I sat down in my Music Theory class Monday morning after my long weekend of rekindling with Dom. It felt so great to be back together with her! She had captured the feeling perfectly when she told me it felt like she was breathing again, as if she were holding it for an eternity and she finally took a full gulp of air. James came in and the more risque turn of events came flooding back to me and I felt a huge blush on my cheeks. He plopped down next to me in his usual seat, smiling nonchalantly at me.
"Hey!" he was so relaxed. I smirked still blushing and wriggled my fingers at him shyly. He nudged me playfully. "Relax! We're still cool!" he chuckled, not at all phased by the fact that Dom and I ultimately rejected his request to have a threesome. We figured it was in our best interests to keep the relationship between me and Dom.
"So," I offered, not sure what to say and he scratched his chin flipping through his notebook for an open page. I did the same and he put his hand on my arm, a very friendly gesture.
"Honestly Rachel, relax! I understand and it doesn't hurt my feelings. You and Dom are a pretty solid item and I wouldn't want to come between you two. Besides it feels like nothing ever could!" he added and I cringed feeling guilt wash over me. He noticed my change of mood but couldn't ask me anything more because our professor walked in.
"Rach!" James called out to me as I walked to the library to study before my english class. I turned and waved at him and his arm dropped lazily on my shoulders as he escorted me to our usual study room. We normally rented out a tech suite in the library to work on our Music Theory together, sometimes others joined us but this time around we were alone.
"Hey! Can you believe this project? Finding a classical composer and studying their compositions and compare it to modern day music? Real tricky stuff," I grumbled and he shrugged hitting the elevator button. We went up to the third floor and shuffled quietly to our room. We worked silently for a bit, trying to research composers when he cleared his throat.
"I'm curious, about your reaction to my comment earlier about you and Dom, are you two not as solid as every believes?" he inquired suddenly and I felt my heart sink a bit and sighed. Everyone close to Dom and I knew for the most part what happened but no one knows the whole story. No one but Dom and myself. I guess now would be a good time to get it off my chest.
"Look, Dom and I are solid! Stronger than ever! It took me a summer to figure that out, but I fixed my mistakes," I admitted and he pursed his lips a little perplexed. "Okay you want the whole story?" he nodded leaning back in his chair his arms crossed. I took a deep breath to steady myself ready to explain everything. "Dom and I met on the first day of school, because we were roommates. I had never dated anyone, boy or girl, before and she was different and sexy and mysterious to me but we clicked. Then a month after school started we went on, a, date?" I offered and he smirked. "Anyway after that day it was hot, and steamy, and amazing. We slept together every night, we fucked and loved and, well you saw a little bit yourself. That was my whole year last year, when I was doing the whole student thing," I admitted and his face flushed a bit.
"Must have been some freshman year," he mused and I nodded giggling. I couldn't tell if he was uncomfortable or horny thinking about it.
"Well, it all suddenly ended when we had to move off campus for the summer and go back home. We went from being around each other every day to only skyping, texting, or calling to interact with each other. We tried to make it work. Every day for a while we were doing fine," I smiled thinking about how awesome it was at first to work through long distance. "But she wasn't there, you know? And my mom didn't understand it. Never got me, thought it was just a fling and kept pushing me to stop talking to her. Whenever I asked my mom if I could go see her or if she could come see me she would fight with me, or refuse. I got to spend some weekends or long trips at her house but she could never get to see me. And we lived so far away!" I grumbled feeling frustrated all over again. "I had to learn how to handle it, and honestly I didn't know how. Going from not feeling in love with anyone, to loving her so much, to be forced away from her, it was too much. Then my mom did something unbelievable, and I honestly blame her for my relationship issues. My mom started setting up these weird 'happenstance' situations where I would end up having to run into or talk to my best friend from high school," I grumbled remembering it all so vividly.
"Happenstance?" he pressed and I nodded shaking my head.
