"I'm never going to pass this class."
Heather looked up from her laptop and rolled her eyes. "You always say that. And then you somehow pull off at least a C." One thing she hated about Mark- he never studied and still got decent enough grades to get accepted to Diffie University. She'd studied her ass off all throughout high school and struggled for every grade and ended up going to the exact same school.
Mark ran his fingers through his tightly coiled brown locks and sighed. "College is nothing like high school. I can't understand half of what Professor Lerner is saying in class."
"You sure that's not because you go out partying every night instead of sleeping?" Heather closed her laptop with a snap and smoothed her skirt over her legs.
"Maybe." Mark looked at her and grinned. "Wow, you look like a grown-up today. Job interview?"
She has the greatest legs.
"Right before class. I don't think I'll get it- hostess position at this fancy steakhouse downtown. It would've been perfect but I'm sure they're going to go with someone else."
"Why?" Mark asked. Heather stretched and her tight turtleneck rippled with her every move. He found himself staring at the way it pulled across her breasts and forced himself to look away. She'd be furious if she caught him.
"All the other girls who were interviewing were wearing blazers and dress slacks and shoes that cost more than my car payment. Drop dead gorgeous every one of them. If you're going to hire a hostess, you want someone who draws men in, not someone who turns them away." She gestured to her doll-like face and copper curls. "Men look at me and they treat me like a child. They're going to hire one of those other women and I'll... I don't know, go wait tables at that off campus diner we always pass."
An idea came to Mark.
A crazy idea
he thought before blurting it out. "What if I hire you to tutor me in this class- say $200 for the semester? I'll also help you pick some outfits that make you look like beautiful adult woman you really are."
Heather tapped her fingers against the cover of her laptop and considered.
Mark called me beautiful and I do need the money. What do I have to lose?
"Sure, when do you want to start?
"How about right now. We can head over to my house and you can school me on Napoleon's invasion of Russia."
"Ok, I have to run by my dorm room to drop a few things off and I'll head over after."
Perfect
Mark thought
, that'll give me time to set up for her.
**
Mark's house was one of the few standalone houses near the school that hadn't been converted into apartments. His family had owned it years before the university was built. Heather knew his parents regularly rejected offers to sell the house and land to the university so their sons would have off campus housing if they got accepted. So far only Mark had made it in, meaning he got the three story Victorian all to himself.
Butterflies fluttered through her stomach as she walked up on the porch. Spending time around him always made her feel nervous and edgy. What started out as a small crush when Heather met him in middle school had morphed into an all encompassing sexual fixation over the years. A slow slide from wanting to hold his hand, to wanting to kiss him, to wanting to beg him to fuck her until she couldn't walk. And he was oblivious.
Keep it together
she told herself as she reached out to open the door.
He doesn't think of you that way.