I liked Amy from the first day I met her. She looked like a typical Jersey Girl; tiny (barely five feet tall), slender and tanned, with long, wavy brown hair and big brown eyes and immaculately polished nails. She was in fact from some small town in central New Jersey. She acted, however, nothing like the stereotype: she was fiercely feminist, soft spoken, serious, and incredibly intelligent. She was my first roommate in college, and she was majoring in math.
As roommates, we got along well, although she was neat and tidy, and I was a bit of a slob. Luckily both of us were tolerant and easy-going.
At the time, I was discovering and exploring my sexuality. I lost my virginity that fall, and had sex with a girl for the first time. I guess I assumed that Amy must be doing some exploring of her own, although we had never talked about it.
We were all hanging out in the dorm one stormy Saturday in January; Me, Amy, and our friend Rachel. Rachel was telling a hilarious story about leaving her vibrator out when her parents came to visit, and having to sit on it to hide it, then trying to stash it before her parents could see it. I mentioned that I had just gotten a silicon dildo. I loved it because it felt really nice, and it was easy to clean.
"There's something about those latex ones that feels a little gross."
"But aren't the silicon ones expensive?" asked Rachel.
"Yeah, but it's worth it!" And I lounged back, spreading my legs suggestively. Rachel laughed and laughed. I noticed that Amy looked shocked.
"Don't tell me you've never used a vibrator?"
"Ok, I won't tell you that." Amy deadpanned.
"But you masturbate, right?" Rachel piped up.
"No." Amy said.
"Never?"
"Well I tried once." Amy was blushing. "But it didn't really work... It seemed kind of pointless."
"Wow." I couldn't imagine not masturbating. That was what had gotten me through high school. Heck, it was getting me through college. My sex life wasn't as active as I would have liked it to be.
Amy was a virgin, which seemed strange to me, as she was also a vehement atheist. She told me that it had nothing to do with morals; she wanted to save her first time for her husband, the man she truly loved and wanted to spend her life with. I could respect that, but that outlook was not for me! She didn't go out much anyway. I don't think she dated at all our freshman year. She studied hard, and was always deep in textbooks full of numbers and symbols that I didn't understand.
One Friday night in February, we went to a friend's party, and we both got a little drunk. Now, I don't mean shit faced; we weren't having trouble walking or talking or anything like that; just a little silly and drunk. I realized, in hindsight, that I had never seen Amy intoxicated before.
We stumbled, giggling, into our dorm room. I can't swear to it (my memory is a little fuzzy), but I'm pretty sure she started the kissing. We stumbled onto my bed, locked tight in an embrace, kissing passionately, exploring each others mouths with our tongues, attacking and teasing. She was a good kisser. I slipped my hand under her shirt as I kissed my way down her neck. I couldn't believe this was happening. My nipples were hard and erect. My clit was singing. I was incredibly excited. I'd never thought seriously about fooling around with Amy; now that it was happening, I realized that I had been attracted to her from the start. She reached behind herself, unsnapping her bra. My hand found her firm little breast, her hard excited nipple. She groaned and arched her back. I pulled off her t-shirt, revealing her beautiful little bust. She had firm little breasts, with tight, slightly upturned brown nipples. I dropped my mouth to suckle at her breast as my fingers fumbled with the fly of her blue jeans.
"Andreaβstop. I'm sorry, stop."
I stopped, and sat up.
"I'm sorry." She said. "I just can't do this."
"It's ok." I said. "It's ok."
We each went to our own bed. I had to masturbate; I was too worked up to sleep. I wondered if Amy could hear me from her bed.
In the morning I realized that I had fallen in love with her. She avoided me all day. That evening, I cornered her.
"Amy, we should talk about last night."
"I don't want to talk about it. Nothing happened."
"Look, it doesn't have to be anything. It doesn't ever have to happen again. But I'd like to talk about it."
"It didn't happen."
And so it was. Things got back to normal between us, and we never talked about that night. But I remembered.