Week 0
[Suzie]
The same as all my engineering classes, the room was filled with men. And, somehow, they always forgot about me when they talked to each other. I was the only girl in the room, but come on, I wasn't invisible. They just thought of me as another one of the guys, I guessed.
I wasn't sure how that had happened. I knew I was attractive to men, I certainly dated enough of them, just never any of the guys in college. At 5'7" tall, with pale skin and freckles and blazing red hair I didn't exactly blend in. Shit, I had nice D-cup boobs, and a cute bubble butt.
Yet still, these
enginerds
talked as if I wasn't there.
"Ugh," Brad whined, "why can't I find a woman who likes suck cock. This girl this weekend acted like it was a real chore."
I rolled my eyes.
"What's that for?" Brad asked me pointedly, somehow piercing that invisible wall I had come to count on while listening to their man gossip.
"Brad, turn a girl on, and she'll do anything. If the girl your with doesn't want to suck your cock, it's because you haven't turned her on." I told him, exasperated by listening to his constant complaining.
Brad flexed his bicep and kissed it, giving me the side eye, "Come on, Suzie, I'm hot. Women practically follow me around, panting like bitches in heat. Of course, I turn them on."
It was no use. Brad had his head so far up his own ass he'd never understand that arousal for women wasn't all about appearance. I just shook my head at him.
Brad ignored me and turned back to his monologue directed at his fanboys who also admired his body. Sure, Brad was fucking hot, but he had no personality. I bet he was all pump and dump in the bedroom, no creativity, no foreplay, and apparently, no decent blow jobs.
"Suzie?" A tentative voice called my attention.
"Yeah, Nick?" I answered.
"Is that true, what you said? That if you just turn a woman on, she'll do anything?"
"Absofuckinglutely." I replied, "well, at least for me anyway." My conscience made me add the qualifier. I was sure there were women in the world who could control themselves when aroused, but I'd never been one of them.
Nick considered me, thoughtfully. "What turns
you
on, Suzie?"
Well, that question, for one, got a little heat going in my pussy. Nick certainly wasn't hot. He'd never get women by simply walking around in their vicinity like Brad did. He was a bit chubby, had pasty white skin, mousy brown hair, unremarkable brown eyes, and an unfortunate height of just 5'5", a bit shorter than me.
Still, when he looked at me with that intense, intelligent gaze and asked what turned me on in deadly earnest, it was
hot.
Did I admit that? Hell, no. I had an inkling that Nick could be a lot of fun, and I wanted to see just how determined he was.
"Well, Nick... If I told you, that would be cheating. Think of it like a science experiment. Do your research, make a hypothesis, and then run some tests."
"Hmm... And you'd be my test subject?" Nick asked, thoughtfully.
I was about to reply when Professor Chaban walked in. All of us went quiet. While the boys didn't hesitate to talk about their sex lives in front of me, they had more respect for their teacher. Figures.
There was no room in my brain to think about Nick once class started. The professor was this stern Russian guy who was in love with math and turned everything into a finite difference analysis problem.
I was smart, I loved math, excelled in it, but even I struggled to follow this mad professor's thoughts as he instructed. At least his thick Russian accent made it slightly entertaining.
It would be another long night in the computer lab working on this assignment, I sensed. It had become a regular thing, among those of us who'd opted to take Professor Chaban's classes, to stay up until the early morning hours working on his heinous assignments.
I knew I was a glutton for punishment because while the boys would work together until one of them figured out a solution, then they would all copy it - fudging a little to make it look like their own work, I stubbornly refused to finish the assignment until I understood it. Still, I was fucking smart, so I often got done as fast as them.
Tonight, was just not my night. I was still staring at the numbers on my screen at 2 am, willing them to make sense when I heard the group of boys whooping and hollering as they left.
"Suzie?"
I screamed like a little girl.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you."
"What the hell, Nick? I thought you all left?" I squeaked.
"I wanted to finish our conversation, from before class?" Nick replied, studying me.
Heat flushed through my body again.
"Oh." I said, eloquently.
"I would like to do a research experiment, like you said." Nick spelled it out for me, my own words used against me.
"Oh." I replied. Somehow, I could say anything to the group of guys, but with just Nick it was personal and real.
"I was thinking of a multi-phase study. First, of course as you said, research. I will need a couple days to do that, I suppose. Then, I think I'll need to interview you, or give you a survey so I know what things you don't want to do.
"I mean, if the goal is to prove that you'll do anything once aroused, I'll need a way to measure the results. That can be done by testing if you'll do something from your list. I was thinking that, every week for the rest of this semester, I can try to turn you on using techniques that are
not
on your "no" list. Hmmm... Yes, that would make a good study, don't you think?"
I stared at Nick. "I think that sounds very well thought out, very scientifically sound." Nick was becoming more attractive before my very eyes, his brown eyes became alluring, mysterious even. Did I say he was pudgy before? No, he was just solid, cuddly, that was it surely.
"How about we meet next Saturday? I think I'll have a good list to ask you about by then, to set our baseline." Nick prompted me.
"Ok." I agreed. Little did Nick know that I was already proving his hypothesis. He'd turned me on with all his talk of methodical, experimental, sex, and now I was agreeing to anything he wanted. Damn!
"I have a roommate, do you?" Nick asked.
"No, I have a studio apartment, just off campus," I replied.
"I think it would be best to start there then, with privacy. Will you text me the address?"
"Ok." I replied, entering Nick's number into my phone as he told me the digits.
After Nick left, I just sat and stared at my computer screen, wondering what I'd just done. It was no use. I could not get focused on math again. I was going to get a crap grade on this assignment.
And some little back part of my brain was thinking,
but it's worth it!
Nick was not the type of guy I usually went for. Most of my ex-boyfriends were rebel types, bad boys who wouldn't know a responsible career choice if it grabbed them by the balls. They were fun, though. I wondered if Nick would be uninhibited enough to try some of the things that really got me going. I hoped his pudgy underwhelming appearance was hiding the mind of a sexual genius.
A girl could hope.
[Nick]
Well, I had done it, had asked Suzie out. Kind of. I breathed slowly, calmly. What had I been thinking, planning a sexual experiment with her? I was a fucking virgin, for fucks sake!
Something had just come over me, when Suzie had said that a girl, her specifically, would do anything if aroused. I wanted to be the one to arouse her.
We'd been in this same class for a month, and while Suzie seemed to ignore all of us guys, I could never ignore her. Her brilliant mind was obvious, for starters. The way that she looked when she focused, it was oddly erotic to me.
Like tonight, I should have been working on math, and instead I'd watched Suzie focus on the assignment, oblivious to the guys' conversation as it flowed around her. And, all the while, I couldn't get our conversation out of my head.
So, when our classmates had left, I'd brought it up again, made that asinine proposal. I was on the hook now. The problem was, I had absolutely no idea how to turn a woman on.
Sure, I'd watched plenty of porn, but even I could tell half of that was fake. I had a lot of research to do this week if I was going to capitalize on this once in a lifetime opportunity to make Suzie mine.
As soon as I got home, I went to my room and powered up my laptop.
"How to arouse a woman" I typed into the Google search.
My screen flooded with pseudo-helpful advice. Peppered throughout were links to porn sites that would probably infest my system with malware if I so much as glanced in their direction. Cautiously, I pored through the data.
Research, at least, I could do.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
"Yes?" I called through the door of my room. I glanced at the clock, it was 7am, I'd been reading all night!
"Breakfast, Nikolai!" My uncle called to me.
I stretched and groaned. I didn't have to be anywhere until noon, but it was pointless to try to skip breakfast. My uncle was a man of his routine.
"Morning, dyadya." I said as I sat down at the table.
"Morning." He replied gruffly, eyeing me over the top of his newspaper. "Nikolai, I concerned about you. You arrre studying too harrd. I know you vere up all night vorrrking on your computerr again."
"I'm fine." I replied.
"It is not good, for young man to be so studious. Yourr motherrr vould have vanted you to have fun, not be serious, yes?"
I thought of exactly what I'd been studying all night and held in a grin. "I have a date this Saturday," I said.
My uncle's bushy eyebrows rose so fast they nearly shot off his forehead. "Zis is good. You vill take herrr somewhere nice, yes?"