This takes place in a universe where young women go through a period of eligibility for being trained sexually by men whose daughters have also gone through (or are in) that stage. For each girl, it begins with a public Festival after her 18th birthday. Many thanks to the author of How to Train your Daughter for the universe, which I have taken some liberties with. This takes place after "Roommates in Training" and before "Untraining Yourself".
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He'd picked her up at a lecture. Or picked her out, although there hadn't been an abundance of eligible girls to choose from, it being a Saturday evening talk on algebraic topology.
The previous evening, her suitemate and friend Michelle had been summoned to the house of a trustee for an extended training session. Michelle was thrilled about it -- he had a pool and several of his friends were coming. She told Emily that she was going to be naked all weekend and the men had a bet for who was going to be able to bring her the most orgasms. The winner was going to perform with her a sexual act so decadent that she wouldn't even tell Emily what it was.
To Emily, this sounded awful. Being trained by one man was bad enough -- not having any privacy for your own body, having your secret parts be on display for him, and having to obey perfectly or risk punishment, even if you were trying in earnest to please. But she was glad that Michelle was excited, and more than a little envious of how much she was enjoying herself.
Emily, meanwhile, wasn't sure what to do with herself for the weekend. She wanted to find something to do, somewhere to go where she could around other people but where she was unlikely to be claimed for a session of her own.
She could have seen what the other girls in her dormitory were doing, but while she and Michelle had immediately taken to each other, the other girls seemed to keep their distance, and Emily couldn't figure out whether the issue was her roommate, herself, or a little bit of both.
She thought that a lecture would be a safe place to stay unnoticed. Emily had found that extracurricular academic events tended to be attended more heavily by the male graduate students or younger professors who were not yet eligible to train girls rather than by the older ones. When you had every 18-year-old girl at your sexual disposal, she supposed, you might have better things to do with your free evenings than go to lectures.
It was November and Emily was dressed as appropriately for the weather as you could be, within the bounds of decorum as an eligible girl. Her fuzzy brown boots kept her feet and calves warm on the walk across campus, but her short denim miniskirt did nothing to protect anything above her calves from the cold or wind.
This was the unofficial uniform of girls in training on campus this winter, and she consoled herself while she walked that while she may not have been comfortable, at least she was doing a sufficient job of displaying the thighs and ass she'd worked so hard in the gym to develop. She'd allowed herself a navy sweater, but kept it properly unbuttoned to show off the tops of her ample breasts. Her long brown hair was, as usual, pulled back.
The lecture was being held in one of the smaller classrooms in the math building. There were about twenty people in attendance, of whom just a couple of others were women, and she guessed they were both likely old enough to have aged or married out of training. It was sunset already when the lecture started - cold and dark outside - but the room was warm and warmly lit. The thick red carpet muffled all the footsteps, and the oak podium and matching chairs were just a bit nicer than the furniture in the big undergraduate lecture halls where Emily had most of her classes.
She noticed him about halfway through the lecture. By that point, she had concluded that it was over her head and mostly given up on understanding it, contenting herself with grasping the very occasional sentence. She didn't recognize anyone from her math class and she guessed they were mostly upperclassmen or graduate students. She didn't feel dumb, exactly, just a bit off -- like somewhere else there was a room where she belonged and where everyone was having a slightly worse time for her lack of presence.
Having given up on understanding what was being said, she was playing a game to herself that, against her better judgment, she'd allowed Michelle to sell her on. In it, you guessed at the approximate size and shape of the genitals of men around you. Michelle would go a step further and try to determine whether her guess was true by coming up with contrivances, of which she had a surprising number, to get men to show them enough to confirm or disconfirm their guesses; Emily was not nearly bold enough to go down that route, so her guesses tended to be purely academic.
As part of the game, she scanned the room and tried to do so discreetly. Graduate students tended to be just a bit more threadbare than the undergraduates, although all of the men were well-dressed, as men tended to be. The lecturer tonight was in a dark gray suit, complete with a tie. Most of the rest of the men were in slacks and button ups, with the occasional polo shirt.
She noticed him because he was complementing his otherwise-ordinary khaki slacks and blue button-up with a light pink bow tie and matching pocket square. She thought this made him look rather dapper, and she liked that he was taking notes with a fountain pen. She thought he looked older, but she wasn't sure if he was old enough to be a trainer. She tried to formulate a guess about his penis but just felt foolish: while Michelle swore there were tells, Emily had never been able to find any, so it just seemed random.
He approached her after the lecture as she was scooping some baby carrots onto her plate. He was holding a glass of wine and now that she was standing close to him, she could see that he was tall and thin.
"Just a terrific talk tonight, wasn't it?" He smiled at her and she froze up. You weren't supposed to shake hands with men who were eligible - it was rude, since it implied that you were just offering them your hand and not your whole body. But for her to put her hands behind her back and push her chest out, the way you were supposed to do it if you were at the beginning of a possible training session, felt like an awkward way to greet him if he just wanted to chat about topology. Emily tried to split the difference as she stood up a little straighter and responded.
"It was just great. I really enjoyed it." She put a big smile on her face and hoped he wouldn't ask her about the specifics of what she liked about it.
"So nice to see a young lady interested in this kind of thing! What a special girl that makes you."
Emily continued to smile and nod. The real question between them, what would dictate where this encounter might go, remained unanswered.
"And would you be an eligible girl, my dear?"