"Alex? Are you in here?"
Rachael had just knocked on the door only to find it open with the lights off. She heard a muffled moan of pain from inside and the sound of a bed creaking. This wasn't what she expected to find. With finals only days away, most of the other dorm rooms were locked, their occupants away in libraries studying or lit & open with students cramming away at their small desks.
"Alex?"
Again, another moan greeted her. She opened the door a little further. Alex was one of the luckier students on campus to get a single dorm room. No room mate meant a lot of privacy, but not much space. She had expected to find Alex & ready to head over to the library to study for professor Gray's final. She also expected him to be dressed.
Instead, she found him laying on his bed on his back wearing what looked like boxer shorts. One arm at his side, the other on his chest, Alex looked horrible. His chest was rising up and down in time with ragged breathing. His skin was pale and lightly sweaty. His face was clenched in a grimace with his eyes shut tight. He wore a look of agony that Rachael, in her 19 years of life, had only seen the equal to in horror movies.
She moved quickly to his bed side and started to ask if he was all right. Before she could finish the sentence, Alex's grimace increased, his head turned away from the light streaming in through the door and he waved his arm at it. Understanding, Rachael closed the door as quietly as she could.
"Is this one of your headaches?"
In the gloom coming from the shut curtain, she could see Alex give the slightest hint of a nod. She sighed deeply. Alex would occasionally disappear off the face of the earth for hours at a time. He'd once explained that he suffered from sever migraine headaches. She hadn't thought anything of it at the time, but now understood just how bad they were.
"Do you want me to leave?" She asked.
Alex didn't respond for a moment, but eventually gave the slightest hint of shaking his head no.
"Should I call someone? Do you need to go to a hospital?"
Alex shook his head no and managed the slightest whisper. "... can't help me there."
Rachael looked down at Alex. He'd been a good friend to her. A gentleman. He'd been out drinking with her and made sure she'd gotten home safe and unmolested. He'd held her hair back the time she got sick and once dropped everything he'd been doing to help her move dorm rooms when it turned out her room mate was psycho. He was an all around nice guy and didn't deserve to be in such pain.
"Did you take any meds?"
Again, a slight nod. Rachael was remembering more of his explanation about migraines from the first time he'd gone missing for a study group and turned up the next day. He'd told them that he'd tried dozens of medications over the years and nothing helped. He had hinted there was something that could ease the pain, but she didn't remember him telling them what it was.
Whispering very quietly as noise seemed to aggravate his condition, she asked "What helps? Is there like anything I can do?"
For a moment, it seemed like Alex was coming around. He managed to open his eyes narrowly and focused on her, a bitter smile inching across his lips. He whispered a word too quietly for her to hear.
Rachael leaned in and raised her eyebrows hoping he'd repeat himself.
Slightly louder Alex said, "... endorphins." When she looked down at him confused he whispered "... body's... natural painkillers." His smile increased and then abruptly vanished, his teeth clenched as he reached up to rub his right temple.
Rachael looked down at him wanting to help but still not sure how. "Do you have them as like a pill somewhere?"
She wasn't sure if his reply was a laugh or a cough. Which ever it happened to be, it took a heavy toll. It was a good thirty seconds before he stopped gripping his forehead and calmed his breathing.
"... there're not a pill." He managed. He glanced at her through nearly shut eyes and, seeing she still wasn't following, slowly slid his hand down to just below his waist. He casually drummed his fingers against his pubes.
Rachael's eyes went wide. She remembered hearing from somewhere that endorphins are the chemicals in the body released during sex. Alex wasn't watching this, but was once again wracked with pain. She'd never thought about him as anything more than a friend, but now took a moment to look at him.
She'd been concentrating on his face, but as her blue eyes glanced down him she realized he had a great body. He had the build of a dancer. Lithe and well defined. Not too hairy with a sexy six pack visible in the dim light. He'd been an amazing friend to her and, looking over at his expression of agony, if was faking this he deserved an Oscar.
After considering for a little while, she asked, "What do you want me to do?" Alex managed to only open one eye this time and looked her over. Rachael was wearing a pink short sleeve shirt, short jean shorts and sandals. Her shoulder length blonde hair was pulled into a pony tale. She was petit, but curvy with a gorgeous face. Some of her friends told her she looked like Drew Barrymore, but she never agreed.
He reached over to where she was sitting and took her hand in his. Slowly, he lead her hand towards his boxers and stopped at his waist line.
Hesitating for a moment, she continued and slid her hand down into his boxers. Her fingers fumbled through his pubes for a moment before finding his cock. Again her eyes went wide.
She pulled the front of his boxers down with her free hand and marveled at his size. She'd only been with two other boys and neither one of them was anywhere near as large. Though he lay perfectly flaccid, he was still bigger than both men were erect.
"Holy shit." She said a little louder than she'd intended.
Alex managed a grin. Though small, it was the widest he'd managed yet in his current condition.