Walking back across campus in the summer is always a series of distractions. Short skirts, bikini tops, snug shorts. If I wasn't careful, I'd end up looking like a drooling idiot following one girl after another as I wandered around in a daze. There's something wonderful about the unpredictability of the English summer; when it is hot, everyone takes advantage and the result is a sight to behold. What could be better?
This particular day, I was walking back to my room and fell in behind a girl wearing a halter top and a short, short denim skirt with leather flip-flops. She was keeping her hair out of her eyes with a pair of oversized sunglasses and walked with a delicious wiggle to her hips. The further we went towards the halls, the more inevitable it seemed that she'd peel off in one direction or another, but, it seemed we were heading for the same block. She got to the door, opened it and gave me a mock frown, "Are you following me?" She asked as she held the door open.
I grinned back at her. "Me? No. I live here... Honest." I took to holding the door, letting her enter first.
She smiled as she started climbing the stairs in front of me, turning back and giving me, "Yea. Sure. That's what they all say." I protested my innocence and carried on up the stairs, delighting in the look of her long smooth legs ahead of me. She opened the door on the first floor—my floor—and turned towards my door as she fumbled for her key. I stood at her shoulder as she tried to put her key in my door. She laughed, "You really are following me."
"Actually," I replied. "This is my room. Perhaps you're following me." She looked at me quizzically, and turned the key. Of course it didn't work, it was my room. But only when the key didn't work did she start to realize her mistake. "May I?" I asked as I brandished my key.
She stepped back; "Be my guest." She said and laughed out loud as she saw my key turn in my lock.
"So. Who is following who?"
"Well, I was in front of you, so I can't have been following you." She said, which was perfectly true.
"Mmmmmm. But I wasn't following you, was I?"
"Yep. I suppose they do, don't they." I opened my door and she looked in to my room.
"No, I suppose not. Jesus—these blocks do all look the same." "Well, well. Not all the rooms look the same." She said.
I laughed in response. My room was a mess—though no worse than normal. "I suppose yours is much tidier than this, is it?" She giggled. "No, not really, but the mess is more of a... girly mess. More make up, smaller T-shirts and... well... the underwear is different altogether."
"Well, you're welcome to come in and examine my mess more closely... or invite me to your room—wherever it is—and give me the chance for a comparison."