Keri took a deep steadying breath as and straightened her soft black skirt and checked her makeup in her compact before snapping it closed. Reaching out with a dark blue painted nail rang the doorbell. Immediately there was a call from inside.
"Be right there!" A male voice said. Keri smiled in spite of the fact it sounded like he was way too young for her.
Keri forced a nervous smile as the door unlocked and was flung open and the slightly shorter blonde headed guy stood in the threshold. His cheeks visibly red and a great big uncertain smile on his face.
"Come in, please." She could smell candles. He was really trying. She stepped over the threshold and felt her nerves soften a bit. His place was cute in the way most unsure guys places are. There were more pictures of family than she had expected, but the rest fit, posters of this video game or that. Lots of book shelves with books on science fiction and fantasy. A great big computer that was sitting idle for probably the first time in many many years. His college text books were stacked nearby and he papers and notes organized again probably for the first time in a while in an attempt to clean up for her sake. The big TV was on and there was a couch a chair and a coffee table. The room looked like he had really tried to make her feel welcome.
Cute and endearing, not in the way she was used to. As captain of the Volleyball team for her college she was more used to guys trying to schmooze the normal way, booze and sex appeal. A cut torso and flashing their daddy's money around to try to get her attention and her panties off.
Keri was not new to this. She had let it happen a few times over her four years of college, enjoyed it a few times but none of them had meant anything or been in any way of longevity.
Jason was different though. He was not captain of the lacrosse team like her last boyfriend. He was not a gym rat or an alpha male in the least. He wasn't overly tall or broad. About average really. No tattoos. Nis hair was long and kind of ratty, or at least it had been, he looked as if her cut it maybe even that day. Good complexion, sexy blue eyes and thick rimmed glasses like the nerds of old. Some may have thought he was trying to do a hipster thing until you talked to him. Then you knew there was not an insincere bone in his body. When he wasn't too nervous to smile he had great big pearly whites that were straight and nicely fit his mouth. He was a good looking kid. But most people who met him thought of him as just that a kid.
Jason was a genius. Legit. Rumor has it his IQ was super high, not like the wheel chair guy but definitely smarter than most guys Keri was used to. But her last three boyfriends combined IQ was less than Jason of that she was sure.
"You want something to drink?" he asked, swallowing twice before he finished. He was wringing his hands a bit. She could almost smell how nervous he was. She smiled without thinking and took his hand in hers and he calmed immediately.
"Jason, this is not the first time we have been here. Relax I promise I won't bite. Unless you want me to." Keri smiled impishly at the end and she saw his cheeks flush.
This was the big night the night he had been hoping for and Keri wasn't going to lie. She was looking forward to it too. It had been 5 long weeks of working up to this and now, even though she was no rookie, she was honestly a bit nervous.
Jason took a deep breath and let it out. Reaching up he ran his hands into her shoulder length blonde hair.
"I really like this cut. It frames your face really well. Lets people see you." His hand lighted on her soft cheek and she couldn't help but feel the warmth spread from her cheek down to her nipples and then further down. Being this close to him he smelled nice. Not over much but just the right amount. And Keri smiled again as she caught the scent, it was the one she had recommended to him off handedly a few weeks ago. Jason never forgot anything.
"Thanks. I'll have a beer if you have one." Keri said and he smiled at her again and moved to the small kitchen. Keri took a steadying breath and moved over to the couch. Sitting back she took off her sexy black heels and lay them under the table crossing her legs she was again made aware of the soft nylons she was wearing and she pulled the skirt bottom down a bit, concealing the black bands of the thigh highs she had picked out especially for tonight.
"Keri listen," Jason said from the kitchen as he opened a beer for her and one for himself as well. "You don't have to go through with this if you don't want to." Jason crossed the small room and sat opposite her on the stout coffee table and handed her the beer as he took a small sip from his and tried to hide the grimace at the taste and failed.
"What do you mean? Don't you want to?" Keri asked the warmth of anticipation in her stomach was quickly becoming a heavy weight as she thought he was going to back out of her part of their agreement. Jason laughed, it was a genuine and sweet laugh like everything about him.
"Oh my god, of course I want to I just don't want you to feel like you are in some way obligated. I would have helped you no matter what. All the stuff we have talked about and...done since this thing started have been amazing but I don't want you to feel like you have to do that specifically if you don't want to."
"So what's the problem?" Keri asked. Scooting forward so she was now much nearer to him. She reached up and took his glasses off and set them on the coffee table beside him before she dropped her hands to his knees and she felt him take a stiff breath in. Jason hesitated, there was so much red in his cheeks it was hard to believe they had even done all the stuff they had already.
"I'm just a bit worried you won't like it. That I'll disappoint you in some way. Just want to be honest with you." Jason said. His admission was felt in his tense shoulders, the tension she felt in his knees as she sat very close to him. Keri smiled and lifted his chin and leaned in and kissed him gently on the lips, enjoying how soft and light he could kiss.
"Do you have anywhere to be?" Keri asked. Jason shook his head and moved to kiss her again and she leaned back, sitting back on the couch and as she did she spread her legs a bit revealing the lacy black crotch of the panties she picked out for tonight.
"Well neither do I." Keri smiled again at him. "Let's just enjoy this and we can do all the other stuff first and anything else you want to. I'm more than ready and I wouldn't be here if I didn't want to be".
"Wow." Was all Jason managed before he moved beside her on the couch and she melted into his embrace.
******
5 weeks ago.
"I had hoped for more from you Miss Weller." The professor said as he handed her the weeks quiz, a great big letter D with a plus beside it. It was official, she was bombing physics. She was working hard and studying every night and still just didn't get it. Keri was not a Rhodes Scholar, she was smart but she was also in her senior year and making up the last few non major related credits she had to from when she transferred sophomore year. She was captain of the volley ball team this year and a D in physics was not going to cut it. She was going to lose her eligibility, and while she might not make it to nationals or anything she loved the game, it kept her in shape and she wouldn't miss her last season with the girls that had become her family over the past two years. Plus she had thought about applying for law school and with a D on her record that would likely not work.
There was a loud thump and the guys two rows up laughed as the skinny guy with thick rimmed glasses pushed himself up to his knees and surveyed the slew of spilled papers all over the floor. He sighed, tried not to look at the jocks who were still laughing at him, and began to gather up his papers. She let her gaze linger on him for a bit. You could tell he was young, younger than the rest of them in this class for sure. Everyone know who he was though, Jason Clark was the schools pride. Some said the next Hawking. If the stories were right he had graduated from HS at 12, finished his degree in 3 years and his PHD was finishing up in the spring. He was going to be an 18 year old theoretical physicist. Working on space ship and stuff and solving the math of the universe. He was the TA in her 200 level physics class for some reason. Helping those that asked with the same ease she moved about the court.
She admired him. He was so quite unless he was teaching. Then he talked a million miles an hour. He answered questions with the methodical precision of a walking computer.
But there was something else. Rumors said for years he never left his dorm room except for classes and his lab time. But she had seen him once or twice eating at the quad, people watching it seemed. He would try to smile when he saw her, blush till he look like he was going to pass out when he realized what he was doing and then turn away.
Keri had seen him at some sports too. Some of the meets and even a few of her volleyball games. He sat alone, clapped like a gentleman while the painted meatheads screamed and acted like morons. Throwing popcorn at him or stealing his book bag like they were still in high school. He never said anything, just patiently waited for them to relent and then he would gather up his things and move on. She hated seeing this and had said something more than once given that most of the morons were dating friends of hers or members of the team but it was no big deal they said, they were just ribbing the genius weirdo or whatever.
Her most recent, now ex-boyfriend had loved to pick on Jason. Part of the reason they were now no longer together was because his hijinks with Jason had showed him to be cruel, and no amount of great sex or a lacrosse player's body was worth that kind of cruel partnership.
He hadn't taken it well and would glare at her all the time or spread rumors, recounting their private sexual exploits with surgical detail to any who would listen. It made her sound like a whore to some but she always knew that she loved sex, she like to take care of the guys she was with and expected to be taken care of as well. When she was she rewarded her boyfriends.
If that made her a whore then so be it, being a whore felt really good and she like it.
The bell rang releasing the class and Keri stood up gathering her bag and reaching down, the last few papers that had fallen from the stack Jason had been carrying.
He smiled at her as he took the papers she offered. His eyes were so pretty. He was pretty cute even though he was shorter than her and where she was toned from hours and hours in the gym and on the court he was thin, skinny in the way that it looked almost like he didn't get enough to eat.
