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Chris' Red Rocket
I am sitting in the library, waiting for my next student. I can't even remember what it is I am supposed to be tutoring now. I look in my agenda. I note that I am meeting with a new student Chris at 3:30pm. It's 4:00pm, and I am still waiting in the library. Although let's face it, where else would a 4.0 GPA student with no social life be at 4:00pm on a Friday. It's not like I have entered the student union pub during my two years at college. Chris is probably at the student union drinking right now.
I take another sip of the coffee in my thermos as I wait for Chris to not show up. I will certainly need all the caffeine I can get as I learn how to audit the payables account cycle. I hear footsteps, and I glance up. As I look up I see one of the most beautiful redheaded women I have ever l seen. She approaches the study room I am in.
Her wavy red hair extends to her shoulders. Her emerald green eyes are looking directly at me. She is wearing a black leather jacket, and matching leather pants, and boots. She is holding a motorcycle helmet in her left hand, and she is wearing a backpack. She has to be at least 5'10" and she is likely over 230lbs. Some guys like thin women, and good for them. Maybe I am just wired differently. I just prefer women who are bigger. As icing on the cake, she also has a pierced lip, and crimson lipstick. She is both fierce and beautiful at the same time.
"Excuse me!" she asks. "I am looking for my tutor."
I take my eyes off of her long and fiery red hair to look at my agenda. I sigh to myself and think why I am never lucky enough to tutor a really hot student like this.
"I doubt it. I am looking for someone named Chris, who is probably some dude who is already drunk off his ass. While I am here looking at sampling techniques to use when reviewing accounts payable. I admire Chris, he must know how to enjoy himself. He is smart enough not to be here."
A Cheshire cat grin comes across the red headed woman. She extends a hand. "Hi, I am Christina."
I turn a red color and stand up. "I am so sorry, I just assumed .... "
"Don't be sorry. I am 30 minutes late. I forgot about our appointment until I was at an intersection and felt my cell phone buzz reminding me of my appointment. I got here as soon as I could," Christina explained. "I practically raced across the city to get here."
While Christina apologized I could not help but wondering if I was having a dream. "I am sorry, I just assumed that Chris was some dude wearing flip flops with a beer in one hand, and a bong in the other."
"No, but that sounds like my brother Nick." Christina replied with her eyebrows raised. "Or maybe my ex!"
"I am so sorry. I ..." stammer like an idiot.
"Are you trying to set a world record for the number of times apologizing to a woman in five minutes?" she asks with a glimmer in her eyes. I could literally stare into those eyes for eternity. "I think my ex already set that record when I found him screwing another girl in the parking lot behind his work."
"Did the apology work?" I asked.
"Sure, and then I apologized for letting the air out of his tires."
"It's just that I didn't want offend you."
"I am just messing with you," Christina chortles. "So I guess I only have thirty minutes left?"
"I really wasn't doing anything important, and it's not like I have anywhere else to be, so we might as well complete a one hour session," I answer, trying to appear smooth. This is a bit difficult considering that I am a huge nerd. I sense she can see right through me. "So let me guess, you're a marketing student?"
Christina sits down and puts her backpack on the table. "Nope!" She replies.
"Sorry I am used to tutoring marketing students who begrudgingly have to take an accounting course. Are you in another business program?" I enquire.
"Nope, try again!" Christina replies.
"Are you an accounting student?" I ask.
"God no! I would never be able to stand the boredom. I am in the small engines program," Christina replies.
"Why are you taking accounting 101 then?" I ask.
"It is a long story," she answers.
"So what is it that you are having a problem with?" I ask.
"Let's start with the concept of debit versus credit," she states.
"Think of debit as the greek word for left hand side, and credit as the greek word for right hand side." I remarked.
"Wait! Why don't you just say left hand side and right hand side," she asks.
"Because it is more syllables than debit or credit." I answer, "as long as your left hand side equals the right hand side, all is okay."
She sits down and takes off her leather jacket, and her boots. The image of her unzipping her leather makes my heart palpitate.
"Mind if I take my boots off," she asks as she already has one boot off. "My feet are aching."
I am tempted to offer her a foot massage. However my brain immediately tells me that would not be a good idea considering I just met her. And she looks like she could easily kick my ass.
"Go ahead," I remark.
We sit for the next hour and go over her assignment. At the end she thanks me. I ask her for her number.
"Ohh!" she grins," are you going to ask me on a date?" she teases.
"Ah well, ahhh, I thought I should have your number, so we can set up another appointment." I stutter. I must have been blushing.
I see a smile on her face again. She laughs. "She writes her number on a piece of paper. Are you sure you don't want to ask me anything else?"
As she is zipping up her leathers past her breast at this time, and I let out a shallow breath.
"Can I ask you something?" Christina asks.
"Sure." I say. I am still a beet red color.
"Do you ever leave here?" she asks.
"What do you mean?" I ask
"Everytime I am in the library, you are here," she states.
"Well I am in here quite a bit," I admit to her.
"What do you do for fun?" she inquires.
"Well I sit on the board as a secretary for an organization, and I take the minutes," I respond.
"No I mean fun," she responds.
"I like to dabble in Visual C#," I answer.
"Have you ever done anything reckless," she asks.
"I guess it depends on your definition of reckless," I stated.
She shakes her head. "Guess how fast I was travelling along the highway to get here," she gloats.
"Well the legal speed limit is 100km/h. So I am going to say 100km/h."
"Try 100mph!" she responds. She sighs. "Do you know how I found you as a tutor?" she enquired.
"I asked at the tutoring office for the guy that seems to live at the library. And the tutoring coordinator immediately thought of your name," she responded. "So I figured you must have known your stuff. And, you certainly know a lot. You are a walking encyclopedia." she said.
"Okay", I said.
"Take a risk once and a while," she advised, "you might get lucky. By the way your cheeks are as red as my Ducati." She then winked at me as she put on her riding gloves, and walked out of the door.
I walked home after that encounter. I wasn't sure what to think, or feel. Take a risk? Is she wanting me to ask her out? Why would someone as hot as her want to be with someone like me? She could probably have any guy in a second. Is she just trying to just express some form of platitude like life is too short? Well I have another four sessions with her. Why on Earth did she ask me to tutor her? Why on Earth is she even studying accounting? It's not even something that most mechanics study. What does she want?
I end up tossing and turning that night thinking about her. Thinking of her racing through the night at high speeds on her Ducati. I decided to have a few allergy pills to help put me to sleep.
The next day when I am walking back to college, I hear the sound of a motorcycle. I look over to my right and see her red Ducati as she speeds along to school. She briefly looks over at me as she races along.
I arrive at school and walk into my first class. The Canadian Income Tax Act is literally as thick as a major city phonebook. It is long and complicated. It is the product of 100 years of parliamentary debate, and reactions to court decisions. Yet I still find it simpler and more understandable than things like love, attraction, and sex. Using the Income Tax Act, I can calculate with absolute certainty of the value of the adjusted cost basis of a piece of real property, and the taxable capital gains on said property, as well as the marginal tax owing on the disposition of the property. I cannot with a high degree of certainty how a woman will react to my advances. It's not calculable. So I retreat to the solitude of the library. Sex is another matter. I have read various biology books, so I understand academically the process involved with sex. I have read about various positions in the Karma Sutra. However I question how on Earth I would actually ... do it. I should likely be paying attention to the professor, but I am not.
I leave the class, and happen to walk through the tech section on my way to my Financial Administration course. I happen to see Christina in the hallway. She seemed to be wearing crimson lipstick.
"Hey!" she said.
"Hi!" I say, with a smile.
"Sorry I didn't stop, but I didn't have another helmet," she remarked.
"That is okay," I remarked.
Behind me I hear someone loudly proclaim, "Whoa, Christina's getting laid."
Without missing a beat, Christina looks up and extends a middle finger. "Fuck off Jay!" she said. She motioned for me to walk with her down the hall.
"So I have a test next Tuesday, and I really need help." she said.
"Is it the second test?" I ask.
"Yes!" she remarks.
"So we need to cover trial balances, income statements, and balance sheets," I explain. "When would you like to meet in the library," I ask.
Christina looked at me and said, "how about we meet in the cafeteria at 3:00pm. I have a three hour class, and I am starving by the end."
"You don't think it will be too distracting." I ask.