I am the last person anyone would expect to have a threesome.
I play by the rules, I pay my library fines and I don't have much of a problem being "the good girl."
I'm the friend you call to bring walk your dog and take in your mail while you're out of town. I'm not the person who stays out late, does shots or gives tips on blow jobs.
It's not that I don't like having fun. I just think fun is best had by reading a good book, binging on Netflix or grabbing a cappucinno with full-fat milk. My vices are chocolate and over-the-top rom coms.
If you were to ask my sorority sisters, or even my boyfriend, I think the word they'd use to describe my predilections is "vanilla." I'm not the person you go to for kink. I don't smoke or do drugs. I've never been arrested. I don't even have any parking tickets.
I'll plan a mixer with Theta Chi, but I'm not going to go home with the frat's president just because he mixed me some strong rum and cokes.
And while my life is just the way I like it - calm, respectable and headed somewhere my parents can be proud of - my roommate Justine thinks I'm the epitome of boring.
"Don't you at least want to think about coming out on a Wednesday night?" Justine asks. She's standing in front of the mirror on our shared vanity, a nearly purple lipstick in hand. "It's like quarter beer night or something. We'll be drunk for less than two dollars."
"I have to study," I say. My books are laid out in front of me on my full-size bed. Because Justine and I live in the sorority house rather than the dorms, we have more space than most students. Our beds line up against the far wall of the room, hers rumpled and never made, mine neat and covered in a muted floral duvet.
"I know for a fact that you don't have class until 11:00 tomorrow. That's plenty of time to catch up in the morning." As she talks, Justine pushes her boobs up in the black silk halter she's wearing and pushes her dark skinny jeans lower on her hips to reveal just a peek of her stomach. Her heeled black sandals make her seem much taller than her 5'4" stature would entail.
"It's a school night," I say. You would think my Old Navy sweats and faded t-shirt make it pretty clear I'll be spending the night in.
"It's college," she says, sticking her tongue out at me in the mirror.
In many ways, Justine is my opposite. With long black hair, olive skin and big brown eyes, she's the girl all the boys call "exotic." She also grew up as only child with just her mom in the picture. The two of them are more like best friends than mother-daughter, and she's been known to brag about losing her virginity at 14 to an older guy from a band that she used a fake id to sneak out and see.
I'm the stereotypical Midwestern blonde with fair skin, blue eyes and shoulder-length hair that is always, and I mean always, blown dry and put in my place before I'll be seen in public for the day. I was also a virgin until last year when I met my now boyfriend.
"I'm not asking you to cheat on Robert or anything," she says. "I just think we can have some fun."
"Maybe next time," I say, "once this Lit paper is behind me."
"You've been telling me that you'd join me 'next time' for the last six months. I guess I should get the hint."
"I know, it's just that ..."
"Yeah, I know. You need to study. Or have a quiet night with Robert. Or your dad is going to call."
"So?"
"So, I just think it's be fun if you let loose for once," she says.
"I can blow off steam with the best of them," I say.
"Jane, you know I love you, but you're as loose as a coiled spring."
"Someone has to be responsible," I say.
"Yes, but it doesn't have to always be you. Let someone else hold the reins for once. You might surprise yourself."
"OK," I say. "I'll think about it ... for next time."
Justine sighs. "Yes, next time."
Then, she grabs her purse from her bed and gives me a quick kiss on the top of the head. "Don't wait up."
"Never," I say.
Then, with Justine out for the night, I easily draft my paper in the quiet of our room and manage to turn in by 10:00. It's the early bird that gets the worm after all.
I'm not sure what time it is or how long I've been asleep when I heard a crashing sound in the hallway. I roll over and peer from beneath the covers just in time to see a crack of light as the door to our room is pushed open. I'm about to call out and ask Justine if she's OK when I hear a deeper voice.
"Watch out," he says. "I don't want you to sprain your ankle on those shoes."
Justine giggles. "I'm fine," she says. "I'm just a little tipsy."
"A little?"
"Shhh," she says. "Be quiet. I don't want to wake up Jane."
"I thought you said we could be alone here."
"We can," she says. "Jane sleeps like a rock. If you'll excuse me for a moment, I'd like to get more comfortable." Justine slips into our bathroom while her visitor remains in the room. While she's gone, he shuts the door to our room. By the light escaping beneath the bathroom door, I can see that he is tall and broad-shouldered. His biceps bulge just a bit beneath the sleeves of his collared shirt, and he looks like he could be a runner.
When Justine steps out of the bathroom, her shoes are off. Rather than closing the bathroom door and shutting off the light, she leaves the door cracked, and now I can make out both of their forms in pretty good detail. With his dark, curly hair and chiseled face, Justine found herself a looker at the bar.
"Are you sure she's asleep?" he says. Then he pointedly looks towards my spot in the bed, and while I know that he shouldn't be able to see me beneath the covers, his eyes still seem to find mine.
"Yes, I'm sure," she says. "Besides, I'm horny." I watch as Justine presses her body against a tall, broad stranger. Her lips meet his, and I can almost feel the heat off of them as he runs his hands from her waist along her sides to just beneath her breasts.
"I think you should stay," she says, pulling her mouth from his.
"I like that idea," he says, his hands now running behind her back and up her shirt. He pushes her backwards towards her bed, which is closest to the door. He can't take his eyes off Justine.
Justine steps back a few more feet and sits on the foot of her bed. The dark stranger moves towards her and pushes her legs open with his knee. Standing with her legs on either side of him, he leans down to kiss her again.
I want to say something. I want to announce my presence. I even consider coughing or tossing loudly in bed, but I can't seem to move. Despite Justine's more adventurous habits, she's never brought a guy home like this, with me in the next bed, and even though I think I should interrupt, I'm transfixed by the sight of the two of them together.
I know Justine well. We've been roommates for almost two years, but the woman across the room from me now is different somehow. Raw. Wild. Hungry. I can't stop looking at her.
The stranger reaches his hands behind her neck, and I see him untie her halter top. The top half of her shirt now hangs loose in front, and I watch as he moves his hands down to her breasts. "My God," he whispers. "You're beautiful."
From the moans that escape Justine's mouth, I know he's found her nipples, and I can make out his tough hands pinching and rolling the sensitive skin there.
"Yes," she says. "Oh, yes."
He pulls his hands from her breasts and moves to her waist where he unbuttons her jeans and bends down to push her pants to the floor. Justine looks down and steps the rest of the way out of those very jeans. I see the lines of her G-string and the smooth rounded cheeks of her buttocks. I've always known Justine was beautiful, but seeing her nearly naked in the half light, I'm amazed by the curves of her body. The stranger reaches his hands up to caress her butt, and I hear more moans.
I watch as he slides one finger beneath the string running between her ass cheeks. "Very nice," he says. Then, quickly, he rises and stands over Justine once again. He pulls her shirt over her head. "Turn around," he says .
Justine does as she's commanded, and when she does, I see her full breasts for the first time. Perky and round, they're larger than mine. I guess she wears at least a D-cup, and her nipples are also larger than mine, like brown disks begging for attention. The stranger pulls her shirt over her head and reaches around to her front and begins kneading and pulling on those nipples once again, and I watch as they harden beneath his fingers. Then he bends down to kiss her neck. Justine snakes her left arm behind her to hold on to his neck with he licks and nibbles at the base of her collar bone.
"Do you like that?" he says.
"Uh-huh," she says.
"What else do you like?"
"I like your hands on my breasts."
"Oh yeah."
"Yeah," she says. "Pull harder."
With that, I watch as the stranger grabs a nipple in each hand and pulls until I can see each breast stretched far in front of Justine. It looks almost painful, but the expression on Justine's face says otherwise.
Then, the stranger's hands drop back to her chest. While he continues to massage and knead her left breast, his right hand trails down her side, where it rests at her waist. Then, slowly, that same hand snakes lower, his middle digit trailing through Justine's neatly trimmed pubic hair to a spot just between her legs. Justine bucks forward and up.
"You want something?" he says.
"Touch me," she says.
"Touch you where?" he says.
"Touch me down there."
"Where?"
"Down there," she says.
"You can do better than that," he says. "Where do you want me to touch you?"
"I want you to touch my pussy," she says.
"Your pussy?" he says.
"Yes," she says.
"Like this?" he says, and I can see his hand bury itself further between her legs. From the motion he makes, I imagine he's running his hand along her slit.
"Yes," she says. "Just like that."
Suddenly, the stranger's hand comes back forward, and I can barely make it out as he pinches his thumb and forefinger together. Justine whimpers, and I realize that's he's pinching her clit. From the look on her face, he could be hurting her. But just as quickly as he began, he releases his fingers and returns to running his hand up and down her heat.
"Do you like that?"
"Yes," she says.
"Does my hand feel good on your pussy?"
"Yes," she says.
"What else do you want?" he says.