In his Freshman year of college Mark Jenkins was worried about passing Calculus. He thought it would be like the other math classes but quickly discovered it wasn't. Just when he thought he was getting it he barely passed the mid-term exam and was desperate for help. He told his steady girlfriend Millie that he would be getting a tutor and that the time they had together would be greatly reduced.
"What am I supposed to be doing when you are studying?" She asked very upset. "How long will this last?"
"Just to the end of the semester."
"Well, I don't like it but I guess I can wait a month or so."
The next day he put out an ad for a tutor and a few days later got two applications. The first one was from a big guy that sweat a lot and had bad breath. The second one was from a hot redhead girl with sparkling green eyes. And believe it or not her name was Scarlett O'Hara. To make things even weirder she was from Atlanta Georgia. He accepted her to be his tutor and was shaking her hand when Millie walked into the Library conference room where the interview was held.
"I'll see you soon Mark," Scarlett grinned and ignored Millie as she turned and left.
"Don't tell me you are considering her," Millie growled at him.
"Babe she's perfect. She aced the mid-term exam and is only talking 8 credits this semester. And her off-time matches mine perfectly."
"I bet it does. I saw the way she was looking at you. There is no way I'm going to let her be your tutor."
"You're being ridiculous. Listen to me, I've only received two names and the other guy was a fat pig and smelled like one too. I've already told her that she will be my tutor."
"Are you sure? If you do this then things will be changing between us." She glared into his blue eyes.
"Do you realize how important this is to me. This is the last math class I need to get into the Civil Engineering School. Please honey."
"NO.....TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT. If tomorrow she is your tutor then that's it we are done. D-O-N-E done." She turned and walked away. That night she didn't return any of his texts, emails or calls.
He didn't get much sleep that night and checked again and saw that no one else applied for the tutor position. "Shit...I can't mess up my scholarship. She has to understand that and I know she will be mad for a while but...."
Millie wouldn't return his calls so he started meeting Scarlett again in the study room. He figured his girlfriend would calm down and understand. After a week away he was walking to talk to her about it and froze when he saw her getting into a car with another guy. When they sat inside she turned, pulled him to her and kissed his open mouth wet and deep.
Millie was walking with a friend from one of her classes when she saw Mark walking her way. After discovering that he kept the hot tutor she was pissed and didn't return his calls to see if that would convince him to give her up. It didn't work so she knew she had to raise the bar. "Jeff get in your car now."
"What? Why?"
"Just do it quick now!" She hurried and moved into the passenger door next to him. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Mark staring at them and suddenly pulled the surprised guy's mouth to hers. Her lips opened and her slashing tongue played and toyed with his. After a few minutes she glanced to the front and noticed he was gone. Jeff's hand reached up and cupped her breast but she jerked it away. "What kind of girl do you think I am?"
Scarlett was shocked when Mark paid her for three weeks of tutoring. "But you have another two weeks before the end term test."
"You've helped me immensely understand what I need to know. But I have to stop this now for personal reasons. If things don't work out I hope you will let me call you."
"Definitely. I like you Mark...a lot." She gave him a light hug and kiss on the cheek before leaving.
Millie was hiding in the bookshelves when the red-haired girl walked out of the room She saw a few tears on the girl's cheek and smiled. The next day she walked into the library study room. "Thank you honey."
He was still angry for her kissing the guy in the car and knew that she had seen him coming. "Did you fuck him?"
"NO! Of course not. It was just a kiss. I only love you baby."
"Leave please I have to study." He heard the door close and focused on Calculus. Suddenly things started clicking and two weeks later he not only passed the class he made one of the highest scores on the final.
It took Millie a while to get Mark back into her arms and bed again. She did love him but couldn't take the chance that another woman would steal him away. A few months later they moved into an off-campus apartment together and during the Christmas Holiday he proposed. A month after their graduation they were married and spent a wonderful week on their honeymoon in Aruba.
As perfect as his life with his new bride was he never forgot the 'take it or leave it' demand she threw at him almost costing him his scholarship. They excelled in their new jobs and soon were both making near the six-digit level. They purchased a nice tri-level house on a lake only thirty minutes from their jobs. It was six years later when he asked when they were going to start a family expecting her to be excited. But she ignored his question. "Well?"
"Honey I just got an assignment to travel to Europe six times per year to do audits. I won't be able to have kids for the next few years."
