/lit/ - Literature

A contest had started between them. So on the agreed upon day after school they made their way to the library, her on the bus and him on foot, and there they would each walk among the shelves of novels, looking for the thickest book they could find. When the likely candidate presented itself, it would be quickly checked out and taken home, where the early pages and chapters would be consumed with greater eagerness than was ever afforded for homework, with a goal of reaching as far as possible.
The next day they would meet before class started and compare their bounty.
"Look how thick mine is, look how many pages!"
"Mine has more lines per page, though."
Such boasts were presented, books were compared, and then they competed to see which would finish theirs first.
A victory in finishing first was only a temporary one, however, for as soon as one book ended a new one had to be obtained. They had only a few months until the year ended, and on January 1st they would look at the final tally of who had read the most. To the victor would go the spoils, this they both had agreed upon, but neither had spoken what they would have of the winner, and both harbored in secret dreams of losing and being forced to perform some sexual favors to the other, and it was to these secret dreams they most often turned while masturbating during the darkening winter evenings of their second year of high school.