Doris and Lisa
(Fall, 1955)
Two college girls begin to forge a friendship.
After the Sorority Party Joel and his two fraternity brothers returned to Western State. Joel promised to visit his new girlfriend, Sue, and invited her up to homecoming. Lisa was left in a depressed state due to the fire at the Delta house over the weekend. Doris consoled Lisa and invited her for a visit after lunch the next day. They never got along growing up. Is it now possible for Lisa and Doris to be friends - or more?
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CHAPTER 1
As Lisa walked back to her dorm she considered whether to take Doris up on her invitation. She wasn't used to seeing Doris in a serious light, yet sensed Doris was sincere in saying they could have a discussion to sort out their feelings about the fire and what had transpired over the weekend. Or was this just another way for Doris to get Lisa into bed? No, that had been a spontaneous mutual thing a few weeks ago as they reminisced about the weekend at the beach last spring.
Lisa's roommate was not in the room when she arrived, so she sat at her desk and drummed a pencil on the desktop, daydreaming, with her mind wandering, thinking about all the girls she knew in college...
Doris and Lisa's sister, Margaret had been part of a certain group of girls. Doris had always been considered 'fast' with boys and had relished the attention. Doris was a year younger than Margaret, making her two years older than Lisa. Other girls in the group were somewhere on the dating spectrum far below Doris. All except Barbara, although she wasn't in the same league with Doris. Barbara had a younger sister, only a year older than Lisa, but worlds apart in experience. Grace was probably the closest to Doris in attracting the boy's attention...
Lisa didn't know why Betty hung with the group, as she seemed rather shy, blushing easily, although she was breathtakingly beautiful, with raven hair, a flawless complexion and two of the biggest dimples when she smiled. Boys nearly fell over themselves to sit next to her in class, but she was too shy to do anything about their attention. Marilyn was tall, although not nearly Doris' six-foot four. Maybe Marilyn was about five-nine. Marilyn's claim to fame was long auburn hair that hung down below her waist...
Mary was a strange bird. Lisa knew Mary was fast, and boys seemed to enjoy dating her for that reason, but there was something odd about the way she dressed and how she behaved around boys. Just a few weeks ago Lisa had seen Mary making out with a boy, but wouldn't let him touch her above the waist, yet she know Mary was sexually active. What was with that? It seemed that on the baseball scale guys went directly from second base to home run without touching third base, which was fine with them, she supposed...
All the girls except Grace had enrolled at Sarah Smith. Doris, Betty and Margaret had joined Delta Omega Gamma sorority, while the others had pledged Gamma Zeta. Grace had decided to get away from competing with her sister and enrolled at Western State, seven hours away. Lisa shook her head at that. She had followed her own sister to Sarah Smith, but didn't think she would join a sorority, although the events of the weekend had her reconsidering...
Lisa walked through her afternoon classes and joined her sister and the other Deltas for dinner in the cafeteria, where they ate while the fire-damaged kitchen at the house was being repaired. Lisa felt a tug of sympathy for Sue, who had lost everything in the fire. Lisa had been the one to help Sue sort through the debris and find whatever little things she could salvage, and sat next to Sue during meals.
The following day Lisa attended her morning classes and had a quick lunch at the snack bar in the student center. She was a little nervous as she wandered over to the damaged Delta house, fire blackened around the kitchen. On the second floor she ran into Margaret, who was leaving for an afternoon lab. Doris wasn't in her room yet, so Lisa went downstairs to nervously wait in the parlor, not knowing what to expect from a girl who had called her a little brat back home.
Soon a very tall girl, resembling Doris, but wearing glasses, her platinum blond hair pulled back into a tight bun and dressed very conservatively, strode through the front door. She looked at Lisa and indicated with a jerk of her head for Lisa to follow her.
With a furrowed brow Lisa followed the girl upstairs to Doris' room, and the girl unlocked the door, indicating for Lisa to follow her in.
When the door closed the glasses came off and 'sensible shoes' with clunky two-inch heels were kicked off.
"Doris?"
"No, I'm Anna. Just a sec."
The girl took down the hair bun and shook her long white hair out as she practically ripped off the bulky sweater and conservative dark blue blouse and skirt she wore.
Stripped down to her underwear she sat heavily on the bed, running her hands over her black bra, the one Lisa remembered Doris wore the first night at the beach. "Now I'm Doris again."
"What's that all about? I've never seen you dressed like that."
"Yeah, well...I hadn't intended for you to see, but I got held up after class. I really needed to ask the professor a question, but two guys were ahead of me."
Lisa laughed "You mean you couldn't bat your eyes and get them to let you go first?"
"That's something Doris would do, but certainly not Anna."
"I don't understand. Who's Anna?"
"Okay, I'll tell you, but you have to promise that what I say does not leave this room. I mean it."
"Sure, I promise. What can be such a secret?"
Doris sighed. "I know everyone thinks of me as something of a sexpot. Well, they are right, I am. As you know, I really like sex, and have ever since I discovered how my body could feel when I touched it certain ways. It wasn't long before I discovered that it felt even better if others, especially boys, touched me in those ways. That eventually led to sex. I'm not ashamed of it. It's just the way I am."