This story takes place in the late 1980s. At least half of it is true. The rest...work it out for yourselves!
"Bloody hell," Rick thought as he pulled into the college parking lot. "Two years...and each day Abby and I grow further and further apart! I know she and Trish are more than 'friends,' no matter how they deny it! This is getting ridiculous. Now Abby's got me having to leave or hide in the damn bedroom when Trish comes over!"
Stopping the car, he reflected. Trish had never liked him, not since Day One of his relationship with Abby; she'd always accused him of "trying to come between her and Abby's friendship." That was never his intention. What was Trish on about anyway? So damn possessive it was unreal...he'd clashed with Trish over it...told her how childish it was (not to mention wrong)...and all it'd done was cause problems with he and Abby over their somewhat-over-a-year-long relationship. And Abby had a no-sex rule that was driving him mad with desire. Abby was an attractive woman, and at 23 still a virgin (though, he thought, that's not unusual). They'd slept together in the same bed, and they'd "progressed" to him being "privileged" to physical topless contact. However, they'd never seen one another fully naked, and Abby still made him avert his eyes away from even seeing her in her underwear. He'd left her apartment with a raging hard-on and blue balls more than once.
He had a raging hard-on now, though not, as it happened, over Abby.
Rick was from Canada. He'd ended up in Indiana after his father, a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, had been killed in a training accident. His two sisters in Ontario had been unwilling to take him in, so he ended up living with his American mother and stepfather in Indiana. He simply didn't like his mother and saw why his father had divorced her, though his stepfather was decent enough and had turned the upper storey of their house into a small flat for him.
He was able to live well enough off the death benefits of his father (depending on the Canadian/American exchange rate). At a loose end, he'd enrolled in a community college, hoping to learn a trade that he could use to earn a decent living and return to Canada, maybe even following in his father's footsteps and joining the RCAF.
He'd made few close friends, though he'd found the people at college decent enough. By nature he was reserved anyway. He'd met Abby in a local mall and they'd hit it off; especially having come through similar family trauma and self-esteem issues. She was pretty, though she didn't think so. Rick had desired her sexually from Day One, only to have her throw up all these roadblocks he couldn't make sense of..."if you do this I'll leave you"..."if you touch me there I'll leave you"..."if you ask me to do that I'll leave you."