The first time I met Julie I fell head over heels in love with her. She stood five foot six inches tall, even taller on heels, she had long blonde hair, deep blue eyes, and a body that looked like it had been sculpted by an artist. She was absolutely breathtaking.
I first laid eyes on her at a party in college and after mustering up the courage to approach a woman that I knew was way out of my league I started talking to her.
We had a great conversation that night. It was one of those typical college parties where everyone gets drunk and stumbles off somewhere hoping to get laid and I guess I was no different.
She lived less than a block from the party so I walked Julie home and when we got there she pulled me into the apartment with her. We shed clothes as we moved to the bedroom and we had the hottest sex that I had ever had that night.
She woke me in the morning with a kiss and as I looked up at her smiling down at me I couldn't help myself.
"Will you marry me?" I asked.
"Don't you think we should date for a while first?" Julie asked with a slight giggle at my question.
"If you need time to decide I guess that would be alright, I've already decided that I want to spend the rest of my life with you." I said.
"Well aren't you sweet. Come on, get up, I want you to meet my roommate Nicole." Julie said.
We got dressed and walked out to the kitchen where a pretty brunette was eating breakfast.
"Good morning Nicole, I'd like you to meet Adam." Julie said.
"Hello Adam. Julie, I was unaware that you were planning on having company." Nicole said sternly.
"Don't get snippy, I met him at a party last night and he came home with me." Julie said.
"What about our rule?" Nicole asked.
"Look, I don't want to fight about this. Adam and I had a good time, I really like him." Julie said.
Nicole gave Julie this dirty look like the shit was about to hit the fan.
"Well, I'd really better be going. Nicole it was nice to meet you, Julie I had a great time and I'd love to see you again, maybe I could take you to dinner or a movie." I said.
"I'd love to." Julie said.
Nicole seemed to become even madder at that so I started towards the door.
"Wait up Adam, I'll walk you out, I need some air anyway." Julie said.
We walked outside.
"I don't mean to pry, but Nicole seemed awfully pissed." I said.
"Oh she just watches over me like a mother hen. We have a rule about not bringing people back to our apartment when the other one isn't around, you know, just in case there is some trouble. I wasn't worried about you though, I get the impression that you wouldn't hurt a fly. I'll call you later to set up our next date." Julie said.
Julie and I started dating. You might think that two people that had ended up in bed with each other a few hours after they had met would have had a very sexual relationship, but that wasn't the case for me and Julie. I'd say that on average we had sex once a week for the first few months that we were together.
It didn't really bother me because the sex we did have was so great, and spending time of any kind with Julie was better than sex with any of my previous girlfriends. I felt like the luckiest man on Earth as I felt that I had found a woman that was way out of my league that liked me.
Nicole on the other hand didn't seem to like me at all. In fact at first she seemed to hate me. I didn't understand it; I mean I thought I was a pretty nice guy, I never did anything to hurt Julie, but Nicole still didn't seem to like me.
I was a little troubled by it and after it had been going on for most of the year I talked to Julie about it.
"Julie, I think we need to talk about Nicole." I said.
"What about her?" Julie asked.
"Well, she's your best friend and roommate, and well it seems that our relationship has strained your relationship with her. I don't want to be the cause of any trouble between you." I said.
"Oh Adam, you're so sweet to be thinking of my relationship with Nicole like that. You're right; being with you has strained my relationship with Nicole. She feels that I'm spending entirely too much time with you. She gets really pissed off after one of the nights that you and I have sex. I just laugh at her." Julie said.
"Well I'm not laughing about it and I don't think Nicole is either. I'm genuinely concerned that our relationship will drive a wedge between the two of you, or that Nicole will try to do something to drive the two of us apart. There are two really wonderful relationships on the line here, and I don't want you to have to lose either of them because Nicole has a problem with our relationship. If you choose to break it off with me to save your friendship with her I can accept that, but I would hate for either her or me to be responsible for the painful end of either relationship." I said.
"You're really concerned about this aren't you?" Julie asked.
"Yes, I really am." I said.
"Okay, since she's the one that's been causing the trouble, I'll talk to her about it and try to set some things straight." Julie said.
I wasn't there for the conversation, but Nicole's disdain for me seemed to vanish overnight. We still weren't exactly buddy buddy, but she would talk to me when I called their apartment, if I saw her on campus we would say hello, and if I came to take Julie out and she wasn't quite ready there wasn't an awkward silence as we sat in the front room together waiting for her to come out.
Things between me and Julie were going great, I was happier than I had ever been in my life and she was very happy as well. We stayed for summer school, and then began our last year in college.
A little over a year after we had first met Julie and I went out to a romantic dinner.
"This night has been so perfect." Julie said.
