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Dean pushed the heavy door of the auditorium and began to make his way up the stairs to the back of the room. Fifty girls in the front half of the lecture hall sat in clusters of half a dozen or so, filling the room with a hum of conversation.
He felt eyes on him and looked to the floor, doing his best to walk normally. Each step sent a dull ache through his glutes and back. A sharp pain in his balls radiated into his abdomen as a humbling reminder of the night before. Charlotte had been rougher than he realized.
He felt anger for the way that she ignored his pleas for mercy. All she cared about was getting her orgasm. Magazines had warned him that femme could get that way when a boy takes off his clothes. Most of all, he felt angry at himself for letting her strip him down. He should have known that she couldn't control herself. He also felt something else; a warmth in his chest. It felt like a deep connection to her. Was he falling in love already?
His arrival was greeted with several knowing smirks and private whispers. A sinking feeling came over him like he had just swallowed a stone. She hadn't told anyone had she!?
One other boy sat up near the back, Dean sat three seats down in the same row. He was the only other boy that attended lectures regularly. The enrolment in the class was 90% femme and most boys didn't show up for lectures.
Professor Belmont, began the lecture recording and the class simmered down to silence. She peered through a pair of thick reading glasses perched on the end of her nose. Gray hair tied up in an austere bun restored some tension to her wrinkled face. Dean wondered if she would be retiring soon.
His thoughts kept wandering to his weekend rendezvous with Charlotte Femworth.
"What was I thinking!?" he thought. "She could be pregnant. If she is, then my dreams are over."
The more he thought, the more certain he became that she had been trying to entrap him in such a life-long commitment. It was a common ploy for a young femme. He felt deep passion for her, and longed to be with her but couldn't shake the feeling that he was being used.
"I need to break it off with her," he thought. "I have way too much to lose but I simply can't resist her."
The professor's crackling old voice yanked him back into the moment.
"With your exam coming up soon, this lecture will be a revision of all of the unit content. So, if you're a boy and struggle to sit through twelve lectures, then lecture thirteen might be the one for you," she smirked.
The class responded with a chuckle but Dean just felt cold anger. There was always at least one comment like that at the start of the class.
The Professor hit a button on her console to display a slide on the back wall.
It read, 'SSB101 -- Introduction to Social Story.'
With the year displayed in the bottom corner,
'2192'
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She continued, "This class has provided a well-rounded education into the stories of the world. A tour through social story is useful to help you find your calling. One must first understand the past before she can plan her future. My personal hope is that you will pursue social story and become Storians. A discipline that interfaces with a wide range of others and is a rapidly growing field.
In each topic, we looked at the story of our past through a different lens. First was psychology, if you enjoyed this then you might consider a career as a therapist. Religious studies gave us a good description of the substructure of our society. Ethical economics, if you are interested in finance. Social justice studies are a necessary prerequisite for law school. Communication studies is good if you are interested in media. Public relations for politics and advertising. Gender studies is a prerequisite for a career as a therapist, lawyer, politician or in the health sector."
She clicked over to the next slide.
"Social story is the study of the story of our past. In the primitive patriarchal past, it was called 'History'. This was derived from the Greek word 'histor', which means 'learned wise man'."
The Professor gestured with air quotes as she said the words "learned wise man" and spoke with a sarcastic tone. Several girls laughed quietly before she continued.
"Males had the pathological need to make the 'Story' to be 'His'. This was another example of masculine self-centeredness that was emblematic of the pre-enlightenment era."
Dean could remember some people calling it "History" even when he was a child.
"Such an important phrase must be gender neutral," he thought silently.