Madilynn, the Tease
© 2020 by GeneMajors
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Madilynn was a tease and every boy at our small junior college knew it. She'd been a tease ever since she started there, last year—and probably long before that she'd been one wherever she went to high school.
That spring, the year she turned nineteen and became a sophomore, I decided she deserved what she'd been asking for. And I was going to be the guy who gave it to her.
Part of the reason Madilynn was such a successful tease was she was damned good looking: tall enough, just the right amount of slim, blonde (which doesn't count for much with me, but for lots of guys it does), graceful on her feet, with a body in plenty good condition to go along with that. And somehow, she managed to wangle her way onto the cheerleader's squad. I suspect that had a lot to do with her Daddy being some kind of elected official, state legislator or something I could care less than zero about.
By that spring, she'd pretty well exhausted the field of dreams, and had yet to put out for any guy whom she had managed to sucker into asking her out. Sure, lots of guys had tried, but after they bought her a fancy dinner at the
Wharf
and a movie or something else that cost a chunk of a male student's spendable money, she stiffed them at the door without even a kiss. From what I heard, none had even gotten a good fondle.
So, when she came after me, I had already laid out a strategy for winning her game. Just that previous fall, my girl of three years moved away, her parents taking her with them to a new life clear across the country. But from her I'd learned how to make a woman tick; Glenda had been a great 'tick instructor', so I'd had several years experience making a young woman tick.
I figured to get Madilynn headed down-field toward my goal-line, I had to get her bent over a barrel somehow, and keep her there until she'd discovered men were good for a lot more than buying her a hamburger, a movie, and serving as another perceived notch in her virgin's belt. Once she succumbed to my strategy, I'd bang that body of hers until she was hooked, then lead her around by a leash, maybe all the way through a 4-year college beyond the JC. One thing I'd learned from Glenda: You do your part well and get a girl truly hooked, you have a goldmine for life. And Glenda had loved being my goldmine!
Madilynn's father had always run his political campaign on a wholesome, 'sweetness and decency' platform which to listen to almost made me puke, but maybe it worked because he didn't need my vote. (Twenty-one was still our voting age in 1988). Like many elected officials in our state, he was well on his way to making a lifetime career out of buying votes with tax-payer's money. At that time he'd already been elected to three terms, as I recall.
Senator Davidson and wife were solidly entrenched in the
State Capitol society
, as I'd heard it called, and only came home to our small town of 42,000 when they couldn't avoid it or needed votes for reelection. They never came during the summer when Madilynn wasn't in school, and only sporadically during the school year when more
important social events
didn't require their presence in the capitol. Since Madilynn graduated grade school, mostly her supervision had come from a glorified nanny, not Mrs. Davidson. Perhaps a nanny is not the best supervisory choice when you have a daughter who flirts around like little whore?
And over the time Madilynn had attended the same JC as me, she seemed to be getting bolder about her dress and manner. Had my mother been supervising her, she certainly would not have worn her skirts that short, her tops that tight, her sweatshirts trimmed so they left us guys trying to see under the edges because we knew what must lurk under there, and she'd have been grounded 99.9% of the time.
I just hoped Mom didn't squelch my plan for dating Madilynn. My parents weren't unreasonable, but they were enthusiastically on-board my plan of graduating from junior college then finishing a Chemical Engineering Degree at State. I'd have to keep ahead of the curve with them so they didn't come up expecting more danger from Madilynn than actually lurked therein. I told Mom right up front I was considering dating Madilynn, as a result of her hitting on me. In no less than five minutes she and Dad had me cornered and were giving me the 3rd. degree.
"Doug? Isn't she that girl you're always commenting on? How she teases all the boys without mercy?"
"That's the one, Mom."
"So why you want to put up with her? Why don't you find another nice girl like Glenda? She was so nice, and we know you really liked her."
She was, and I had—and I still did—but she was gone for good.
"This Madilynn can't be the only nice looking girl at your school."
Well, she wasn't. Sally Gibbons was between boy friends, a damned nice girl and nice looking she was, but her parents were obnoxious bible grinders and I doubted I could put up with that for very long. And there was Linda Baker, a very nice girl in my clique, but when it came to homely, Linda defined the word.
"What about that Janice Thomas? Isn't she going there? Didn't you kind of like her?"
"She married one of last year's graduates, so she's off the market. Pregnant, I think, and due this fall."
"Oh. Well, girls shouldn't get pregnant."
"Happens in the best of families, I've heard." A little jab there. Me? I'd been one of those 'short term pregnancies' nicer people didn't talk about.
"Well," Dad said. "You watch out for that Madilynn—if you do take her out. You got three more years at least before you ought to become a father."
I nodded. I'd grown up on our farm. I'd known for a long time where baby calves and lambs come from and what causes them.
So, the next time Madilynn put her flirt on me, I was ready. I saw it coming my direction when I stood outside one of the Chemistry Labs waiting for the previous class to vacate the classroom. She was one of the last ten out, and as she passed me, the bump she gave me could be nothing, if it wasn't on purpose.
"Oh, sorry Doug," she said, turning those big, round, calf-eyes up toward mine. "But you don't really mind, do you?"
I shrugged. This wasn't the first time, from her or another of our other major flirts.
"Why don't you bring your lunch out on the front steps. I wouldn't mind if you wanted to eat with me."
"I'm eating in the cafeteria. It's not take-out."
That seemed to set her back. Had no guy ever before refused one of her invitations?
"Maybe I should eat in there, too?" She put those big flirt eyes on me again.
"Go ahead, if you want. I guess you gotta sit somewhere to eat. Just don't intrude into us guys' conversation, okay?"
Her big eyes went blank a moment. "What you mean, intrude?"
"I mean we have important things to talk about. You got anything important to add?"
"Like what?" The way she said that made me wonder if a typical girl ever thought what guys talked about qualified as important—if it wasn't about them.
"Well, like Frank's problem with his car transmission, and the four-wheel drive's not working right on Jessie's truck. Those are a couple for instances of important."
"That's important? Really?"
I nodded. "Anyhow, if you can contribute anything useful to our conversation, come eat with us. If not, go talk with the girls. They always seem to have a lot to talk about, whether it's important or not."
With that, I pushed past her and into the Chem Lab.
***
At lunch that noon, she avoided me, not that I minded. Us guys got pretty deep into the problems Jerry was trying to fix on his 4x4, so it was just as well Madilynn didn't come by and bother us.
But at the door of last period study hall, there she was, full flirt on with everything else, including those big, brown, moo-cow eyes batting away. As I walked past, her hand
accidentally
bumped mine.
"Sorry," I said, although I knew exactly what really happened.
"You should be."
"Why is that?"
"You're giving me the cold shoulder. I'm just trying to be friendly."
"You've given a cold shoulder to over half the guys in this school. Why do I want be friendly with you?"
The way she responded made me wonder if she'd ever given a warm shoulder to anybody.
"But ... but ...."
"Why don't you go bother somebody else ... like one of the freshman boys you might still fool with your flirt, huh? You'd look good leading some poor freshman kid around by his testicles."
"Why, you ... you crude ...!"
"Save it for the yokels, Madilynn. I've got more important things to do than hang around with a bitch like you." With that, I went home and went to work on something
important.
I suppose my use of
bitch
struck home and stuck there.