My name is Mateo Marcos. I'm a big and tall white guy of Jewish descent originally from the town of Stoughton, Massachusetts. After graduating high school, I did some traveling around the country. I ended up attending Bayden State College, a small, four-year private school located in the city of Boston. It's the place where I met the person who changed my life forever. Stephen Voleur, a big and tall young black man I met in my Business Management class. He was unlike anyone I'd ever met in my entire life.
Stephen was a native of the Island Nation of Haiti who came to America for a better life. He lived in Brockton and commuted to Bayden State College at the same time that I commuted from Stoughton. We moved in different circles. Bayden State College used to an all-female school. A rather quiet campus. A few years ago, they decided to add men. If you ask me, they should have been careful what kind of man they let in. The likes of Stephen should have been kept out. I'm not saying this because he's a black man. I've got nothing against black people. I don't like loudmouths, of any race, sex, religion or creed. Got it? Cool.
The year I enrolled at Bayden State College as a freshman was the year they added men's and women's varsity sports. I didn't think Bayden State College could support any sports teams. I mean, there were only one thousand students on campus. We had facilities, but we didn't have people. Oh, well. I was still amazed when the Athletic Department succeeded in their endeavor to bring sports to our school. They added Men's Varsity Baseball, Basketball, Golf, Cross Country, Soccer, Ice Hockey, Swimming and Wrestling along with Women's Varsity Softball, Basketball, Tennis, Cross Country, Soccer, Ice Hockey, Swimming and Field Hockey. The sports teams competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division Three.
Stephen was always hanging out with the jocks, that cabale of athletes who descended upon Bayden State College like the gods of Mount Olympus. I don't like jocks. Even though I'm a six-foot-three, 260-pound male, I still got picked on at Stoughton High School. I got made fun of. And I didn't like it one bit. Stephen was obviously a jock. And surely enough, he was on the Men's Wrestling team. Bayden State College didn't offer any athletic scholarships, since we were a Division Three school. Still, the jocks walked around with a sense of entitlement. Like I did in high school, I didn't attend any sports games. I went to class and hung out with the few friends I had. Then, I went home. End of story.
In our class, where there were four male students and seven females, Stephen was the loudest and most outspoken individual. I sat next to Samantha Villiers, a six-foot-tall, lean and athletic yet delightfully big-bottomed young black woman from the Isle of Dominica whom I had a crush on. I liked Samantha and we were friends but I never had the guts to tell her how I felt. In fact, I never had the guts to try many things. Enters Stephen and out the window goes my peace of my mind.
Stephen noticed the sexy Samantha, but she rebuffed his advances. The guy was clearly not used to being rejected, but played it cool. Slowly, he was wearing her down. Samantha told me that she kept her guard up around Alpha Males like Stephen because guys like her had broken her heart before. Slowly but surely, he wore her down and she began to tolerate his presence. Pretty soon she was laughing at his jokes and blushing at his compliments. I felt so disappointed. I thought that by becoming friends with Samantha, we would eventually become more than that. How wrong I was. Women always say they want a nice guy but they tend to go for jerks. I'm a nice guy and Stephen is a loudmouth and arrogant guy who thinks he's all that. Yet Samantha was always chatting with him. Oh, well. Like I said, story of my life.
There was another girl in class who caught my attention. Malinda Morrigan. Malinda was a tall and skinny, brown-haired and blue-eyed young white woman who happened to be Jewish, just like me. How about that? I began talking to her in class, since Samantha was so absorbed by Stephen and his stories. He was always talking about his adventures. By my own estimate, he's fought a thousand men and bedded twice as many women. I think he's a cheat and a liar and if Samantha was as smart a woman as I thought she was, she wouldn't be chatting with this bozo. She would have ditched him and never spoken to him again. I placed all my hopes in my budding friendship with Malinda.
Time went by, and one day, Malinda dropped the ball on me. She told me that she had a boyfriend. Oh, man. I was seriously pissed. I mean, why can't I get the girl, for once? Was I destined to die a virgin? And to add insult to injury, Samantha was grinning like an idiot whenever Stephen opened his stupid mouth and made a joke in class. Even Lois Demetrius, our short-haired, frumpy-looking professor, couldn't help but laugh at the big and tall black man's jokes. The women found him funny. I thought he was an annoying bastard. Thnaks to him, Samantha hung out with me less and less. One time, when we were hanging out together after class, Samantha confessed to me that she had fallen in love with him. I was amazed. See what I mean about women not knowing what they want? They are always saying they want a nice guy but they give up their goods to the jerks. Nice guys don't get laid. Oh, man. I was so angry. Samantha looked at me, smiling. I've never hit a woman in my life but I wanted to wipe that beautific, lovey-dovey smile off her face. She was in what I called the Stephen Zone. Yeah, she was in love with the creep.