"Hi, Jeff. I don't know if you remember me."
"Now, Ashley. You're being disingenuous."
All right, I read. I know what disingenuous means. But who the fuck uses it in actual conversation? It is a word meant only to be used on the printed page.
"Well." That could have meant anything. I didn't know. Let him figure it out.
"I had a nice time studying with you the other night," he said.
Yes! I was getting a second chance.
"Me too. I was wondering if you were doing anything tonight."
"Well, I do have plans, but perhaps you'd like to come along. I'm going to see the wrestling team."
"Sure."
What? Is there a more boring, nerdier sport? I wonder if we have a badminton team.
"Great. I'll stop by at six thirty and we can walk together to the Rec center."
I've been driven on dates in a Rolls Royce. I've been driven in a Lamborghini. Tonight I was walking to the Rec center with a freshman nerd. How low could I sink?
"I'll be waiting."
This was really starting to weird me out. At least he hadn't said no.
Fortunately he didn't try to hold my hand on the walk over. I have no idea what I would have done.
Wrestling may still be a nerdy sport for guys, but for the girls, it is heavenly. All different weight classes and sizes, but these were sparsely dressed, exquisitely muscled, grunting, sweaty specimens of testosterone-laden masculinity in tights. I could have enjoyed watching this at home on a DVD. It was downright arousing. Had this guy discovered some new kind of visual aphrodisiac for women?
Had he been someone I would normally go out with, I would have taken him straight home and he would have gotten as lucky as it was possible to get.