Deidre McKenzie and Brett Wilson both attended the University of Southern California (USC), Deidre on a half tuition merit scholarship and several stipends and monetary awards from the Theater Department making up full tuition, and Brett on a full ride volleyball scholarship. Their attendance at the same college at the same time with most, if not all, of their expenses paid were two of the few things that they really had in common -- except for the desire to ultimately have children.
Deidre is five foot one inch (1.55 m) tall, 105 pounds (48 kg) with light brown hair, blue eyes, and perky A cup breasts, and despite the fact that she was in the Theater Department, except when on stage she was on the introvert side of an ambivert during her time at USC. Deidre had had bad experiences with jocks during High School and completely avoided them if possible. She was attracted to average sized sensitive and studious guys.
Brett is six foot five inches (1.95 m) tall, 220 pounds (100 kg) with blond hair, brown eyes, and an extrovert personality and who is practiced at hiding his intelligence well with his charm. He has a low opinion of people who express emotion on a regular basis. He was attracted to tall blond women, regardless of their level of intelligence, and from his sophomore year in High School through USC never dated any woman who wasn't blond and at least five feet ten inches (1.78 m) tall.
Despite going through USC all four years together, Deidre and Brett rarely directly interfaced. They had the same English class as freshmen, the same French class as sophomores, actually double dated one time their junior year since Deidre's date at the time was good friends with Brett's date, and as seniors they both were in PHED 121, Yoga for Athletic Performance. Brett was in the class to help in recovering from an injury and Deidre was in it by mistake, thinking that she was signing up for PHED 120b, normal yoga, but saw no reason to transfer out since most of her classmates were women, Brett, a wrestler and a football player being the only males.
They did have one unusual experience that they shared. During parents' weekend of their junior year they sat at the same table during a luncheon, and their parents seemed to be very friendly with each other. Also Brett's mother talked extensively with Deidre and Deidre's with Brett.
After the luncheon Brett's mother inquired about Deidre. "Deidre seems to be a very intelligent and attractive young woman, Brett. Have you ever dated her?"
"Come on Mom, you know that I only like tall blond buxom women like you," he cackled after initially slightly blushing.
"You're horrible," his mother grinned while punching him in the arm.
At the same time that Brett's mother was talking to him Deidre's mom was talking to her. "Brett seems to be a very nice good-looking young man. Have you and he dated?
After an initial slight blush of her own Deidre replied "Mom, you know that I don't date jocks."
"Pity," Deidre's mom replied, "he'd be a great catch."
"But I'm not a fisherman, Mom," Deidre laughed.
Given their personalities, proclivities, and likes and dislikes it seemed incongruous that during the last half of their junior, and their senior, years that despite the difficulty in seeing members of the audience from the stage Deidre could swear that she saw Brett in attendance at least four times during curtain calls of plays where she had a major or starring role, and during at least five home volleyball games Brett was quite sure that he saw Deidre in the crowd -- and he even had one of his friends surreptitiously give her a ticket to the sold out last game of the year, which was the de facto conference championship.
Brett and Deidre seemed to make fleeting eye contact when they were in proximity of each other; both seemed confused and perhaps embarrassed by it.
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About sixteen months after graduation Brett married Cheryl, a blond five eleven big-breasted business major who had graduated from UCLA at the same time that he graduated from USC, and Deidre married Kent Carlson, her USC boyfriend of sixteen months who had just graduated from USC's graduate business school, who is a five foot eight inch brown-haired blue-eyed sensitive guy.
Brett was entrepreneurial and started a dot-com business shortly after graduation. Cheryl was his first employee, and ended up with 5% of the business before they became romantically involved. Because they were intelligent, hard-working, and personable, the business quickly became successful. Before marriage they had agreed on having at least two children, although Cheryl seemed decidedly less interested than Brett. However, Brett was (as Deidre's mother had noted) a great catch and rather than take the chance that he would lose interest in her she smilingly agreed -- and agreed as well to a prenup which exempted Brett's 95% ownership in the business from community property.
Brett enjoyed married life with the exception of fleeting episodes of guilt after sex with Cheryl when he wasn't thinking of her as he ejaculated -- especially since those orgasms were the most intense of his life. He stayed in good shape by exercising almost daily and playing in a recreational volleyball league.
Kent turned out to have good entrepreneurial instincts as well and his business had every appearance of being successful within three years of his marriage to Deidre. Deidre was able to pursue her career in theater and while it wasn't particularly economically rewarding, it was spiritually rewarding. Her only disappointment was that Kent was less supportive of her career than she thought that he would be and seemed to want her to either get a high-paying job, or just do volunteer work.
Aside from Kent's lack of support for her career Deidre enjoyed married life with the exception of fleeting episodes of guilt after sex with Kent when she wasn't thinking of him as she orgasmed -- especially since those orgasms were the most intense of her life. Although non-athletic and averse to any competition, she stayed in good shape exercising by herself almost daily including biking, jogging, light weight-lifting, and aerobics.
Brett and Deidre were both 26 years old when Kent and Cheryl attended the same conference in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a virtually idyllic venue in Monterey County. Even though Brett and Cheryl both worked in the same company, the conference subject matter was only of interest to Cheryl's duties, but Brett had been working hard and needed a break so three or four days at such a picturesque spot was attractive to him. Deidre was between plays but had been asked by The Cat Theater in Carmel to talk with them about possibly providing workshops in the future for community theater members, so Deidre was happy to go along with Kent to Carmel.
It was the morning of the second day of the conference attended by Kent and Cheryl when Brett and Deidre literally ran into each other exiting the same luxury hotel that they were staying at. After grabbing her so that she didn't fall Brett broke into a big smile and said "Deidre McKenzie, it is you, isn't it."
"Uh...hi...Brett...uh...sorry I didn't look where I was going," she stammered.
"No, the fault was mine. What are you doing in this idyllic spot?"
