This week I took a trip to the city of spires (that's Oxford for those of you that don't know) and it got me reminiscing about the student years.... Days spent panicking about overdue essays and hiding from tutors at the back of the lecture hall. Although most of my time was spent trying to discover exactly how much tequila I could stomach before ending up face down on the High Street singing 'fat bottomed women make the world go round'.
But the main thing I remember about that time is the 'boys'. The endless supply of boys... At no other period in your life is there such an immense availability and variety of them.... Whatever your preference, taste, inclination or desire you were pretty much guaranteed to be able to find your 'flavour' somewhere in Oxford.
My personal taste at that time was the 'Greaser'... Unappetising as he sounds, he was the subject of 90% of my college fantasies...the other 10% belonging to my French lecturer whose voice melted me like chocolate. My Greaser had long, usually unwashed hair and his black leather jacket left me weak at the knees and weak in my morals! HE fought the system...HE didn't take shit from anyone...AND he was million miles away from the clean-shaven, preppy boys that congregated on the college grounds discussing the cost of the latest Mercedes and how totally out of 'ord Piggy was at the last fondue ski weekend in Aspen.'
Ok!....So The Greaser didn't really communicate beyond a series of grunts & sniffs...he probably didn't understand the concept of 'paying for dinner' and what I'd heard of his music appreciation stretched as far as Motorhead and no further... but there was something about the way that boy straddled his old Triumph that made me salivate and made my pussy throb with nervous anticipation!
Not that I had any intention of giving into my newly discovered carnal desires.. Oh no! I had every intention of remaining a good girl... But well... That boy did things to me... Or rather I so wanted him to do things to me...
It wasn't until my third year that I finally found myself in touching distance of The Greaser. It had been a typical Friday evening and a group of us girls had decided that the pub was the only antidote to that afternoon's coma inducing lecture on 17th century French poetry. But it had turned into a disappointing evening fending off the affections of half-cut rugby players ...when I'd heard the deep guttering rumble of HIS Triumph coming down the road... I turned to see him pulling up next to us, his shiny black helmet glistening with late evening dewiness.. And I was suddenly very aware of how short my skirt was and how hard my heart was thumping.
He barely acknowledged my existence as he pushed through our group of giggling girls, his almost Neanderthal gait did nothing but increase my desire for him and I ignored the warning whispers of my friends as I followed him into the darkly lit pub.
I didn't know what I was going to do, or what I was going to say to him. All I knew was I wanted to get close enough to him to touch the leather of his jacket and breathe him in. He had propped himself up at the end of the bar and was scanning the room with his piercing blue eyes, I averted my stare when his scan fell on me, but I knew he'd seen me watching him from my position near the women's toilets. I dared a look back at him after a few seconds and he was still watching me...my heart was thumping so hard I could have sworn it was drowning out the music playing in the bar. I suddenly felt very exposed and stupid...I decided to hide in the loos until I felt more composed and could think of a way to walk past him and out of the pub without falling over my 4 inch heels!