"Tell me what's going on," I said.
The topic was her roommate Kathryn, who had walked in on us "au naturel" yesterday. We were now on the quad, on Julia's blanket, at the appointed hour, so Julia could explain to me what was happening between her and Kathryn. Julia was, surprisingly enough, fully dressed. I guessed today wasn't a day for the flash-my-boobs game.
Julia started the explanation. "She'd never seen a dick before" she said.
"That's what you were doing?" I asked. "She wanted to see my dick? Did she ask you to set me up like that?" That didn't sound right. She wouldn't do that, would she?
"Oh, no, no, no. She'd never ask. She much too..." Julia paused. "... too restrained for that."
"You mean she's repressed and has a stick up her ass?" I asked, laughing.
"That's not funny," she said. "This is serious."
I wiped the smile off my face. I would be a gentleman. "You just decided to show her one? How did you know she'd never seen a dick?" I asked. "Did she tell you that?"
"Not in so many words," Julie said. "She kept asking me all sorts of questions about yours. What it looked like, what it felt like, how big it was. She wanted to know what it was like when it was getting hard and when it was wet and when it squirted. Question after question. I guessed she'd never seen one of her own."
"Were you right?"
"Oh, yeh. When she walked in on us yesterday, I watched her eyes while you were putting on your clothes. They were glued to your dick. Not just when she was screaming, but while you were getting your boxers and pants on. Her eyes nearly bugged out of her head. After you left, I asked her, and, sure enough, that was the very first one she'd ever seen."
That brought me to an irrelevant question I had been thinking about asking. Now was the time. "What about you?" I asked. "Was mine the first dick you'd seen?"
Julia made a face like that was a stupid question. "Of course not, dumbhead. I've had boyfriends before! And in case you're wondering, yours was not the first hand job I've given. You're not the only one with experience, you know." She paused to make sure I got the message, then added, "Not only that, but I've got a brother and a father. They have dicks, you know. I've seen dicks before." She looked at me to make sure I'd been appropriately put in my place.
Ok. I got the point. Back to the subject. "Kathryn doesn't have brothers?" I asked.
Julia brightened, getting ready to say something interesting. "No, she has three! Three brothers."
"She grew up in a house with three brothers and has never seen a dick?" I asked. "How is that possible?" I thought of my own family. My own sister has seen my dick so often that she doesn't even bother looking at it. Hard or soft, it's like part of the wallpaper. It's there, but not something to notice.
Julia shrugged. "Every family is different," she said. "I guess you can make it happen if you work at it."
"So that's the big problem you were helping her with? That she needed to see a dick? Really?" I asked.
Julia shook her head, slowly and thoughtfully. "Oh, no. That's just a tiny part of the problem. The real problem is that she's so horny that I think she's going to explode. She has trouble even sitting still sometimes. She has trouble sleeping. Sometimes I feel like I should throw a bucket of water on her to cool her down. She's really desperate."
I didn't understand. "There are a ton of boys around," I said. "What's the problem? She can find somebody. She's not shy around boys, and she likes to flirt. She's cute and nice and friendly. If I didn't have you, I'd be interested in her. If she's that horny, why doesn't she do something about it?"
Then I thought of something else. "By the way, what happened with her and Dave? She was flirting with him, and they went out once, and that was the end of it. Didn't she like him?"
Dave hadn't told me what had happened, but Julia knew. "I asked her about that. She said that he tried to make out with her and touch her boobs. You know, feel her up. She didn't like that."
There was an obvious question here. "If she's that horny," I asked, "isn't being felt up a good thing? Why didn't she want that?"
Julia answered the question, excitedly. Now she was getting to the good part. "That's what's wrong!" she said "That's the essence of it! She doesn't know what her problem is. She thinks she's just stressed out, but I don't believe it. She's doing great in her classes, has a lot of friends, doesn't miss her family that much. She loves being in the choir. Of all the people here, she's the one who's adapted best to going away to college. Everything is perfect for her."
"Except one thing," I said.
"Except one thing," Julia replied. "It took me a while to figure out what was going on, and what she was thinking. Then, a couple of days ago, it dawned on me. She doesn't know what it means to be horny. She doesn't understand the concept. She has all these really intense emotions bottled up and doesn't know what's causing them. She doesn't have a name for it."
"How can a person not know they're horny?" I asked. I certainly never had any trouble like that.
"Exactly the question. She just doesn't understand," Julia said.
There was another possibility. "It could be something else making her jittery and not sleeping," I said. "Is she using any drugs?"
"I thought of that," Julia said. "I've gone through every inch of her stuff and there's absolutely nothing. She's clean as clean can be. She doesn't even have a Tylenol. Nothing."
"You went through her stuff?" I asked.
"I thought it was ok since my motives were pure. I'm trying to help her, so I did it. It's ok. She doesn't know."
That wasn't a very convincing justification, but I ignored it. "Maybe she's having trouble adapting to not having a private room. Maybe if she just had some 'alone time,' if you know what I mean?" I suggested.
"I tried that. One time, I told her that I was going to be away for a couple of hours, so if she needed to jill, it would be a good time. I promised not to come back early."
"You just came out with it like that?" I asked. That was pretty brazen. "Did she go for it?"