From Chapter 01: Michael and Amy are having breakfast the the campus cafรฉ, after their American history class, and looking forward to a date tonight. Michael's regular girlfriend is out of town for a couple of weeks visiting her family. Amy as gone from pest to friend for Michael, as he realizes that she is a more complex person, than the pest he as always considered her to be. He oversimplified her!
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Reevaluation of Amy.
Part Two, The Present: (continued):
I have another cup of coffee at the cafรฉ after she leaves, with my mind still filled with thoughts of Amy ... kind of a mental after-image I guess you might say! Imagine, obsessing over the little brat that bedeviled
all
of my efforts to get into her older sisters pants years ago ... with all of our passionate fumbling's, Janie and I never did have sex during our time together.
But realistically, it had less to do with a pesky little sister, and more with her wish for me to "take love easy," as the poet Yeats would say, and my unwilling agreement with her wishes. In other words, we were simply in different places back then; I was readyโshe was not!
As I think about seeing Amy later today, all sorts of images come to mind. I know that despite all of her innuendoes, she is not going to allow too much intimacy and actually, it is too early for that. So, I decide just to be pleasant and just enjoy her company. She is clever and fun to be with, and I am interested in just getting to know a slightly more mature Amy.
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Part Three, The Date:
I find Amy's name among the long columns of names by the outside buzzer of her dorm, and press her little button (so to speak!).
"Friend or foe?" Says a voice I do not recognize over the squawk box. (giggling in the background)
"Friend! I'm looking for Amy Phillips."
"Hello Michael, I'm Judyโher roommate. There is a little waiting area in the lobby, I'll buzz you in."
Judy buzzesโI enter. I am sitting on a small couch that has seen better days, and is in desperate need of a good cleaning. I am in jeans and a sport coat, so no permanent damage there. I hear girlish giggles on the stairs, and as I look up, I see Amy and another girl that I assume is Judy.
Amy is wearing a soft button-up sweater and a nice pleated skirt to about three inches above her knees. Judy is wearing a cropped T-shirt with a faded image of Santana on it, pre-distressed jeans, and sports a small silver ring piercing on her lip. Judy is rather pretty, tall, and slender. As Amy approaches, I give her a brotherly hug.
"Michael, this is my roommate Judy Hotchkins. Judy, this is Michael Anderson."
I shake Judy's hand.
"Nice to finally meet you Michael, after all of Amy's stories about you and her sister." She laughs.
"Well, then you have the advantage of me Judy, but it's nice to meet you! Shall we go, Amy?"
"Yes, Michael!" She says smiling sweetly, rather like a teenager going on her first date.
"You kids have fun ... but behave yourselves, okay?" Judy says with a raucous laugh.
Amy gives her a scowl, and we walk out. I tell Amy that there is a nice flick at the campus theater, and I thought we might see that, and then have a late dinner afterward.
"Michael, can we reverse that? I'm hungry now. Let's catch a later showing, okay?"
"Fine by me, doll!"
She hugs my arm with both of hers as we walk to the campus cafรฉ. We find a booth in the corner, and move together in the middle of the semi-circular seat. I see a girlfriend of Kathy's across the room and excuse myself. I walk over to greet her, and to head off any potential trouble about my stepping out on her friend.
"Hi Tammy, nice to see you, are you guys enjoying yourselves?"
"Oh hi Michael, what do you hear from Kathy?" This is her way of reminding me that I have a girlfriend.
"Talked to her yesterday, things are going well with the family, as I am sure you know. I have an old friend, actually the sister of an old girlfriend with me tonight, would you and your friends like to join us?"
Tammy is a bit of a gossip but I am sure she will decline ... as I try to convince her that my date with Amy is innocent.
"Oh, no, you guys have fun reconnecting. Nice to see you though, Michael!"
I walked back to the booth and to Amy, and as I slide in, she asks, "A friend of your girlfriends?"
"You
are
quick Amy, but yes, Tammy is a friend of Kathy's. I just wanted to fix things so we can have a nice time tonight." She smiles and wiggles her little butt in the seat to show her happiness, but frowns a little and says,
"Michael, let that be the last time we mention her name tonight. Okay?"
"Sure! You're right. Let's have fun tonight, just the two of us!" I say as she beams a wide sweet smile and starts to look over the menu.
The waitress appears, and Amy orders a chicken fingers kind of thing with fries and a beer.
"May I see your ID honey?" Says the waitress matter-of-factly.
"Okay then, just give me a coke ... I guess!"
I order the same thing as Amy including the beer since it seems like a light meal. I am not worried about drinking in front of Amy since I know she will snitch some of my beer anyway. I turn to Amy and tell her,
"You would be doing me a huge favor if we do not act like we are on a date, until we get out of here, okay honey."
"Well, seeing as you called me 'honey,' I guess I can control my 'mones ... for a while at least." Then she whispers,
"But I would really love to take your hand and put it under my skirt and between my legs ... I have very skimpy panties on tonight, Michael." She is not serious, but is just teasing me and I know it.