This is chapter 2 in a series, one I have been working on for awhile. If you like what you are reading, please take the time to VOTE and COMMENT when you finish! I know that might be hard with the mess on your hands, but please show a struggling author some love!
Tara glanced over at Bryan as he drove his '97 Mustang Cobra to the movie theater by the mall. He's so cute, she thought, yet so clueless sometimes. She loved being with him; he was strong, well-muscled, and athletic, yet he could surprise her with moments where he was sensitive, even romantic. Some things came naturally to him; he could read a defense better than anyone, making him the best fullback in college football last season, and everyone felt he was on pace to do it again this year.
Some things were not, and picking up social cues from her was most definitely not his forte. For example, she had brought up the idea of going to the movies as a pointer to tell him that she wanted to spend alone time together, but he saw it as a request for an informal meet and greet between her and his college buddies. He called them on their way out the door to dinner, before she could even say a word, and told the guys to all meet up at their favorite hot spot, the Milk Crate (a rather crude place with darts and pool tables which traditionally served a glass of milk to newly legal patrons on their 21st birthday).
Tara and Bryan had met in high school when he was a struggling senior, and she was a slightly less jaded junior who offered tutor time after school for $10/ hour, any subject. What started as paid study time soon took hold as a romantic relationship, and he started paying for study sessions with a steady supply of jock cock. This revelation at school led to a stream of criticism about their unlikely pairing, the dumb jock and his genius girlfriend, and thus began Tara's journey into the extreme. The hair dye and emo-kid clothes were not in rebellion of her parents (actually, her home life was great, and her parents supported anything that was good for her), but rather as a wake-up call to the social elite of her school: Like it or not, she had crossed the jock-nerd line, and found a great guy who loved her, and there was nothing they could say or do to change it.