Sara Newlin was sitting by herself in the community room of the dorm, watching a National Geographic program when the guy walked in. She could not recall seeing him before but it was early in the year and she had not met that many people at the college yet. They exchanged a few words about what was on the TV and he decided to stay there and watch it for awhile.
Dark-haired, pale, with freckles across his low-bridged nose, the young man was of average height and a compact build. The two of them were not chatting, just sitting in silence, when his hand brushed tentatively against the inside of her arm. A special warmth rose in her body.
She could have said: Sorry, I have a boyfriend. That's what she had said for the past five years. But she did not say that. Not this time.
Instead she let his hand linger, then slide down to hold her hand. She pressed against his palm as she caught her breath. More waves of excitement tingled and she turned her face to his and the two strangers kissed, slowly and open-mouthed.
I should stop this, she thought. She loved Troy. They had been going together for six years. She knew they would marry someday.
But she didn't stop it.
This guy she didn't even know did something special to her, aroused a lust like coals stoked inside her gut. She put her hand on his shirt, feeling his chest, then let it slide down to his crotch. She felt his cock hard and erect under his pants. Hot chills ran up and down her spine.
She drew her hand away.
They still touched though just barely.
He put his hand on her thigh. Again she thought about telling him to stop because she had a boyfriend.
And again she did not as the heat of desire warmed and moistened her panties.
He just left his hand there. She felt the nipples of her tiny breasts harden and sting and she turned her face to him so he could kiss her.
As they pulled away from that kiss, she finally spoke. "Let's not go any farther," she said, "Until we have a date."
"OK," he replied. "That's reasonable enough."
"No more until then," she added.
With a smile, he nodded and took his hand off her thigh.
"I really have to get back to my room now," she told him. She rose from her seat.
"All right," he said, "but let's make arrangements." He pulled a pen and a little notepad out of a pocket. "And I promise not to molest you until we have our date."
"What's your name?" Sara asked.
"Ron. Felton."
"I'm Sara Newlin. One thing I think I should tell you," Sara began as they approached the door of the room.
"Yes?" he asked.
"I've just had oral sex," she said. "I'm a virgin to everything else."
He laughed.
Of course he doesn't believe me! Sara thought. Would a virgin make out with a guy whose name she doesn't even know?
"I'm telling the truth," she said adamantly.
"I believe you," he said with a nod and a smile that made her think he did not.
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On their way to the restaurant, Sara told Ron that she had a boyfriend.
At a stoplight, Ron slid a hand up Sara's calf.
"How long have you been going together?" he asked.
"Six years."
Six years, he thought. That's awesome. She must love him. She must. But she's willing to cheat on him. With me. The idea excited and flattered him even as it made him think she must not be that good of a person. Why is she risking a six-year relationship? Ron wondered. Why is she willing to hurt a man she loves?
He glanced at her profile: she was pretty. She had a sweet looking, somewhat shy smile with dimples. Her green eyes were lively. Her head tended to turn down when she looked at him. It gave her an air of uncertainty, of fragility, that conflicted with her frank admission that she was two-timing and the strong sensuality he saw in her.
At the restaurant, she asked, "Is it OK to eat chicken with your hands? In a place like this?"
"Sure. It's perfectly proper," he assured her. Again he was struck by the irony of her concern for proper manners when she was going out on her boyfriend.
All through dinner, they made small talk about their classes and teachers they liked and disliked. She mentioned her boyfriend "Troy" a few times. That made Ron wonder some more. At the same time it excited him to be with another guy's girl. His skin felt peculiarly alive as it always did when he was certain a woman would be intimate with him.
Strolling back to her dorm (Ron had a roommate; Sara didn't), she again said, rather plaintively "I am a virgin. I've only had oral sex. I've never had vaginal sex and I don't want to. You've got to believe me, Ron."
"Sara, I do believe you because I've never had vaginal sex either."