.

"What?" the younger student asked in dismay "We're both over the age of consent"

"I know, but what happened today looks really bad coming from a third year student, almost predatory"

"Predatory?" Andy couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"Sure, you've barely left your parents home and I invite you up to my bedroom, strip down to my underwear and practically pounce on you"

"So? You're acting like that wasn't exactly what I wanted to happen!"

"It's not just that"

Tina sighed sadly and crouched down in front of where Andy was still sat on the bed, placing her hand on his knee to console him.

"We're at completely different stages of our university journey. It's my final year, I'll need to be hitting the books while you should be partying. And let's say we did get together and got attached to each other, then what? At the end of the year I'll move back to London and you'll still be here. I'm not just looking for casual sex anymore, I want a boyfriend, and it's going to have to be someone who I'm compatible with logistically as much as physically. I don't see how this works. I mean, we can still be friends and watch the games together."

Andy knew what Tina was saying made perfect sense to her, but in a world of infinite time loops created by mysterious, benevolent spirits that were strangely invested in him getting laid, Andy didn't give a shit about logic anymore. It felt like there was a genuine chance Tina could be the one - if that was the case, he was just going to need to keep raising her affection level enough that she too would throw logic out of the window.

Maybe next time.