Everyone doing anything sexual is over 18.
^^^August 19th, 2021^^^
"YOU! What are YOU doing here!" Emma shouted.
The twenty-one-year-old college-junior stared daggers at the tall, well-built young man.
JT turned toward the screaming harpy with a look of surprise on his face. He was a new student at Indiana University. A transfer from a junior college. He was startled by the vitriol directed his way. He recognized his accuser. It was a classmate from high school. Back then, he doubted she knew he existed. They'd never had a conversation.
He was among the roughly nine thousand new students admitted to the school. Many of them were here at CultureFest to meet people, watch live performances, receive free goodies, and purchase entrees from a dozen food trucks. It was also an opportunity to learn about the six hundred-plus clubs and organizations at the school.
"You have some nerve!" Emma shouted. Spittle flew out of her mouth. She looked at the student manning the Habitat for Humanity booth and said, "You don't want this guy. He's a sexual predator. He beat up his date to the high school prom!"
TJ sighed and clenched his teeth and fists as he fought to maintain his composure. He slowly walked out of the area while hundreds of eyes were on him. He heard the crowd murmured, "Who is that guy?" and "He beat up some girl."
^^^Flash back about two and a half years. TJ's senior prom afterparty.^^^
Susie shouted, "Stop, TJ!"
A crowd appeared. They saw Susie sitting on the ground. Her top was pulled up, and since she wasn't wearing a bra, her cupcake-size breasts were exposed. She was crying and bleeding from her lower lip. One eye was swollen shut.
They saw TJ kneeling over her. He had blood on his hand and shirt.
Cheryl yelled, "Leave her alone."
Another classmate yelled, "Stop hitting her."
Four guys grabbed TJ and dragged him away.
A half-dozen girls swarmed Susie. One yelled, "Get him out of here." Another said, "Susie, you're coming home with me."
TJ struggled until Susie stood and said, "Go home, TJ."
^^^two hours after TJ was accosted by Emma at Indiana University^^^
TJ was pounded beers in the backyard of his parent's home with some high school buddies. He crushed the empty container, stood, and violently threw it into a trash can. It went in, clanged off the side, and crashed noisily against the metal bottom.
"That bitch ruined my first day at IU! Maybe all of them!" the brown-haired young man shouted.
"What bitch?" TJ's Uncle Ernie asked as he exited the house and joined the group. He helped himself to a cold brew from the cooler, popped the tab, and downed half of it.
"Emma Carlisle," TJ answered.
"The busty blonde who was the captain of your high school dance team?"
"Yeah," his nephew said.
Harry, who played football with TJ in twelfth grade, said, "That's the one. She's smart and pretty but a pain in the ass. A know-it-all. A stuck-up bitch. A feminist who's always complaining about something. Sexism. Equal rights. Equal pay."
"She's the one who led the bracott at school," Jerry, another high school chum, chipped in.
^^^three years ago^^^
Early one September morning, Emma got a message on her phone from Tim, concerning the upcoming protest at their high school. It read, "Hi let's blow up the patriarchy."
She responded, "Yes! I'm ready!"
The eighteen-year-old put on the tight tee-shirt imprinted with the words "Free the Nipple" over her braless breasts, took a photo and sent it out to the senior class.
She put a hoodie on to cover the shirt and had breakfast with her family. After she walked out of the front door, she sent a text that read, "Some people think women are the problem. That our bodies and our sexuality need to be controlled. We Are Not The Problem! Stop trying to control us and keep women down! We're doing this to support Patty Cromwell and all women!"
She smiled as she saw many likes and messages of support. Some women sent out braless selfies. Some of the guys sent pics of themselves with Band-Aid 'X's' over their nipples.
She drove to school and parked. She exchanged high fives and was cheered by her classmates.
When Emma entered the school, she took off her hoodie and walked proudly down the packed main hall braless in a white see-through tee-shirt. "FREE THE NIPPLE" was printed in capital letters on the front of the shirt. Her boobs jiggled, and her hard, pink nipples were visible.
She shouted, "Time to stand up for equal rights!"
Her cohorts, Tim, Lee, Ivy, and Gil smiled and looked at Emma's bouncing breasts and her pokey nipples.
"Looking pretty sexy," Ivy said as she filmed her friend with her phone.
"Really?" Emma asked in response to her BFF's comment.
Gil said, "Yeah. Isn't that the point?"
"No," Emma said as she tossed Free The Nipple tee-shirts to the boys.
Lee looked at his shirt and said, "Nice."
"Don't put them on until the end of first period," she instructed.
Tim said, "We know the plan."
Emma turned to Ivy and whispered, "Do I look like a hooker?"
"No. You look powerful. Sexy, not slutty," Ivy reassured her. She handed Emma a folded piece of paper with the names of other women at school who'd agreed to participate in the protest.
"Thanks."
Ivy opened her hoodie to show her friend that she wasn't wearing a bra. Her soft cotton tee-shirt hugged her breasts. The outlines of her areolas and stiff nips were visible.
"Check me out," she said to Emma. Ivy shook her shoulders and made her tits wobble under her cream-colored top.
Emma smiled and tapped her friend's breasts, causing them to jiggle. She teased, "Nice knockers."
Ivy blushed.
Lee said to Emma, "Are you gonna put something over your tee-shirt before math class?"
"Why should she?" Tim asked.