Erin tried not to feel too nervous as she undressed for the night... she was a pretty eighteen year old, rather innocent in the ways of life, who just happened to have a lesbian for a roommate. Sure, Shannon was nice and all, but she made no bones that she was supremely confident in who she was and what she liked. Flirting subtly with Erin, Shannon had tried to make her new roomie feel at home with her sexuality, but Erin was still having some reservations.
A lot of her reservations came from the fact that a lot of people had called Erin a lesbian in high school and she'd been rather ostracized because of it. In her small mid-western town it wasn't considered acceptable to be a homosexual or be linked in any way to one. Some mean-spirited girl had claimed that Erin had been eyeing her in the locker room and it spread like wild-fire that Erin Zanes was a hardcore lesbian. From that moment on only her best friend Georgia had stuck by her, the rest of the girls in school avoided her - although a lot of the guys seemed to like talking to her. She quickly found out that was because they thought it would be a coup to bang a proclaimed lesbian.
Because of her problems in high school she'd become rather introverted, and the extroverted, confident and highly sexual lesbian roomie that she had was something of a shock to her system. Shannon came from right outside DC, talked constantly about her friends there - which seemed to be comprised of both homo and heterosexuals to Erin's shock - and made no bones that she thought Erin was a cutie. Of course, she reassured her roomie that there was no fear for any funny stuff, she just wasn't that kind of person.
Privately, Erin rather admired Shannon; she didn't think she could ever hold herself with that kind of confidence. She also envied her... within her first hour of being there Shannon had half the guys and girls on their floor coming by the room to talk to her - she'd already been to their rooms to introduce herself. Thoughtfully she introduced Erin to all of them, but Erin was having trouble actually talking to any of these new people, it was all just really overwhelming. Shannon's bubbly personality made Erin rather awed.
Erin was also very shy around guys... she'd never had a boyfriend because she was never sure whether they were just talking to her because they thought she was a lesbian or because they actually liked her. Really, she wasn't even sure whether or not she was a lesbian... sometimes she wondered. After all, everyone in school had seemed so sure, and there were times when she thought that other girls were really attractive... but did that make her a lesbian? Having Shannon for a roommate was bringing up a lot of old questions that she'd been sure she'd buried.
