Finals were always a hard time around campus. Stress runs high, sleep runs short, and everyone is tense and anxious. Many get over the stress by ignoring the tests for as long as they could, or by drinking, or any other method. But not my roommate, Alice. She was as diligent of a student as they come, spending several hours every day with her nose buried deep in her textbooks, locked away in her room with just her notes and her desk lamp to keep her company. She held herself to a very high standard, and it showed in more ways than one.
I took a trip out west for a couple days after exams, and got back to the apartment the day after results were posted. I did okay overall, with some lower grades that didn't really bother me. I was happy with a piece of paper in my hand, regardless of what the GPA attached to it was. No, I wasn't rushing back to our place to check my scores and double down on my studies, rather I was coming back to see how well Alice did. I shot her a text letting her know that I was around 10 minutes away, and she responded that she got her exams back and she wanted to review them with me.
I opened the door to find the familiar post-exam scene. Piles of energy drinks strewn across the kitchen. Several marked papers neatly arranged across the living room table so they could be quickly reviewed. And Alice, laying across the couch with her sweatpants pulled down to show her pale, round ass.
"Hey Al, how are you doing?" I asked as I put my suitcase next to the hallway to our bedrooms. I could already feel my cock stiffening in anticipation, just from the image of her pussy peeking out from between her legs, just over the band of her sweatpants. No, that would come later, for the stress relief of our once-a-semester after-exam ritual. Right now she wanted punishment for her missed marks, and I was happy to give it to her.
"I'm alright, let's just get this over with".
"You know, you don't have to do this. This was all your idea, we can just stop".
Alice shook her head. "My grades go up this way, I've tracked it. Let's just do it".
I nodded and picked up the neatly handwritten summary sheet that she had laid out on the table, next to the returned exams. I read it slowly, although it was mostly because I was stealing glances at Alice while she was busy staring at the wall in front of her. Her brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail to keep it out of her face, and she had set her glasses on the side table so that they wouldn't get broken. While she wasn't fat, she had the physique that comes with living off stimulants while sitting in a chair for long periods of time, and definitely needed to get back to eating food that didn't come out of a fast food bag. Her skin was the ghostly pale of someone to whom "sun-kissed" meant a once-daily walk around the block, but I noticed that she kept her pattern of shaving herself bare. She said that it meant less maintenance, but I always pictured it more like swimmers who want to maximize their speed in any way. Does that work for your brain as well? I wasn't sure, but I still appreciated it as it slapped against me when I thrusted into her.
I drew my attention back to the sheet. Five points off in calculus (including missing extra credit, she still got a perfect score without it) were written in neat handwriting, with a "5 x 5 = 25" noted next to it. Two points in this, three points in that, all together it added up to a neat "75" that was jotted below a horizontal line. Below that were "lifestyle" mistakes. Missing daily exercise, 10 for each day, total of 20. It helps with the brainpower, they say. Skipping meals, zero, good for her. The next line was new, and I raised my eyebrows as I tapped my finger on it.
"Masturbating, ten times ten"?
Alice blushed and looked away. "Yes, what it says on the sheet".
"Rubbing your clit instead of studying might be a waste of time in a temporal sense but it's good for clearing your head".
Alice shot me a dirty look, which was rich coming from the woman with her ass bared on our couch. "Not ten times in five days. Just follow the sheet".