It was late September early October and I was a first year college student. I was not your typical college student mind you. No I was 25 yrs old and it was rough, especially in my English class where most of the other students were fresh faced teenagers, we even had a couple of kids from High School. I dealt with it the best way I knew how; I sat in the front desk every Monday and Wednesday then left as soon as the period was over. I was completely shy and never lingered to chat with my classmates.
Half way through the quarter the instructor assigned a paper, the class moaned in displeasure all except for me. I never minded writing papers, though the next thing out of her mouth did make me moan. She wanted us to pair up to write a paper. I hated working with others because invariably I ended up doing all the work while the other fucked off. The instructor said she would choose our partners so that friends were not working with friends. My partner was a sweet looking 19 yr old who I believe on the first day introduced herself as Lily. She had longish brown hair, and sweet twinkling green eyes. I noticed her eyes because mine were also green. I thought things would go horribly because I was the class relic and chubbster and she was a sweet young, thin cute as a button type of girl.
Don’t get me wrong, I by no means think I’m hideous but I know I’m not a raving beauty. It seems like the beautiful people always flock to other beautiful people. So right off the bat I assumed that this pairing would be a mistake. I was totally wrong. Lily was an absolute sweetheart. The instructor told us for the rest of the hour to sit with our partner and discuss what we might want our subjects to be. Lily eagerly picked up her backpack and scrabbled over to the empty desk next to mine.
“Hi, I’m Lily” she said holding out her elegant hand tipped with cute sculpted French manicured nails. Her eyes twinkled and her lips held a simple sweet smile. I grabbed her hand and shook it in my small, short fingered, non-sculpted but painted nailed hand.
“Hi, I’m Sarah” I answered back with a smile. She seemed so sweet I just hoped it continued that way. She took out her notebook and pen and looked at me eagerly.
“So what should we write about?” I had no clue. I didn’t know if we had anything in common or even if there was something we could agree upon that would be interesting to write about. I shrugged, I hated that I was so shy. Even though I’m the older one I felt like a little kid sitting next to this exuberant, happy person.
“I got an idea.” She said “let’s see what we have in common, that way we have more of a chance picking a subject we both like, Right?” I nodded, wow could it be possible that finally out of 12 or more years of school I had gotten a partner that used their brain?
We talked for the rest of the time allotted us and discovered we had quite a bit in common. We both were majoring in psychology, we both had lost a couple loved ones, we both went to private High Schools, and we both loved Siamese cats. I was completely thrilled to find out all of these things. Before we knew it the period was up, and neither was ready to stop talking.
“Hey I have an idea.” Lily blurted as I reached for my backpack.
I looked at her with a shy smile. “Ok, what is it?”
“Well I don’t have to work this evening and I just wondered maybe if you have the time, you could come over to my place? We could talk, get things started with the paper, and I rented 2 movies that I need to watch.” She said with this sweet expectant smile on her face.
How could I possibly resist someone who looked so sweet, and acted the same? “Sure I’d love to come over; I don’t have much to do myself. When would you like me to come over?” I asked as we started walking out into the lobby.
“Now if you like, you could follow me home.”
“That works only umm, could you give me a ride since I don’t have the car today.” I asked laughing
Lily laughed as well and placed her delicate hand on mine. “Oh, that’s no problem. Well what do you say we get out of here?”