The fourth floor of the library has an alcove with a couch and a coffee table in it overlooking the North End of campus. No one is ever up there, which is why I was up there. I was studying Chemistry, stressed out of my mind and sexually frustrated. I wasn't sexually frustrated by the Chemistry I was studying (that would be really fucking weird), I was sexually frustrated by chemistry I had with David.
David is a friend of mine, a really attractive friend. He was that friend that you want to fuck the brains out of, but he's also that friend that you never want to lose because he's super sweet. So I hadn't come on to him, because I didn't think he'd be receptive and because I just don't know how to seduce people and I didn't want to ruin our friendship with my failed seduction. That's not to say we didn't flirt, we flirted all the time. That's what was making me sexually frustrated, this attractive bearded man flirting with me and a lack of anyone doing sexual things with me. It's more complicated than that, but you get my drift. This was a situation.
Another situation was my chemistry grade, which wasn't failing but also wasn't up to my standards of personal excellence, and that's why I was sitting in the 4th floor of the library at 1am on a Friday night. I hadn't heard any movement from the rest of the library in hours when I heard someone coming up the stairs. I assumed it was just some intense grad student getting a book from the stacks, but I heard the person approach my alcove and looked over the back of the couch. It was David, I smiled at him.
He looked surprised. "You like this study spot too?" He whispered. "Guess I'll have to find someplace new."