"Dave said he wants to see you naked," I told Julia.
There was much more news of course. I had to tell her that my roommate Dave had been spying on her while she was humping my thigh to orgasm last night. I couldn't keep that kind of information from her, could I? It was best, though, to get to the topic gently. I didn't know how she would take it, so I decided to start off with a somewhat simpler topic.
Julia swallowed her mouthful of milk. "Ok," she said, laying the cup onto the table. Then she looked over at my tray and added "Are you going to eat those potato chips?"
Well, that was disappointing. "That's it?" I asked. "Just 'ok'?" I had expected a stronger reaction.
We were in the dining hall the day after, for a late lunch, so not too many people were around. I pushed my plate toward her so that she could take the chips. They were a little stale, so I didn't really want them anyway.
"Yeh," she said, completely nonchalant. "If he wants to see me naked, he can. Why not?"
Then she thought for a moment and asked, "Did he say it in those words? Just like that? 'I want to see Julia naked.' Like that?"
"His language," I answered, "was a little more vivid, but that was the idea."
Julia giggled excitedly. "Oooo, tell me. I've got to hear the exact words."
I swallowed, cleared my throat, and answered carefully. "His exact words were, 'I wish I could get a good long look at those pointy titties that stick out through her shirt all the time.' I edited it for politeness. I didn't want to offend your lady-like ears."
"You're quite a gentleman, looking out for my sensibilities," she said. "Does he only want to look or does he have other things in mind."
"I imagine," I said, still speaking very formally, "that there were other things he would like to do, but he did not mention them. It would be wrong of me to make assumptions."
"He's already seen those pointy titties a bunch of times, hasn't he?" she asked.
She was speaking of all the opportunities that he, and everybody else in the dorm, had had to look down, up, thru, and into her carefully-disarranged shirt to catch glimpses of her always-braless boobs. "Sure," I said, dropping the fake formality. "I think he's looking for..." I hesitated, looking for the right words. "I think he wants a good, long look, where he doesn't have to pretend he's not looking."
She nodded. "He's always so polite. A gentleman, like you. He acts like he's not looking and tries not to get caught. I like that. Not like some other assholes." (The asshole she was referring to was Ed, who lives in the room next to mine, and who thought it was sexy and manly to leer. But more about him later.) "If Dave wants a good long look, that's fine. I'll show him."
I ate one of the stale potato chips. I was stalling for time, but finally I worked up my nerve. "Maybe he's not as much of a gentleman as you think," I said, getting to the real topic.
She was puzzled. She was waiting for me to explain, so I just came out with it. "He was watching you hump my leg and cum. He was awake. He saw the whole thing."
That took a moment to register. One expression after another crossed her face, as she tried to decide what she thought about that. "We thought he was asleep," she finally said.
"Yeh. He gave me some bullshit about having a sex-detector that wakes him up when there's sex going on. He probably just woke up when we opened the door. That makes a noise."
She considered. "So he just laid there and watched us and didn't say anything? He was just lying there watching?"
It was worse than that. "No, not just laying there. He was jacking off. He came at the same time you did."
"He was jacking off and we didn't notice? And he came and everything and we had no idea?" she asked, incredulously.
"We were busy," I said. That was certainly true.
"So he was jacking off while he was watching me masturbate and give you a hand job?" She was quiet for a moment, then said. "I wish I'd known that. I was trying so hard to be quiet and I didn't need to. And I could have watched him jack off."
That was her response? A guy spied on her masturbating and she really didn't care? She confuses me sometimes.
"Does he know you're telling me?" she asked.
"Yeh. He's didn't want me to. He thought you'd be embarrassed. I told him that you'd probably rip his eyes out."
"Good answer," she said. "Let him think that."
"You're not mad?" I asked.
"Conners," she said, "this has great potential. He needs to suffer. That isn't his first fuckup either, what with that personal stuff he spilled to that looney girlfriend. We can rake him over the coals."
I understood what she had in mind, or at least I thought I did. Little did I know. "We can have a good time with this, can't we?"
"Yep," she said. "Lots of fun. He's at our mercy. But we need a plan. He wants to see me naked, and I'll want lots in return. He's not going to get it for free."
We were quiet for a bit. I thought she was coming up with a plan, but she'd been distracted. Her mind was on something else. She picked up the crappy pickle off my plate and took a bite. She grimaced. She didn't like it either.
Then she told me what was really on her mind. "Would you be jealous?" she said. "I mean, if I just walked into your room and took off my shirt and showed him everything, wouldn't you be jealous?"
I thought about that. I shook my head. I know I was supposed to say that I wouldn't be jealous because it's your body and you're not my property, and it's not my place to tell you what to do. Your body, your choices. Or some other such politically correct non-misogynist bullshit.
It was true that I wasn't jealous, but being a "modern male" wasn't the reason. I wasn't jealous because it didn't occur to me to be. Maybe it's because I'm not the jealous type, or because I know that Julia is Julia and she likes to have fun showing off. Or maybe it was simply that the thought of her showing him her boobs turned me on too.
So I answered, absolutely honestly. "I wouldn't be jealous," I said, shaking my head some more. "If you want to do it, go ahead. Show him whatever you want. Really."