Disclaimer: This is a true account. Any inaccuracies and/or exaggerations are minimal and either serve to enhance the story or can be attributed to my terrible memory. Names and identifying details have been modified to protect privacy. Okay. Here goes.
I was awkward in my junior year of college. I'd been awkward before, but I was really starting to feel it then. My best friend had been dating her boyfriend for half a year and they'd just started having sex for the first time and were generally radiating a coital glow. All the time. How could this have happened? L. and I had been two of a kind, the Virginators, and she'd abandoned me. Not that I really begrudged her; A was and is a great guy and they're together still, four years later, but at the time I felt left behind.
But fear not, gentle readers, for the solution to my problem was not long in coming. Heh.
I'd noticed E before. He was a residential assistant in my dorm my sophomore year and he would often lounge in his doorway and watch me walk past on my way to my room. At first, I was a little weirded out because he just stood there, motionless, wordless, watching me. And I was shy so I never greeted him, just scurried past. It did occur to me that he might be interested but he had a girlfriend of three years at the time, we had completely different social circles and he was, well, out of my league.
Let me explain. I'm 5'4", pale, curvy with lovely squishy round tits and and a yummy ass, and with an elfin face with big brown long-lashed eyes that suggest innocence but hide some serious naughtiness within. I recognize and own my attractiveness now (especially when I get dolled up, yay!) but back then I hid my face behind stringy hair and wore loose-fitting jeans and tie-dye t-shirts back then. Oof. Save me.
E, on the other hand. Damn. He was from Jamaica; tall, lean-muscled, chocolate skin, halo of baby dreads, sad eyes, absolutely succulent lips and that accent, man, every time he said my name I felt a delicious tingle. Not only was he physically attractive, but the man was a senior medical student and a talented reggae singer. Me, I was, as I may have mentioned, a late bloomer and a creative writing major and band geek. He was going to be curing cancer and I was going to be sitting in a cardboard box in Times Square, playing the harmonica and writing haikus for a dime a pop.
But he had a crush on me, had had one for a year and broke up with his cheating girlfriend the summer before junior year and started asking his friends about me. We went to a small school so word got around quickly. I couldn't believe it. Me? Really?
We started talking, having awkward little conversations in the hallway. Turns out Mr. Amazing was shy too. Things were going too slowly for my taste (okay, for my raging hormones) and on his birthday, I decided to make things very clear. His birthday fell on the same weekend as my school's annual fall musical festival, an event which almost everyone takes as an excuse to get totally trashed and screw each other's brains out. In other words, perfect for my devious purposes. I wore one of my few sexy outfits, low rise jeans that fit divinely and a blue striped halter top that displayed a lot of cleavage and whose light fabric rubbed deliciously against my nipples, making them stand up. I enjoyed the music with my friends for a while, got a good buzz going on, and went on the prowl. E was alone in his room when I knocked on the door.
"Why aren't you out celebrating? It's your birthday? Why are you sitting here by yourself?"
"I don't know. I guess I'm feeling a little down."