Maia Laaning Ch 37

When Maia and Hans woke up on Monday morning, they refrained from a good morning sexual treat. They each had an early morning class, and they were serious students. Yes, they were certainly a fun loving couple as evinced by their lusty weekend, but still they were focused primarily on their academic endeavors. Hans had his forward path outlined to him. He was a medical student and he expected to become a surgeon.

Maia's plans and goals were somewhat nebulous in comparison to that of Hans' ambitions. Nevertheless, she did have concrete ideas of what she hoped to eventually achieve in life. We've already noted that in the back of her mind she would want to give birth to at least four children. Before she intended to get pregnant for the first time, she still had other goals she wished to fulfill first. She enrolled in computer science for the purpose to give her some leeway to a future career. She was not averse to the idea of working with her mother under the auspices of Baxter and Sons. By the same token she could see herself as a freelance IT consultant with her own company. To achieve any of those goals, though, required serious concentration in her academic studies.

Given their priorities, both Maia and Hans got ready for school in an orderly no nonsense fashion. Hans took a shower first to allow Maia to prepare a nutritious breakfast for the three of them. When Hans was finished showering and shaving, he returned to the bedroom to get dressed. Riina seemingly on cue emerged from her bedroom to take her shower and get ready for school.

They then ate breakfast all three together and took the time to plan the day. Although Maia was in charge of doing the main cooking, Riina took the responsibility of preparing lunches for school. Usually, she prepared sandwiches and on this occasion, she ascertained what Hans would like. This allowed Maia time to take her shower and get dressed. For his part, Hans washed the dishes, which pleased the ladies especially Riina who normally would be doing this chore.

Before Hans left for school, he took the time to measure out the intended space for his closet. From that, he was able to determine what he would need to successfully construct the closet. Then he arranged with Maia to meet around four o'clock in the afternoon at a local building supply store to make the appropriate purchases.

Maia was pleased at how efficiently the morning proceeded. It as if the three of them had resided together for quite some time and were set in their routines. Such a notion confirmed in her mind that she wasn't being foolish in acting so impetuously by having Hans move in with her despite the fact she was also living with Riina as well. In fact as she and Riina were driving to the university in Maia's Lamborghini, Riina had to ask, "What in heaven's name made you do this? You can't possibly be irrevocably in love with him upon such short acquaintance. He can't be that great a lover to induce you to forsake other yummy studs."

Maia replied, "The only plausible explanation I can give you is that it was the result of my recurring erotic dream."

"You got to be kidding Maia! You're a rational person. You're not into horoscopes or superstition. Besides what possible connection can this dream have with your decision to admit this Hans Kernumees to your bed? Granted Hans is a gorgeous hunk but there's plenty of fish in the Baltic Sea!

Maia answered, "Well you remember when Juhan approached our table and Hans was his companion, that I gave you the signal to definitely accept them even if you were inclined to refuse their company. That's because Hans looked exactly like my imagined sultan Selim of my erotic dreams. Naturally I was intrigued enough to desire to know him."

Here Riina interrupted, "But Maia how in the world could you have gotten to have known him so quickly? Why when we were together at the bar, you hardly spoke at all and likewise Hans had little to say. Juhan and I almost exclusively carried on the conversation at our table. I was absolutely shocked when you gave me the keys to the Lamborghini and said you were going to spend the night with Hans. You could have literally knocked me off my seat with a feather. Considering the lack of dialogue or for that matter the lack of any discernible signs of visible flirtation between you two, I was hard put to imagine how he was able to seduce you to such an extent that you were willing to surrender the Lamborghini to me."

Maia responded, "It is hard for me as well to explain the chemistry that obviously exists between him and me. During the time at the bar, I was understandably mesmerized by the resemblance between Hans and my dream sultan. However, I was also intrigued by the implications of such resemblance. You remember my telling you of the story of my dream wherein I fucked the sultan for one thousand nights. Thus, throughout my time at the bar, my mind was occupied by the question of whether I was destined to fuck Hans for one thousand nights. Then of course my mind grappled with the question of whether it was even possible to fuck someone for one thousand consecutive nights. During the time spent at the bar, all of these thoughts were percolating in my mind. So, it was natural that I was so quiet and less talkative, than I normally am in such settings. That being the case, I was so susceptible to seduction, and in fact I was forming tentative ideas on how to force the issue. Luckily for me, Hans made a forthright proposal for sex, and I didn't hesitate and the rest as they say was history."

Riina couldn't believe what she was hearing, and so was compelled to ask, "Don't you think you're overemphasizing the significance of this erotic dream of yours? I mean I can understand that the dream might make you want to have sex for the night; in fact that was our purpose in coming to that bar in the first place. But then to have him immediately move in with you can't be right under any circumstances. Now who does that? I think I'm on safe grounds in asserting that couples who move in together do so only after a substantial amount of time is spent in getting to know each other. And a one night stand does not fit that description."

Maia replied, "I'm not so crazy to think that I must act according to an erotic dream. Still, there's no denying that my dream reflects my sexual desires. You'll recall that before I finally lost my cherry, I was picky, and I didn't even go out on a date. But once I did do the deed with Dmitri Arkhangelsky I did a one eighty in my attitude adjustment. As you have said there's plenty of fish in the Baltic Sea, and so I became in essence a slut and a whore, and I reveled in that role.

"But now that I've spent time with Hans Kernumees, I've turned another one eighty degrees to complete a full circle so to say. If you will, once you've caught the best fish in the Baltic Sea, why continue to fish?"

Riina gasped and declared, "You can't really be in love with him. You barely know him. Are you then intending to marry him? Are you intending to become pregnant and have those four children to fulfill your duty as a patriotic Estonian woman.?"

"As you say, I probably can't logically proclaim I'm in love with him given our short acquaintanceship. But who's to say? There appears to be a phenomenal adage, that love can occur at first sight. At least that's what Hans has intimated to me as the basis of his attraction towards me. All I can definitely say is that with the hot sex I've enjoyed with Hans, I've lost my appetite to fuck others.

"As to the question do I intend to marry him, I can honestly say I certainly have no such intention at present as I do first want to finish college and do well. As to the future, I can't say, I'm not a seer. Same sentiments apply to getting pregnant, except that I do intend to deliver four children into this world before my child bearing years are over."

All Riina could reply to that, "Well Maia, good luck to you in this adventure with your Hans."

Maia, slyly intimated, "Thank you Riina for your good wishes. Now if you're really good, I just might share him with you some times. After all, that's what good friends are for!"

They both chuckled at Maia's ribald remark.

During that night Maia received a phone from Kalev Kõrvits. Since her living arrangement with Hans had been now fully established, she had deleted some non essential contact numbers on her cell phone including that of Kalev. Consequently, she had no warning as to the identity of her caller nor did she recognize his voice. Thus, the phone call transpired as follows:

"Hello."

"Hi, Maia?"

"This is she. And who might you be?"

"It's Kalev Kõrvits. You know from Friday night."

"Yes of course. Sorry I didn't recognize your voice. What can I do for you?"

At this point Kalev was beginning to sense a feeling of dread. He was nonplussed, by her answer admitting not to have recognized his voice. She ought to have known he was calling as they had exchanged contact numbers. The dread he was feeling was the realization that she might have deleted his number already.

Undaunted though, he persevered, "Well when I left you Friday night, I had indicated I was going to my brother's party celebrating the retirement of the mortgage loan on the farm so I couldn't go out with you that night. Instead, I suggested we could go out this weekend and you seemed to be willing. And so, I'm calling to ask you if you're free for dinner this coming Friday night?"

"That won't be possible. I have a boyfriend with whom I like to be exclusive."

In a shocked tone, Kalev sputtered, "You have a boyfriend? But you and I fucked on Friday night!"

"Yes, that's true and you're welcome. But as I said I wish now to be exclusive with my boyfriend."

"Why didn't you mention you had a boyfriend when you were with me?"

"That's because I hadn't met him yet. I actually met him for the first time the next night on Saturday. Since then, we've become an item as they say."

"You mean to tell me that had I not been committed to going to my brother's party, you would have been willing to go out with me and thus, wouldn't have met your so called boyfriend?"

Maia responded primly, "I guess it's a case of you snooze you lose."

Angrily, he clicked off his phone, thereby ending the call. Kalev Kõrvits was thoroughly piqued by the outcome of this call. He couldn't believe Maia Laaning was so trashy. He didn't believe for a moment that she was in a committed relationship as she asserted. She had made no secret to him that she had slept around during this first month of her first semester of her first academic year at the University of Tartu. He concluded that despite her wholesome public image and reputation in Estonia, she was a tart nothing, but a slut and a whore.

Kalev was especially irked and offended by Maia's parting contemptuous remark. After a few days, his growing anger exceeded his good sense. He started to think that Maia deserved a comeuppance and be taught a salutary lesson. As a result of his never ending anger towards her, he downloaded the three nude pictures of Maia, which she had posed for him at his request, to a revenge porn website. He maliciously added these comments: "See Estonia, your Prime Minster's daughter is nothing but a skank as she leaves nothing to the imagination".

Those photos went viral in Estonia, but provoked little to no interest elsewhere. Pictures of naked women on the internet even of celebrity women were so commonplace that it usually could not generate a scandal; embarrassment perhaps but otherwise of little consequence. Paradoxically women, who were not celebrities but everyday nondescript women, not publicly known, were subject to more harm for naked exposure of their bodies. HR departments of corporations regularly monitor the internet and will dismiss any female employee who is deemed to bring disrepute to the company. Public school teachers especially in the United States have been particularly vulnerable to such public indignity and humiliation, and some even faced criminal charges for those who had sex with their underage students.

Fortunately for Maia, Estonians were more laid back in their attitude towards nudity. Certainly, public nudity is not tolerated or allowed except in designated nudist beaches. On the other hand, private nudity is certainly not considered a big deal. As a result, although almost every Estonian with a computer had seen those nude pictures of Maia, it did not lessen her popularity. Their attitude was greatly reflected by what Maia herself had to say publicly when asked by a reporter from Õhtuleht, a tabloid with the largest daily circulation in Estonia, for her reaction.

Maia answered, "Yes those are definitely pictures of me. It occurred as a result of the person, who I was with at the time, asked to take these three pictures of me as a souvenir of our time together. I understood that it was for his own private use. Had I realized that he intended to publish them on the internet, I would have certainly refused to pose for him like I did."

The reporter then asked, "Are you embarrassed that these pictures did become exposed to the public? And what do you say about these unflattering comments accompanying the pictures?"

Maia said, "Naturally I would have preferred that these pictures would not have been exposed publicly, but otherwise I'm not particularly embarrassed. I don't have any scars or other defects on my body, that might be embarrassing. I imagine some men would find my naked body even alluring. As for the nasty comments by the photographer, I'm rather disappointed; I thought he was more of a gentleman, but I see I was mistaken in that estimation."

That public response by Maia was enough to kill the luridness and the sordidness of the story. Most Estonians viewed the incident as a peccadillo and her favorable public popularity did not diminish as a result. The public story was put to rest when the reporter from Õhtuleht asked Raimond Kruuse, the Prime Minister, for his reaction and whether he had seen the pictures in question. Kruuse replied laconically, "Yes I have, and I can only say the person, who took the pictures lacked good manners. And in any case the pictures confirm that Maia is a very beautiful woman."

As it happened, Kalev's attempt to disparage Maia's character boomeranged on him. Whenever Maia's was asked who had taken those photos of her, she had no compunction of advising that it was Kalev Kõrvits, a pharmacy student. As a result, every student at the University of Tartu plus the faculty became aware of his involvement. Kalev then found himself ostracized; no one would pay any attention to him. He was not bullied but was simply ignored. Such social exclusion became intolerable for him. As a result at end of the first semester, he withdrew from the university even though he had achieved decent grades.

He returned to his brother's farm, near Pärnu. His brother agreed to employ him as part of the farm help the brother needed to operate the farm efficiently. Kalev intended to return to the university after two years when his notoriety would have died down. However, he impregnated his local girlfriend and ended up marrying her. The rest of his life was spent in bitterness fueled by his regrets.

In due time Maia could sense that her initial attraction to Hans Kernumees evolved to an all-out, all-consuming love in the deepest sense of the word. Granted, his actual physical appearance was not to be denied. His features replicated everything she could possibly imagine as most desirable in a man for her. First of all, Hans was tall; not outrageously tall to make him an oddity, but sufficiently tall enough to make her feel comfortable in being seen side by side with him in public. Hans was eight cms taller than her height of 183 cms. (that is her height of 6' to his 6'3"). As a result, she did not appear to be taller than Hans even when she was wearing high heels.

That observation prompted Maia to recall from her tennis experience, the story of Caroline Wozniacki, a Danish professional tennis player who had reached a CHR of No 1 in the world and had an Australian Open title to her career resume. When Caroline was single, in an interview, she had intimated that she would likely want to marry a sportsman. As English was not her mother tongue, Caroline probably meant professional athlete. In any case, her first serious boyfriend was a professional golfer from northern Ireland. He was only two cms shorter than her 177 cms. (that is her height of 5'10" to his 5'9") However, despite such an actual short disparity in height, most public photos or videos of them as a couple exaggerated the difference in that she seemed to appear to be significantly taller than him. It is likely that such public impression was based on what is the average norm of height between the sexes. Caroline was 15 cms taller that the average height of adult females whereas her boyfriend was exactly dead on the average for adult males. In other words in average heterosexual couples the man is demonstratively taller than his woman on average by at least 13 cms.

Their three years long relationship seemed at least publicly to be the quintessential happy romance between a professional sporting couple, each excelling in their different sports discipline. Caroline even caddied for him at the Par 3 exhibition event the day before the start of the renowned Masters tournament. To do this she eschewed competing in a significant tennis tournament of which she was in a good position to win for herself. They were engaged to marry in Nov. 2014, but in May of that year Caroline's financé contacted her by phone to inform her that he was calling off their engagement and he had no contact with her ever since. In his public statement he stated that after the wedding invitations had been sent out, he realized that he was not yet ready to make such an important commitment in his life. Aside from the presumption that he was probably annoyed at being shorter than Caroline, there was speculation that a more important factor was the trigger of the break-up. Caroline had made it abundantly clear that she wanted to become a mother as soon as possible after marriage, and she was willing to sacrifice her successful and lucrative tennis career to achieve that end. Ergo that might have been the deal breaker for him as he did not relish in becoming a father so quickly.

In any case, to her credit, Caroline Wozniacki did not react like a bitter woman, despite being so publicly and humiliatingly scorned. Instead, she was graciously mature in publicly stating on social media to the effect that, "Well at least one good result of the end of my engagement is the fact that I'm now able to wear high heels again". In continuing her complacent attitude towards what arguably would be deemed as an undeniable painful incident in her life, she entered for the first time in her life to run the New York City marathon. That event was the largest marathon in the world, which was held on the first Sunday in November. Remarkably Caroline completed the run in under four hours, a most remarkable achievement for a novice amateur marathon appearance. When asked in an interview why she had opted to run the marathon. She responded to the effect, "I found that I had some unexpected free time in November so I felt, why not? Besides I was running for a very worthwhile charity, and so I couldn't resist."

Of course, Caroline moved on with her life, but this time having learned her lesson, she didn't make the same mistake again. Her next boyfriend, whom she married, was a retired NBA (National Basketball Association) player. He stood at 206 cms (6'9") tall; no problem for Caroline in wearing high heels with him! She temporarily retired from tennis to give birth to two children born 16 months apart before resuming to her professional tennis career.