He hadn't always been Guy #4. Once, his name was Mark Ivers, an attractive sophomore at Duke University with dark hair and gray eyes. A scholarship student, unlike so many of the rich kids there. He had friends. He was dating a girl named Julie. Julie Rothner.
Julie wasn't a scholarship student. Her dad owned several businesses and most of the town where she was from. Blond and sexy - she was used to getting her way.
They were opposites and it didn't take Mark long to realize that Julie was not the girl for him. It wasn't anything in particular she did to him, it was just some of the things she said like:
"You know the homeless problem would take care of itself if we just stopped feeding them. Two weeks is the longest someone can go without food. They'll either find work or starve. End of problem."
"Can we watch Glenn Beck?"
"You know what we should do? Just drop a big bomb on the middle east. Then the fanatics will be dead and we'll have the oil."
There was more. The girl was a walking cold hearted bitch. Even if she wasn't mean to him, Mark knew it would only be a matter of time. So he broke things off one night.
Julie didn't take it well.
"You can't break up with me!" she screamed and pushed him in the chest. "No one breaks up with me."
"Well, I do," Mark said.
"What for?" Julie demanded.
"Because you are mean. And ...fake."
"Well you are a needle dick little bastard," Julie said, and pushed him again. "Come one. Hit me. You fucking wimp."
"No," Mark said, backing away. Mark already knew Julie had a short fuze, but now he realized it was more than that. She was nuts.
"Hit me." Julie pursued him. "Be a man, not a little needle dick."
Her comments infuriated him. They also struck home. He was on the small end of the range compared to other guys. Still, Julie had never complained before. She was a cruel and evil little bitch and this proved it.
"Fuck you," Mark said, and stalked off. "Psycho..." he muttered under his breath as he left her apartment.
"I'll show you psycho," he heard behind him and then the door slammed. She opened it and slammed it shut three more times. He expect her to hit him from behind and prepared himself. But the blow never came. He breathed a sigh of relief. He'd avoided a very bad situation.
It was over...
Three weeks later and he'd forgotten all about it. And then one morning he noticed something different.
The smirks. The way all the other students pointed at him when they thought he wasn't looking. The laughter in peoples eyes. Something was wrong. Something big.
His cell rang.
"What's up Jake?" Mark answered, seeing it was his roommate's cell that was calling him.
"Buddy, you are fucked," Jake said. "Royally fucked."
"What's going on?" Mark said. At last he could get to the bottom of it.
"Julie," Jake said. "She's fucked you. I mean really fucked."
"What are you talking about?" Mark said. "We broke up several weeks ago."
"I'm sending you an email," Jake said. "Check it out. And Dude, you are never getting laid again." He hung up.
Mark found an unused table in the library and pulled out his laptop. He brought up his email. Shit, people were pointed at him and muttering again. Their twitter was disrupting the piece of the library. He opened Jake's email.
It was a powerpoint. My Hook-ups. It was by Julie. Shit. Fuck.
Guy #1. Steve Hernandez. She had taken pictures. Julie was explicit with every detail. She gave points for aggressiveness. She gave points for a hot body. She gave points for athletics. She gave points for the size and shape of his manhood. Stamina. Creativity. She gave details of their sex life. Apparently she met Steve outside of Shooters and he'd fucked her there in the back alley against a wall.
Steve Hernadez was rated as an 8 on the Julie Rothner scale.
Shit. Fuck.
He quickly flipped through the next slide, only taking note that it was a handsome Rugby player. Rated as a 7.
Stan Davis. Baseball. Rated as a 10.
The more he read the more dread he felt as he clicked to the next slide.
Mark Ivers. Guy #4. Rated as a 1. That wasn't so bad.
Then he read the details. Pretty face. Nice body. Then I pulled down his pants. It was all I could do not to laugh. He had a cock the size of a peanut. He tried to fuck me but couldn't even work it in. So I got on top and kind of grinded on him. It was pathetic. He lasted all of thirty seconds.
Then he saw it. Goddamn. There was his picture. He was wet. He was naked. He was...
... tiny. But it wasn't his fault. They'd been swimming and it was cold. He wasn't a big guy, but this picture made him look pathetic. He remember the day and that she had her phone out. She'd sworn she hadn't taken his picture. She'd lied.
Shit. Shit shit shit.
Jake was right. Mark was fucked.
Ruined.
The coming days provided little relief. His social life no longer existed. Worse, it went viral and was being played on the news. His friends stopped talking to him. Famous people called Mark at all hours wanting an interview. The only way he could get a date now was if he paid for it, and he didn't have the money.
Dropping out wasn't an option. He was on scholarship and in his junior year. Worse, now that the powerpoint went viral, there was no point in changing schools, it would follow him wherever he went.
One thing for sure. He was never going to date again. Not just because no one wanted to date him, he didn't think he'd ever be able to trust another girl again. At least not for a very long time.
Two weeks later...
"So how have things been going Mark?" an attractive older woman in his Finance class asked.
That was something that was still taking some getting used to. Now it seemed everyone knew his name. How did she think they were going? His life was ruined. Just this morning, Daniel Tosh called him up to ask if he was interested in doing a 'Web Redemption."
"Okay, I guess," Mark replied noncommittally.
"Don't worry, if it isn't, it will be," the woman said. "You caught a raw deal. Your main problem is that girls your age are very immature. They are all about the size and how many hookups a guy has. Well, one day their little Don Juans will leave them high and dry for a cocktail waitress at Hooters. So don't you worry, I know plenty of women my age that would love to go out with you."
"Thanks," Mark said. He couldn't help but look the woman over. He'd never paid much attention to her other than noting she was older than most of the other students in his class. Nothing out of the ordinary, there were a lot of older professionals who attended his school. He'd never paid much attention to her, but she was attractive, even if she were too old for him.
What was he thinking about? The last thing he needed to be thinking about was whether a woman was attractive. He zipped up his book bag and prepared to go. But before he could, she'd taken him by the arm.
"My name is Abbey by the way," the woman said with a smile.
"Mark..er...I guess you already know my name."
"Yes," Abbey said, pulling him in closer. She felt her loins grow hot. Mark was a A-number-one hottie, the kind of guy who would never have given her the time of day or if he did, he'd never call her again after sex. However, for once she felt like she had the upper hand. She'd been in finance long enough to know the best deals to make were when the client's stock was down. "Listen, I didn't just want to talk to you to ask about the weather or a subject that is probably the last thing you want to talk about. I was..wondering if I could take you out."
"Like a date?" Mark stammered.
"Yes, like a date," Abbey said. Her voice went flat and the smile disappeared. "Maybe I got the wrong impression. I didn't think you were one of those guys who needs date a woman ten years younger than he is so he can feel more secure in the relationship."
She let his arm go and turned slowly for effect.
"Wait," Mark said. He voice hesitating as he continued. "It isn't like that. I just...I just...I didn't think anyone would ever want to go out with me...after...you know..."
Which wasn't quite the truth. Five weeks ago, he'd never go on a date with a woman that age. She was fairly attractive and well dressed. Her butt was larger than he preferred and her hips were ...not the hips of a young college coed, but the hips of a woman. She wasn't what he considered hot. Not hot like the girls that laughed at him nowadays.
"If I didn't want to take you out," Abbey said. "I wouldn't have asked. Do you want to go out?"
"Yes," Mark stammered.
"When and where can I pick you up?" Abbey asked. "Let me get your phone number in case there is a problem."
Mark gave her his address and phone number. They agreed on 6:00. There was something very different about the interaction that he couldn't put his finger on. It was slightly off-putting but he couldn't come up with a reason why. Not even later that night when she picked him up in her car and drove him to a nice restaurant in Raleigh.