It was all going to plan, until it wasn't.
Jillian had done everything right. Since a young age, she had wanted to be a pediatrician, and now that she was in college as a pre-med student, it finally seemed that her goal was within her grasp. She had worked hard in high school to get into a top college, and she had decent grades in organic chemistry and other classic "weeder" classes that were often a wakeup call for aspiring doctors who just couldn't hack it. She even had a wonderful service trip lined up for spring break her junior year to go down to the Dominican Republic and help with an NGO that fixes cleft palates. It was a program that would look great on her med school applications senior year and would let her helps some needy children, which is why she wanted to go into med school in the first place.
Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, and suddenly an international trip seemed out of the question. Jillian's program would only let her go if she could provide proof that she had received one of the FDA approved vaccines, and the second dose had to be administered two weeks before she departed. While she was eligible according to the states guidelines, the only pharmacy that had vaccines in the area was the pharmacy located at the health center at the university, and they were prioritizing older professors, staff, and administration rather than the young and healthy students. Jillian understood all that, but it was frustrating nonetheless.
"Why don't you ask Patrick?" her friend Lucy suggested. Jillian and Lucy had been Skyping most days, since during COVID the students were bound to their dorms for everything but the most necessary trips out. Lucy had been Jillian's freshman year roommates and they had bonded instantly, despite their differences. While Jillian was a shorter 5'5'' and from the midwest, Lucy was a statuesque 5'10'' and from Los Angeles. Jillian had wavy auburn hair, which she usually kept up in a ponytail while at school, and large natural C-cup breasts that really contrasted with her flat, athletic tummy that she kept in good shape by jogging regularly, though her curvy hips fit in to give her a classic "s" shape. Lucy, a strawberry blond with smaller size A-cup breasts, also kept in good shape, but she was a spinning fanatic.
"What about Patrick?" Jillian asked back over Skype. Patrick was a pharmacy student who showed up in some of Jillian's pre-med classes since their coursework overlapped a good bit in the hard sciences. "He's always struck me as a little, I don't know, creepy."
"Patrick? I never got that vibe from him," Lucy responded. "Besides, he works at the pharmacy on campus where they're dispensing vaccines, it's part of his pharmacy degree program, maybe he knows how to work the system and get you a vaccine."
"I guess it's worth a text," Jillian decided, but she wasn't thrilled about it. Patrick was always staring at her boobs, or at least so she thought, and the way he greased his hair back always made her think of some pimp from the '70s in Time Square (or at least how they looked in the movies). Still, with her service trip on the line, there was nothing she wasn't willing to consider.
After finishing her Skype with Lucy, Jillian texted Patrick, asking what he might know about how to get even just one extra vaccine.
To Jillian's surprised, Patrick texted right back, and her heart sank reading his words: "Sorry Jill, but we can't skip anyone in the line, we just have to give them out as we're told."
However, just as soon as she had resigned herself to not getting a vaccination, her phone suddenly lit up with a Facetime video call - and it was Patrick.
Confused but hopeful, Jillian swiped to answer the call.
"Jilly!" Patrick playfully sang when his face popped up on her phone, "what's going on my dear, you need a vaccine, hon?"
"Hey Patrick," Jillian said, a little hesitantly, trying to figure out what was going on. "I'm hoping to still make my service trip to the Dominican Republican for spring break, but I need to be vaccinated before then, and it doesn't look likely."
"Oh, you're running out of time my dear, you should have reached out earlier."
Jillian frowned. "But I thought you said you can't-"
"Oh, I had to text that back, I don't want to leave any incriminating evidence, and I'd get in trouble if I was playing favorites, even though you know you're my favorite, right Jilly?"
"Very funny," Jillian replied. "So does that mean you can hook me up? How does it work?"
"At the pharmacy, we administer four doses an hour, one every fifteen minutes, for twelve hours, from seven a.m. to seven p.m.," Patrick explained. "That's forty-eight doses a day, but we get them in blocks of fifty, ten vials with five doses each, so we actually have a surplus of a couple every day. I caught the head pharmacist trying to give the extras to his friends and family, and since he didn't want to lose his job if I spilled the beans, he let's me get half of the extras, so I can give them to whomever I want." At that point he smiled, and looked Jillian up and down through the phone, or at least as much as he could in the frame of the Facetime call, which reached from the top of her head down to the top of her breasts, hidden under a school sweatshirt. She fought back the urge to shiver; this was the Patrick she had warned Lucy about, the one that creeped her out. "So if you want to come by tomorrow just after seven in the evening, I can hook a girl up."
Jillian was still hesitant to trust Patrick, but she had no choice. "Awesome, you're the best, Pat!" she said as sweetly as she could. "And if there's every anything I can do for you, let me know."
"Oh, don't worry your pretty head about it, darling," was all Patrick said.
* * *
Jillian was too nervous to focus during her Zoom classes the next day, she kept thinking about whether she made the right choice. Still, she was committed at this point, and if she didn't take the shot, then someone else would, someone else Patrick knew most likely, so why shouldn't it be her?
It had been a few days since she had a valid excuse to leave her dorm, so Jillian was excited to get out, and it helped that the weather was unseasonably warm. She put on a white sports bra and a pink tank top, her breasts pushing out through the top opening just a bit. On the bottom she had a pair of pink panties and matching gym shorts, and she slipped on a pair of running shoes and athletic socks. If she felt well enough after the shot, maybe she could sneak in a quick jog before dinner was delivered to her dorm room.