Jane liked living in a Dutch student dorm. Looking at American movies it was so weird they tried to separate the sexes. Afraid people would go bunnies with each other. The architect of her building hadn't understood. He had planned a day care centre in the large basement of the facility. A city with a large female student population, and a new sexual freedom obviously meant babies everywhere, right? So when the students arrived they had done what any student would do. It was now a student bar. Contraception was the driving force behind the new sexual movement, making kids far and few between.
There was another reason mixed dorms were not the axis of evil any American parent was thinking. It had to do with a simple unspoken rule.
"You know Josh and Kat right?" Tom asked the group. A few drinks scattered around the table.
"Sure. Are they still shacking up?" Jane asked.
"Oddly specific question. But yeah, they're not together any more."
"Of course that's her question. It's the most obvious thing to talk about," Patricia responded.
"Okay you're right." Tom grabbed another salted potato chip using his long arms. Her climbing buddy had used his length often enough to overtake her. He scratched his sandy brown hair. "You know about the commotion in the courtyard?"
They all had heard something had happened, but no specifics.
"Out with it boy," Jane said. She shook her long red hair with some exasperation. It had been a long evening, watching the last LOTR extended edition.
"Okay okay I'm getting to it. After they moved into the same dorm it started to get sour. Today the TV flew through the window."
The group imagined a TV sailing through a window on the first floor, overlooking the path between the B and C entrances. "That could have done some real damage to anyone below. Flat screens are deceptively heavy."
Tom shook his head. "It was an old CRT. Not even a small one. I still wonder which of them threw it. She's pretty small, and he only has half an arm on the right."
"Jesus."
Jane finished her drink. "That is why the unspoken rules exist." The group nodded in agreement. Again, one of the rules was simple.
DO NOT FUCK WITH YOUR ROOMMATES.
Her dorm had eight people, with an equal amount of men and women. The ninth room was allowed to be used as a common room.
"I think it's late. I'm going to bed," Jane told the group. She was the second tallest in the room.
"One more drink," Tom offered. Tallest and lean.
"No it's late, and I need to get up early in the morning. She got off the couch.
"You're right. I'll follow your example," Tom said.
They had some more small talk while brushing teeth. "Tomorrow climbing again?" Tom asked her when they were about to enter their own rooms. The doors were opposite of each other in the ugly brick hallway.
"Sure. After climbing I do want to go out. Hope you'll join."
"Always," he said, going into his room.
Alone in her own room she took off her pants. Her underwear was chosen to be invisible under her pants. The straps that held it in place barely visible. She removed her shirt and unclasped her bra without much fanfare. In front of the mirror she looked at herself. Tomorrow she would go out and use those green eyes. Together with her party dress she could draw in someone and quench her desires. It was hard to be single.
She didn't lament Tom as her roommate. If he wasn't her roommate they could definitely fool around. Then again, she had plenty of fish in the sea.
She threw on a sleeping shirt and slipped under the covers. The warm touch of her hands on her thighs made her aware of what she wanted to do. She resisted the urge.
Tomorrow,
she thought.
Tomorrow you'll sate that desire, but with a person.
She tossed and turned a few times before she fell asleep peacefully.
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Jane must have been close to waking, suddenly realising the door was opened. Sleepily she opened an eye as she heard the door click shut again.
The darkness revealed a tall figure. It could only be Tom. After a moment more she realised he was naked. She didn't really pay it any heed though. "Tom? What are you doing here?" she asked sleepily.
"Hmm. Hmmm," he mumbled something in response.
He walked to the bed, feeling his way around as he did so. Jane assumed night blindness from the hallway lights. He stood naked over her, his cock definitely half hard. The light bouncing in from a street lamp outside did show his budding muscles on an otherwise flat belly. "Tom, what do you want. You couldn't sleep?"
"Beautiful flowers," she thought he mumbled. He lifted the sheet and crawled beside her. Then he enclosed her in a hug facing each other.