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Note to readers:
This is the first sequel to "Ruth's Experiment," which was posted in Erotic Couplings on September 29. It should be possible to pick up on this story without reading the previous story. "Ruth's Experiment," however, has some hot sex, so you might want to check it out. There will be two more installments, to be posted a few days after this one: first "Ruth and Greg Go to 'Plan R,'" then "The Trending of Greg and Ruth." The suggestion that these stories are being posted by Ruth and Greg on this very web site is not be taken too seriously. Every person engaged in these entirely fictional sex acts is at least 18 years old, and also entirely fictional.)
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When I got back to campus, I was fired up for the start of sophomore year. The political science curriculum would be more interesting at the 200 level. I felt more like I belonged at this school. Also...I was eager for sex.
A certain guy would become my friend with benefits. We'd have no-strings sex without expecting or wanting strings to develop. We'd just be ourselves, in my case a plain-looking broad with hair two shades darker than mousey, in his case an almost-pinhead with ears that stick out. Also, both of us were overweight. Made for each other.
I was almost bouncy as I entered the student union for our first meeting since we helped each other to simultaneous orgasms, from my breasts, at the end of our freshman year.
This was weird, because I don't do bouncy. About as far as I'll ever go is bubbly.
He was at a table in the food court. I joined him, but I ran out of bubbles when I saw the look on his face. It was shifty, defensive. After a few stock greeting phrases, he said, "I'd like you to read something."
It flashed through my mind that he might have some STI or other, and that the drop or two of spunk that got into my mouth might have infected me. He hadn't mentioned anything like that in all our messaging over the summer. I asked, "Test results?"
"What?" he asked, confused. "No, something I wrote. About us, what we did." He pulled a stack of loose-leaf sheets out of his shirt pocket and unfolded them.
It was my turn to look confused as he handed them over. They were handwritten. He did cursive pretty well, not true of many people our age. "This hasn't gone into anything electronic," he said. "Right now it's completely private."
Which made me look up before I could start reading. "Right now?"
"Just read, please."
So I did. It was his account of when we hooked up in my dorm room, and he got me to a nipple orgasm while I let him fuck my tits. He captured both the details and the essence, including the fact that we were really nervous beforehand. Neither of us had much experience with sex.
I had to smile. My nipples tingled. I was on the way to getting aroused. But I asked, "What are you going to do with this?"
"Nothing, if you want it to stay between us."
With a flick of my hand, I sent the sheets back at him. "So if I say tear it up, you will?"
He blinked, clearly not expecting that. But then he said "Yeah," while putting the pages back in order.
I sat back. Damn, the tingle spread to my vulva.
We had both cum, very happily, but my undies had stayed on. It was what I'd hoped for, both partners getting to ecstasy and no fluids exchanged (except for those lousy droplets). This guy wasn't a turn-on, but I felt safe with him, and I wondered what it'd be like if/when we screwed. An activity I had experienced all of four times.
I forced myself to stay on topic. "And if I say that I'm fine with this, what would you do with it?"
He looked away, blushing. He swallowed. I was about to press him, but then he manned up.
"I'd like to post it on line, anonymously, on a sex-positive site. I think what we did could be good for other people to try, if they haven't figured it out for themselves."
"Anonymously?" I said. "Is that why you called me 'Ruth?'"
"It's not even close to your real name," he said. "Our real lives are nobody else's business."
"So now I know what to call you when I want to get you hot and bothered," I said. Then I gave him what I thought might be bedroom eyes, and silently mouthed the name he had given himself, 'Greg.'
"It won't take that much," he muttered.
"I'm okay with still calling you T-F-er," I said, using a term we had texted to one another over the summer, declining to declare 'titfucker' to the entire universe. Then, because we'd already talked about this possibility, I added, "And I might be ready to do more than that."
He looked up and said, "When?" Then he silently mouthed, 'Ruth.'
My silent alarm lit up, as always. "I don't know. Haven't found out if my new roommate would be cool with it."
"I have my room to myself," he said. "My this-year roommate has pledged a frat."
By that time, I had gotten past the panic. I said, "How about tomorrow night?"
"It's good for me."
Which got me even more anxious, and I think he was too. But we still continued with the inevitable returning-student conversation about the courses we were taking. We were more relaxed when we parted. Neither of us tried to kiss, or even shake hands. It's not like we were keeping a secret while out in public. But, despite our tryst and our semi-raunchy communications over the summer, physical affection in the presence of other people didn't seem right.
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We don't love each other. We don't have the same worldview. He's a business major and sees nothing wrong with putting moneymaking ahead of improving the world. I'm poli sci and progressive, and quite happy to stop anybody's moneymaking in order to get us to a more just society and a sustainable planet.
Then again, it's not like we love anyone else. More to the point, nobody else loves us. On a college campus full of young people at their absolute physical peaks and maximum attraction, we probably qualify as a couple of ignorable losers. Kinda short, kinda fat, kinda acne'd, kinda meh.
But I have big breasts (E-cups, almost no sag yet), which can please both a partner and me. And he, apparently, can get at least two boners in quick succession. (I intended to discover how many.) So if we had to resort to each other, it could have been worse.
We had met by being hangers-on in an informal discussion group at a bookish bar, just off campus. In a while we started spending time together afterwards. We learned that our divergent philosophies didn't stop us from treating each other decently, as respectful humans. Eventually, in an awkward way, he propositioned me, and I asked him to participate in what his handwritten recollection refers to as "Ruth's Experiment." You can find that on this site, and read all the steamy details of our success.
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