I decided to put the third chapter of this series in the non-consent category although the non-consent is part of a game. The timeline goes backwards here to the fall of the previous year (1974). The protagonists are the City College of New York students from the first two chapters.
Michelle is about five-foot seven and she has straight brown shoulder-length hair. She wears steel-rimmed glasses. Andrea has been mentioned in several stories but has not been depicted yet. I will do that eventually.
This should be fun
It was fortunate that my girlfriend, Michelle Ann Hanley, was more ambitious than I was when it came to paid work. By the time she was nineteen, even while attending City College full-time, she had a job at a Manhattan typesetting company as a paste-up artist and typographer. Thus she could afford a Queens apartment and a car which greatly helped our personal lives. Eventually, with a little prodding from her, I got a job there too.
I had only known Michelle a little over a month when she concocted a very elaborate role playing scheme for the two of us. We were in her apartment one evening in early November 1974 when she described the scenario. I had never participated in or even heard of these activities before.
Over time I would find out that Michelle and other women seemed to have real talents for creating and executing these roles. In contrast my contributions tended to be a bit on the skimpy side. Sometimes I speculated that girls had learned this through playing with their Barbie and Ken dolls and other toys, and then they were able to do something similar later in life with real people.
I remembered that Barbie had a pink sports car that even Ken couldn't drive. Michelle used her own vehicle - a 1971 Dodge Coronet - for a couple of memorable scenes.
In this case she had invented a character named Sherri who like her was a college sophomore but this person had grown up and now went to school in Ohio.
"There are a couple of major differences from what I'm like," she said. "One is that she is still a virgin. The second is that she is a major tease."
"A tease?"
"To be more exact, a cock tease. She hints at putting out a lot more than she delivers."
The plot would be that Sherri was arriving in New York to visit her older sister, a student at New York University, and somehow she got stranded one evening at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan. My character was "Bob," probably about thirty or so, and I would be her "white knight" who offered to help her out of her jam.
"Bob looks like a regular guy, but he's not above being a bit sleazy," Michelle said. "I mean like pressuring her, trying to take advantage of her."
"What girl would be naive enough to go with some guy at the Port Authority? I don't even talk to anyone when I'm in there."
"She's naive all right. But she needs to get to her sister's home in Queens, and you offer her a lift."
That's where the Dodge Coronet would come into play. Beforehand I would drive into the city and park it in the rooftop garage of the bus terminal. Then I would go downstairs and "run into" Sherri/Michelle.
Michelle gave me further instructions. On the drive back to Queens I would get increasingly - forward, "fresh" - with my young passenger until I found some lonely place to park with her.
I asked, "So how far do I push this thing?"
"As far as you can."
"But won't this, ah Sherri, be resisting me?"
"Yes, but maybe she has some vulnerabilities you can exploit."
"So I'm in effect I'm trying force myself on her?"
"Maybe yes and maybe no. We don't really have a script for this. We'll improvise as we go along." I didn't yet realize that Michelle usually had planned some options for these games, options I didn't know about.
I said, "This is supposed to be fun? It seems like a pretty dubious idea."
"It will be interesting - just go with the flow, you'll get into it."
"You said you've done this kind of thing before?" With whom I wondered.
"Yes, but not on this scale. I think I may outdo myself this time."
The girl from Maple Heights
We started out at her Long Island City place one evening just after dark. I drove off to give her enough time to change into her "costume" for this event; then she took a cab into the city. By the prearranged time I had parked upstairs and went through an area near the ticket windows on the first floor. This location had been agreed upon in advance.
I had a surge of excitement when I spotted her. Maybe that was because I didn't know exactly how she would be playing this role. She was wearing various items that I had seen before but never put together in this particular way. She had a green and white striped blouse, a colorful short skirt, an unbuttoned tan raincoat, white sneakers, and white socks. Her glasses were on.
There was one unfamiliar item. She was wearing a straw hat with a band around it. It made a look more innocent than the Michelle I knew. Part of that impression, I saw, may have been simply acting ability - she held herself differently, she looked around the station with an air of excitement and nervousness. There was a big battered brown plastic suitcase on the floor next to her.
I felt an expansive feeling; here she was, my girl Michelle, a good catch for a guy like me who had nobody just a few months ago. Then I had a pang of guilt when as I thought of my other girlfriend Andrea, whom I assumed knew nothing about this. I put that out of my mind as I strolled close to "Sherri" and caught her eye. She said, "Oh, mister, could you help me out? I just got into town and I'm supposed to be staying with my sister in Queens."
"Sure, what can I do?" Well, any hardened New Yorker might be inclined to help a girl this cute.
"You see, I was going to take the subway out to her house, but now that I'm here I think it would be better to take a cab - this suitcase and all - I was wondering if I could borrow money for one. I promise to pay you back."
The white knight with the dark heart came through, "I can do better. My car is parked upstairs; I'll give you a lift."
"Really, that would be super." Michelle never used that word. "I wouldn't be taking you out of your way, would I?"
"Nah, not at all." Did I just happen to be heading towards Queens? Why was I even at the station in the first place? This scene had the implausibility of a porn movie plot, which in effect in was.
"Pleased to meet you. I'm Sherri." She actually took my hand and shook it. "The full name is Sherilynn but nobody calls me that."
"Well you can call me Bob." That came out wrong, but it didn't interrupt the flow. I hefted the suitcase, expecting it to be an empty prop, and was surprised to find how heavy it was. She said, "Well I need a lot of stuff for a week here."
On the escalators up to the roof she told me she was from Maple Heights, Ohio, that she was a sophomore at Ohio State University at Columbus, and she was a cheerleader for the football team. The last was a good touch, because Michelle was definitely not cheerleader material. It wasn't her looks, rather it was that the idea of it would make her gag.
I was struck again by her acting abilities. She really seemed to have the spirit and mannerisms of this Sherri person.
As we got to the car - Michelle's recently acquired green Dodge - I asked her the usual student question, "What is your major?" She was studying to be a pharmacist. I thought, this girl, unlike Michelle and me and virtually everyone we knew, might actually get a job after graduation.
After we were in the car and I had it started I said, "Ever been to New York before?"
"Once, five years ago, with my parents."
"You know it's not safe for a young girl to go around the city in the evening by herself - and with luggage yet."
"I know - that's why I'm so grateful to you."
"Did you father know what you were doing - not having money for a cab?"