B-Level
by Pan
"Oh cool," Mike said. "You got a dorm on B-level."
"What does that mean?"
As I threw my bag onto my new bed, I hoped that I didn't sound too...I dunno, dumb. I'd only met Mike a few minutes ago, but he seemed like a cool guy. Friendly. I just wanted to fit it, but it seemed to immediately be obvious that I'd never done this before.
*No one has,* I reminded myself. *It's the first day of college. No one has done this before. Duh.*
"You don't know?" he crowed, and I felt my cheeks starting to get red. "Oh man...you are going to have a good time. Here she comes now."
I turned to see who he was talking about - in came a plain-looking girl with her hair in a bun.
"Hi," she said shyly. "I'm Libby."
"What's B-level?" I asked again, and Libby's eyes widened as Mike explained it.
"Oh," she said quietly when he was done. "Oh, I hadn't realized."
"Have fun," Mike said with a wink.
We didn't talk for the next half-hour. Unpacking our stuff in silence, I thought about what Mike had said. I mean, it didn't *sound* right...but he'd been so confident, and Libby hadn't objected. If he was making it up, Libby would have objected, right?
*She's new as well,* I thought. *Maybe she thought he was kidding and didn't know how to deal with it.*
*But...what if he's not?*
"So," Libby eventually said. "Looking forward to college?"
"Of course," I replied. "Yourself?"
"Yup."
The silence returned, and eventually I had to say something.
"What Mike said..."
"Who's Mike?"
"Oh, the guy...the guy who was in here earlier."
"Friend of yours?"
"Yeah, kind of. I mean, we just met. Anyway, what he was saying..."
Libby interrupted me, carefully avoiding eye contact as she did.
"I get it."
I paused, not sure if she was saying what I thought she was saying.
"You...get it?"
"Yeah," she said, and turned to look me directly in the eye. We were both blushing furiously, but her voice didn't waver. "It's B-level. I get it."
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For the next few days, I didn't do anything, I just watched. I watched Libby a *lot*.
Like I said, she was a fairly plain-looking girl. Not ugly or anything like that, but...I mean, if we weren't roommates, I probably would never have noticed her. She had brown hair and an oval face, and her eyes were a bit too wide-set to be truly attractive. She had a big mouth, too. I don't mean she talked too much - her mouth was just kinda wide.
She wasn't chubby, exactly, but she wasn't really that thin either. As you'd expect, I spent a lot of time looking at her boobs - I don't know much about cup sizes, but I'd guess she was a B, B-plus? She didn't really wear much that showed them off, but...like I said, I spent a lot of time watching her.
Here's something I never appreciated when I had it - my own room. I knew that sharing a room would be a part of the college experience, but I guess I'd never really thought about the logistics of it. See, at home when I'd been horny, I could just go to my room and jack off.
When you share a room with someone - even on B-level - it's weird, y'know?
It's weird.
I considered waiting until Libby went to sleep, but what if she woke up and found me getting myself off? I even considered skipping a class when I knew *she* had a class, but something stopped me.
It might have been the fact that I had another option.
B-level.
I don't know why it took me so long. I'd like to claim I was weighing up the morality of it, but honestly...that side of things never really bothered me. I mean, it didn't bother Libby, so why should *I* get upset about something that *she* didn't even care about?
More than anything, it was shyness. I was in a whole new environment - in those first few days, I met like eight hundred people, and I kept feeling this pressure. These were people I'd likely stay friends with for the rest of my life. These were people I'd build my life with - my Dad had told me (endlessly) about the connections he formed in college and how valuable they are, and so I was so intent on getting it *right*.
I wanted to meet the right people, and I wanted to make sure they liked me, and I wanted to make sure I presented myself right and it was all very stressful and I couldn't even jerk off to relieve the stress.
And so yeah, every time I saw Libby I thought about it, but there was already so much on my plate. I didn't know whether I wanted to try something.
Not yet.
But then, the weekend was upon us. Suddenly I didn't have class, I didn't have a million people to meet. I'd been invited to a party on Sunday night, but I wanted to spend Saturday relaxing, trying to get my bearings.
And by that point, I was *so* fucking horny.
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Libby was reading on her bed when I entered. She didn't even look up - it's amazing how quickly you get used to cohabiting with a virtual stranger.
For all my watching over the last week, I hadn't really learned much about my roommate. Maybe she was shy, like me, or maybe there just wasn't that much to learn. She liked reading, she had a new Acer laptop, and she sort of kept to herself.
Generally she wore jeans and button-up shirts. When she was getting ready for bed, she had a set of flannel pajamas, which were pretty cute. They were pink and covered in cats, and didn't reveal much - but I guess that was the point. She must have known there was a chance they'd pair her with a guy.
But I'm sure she hadn't known that it would be on B-level.
That day, she was wearing a pair of black jeans and a pale blue button-up shirt. The top two buttons were undone, but you couldn't really see anything. Hanging over the back of her chair was a brown jacket, and she wasn't wearing any shoes or socks.
"Hey," I said casually, my heart racing. Was I really going to do this? What if it was a prank that Mike and Libby had concocted? What if I got arrested, or kicked out of college? What if they told my family?
"Hey," Libby replied, her eyes never leaving the page.
Just as I was about to make my way to the washroom and see if I could jerk off there, Libby shifted slightly. My attention was drawn to her ass, and I immediately knew I was going to do this.
"I..."
Libby continued reading as I tried to work out the best way to do this.
"I just wanted to check: you're okay with all this B-level stuff, right?"
My roommate shrugged.
"It is what it is."
"So if I wanted to..."