"Cullen! Wake up!"

I swear I had spoken to him half a dozen times, thrown a shoe at him and kicked the end of his bunk, but all he had done was roll over and snore louder. It was like he was drugged or in hibernation. I hated to have to get too close to him, especially knowing how some of my peers from the Marines reacted to someone touching them when they were asleep, but we needed to get out and get started on our day, which included beginning a PT program for him and then meeting with our advisor, we didn't have time for him to sleep in til noon and then drag ass around half the day. I had no choice, reaching over to where I could see shoulder, and went to shake him awake.

I was not expecting to be grabbed. He was not asleep at all, he had been playing possum, waiting for me to get frustrated and attempt to shake him awake.

"HAHA! GOTCHA NOW!"

I don't know how he managed to do it so fast, maybe because I was half awake myself, waiting for my coffee to finish brewing in the pot while I made my rack and got out my PT clothes, but he grabbed me in a bear hug, pulled me onto his bed and had me tangled in his blankets and proned out on his bed before I could even cuss.

"Cullen! Get the hell off of me and let me up! We don't have time for this crap this morning."

"Time for what crap, Jasper, maybe time for me to get the better of you, I think you need to say uncle and admit a civilian just kicked your ass."

I began to try and buck him off of me, but once again he was going with the disgusting blanket method of restraint, and coupled with being wrapped up in his bedding, I was hopelessly pinned down and tangled up, and incapable of getting away from him, but it didn't prevent me from trying everything I had at my disposal.

"Cullen, if you don't let me up, when I do get loose from here, I am going to do such foul things to you that you will think the things we learn in Serial crimes class will be a joke."

"You don't scare me, Jasper. I think I've caught me a leprechaun! Should I go looking for your gold? Where do you keep your gold, Jasper?"

He breathed that last comment in my ear with an evil giggle, causing goose bumps to raise up all over my body, and it was then I realized that while he seemed like a decent enough guy, I really didn't know that much about him, and he was much bigger than me and very capable of doing any damn thing he wanted at any time, and it would be my word against his.

"Ed, let me up!" I tried bucking against him again and he just pinned me more fully against his bed, laughing at my efforts.

"See? I might be out of shape, but I can still beat you, can't I? Hmm…now that I have my leprechaun, what am I going to do to you?"

I knew he was enjoying his brief win a little too much, so I decided to show him the cost of underestimating his enemy's cunning. I began gasping and hyperventilating, bucking against him, acting as if I were panicking and freaking out, and then abruptly I went limp, completely and totally limp.

"Jasper? Are you okay? Nice try buddy, but I'm not falling for it."

I didn't give up, going with my last line of defense, knowing that our PT session was going to get delayed by a day of doing laundry, but I was a win at any costs kind of fighter, and Cullen was going to realize that as soon as he felt the warmth seeping into his blanket.

"What the hell? Jasper? Jasper! Are you okay? Hey! Oh FUCK!"

Staying totally limp was hard as he began to realize just what had happened. I was battling hard to not laugh as he leapt off of me and began to freak out, frantically unrolling the wet blanket off of me and pulling my limp body off the bed.

"Jasper! JASPER! WAKE UP! OH FUCK!"

He was panicking and slapping at my face, shaking me and trying to get me to show some sign of life, with no result. He was naked himself and freaking out alternately shaking me and slapping my face, and then telling me to quit faking. After a few moments he seemed to reach a decision and scooping me up and heading for the door.

I had no idea what he had in mind, he was buck ass naked, freaking out and carrying me like a sack of laundry. I figured he was going to head for the front desk and call for help, before which I fully intended to, "Wake Up" and be fine, but to my surprise he turned towards the shower room and slammed through the door, and hefting me in front of him, he turned on the shower and stood us under the icy cold blast.

"Akk! What the fuck! Let me go! What the hell is wrong with you?"

"You wouldn't wake up! Dude! Soo not cool! You pissed yourself you were out soo hard!"

'Really? Huh. You can let me go now."

"Are you sure? Jeesh man! I was scared I had hurt you or something, you are such a little thing and well, I am …not, and I thought maybe I had squashed you or something."

As he let me go, I made sure of my footing and then grabbing his wrist, I put him in a joint lock and acting quickly, I managed to spin him around and pin him over the low wall of the shower stall with his arm torqued up behind his back.

"Hey! What the hell? Let me go!"

"Cullen, never underestimate the lengths an opponent will go to in order to extricate themselves from a bad situation. Playing possum is just the tip of the ice berg of things that scrotes will do to get one over on you. Never fall for it and always take precautions, and never, ever grab me like that again."

"YOU WERE FAKING?OH MY GOD! MAN! You Pissed on my bed!"

He wiggled, trying to get loose from the hold I had on him, and since I was in the top position for once, I rubbed against him, which caused him to immediately freeze in shock.

"Never assume that just because I am a virgin that I am also a bitch. You have wasted a day of training for us and that is going to cost you. Get yourself squared away, get dressed and get ready for chow. We have a meeting with our advisor at 0900 and I want you to look like you actually belong in the damn academy."

"Holy Shit, Jasper! DO that again! I may need a moment or two before I can get dressed."

I reached over and made sure the water of the shower was on full cold and shoved him under it as I went out the door to get him a towel so he could return to the room without flashing the dorm again.

"Do what you gotta do Cullen and do it quick, we have business to tend to today and it doesn't involve your dick."

"You would be amazed what my dick can bring to things though, Jasper, just amazed!"

I left him there under the water as I grabbed towels and soap so he could finish up his shower and get ready to start the day properly. I was shocked to find him actually stoking himself as I walked back into the shower room, and almost as if I was caught in a spell, I found myself watching his hand and it worked his erect dick over under the spray. He went about it in a very languid and lazy manner, his other hand casually playing with his balls as he leaned back against the low wall of the shower, his head thrown back, seeming to ignore what was going on in the room.

I set the towels down and walked over to the other empty stall, trying to ignore Cullen, who continued his activity, seeming to ignore me as well, and I started my own shower, and though my mind was trying to ignore the grunts of Cullen as he continued to work himself over my body was responding in unexpected ways.

I hurriedly washed myself,still trying to ignore Cullen as his grunts became more pronounced, but I found myself almost hypnotized and as he became louder, and the grunts more guttural, finally ending when he slumped against the wall as if he were about to fall asleep standing up.

"Can I borrow a squirt?" He grinned at me as I stood there, shocked beyond words, as he looked down at me and smirked. I didn't know what to say other than to nod at him.

"Soo, about that whole, "Win at any costs thing, do you think I might have that whole distraction thing down, because you seem to be just a little uh…distracted at the moment, and I am willing to bet I could win a round against ya."

Holy hell! As he sauntered out, grabbing a towel and wrapping it around waist he grinned back at me.

"Don't take too long, I hear tell we have a busy day ahead of us and we have to wash my bedding now too."

Fifteen minutes later I was finally able to return to the room, to find him with his bedding bundled up near the door, with the rest of his gear put neatly away and the room put back to rights.

" Took ya long enough. Are we going to have time to get some breakfast? I'm starving and I am willing to be you are too."

"Stifle it Cullen!

I didn't know what to think, I had walked in on that kind of activity before, after all, living in a barracks left no privacy for it and you either lost your inhibition and just went about it in a matter of fact manner to relieve stress, or you became one of the frustrated stress cases who had to listen to it every night. I was no prude, but actually finding myself watching Cullen had left me feeling conflicted.

The meeting with our advisor took half the day, as we both still had paperwork to complete and the advisor seemed surprised to see Cullen looking more like a cadet and less like a civilian.

"Cullen? Well, it seems like I made a good decision assigning you with Whitlock. He will get you dialed in pretty quick I am willing to bet. Just listen to him and he will get you squared away about policy and procedure and if you have any questions about something he can't help you with, you have my office number. You are expected to meet standards for not only the academy, but for the department as well, and if you pass all requirements by mid-term, you will have limited certification and be able to begin picking of reserve deputy shifts and helping out with special details. Keep your nose clean, get your ass in shape and lose the beer gut, and you will be fine."

"Okay. Uh, sir? So, is there like time off or anything to take a vacation or Spring Break during this, because I noticed the schedule for the rest of the college has a Spring Break set aside, but it's not clear for on our schedule."

I wanted to laugh, but I knew he was serious. He really didn't grasp the fact he had signed on to what was tantamount to basic training. We didn't get a Spring Break; in fact we would be lucky to get a couple of days off for Christmas,

The advisor leaned back in his chair and looked at Cullen, "Why are you worried about Spring Break, do you have plans? Maybe go over to San Diego and chase beach bunnies, get drunk off your ass and go down to TJ and give the Federales a hard time?

"Well, usually I go to the beach and have a little fun…"

"Oh you will be at the beach, son. I will make sure of that. You will get to spend plenty of time every single day of Spring Break at the beach, the only problem is, our beach aint got an ocean. Now get the hell out of my office."

"Holy Crap! What crawled up his ass, Jasper?"

"I tried to tell you, Cullen, You have signed on to a different world. You are no longer the Spring Breaker raising hell in some town having a great time giving the local cops a hard time; you are the local cop trying to keep the drunken idiots from killing themselves and your local population, you probably just guaranteed us a shit detail of working the front line for clearing out the bars, if you survive the Beach."

"What the hell is the beach, Jasper? We are in the middle of the desert, all around us is beach!"

"Oh, this part is special, Cullen, and you will learn to hate it. Let's go stow our gear and grab some lunch. I'll show you the beach this evening when the heat lets off a little bit. We have laundry to do."

We spent the rest of the afternoon getting laundry done and the room cleaned up, and after everything was put away and sorted out, we went to an early dinner. Trying to get him on a reasonable and healthy diet was the toughest of the challenges so far. He ate a huge amount of food and seemed to have no concept of what was actually good for him, versus what was just more food to shove into his maw.

"If you keep eating that much food, they are going to ban us from there and then we are going to have to start eating in the school cafeteria, and I can promise you that you don't want to do that"

"Jasper, they advertise as an, "All you can eat" buffet. You don't eat enough to keep a bird alive; I am just making sure we are getting our money's worth. You need to eat more so maybe you will grow into a full sized man."

"I thought we have already ascertained that I am, indeed, a full-sized man where I need to be? Now ease off on the desert and let's head to the beach. I'm not going to have you run it because I don't need you puking up all the mess you just ate, but I want you to get an idea of what you will be facing every day for the next 9 months."

"Hey, as long as I can work on my tan, I guess I will be able to get used to anything, right Jasper?"

"We will see, Cullen, we will see."