I was in my Tuesday Civics lecture when I got a text message. I looked down at my phone and felt a thrill run up my body. It was Steve!
Dinner tomorrow tonight? Eight? Dress to impress!
It was him asking, but not really asking, like he fully expected me to accept. I really wanted to say no, just to make him try a little harder, but I also really wanted to see him again. Dinner, dress to impress. Well, that would be a problem. I texted him back.
I don't exactly have impressive dresses. College girl, remember?
I turned my attention back to the lecture for all of a minute or two before he replied.
La Feme Couture. They'll be expecting you. Dress, shoes, jewelry. On me.
I gawked down at my phone and almost snorted a laugh. Was he serious? He was buying me a dress for a date with him? I have to admit, it was a bit of a turn on. I knew the place too. It was very close to campus. I could probably get a bus, or maybe beg a ride from someone heading that way. It felt weird though, like maybe he didn't think I was good enough on my own, or maybe he was just playing dress up with the Barbie Doll. I replied.
You don't have to do that.
He responded in seconds.
I need to blow my bonus check on something. Can't think of a better way.
Ha! I liked that. Honest, but with a subtle compliment too. Okay, ya got me! I was really starting to like Steve a lot.
Well, if you insist. Where are we going?
He texted back in seconds again.
The Cellar.
Oh my god! That place was top notch, one of the best! I never even imagined eating there! The coffee was probably twenty dollars! It was a Michelin Star restaurant made out to look like a wine cellar, and they were rather famous for their wine pairings, steak, and seafood.
Wow! Okay. I shall try to impress!
The class couldn't end soon enough. I needed to go shopping. Then I remembered, I had a date tonight. That made me blush just thinking about it. I promised Ross we'd get together and go back to his dorm. We both knew what for. I was going to try anal sex for the first time, and I wanted Ross to be the one.
My logic was simple, if a little fucked up. I wanted to experience this, but I wasn't sure if I'd like it. If I did, then great. I'll have fun. If not, then it won't be with someone who might expect it again or hold it against me if I don't let them do it again. Ross was a safe choice. Did I feel bad that I was using him like this? A little, I guess. He was a really nice guy, but just not my type. Like I said, simple logic, but a bit fucked up.
I figured that, if this all went poorly, I'd make it up to him by having sex with him in the boy's showers. That's apparently a big deal that comes with bragging rights on campus. I knew because one of my latest boyfriends did it with me, and the campus quickly found out. He had near celebrity status for a week having banged the Barbie Doll in the men's shower, witnessed by two other guys who caught us. It was embarrassing at first, but I had already decided to own my slutty reputation. This just added a little to it. Besides, his fifteen minutes of fame cost him a second date.
I finished my classes and texted Paula right away. I told her about my texts with Steve, and she agreed to come shopping with me the next day before my date. I'd probably have to blow off my last afternoon class to have enough time to go shopping and return in time to get ready. Oh well.
I retreated to my dorm room to get dolled up for my date with Ross. And, yes, I get the irony of Barbie getting dolled up. That's why I use it.
I stood there at my closet looking over my choices, which were, admittedly, pretty limited. It made me think about my date with Steve tomorrow, and how exciting it would be to pick out something elegant, yet sexy. My daydreaming left me paralyzed in thought until my stuffy roommate, Jennifer came back from wherever she'd been.
"Going out?" she asked in her holier than thou attitude.
"Uh-huh." I said and held up a cute little top that I knew would show off my shoulders and bustline nicely.
As per usual, Jennifer watched me with disapproving looks while I rifled through my closet in search of something sexy. I Held up a miniskirt to my hips, and the top together. Hmm... not quite.
"A date?" Jennifer asked.
I shrugged. "Something like that." I took a different top that tied at the front and left my abdomen bare. I liked it a lot. It was a little daring and showed off my curves nicely while not being too over the top.
"Tommy?" she asked.
I lifted a brow at her. "Really? We stopped dating about five weeks ago."
She frowned. "Mark?"
I huffed a laugh. "No. Not Mark."
"David?" she continued.
"Look, is there a reason I'm getting the Third Degree?" I said impatiently.
"I just think you should pick somebody and... get your life under control." She drawled out in her slightly southern accent. I knew she was originally from Atlanta, but her accent was almost gone after ten years as a 'Yankee' in New York.
Well, she wasn't wrong. I knew my life was a bit crazy at the moment. But I figured, I'm young and unattached. If not now, then when? "Thanks, but I'm fine." I said and turned around with a cream-colored top sporting a plunging neckline, and black miniskirt that was probably too daring, but what the hell. "What do you think?"
She smirked and cocked her head. "Really?" she shook her head. "Don't you have anything that qualifies as... oh, I don't know... clothing?"
I rolled my eyes at her. "You know, you might try showing a little more skin now and then." I said. "I've seen what you've got under your puritan robes, and you have some pretty nice assets."
"These aren't puritan..." she started to protest, then caught herself in mid-sentence. I could see the look on her face go from angry to flattered in an instant. "What... really?"