Zara sat on the floor of her dorm room, balling her eyes out. She'd been crying for several hours now and felt like there were no tears left in her. Her throat was sore. Then, a knock on the door. Zara got up off the floor and opened the door to her dorm room, when she was accosted by a massive bear hug. It was Madison.
"You poor thing, I'm so sorry." She embraced her friend. "Hey, look at me- we're gonna get through this."
"Th-thanks." Zara sniffled.
Soon afterwards, Isabella and Priya arrived as well. The three girls sat in Zara's dorm and listened to her recant the story of what happened.
Zara's longtime boyfriend of four years had just broken up with her... over text. He said that he no longer felt the same way and that the distance between them was getting in the way. He was in Ann Arbor and she in Lansing- it just wouldn't work. What a load of shit. Zara knew the truth. He broke up with her because Zara wouldn't put out.
"Damn so you're still a virgin?" Isabella was astonished. "That's fucking crazy."
"Isabella you KNOW I'm a virgin, we went to fucking highschool together!"
"Sorry, I mustn't have been paying attention."
"Anyway, it's not like I didn't, ya know... help him out. There are other ways to satisfy a man."
"Oh, like you cooked for him?" Priya asked, stupidly.
"No, like sucking his cock." japed Isabella.
"Yes, thank you. Basically I'd let him go as far as third base- I just wouldn't let him hit a home run."
Zara was a proud Muslim and wanted to wait until marriage for her first time. Her Somali parents were VERY clear that waiting was the only choice. Otherwise they'd disown her. She wasn't sure if they were bluffing or not, but didn't want to find out.
"Ugh, men are such animals." Madison groaned, still upset from her hookup with Chris. "They'll do anything to 'hit'."
"I know but..." Zara began to tear up again. "I loved him!"
"I know." Madison hugged her. "But now it's time to get over him."
"Yeah! We should go out!" Priya elated. Though, she wished that Madie had hugged her instead.
"Best way to get over someone, is to get under someone." Isabella chimed in.
"No, absolutely not! I am done with men! The last thing I need right now. I just wanna have a good time with my girls!" Zara washed the trauma off her face, did her makeup, tied her hijab and before long was on her way to O'Patrick's Pub with her friends.
***
"No thanks! I can't drink alcohol!" Zara refused the Black man that had offered to buy her a drink. She then turned to Madison, "You know, I never really understood why bars are so loud! I mean, don't you want to hear the person in front of you speaking?"
"I think it's because loud music makes people drink more."
"Maybe it's because guys don't care what we have to say" Isabella joked, pushing out her chest and lifting up her breasts with her hands.
Priya went up to the bar, "Can I get an espresso martini?" Then, drink in hand, she joined the group. Now, sitting at the booth, she sat next to Madie.
A man walked over to the table from the bar and turned towards Zara. "May I buy you a basket of chicken fingers?" He was a white guy in blue jeans and was wearing a baseball cap. Not really Zara's type.
"You know what... sure." That had been the best pickup line Zara had heard all night. Usually guy's would hit on her friends instead of her AND she'd get some free food out of it. She excused herself and followed Dustin over to sit at the bar with him, still within eyeshot of her friends.
"Name's Dustin, yours?"
"Zara." She said, looking into his pretty blue eyes.
"You're a muslim, right?"
"Really?? How could you tell?!"
"By that thing you wear on your head."
"Oh, this?" She pointed to her face. "You mean my hijab? I hardly thought you'd notice." She laughed.
"Well, it's pretty noticeable. Are you a student here?"
"Yeah, I study political science, you?" Zara said, trying to stop her eyes from rolling into the back of her skull. God this guy is dense. She thought.
"I'm getting my bachelor's in business administration. I'm gonna be an entrepreneur after I graduate."
"Well, best of luck with that." Zara said, chicken finger in hand, "I hear 90% or something like that of new businesses fail within the first five years."
"Yeah I know, but I'm different. I know if I can out work those other guys, that I can be successful and retire early one day. I'm smarter than the other guys AND I'm a harder worker. Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn't work hard. Why are you into political science?"
"Cause I think the world is shitty and I wanna make it a better place." Zara answered, cynically.
***
After a while, Zara's friends began to leave and she was still there talking to Dustin. He eventually offered her a ride home and she figured fuck it, why not. The worst thing he could do was murder her and Zara already felt like dying.
When they walked out of the parking lot, Zara saw that he drove a big Chevy Silverado. If there was any doubt before about this guy's politics, it was gone now. She then stepped up on the "big step" (Zara had never been in a pickup truck before) and got inside the cab.
"Where do you live?"
"The dorms over by 55th." Zara answered.
As Dustin drove her home, he started to flatter her.
"I'm sure a beautiful woman such as yourself hears that a lot but-"
"No, actually I don't." Zara blushed.
"Hey, would you possibly be interested in stargazing with me?"
"Oh... I..."
"Don't worry, we could do it someplace safe. We could even do it in the parking lot of the dorms."
"Ya know what? Sure."
The couple reached the dorm parking lot and then Zara texted her friends in the group chat that she had made it home safe.
Dustin laid a blanket in the bed of the truck and the two sat in the parking lot, gazing at the stars. They cuddled together and he put his arm around her. Eventually, after a while, he even copped a feel and started to rub his hand against her breast. It felt nice.
As he started to gently touch over her body, Zara could feel herself start to quiver. Between her legs had started to get excited and she could feel her panties, between her firm black thighs, start to get wet. As she began to become aroused, she started touching him back. First his hair, then his firm muscular chest.
Thoughts began to stir in her head.