Abigail's hand shot up.
"Ah, yes, Abigail?" Professor Page stuttered as if surprised to see Abi where she always was, the front row of class, doing what she always did, throwing her hand in the air before he had barely finished asking a question.
"When Hamlet tells Ophelia to get thee to a nunnery, he's using a double entendre, as 'nunnery' was also Elizabethan slang for "brothel."
Boom.
She settled back down in her seat and crossed her legs, feeling a little tingle down there from her performance.
"Well, yes, Ms. Sebag, that is one possible interpretation of the line," Professor Page turned back to the whiteboard and wrote BROTHEL in big, swooping letters. Abigail's cheeks flushed and she heard chuckles behind her. Professor Page turned back to his students, waving his hand dismissively. "Yes, yes, truly humor is timeless." He suddenly looked up past Abigail. "Ah, Karine?"
Dammit,
Abigail thought.
Karine Walthers was her class nemesis, a skinny, stuck up bitch who'd had a problem with Abigail since day one. Abi refused to turn her head to look back at her. Karine said her piece: "Well, the brothel idea is popular, but it's also possible that Hamlet was being 100% straightforward and telling Ophelia she belonged in a nunnery, where she could never have children. He's still insulting her."
Abigail could hear the smug smile on Karine's voice and could picture the perky little bitch sitting up straight as a board, and flat as one too. "Very good, Karine," said Professor Page, and did Abigail notice his normally sleepy manner livened up a bit when he was talking to her?
It's not fair,
Abi fumed.
I'm smarter than her. And I'm not a supermodel or anything but I'm better looking too! Maybe my chin's a little weak and my nose is a little big but I got good teeth and my complexion is mostly cleared up!
She finally spared a look back at Karine. The little tramp was wearing a skimpy halter top, if she wasn't so flat it'd have been inappropriate for class...
Abigail herself would never dress so revealing, and maybe that was why ol' Professor Page didn't seem to pay her any mind. She turned in excellent papers, never late, and participated in every class!
Weirdly, she felt the tingle return between her thighs, and she clamped them together tightly waiting for it to go away as Professor Page started to ramble again.
I think I need to get laid...
It's not like there were any prospective beaus in this bunch, Abi thought to herself, taking half hearted stock of the few guys in the class. A mix of poindexters and jocks, neither with the proper balance of brains and basic hygiene that would catch her interest.
When class ended, Abi made her way out the door. Karine was loitering, talking to some dumb hangers-on. Abi hadn't even learned their names, they were just more skinny bitches to her. They clearly didn't understand the material, they were probably just trying to hook up with the jock boys in the class.
She tried not to look at them as she passed, but Karine spoke up. "Nice participation in class today, Slutbag." Abi was shocked to a standstill, and some dumb guy just had to run into her from behind. "Uh, sorry," he mumbled, before awkwardly squeezing through the bitchy impasse. Abi thought maybe his name was Stephen, but he was gone before she could say anything back. Instead, she stammered out an "Excuse me?" to Karine, trying to keep her voice from wavering.
"I said, nice job Sebag."
So she was going to play dumb, huh?
Abi rolled her eyes and walked on. "Whatever."
"Bitch," she heard one of Karine's little minions snark. Abigail sped up, feeling her thighs rub and the weird warmth inside her return. Thank G-d this was her only class today. She'd take shelter in her dorm room, and maybe Rachel would let her vent a little.
* * *
"She called me a slut, Rache."
"Mhmm."
Her friend and roommate Rachel Fishman had been listening to Abigail bitch and moan about her experience in her morning class for at least a half hour now.
Rachel was getting ready for the gym, which meant changing out of her sweats and sneakers from her morning run. Abigail watched Rachel bending her lithe form over to tug on her tennis shoes. Smooth muscles shifted under some very short bright green bike shorts and a plain black sports bra.
Abigail sometimes wished she had her friend's confidence.
Maybe if I had a body like that...
Rachel could eat like a horse and never gain an ounce, in fact she'd told Abigail plenty of times that calories plus exercise was the recipe for keeping fit and tight. Meanwhile, Abigail had already gained the freshman fifteen and then some, and it seemed like it'd all gone to her ass, thighs and belly. Her tits were already more than enough to handle. She knew she should start exercising, and she knew she'd keep putting it off indefinitely.
Rachel had offered to help but Abigail felt so awkward next to her friend sometimes. The thought of running around on campus in front of everybody while her tits flopped around and her ass jiggled all over, or wearing some skimpy fitness getup and sweating to death while Rachel banged through another routine with ease just filled her with dread. So it was jeans and skirts and blouses and jackets loose enough to hide her muffin top and safely contain her already fully stacked rack.
In her first semester at school Abigail was still navigating her commitment to
tznius,
the concept of modest discretion. Not a full blown dress code, nor simply a straightforward ban on a woman expressing herself, it was more a self-imposed sense of discipline, of putting her best self forward and her position in regards to others both in and out of the Tribe. Don't look like a slut, don't look like a religious freak. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
She'd already had her fill of well meaning souls, gentiles and Jews alike, who tried to talk her out of her own choices, save her from the religious brainwashing they thought she'd undoubtedly suffered or warn her of the temptations of the wider world.
I'm
almost
a grown ass woman, I think I can handle myself, thank you very much.
"You know I'm not a slut, Rachel!" Abi prodded her friend again. Rachel humored her, "Abs honey, your problem is that you're so much not a slut that you're in danger of being committed to a commune." The synchronicity from class made Abi snort, which made Rachel crack a smile herself. Abi was ready to change into some sweats herself, but for lounging.
She allowed herself a look in the cheap full length mirror tacked up by her dorm closet before peeling off her jeans. She'd been pacing and ranting since she got back to their room, and hadn't even undressed yet.
At least my fat ass looks good in denim,