Note: All characters in this story are of legal age. All of the characters are well over eighteen years of age.
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"Hey man, you ever see that movie "She's All that?"
"You are talking about that fucking piece of shit with Freddie Prinze Junior right?"
"Yeah."
"What are you talking about man, you going all metro on me or something?"
"Fuck you; check out Malaya over there." My gaze wandered over to a lunch table near the window where the resident class nerd sat with her face buried in a thick text book with a bag lunch at her side on the bench. Usually someone would snatch the bag and fling it out the window if she didn't watch it closely.
"Yeah so?"
"You think that she could be trained to be, you know-like hot?"
"WHAT?!!"
"You think you could like do the "My Fair Lady Thing" with Malaya Padilla?" John seemed to be on some dumb shit this afternoon and I was a little intrigued.
"What's up with you man; you seem really intrigued by this girl so what the fuck are you on about?" John didn't get much action because he had the unfortunate luck of looking too much like his scrub of a father. Some of our classmates often remarked that he resembled a middle aged man with his off kilter posture. He didn't get much action other than an odd incident with a cousin a year ago.
"Man the other day when everybody was filing out of the front door to get to the homecoming game, I was caught in the crowd and mashed up against Malaya and well, she had this really nice ass." He shrugged his shoulders to emphasize his point. I prodded him to continue by shrugging my shoulders as well.
"I'm not saying that I groped her, I'm just saying that she has a really nice bubble back there." I responded by laughing in his face so much so that he was rattled and stalked off before I could apologize. I checked my phone messages and boned up on my cramming for exams, but my eyes wandered across the cafeteria to Malaya. She was a midyear transfer and had quickly shot to the head of the class with her laser-like focus on studying. At first glance she really didn't look like much with her thick horn-rimmed glasses and button nose. She had really large plump lips for a Filipina and she always kept her hair in two ponytails with pronounced bangs in the front. Yeah, she seemed kind of cute in her own way. She always wore baggy clothing and a lot of vests over long sleeved men's shirts. There was legitimacy to John's story because you would have to probably grope her to get any sense of her body. She was completely bundled up and I found myself intrigued as well.
"Hey, how's it going Malaya?" I felt like I had an inside track with the girls being on the baseball team and all. Everybody knows that girls love jocks and I was pretty popular around the school. I stood there in front of her table wearing my letterman jacket and my award winning smile. She didn't even look up and sat there reading a thick text book and eating a plastic container of something that looked like humus. I waited a good five minutes before coughing to let her know I was standing in front of her waiting to talk.
"Yeah, what do you want?" She spoke in a strange monotone voice that was nearly robotic in nature.
"I just wanted to know how it's going." I reiterated underlining my statement with my award winning smile once more. She didn't respond turning her attention back to her text book and thrusting me into virgin territory. I wasn't used to being treated so dismissively.
"Are you always this rude?"
"Pretty much monkey boy; especially since I don't' know you from Cain and you've never even looked at me sideways before." She thumbed through a few pages taking a sip from a container of water. I noticed that she only ate her own food from home and figured it was an ethnic thing.
"Well I'm looking at you now and what's the harm in a friendly greeting?" Upon hearing this, Malaya closed her book looking up at me and pushing her thick glasses up on her nose.
"Friendly huh?" She quickly packed her things into her backpack and stood offering her hand. It was an odd business like gesture that through me socially off balance. I was used to having an easy time with girls and Malaya was starting to become work.
"Hey uh, I heard you offer tutoring for calculus. Think you could help me out?" I was actually quite good at the subject, but I wanted to crack her icy shell and decided to appeal to her intelligence.
"You-want my help?" She sounded like she didn't believe me as I shrugged wordlessly answering her question.
"That's gonna cost you and I don't come cheap jock boy." She slung her backpack over her shoulder and walked away without another word. My eyes were drawn to her but completely covered in a knee length grey skirt. I could make out the subtle sway of her cheeks which prompted me to follow her. Malaya was a quick walker and I found myself working to keep her in sight and look inconspicuous to my fellow classmates. I was stopped a couple of times by a few associates and this skinny blonde chick named Angela. She had the hots for me, but I wasn't interested in the anorexic Miley Cyrus type. I liked some meat on my women preferring big tits or curvy butts. It was even better if the chick I was hooking up with had both.
I noticed Malaya ducking into the library and chuckled to myself that I shouldn't have been surprised by her destination. She was presenting me with quite a challenge even if I didn't know what the nature of said challenge was at the moment. As I entered the two story building I didn't see her right away and barely caught a glimpse of her heading upstairs to the stacks. By the time I'd half run upstairs she'd lost herself amongst the identical rows of books. I felt my pulse quicken not fully understanding why as I traversed the narrow walkway between the library walls.
"Stalking me already?" I found Malaya leaning against a shelf near the back of the library staring at me as I outed myself looking for her. She had me dead to rights because there was no way I could deny that I was looking for her.
"You forgot to tell me how much?" I hated myself but I sounded nervous and my words sounded like the lie they were.