"No, I'm not going to give you a blowjob!" Sophie told Max, her fellow second year medical student.
"But you promised!" the lanky nerd replied.
The two were arguing in hushed whispers in the library of the old New England medical school they attended. Sophie noticed that some of the other students had unburied their faces from the textbooks and journals in which were hidden the solutions of clinical mysteries encountered on the wards, and her face reddened at the thought her last utterance had been overheard.
"I thought of what you would be doing for me as I was explaining countercurrent exchange in the kidney. So I guess I spent two hours enlightening you for the test tomorrow for nothing. And to top it off, I missed a chance to go to the last day of Comic-Con because of you."
Sophie fumbled through her purse, finally finding her wallet. The offspring of two physicians, she was never hurting for money. She opened her billfold and pulled out two hundred dollar bills.
"Here. Take this and get some bimbo to give you your damn blowjob!"
Sophie tried to force the bills into Max's hand but he pushed them away.
"No. We had a deal, dammit!"
"I can't believe that you thought one of your classmates would suck your dick!"
"We could start going out."
"I have a boyfriend."
"He doesn't have to know. And I don't see an engagement ring."
"No!"
"We could have fun together. I've liked you since I first set eyes on you. Give me a chance, please!"
"For how long?"
"Until the end of the year."
It was early September. Sophie counted the weeks she would have to endure Max's company and frowned. She would never be able to pull it off. Besides, Brad, her possessive law student boyfriend, would almost certainly find out.
"I'll give you five hundred dollars if you'll just forget about this."
"No."
Max wouldn't forget that she had promised to give him a blowjob in exchange for tutoring her. She had thought wearing a tank top that showed a lot of cleavage and flirting with the young man was payment enough for a two hour lecture on physiology. When he asked if she would give him a blowjob, she said "Sure", certain at that moment he wouldn't have the balls to demand the statuesque brunette fellate him.
"You're going to hound me until I suck your dick, aren't you?"
"Yes."
She imagined how her email box would fill up with messages from the horny geek, demanding she fulfill her promise. And she would have little leverage to complain of harassment since Max had used his cell phone to record her making the promise.
'If we do this, you must never tell a soul. I will fucking kill you if this ruins my life."
"I have no intention of spoiling yours or anyone else's life. Whatever we do together will be just between us. I'll take the secret to my grave."
Sophie inspected their surroundings. All of the other student's heads were buried in reading material.
She had an irritable bladder and was forever having to urinate, so she knew the location of every bathroom in the building and remembered the pair of lavatories next to the conference rooms in the basement. No one would be there at this time of the day. She struggled to remember if there were locks on the doors.
"Meet me in the basement," she told Max.
She turned and walked towards the elevators. Turning around, she saw Max following in her footsteps. She scowled at him.
"Wait a couple of minutes. I don't want anyone to see us together."
Max turned around, and she was sorry for her words upon seeing his crestfallen expression. But remembering that the young man was turning her into a whore, it took only a moment for her anger to return.
She pushed the down button and paced while awaiting the arrival of the elevator. Max had obeyed her command and was nowhere to be found. The elevator arrived and she stepped into the car. Her finger shook as she pressed 'B'. For the first time in years she craved a cigarette.
As the elevator car descended, she wondered if he would chicken out. Or he might not be able to get it up. It would be fitting if after everything he had just put her through that he wouldn't be able to get a hard on for the prettiest girl in the class.
The elevator arrived in the basement. Sophie stepped into the corridor and was relieved not to see Max before remembering it was not yet time for his arrival. Her heart pounded as she waited for the bell to signal the elevator's arrival. The elevator shafts were quiet, leading her to suspect her unwanted suitor had lost his nerve. She was startled when the door to the stairwell opened and Max emerged.
