Part Two: Jenny and Dave Reunite
Jason went home on Friday and Ann and I continued to rest up for the upcoming semester at school. We had one more week of break before classes started. My sex life was fair during the next week. Donnie and Valerie visited one afternoon and Ann was available whenever either of us was in the mood. Mom was horny a couple of days that week and I was able to spend about an hour with daddy one night.
Although classes didn't start until Monday, we had to return to Barstoll on Thursday. Daddy wanted Ann to make a special trip to the Bursar's office to make sure that our tuition was paid. He had had a problem with them not getting Ann's tuition payments applied properly one time and he wanted someone getting a receipt for the payment when it was made. Additionally, Ann and I needed to get our books for the upcoming semester. Donnie was riding back to school with Valerie and they would be arriving on Saturday. When we arrived at the house, we learned that Mia had returned the previous weekend. Her parents had been giving her puritanical speeches for the entire break and she had heard just about enough. She decided that returning to Barstoll was better than getting into another argument with them.
I went to the bookstore on Friday morning and got most of the books that I would need for the semester. Of course there would be a few books added when we went to the first meeting of the classes. My head was still swimming from the price that I had to pay for my books when I arrived at home. I had just gotten inside when there was a knock at the door. John Baggett, who I had dated last semester, was at the door. I invited him in and he asked, "How was your vacation?"
"Pretty good, how about you?"
"It was okay. It just wasn't long enough."
I invited him in to sit down and got us each a soft drink. As I handed him his drink, I asked, "How did you do in the biology and math classes?"
"Not too well."
"What do you mean, not too well?"
"I got a B in biology and a C in math."
"John, it's fucking ridiculous for you to get grades like that."
"What do you mean?"
"In biology there is no excuse for you not getting an A. You pick that stuff up real quick. I got an A in the course and you helped me. A B means that you didn't study for that class."
"I guess I spent time on some classes that I was more worried about. I thought that I could still get an A."
"What's you excuse for the math grade."
"I'm not bitching about a C in that class. Remember, you had to give me a lot of help in that class."
"Yeah, but you knew the stuff. Without much work, you could have gotten a B in that course. If you really busted your ass, you could have made an A."
"Maybe I could have; but I didn't come over to talk about grades. I came to see if you wanted to do something this weekend."
"John, I'll be honest with you. When we've dated, I think that we both have been interested in one thing only, the sex. Even if I only expect the relationship to be a short-term one, there needs to be more than sex. If you couldn't commit to preparing yourself for your finals any more than you did, how can I expect that you would commit to anything for more than a day or two?"
"You mean that you can only have sex with people who get good grades."
"No. I mean that I can only have sex with people who care about themselves. It's bad enough that you got grades much lower than you are capable of; but it is unforgivable that you would not even care about it. I think that you need to find someone more like you, a person who doesn't give a shit."
I stood up and walked to the kitchen, leaving him to find his own way out. I was fuming in the kitchen when Mia came in. She said, "He's gone. You can relax now."
"Thanks Mia. You know I have dumped guys because they were boring or they were assholes. I've dumped guys because they wanted to fuck and I didn't and some because they were bad fucks. I never dumped a guy because I didn't like the way he was committed to his classes."
"I understand, Jenny. οΌ I'm not sure how much longer Max is going to be in the picture."
"Why? What's the problem?"
"The only thing that we have in common is the sex. We really have no common interests."
"I'm sorry to hear that. I thought you two were getting along just fine."