It was one of those early spring days when the air smells like distant rain and flowers and freshly cut grass. Walking across campus past the baseball field, Daniel could hear the spring peepers calling from the small retention wetland below the dugout; even the frogs were excited and optimistic about the change in the weather, from a late snow last week to 70 degrees and beautiful sunshine today.
Winter was not quite ready to give up yet, but Spring Break had come and gone, and the girls had brought their tans and sunburns back from Florida to show off in shorts and sundresses and miniskirts. T-shirts and sleeveless blouses were everywhere, with buttons carelessly left undone to tease a peak at tan lines created in Daytona and Ft. Lauderdale.
An unruly southerly breeze played with the hem of those dresses and skirts, every once in a while showing a flash of something not intended to be seen... or maybe it was intended - maybe that was the whole point. White, purple, light blue, peach - the spring panty bloom was happening, and it was what made life worth living for a 21-year old college student.
A brief flash of panties from across the classroom as a girl got out of her chair, a glimpse of panties when a beauty climbed the circular staircase in the student union building. The outline of panties showing through a too-thin sundress on the sexy babe walking in front of him on the way from physics class, the movement of her hips animating the contrasting darker color under the light fabric of her dress - it pretty much hypnotized him, and he almost walked into a bike rack as she turned toward the library and he realized he had forgotten where he was going.
Some days, these small joys that stirred the hormones like swizzle sticks in a rum and coke were the only thing to make life bearable after memorizing all 21 amino acids and fighting for hours with the mainframe over a line of FORTRAN code that contained a 0 instead of O.
I meant to type an O, Dammit! Why would I put a zero in CONTINUE? It makes no grammatical sense, you stupid computer!
Accidental panties, that was what kept a guy going sometimes. He put his backpack on the bleacher and paused to watch the baseball team do some batting practice before heading to the last class of the day. A pair of warm hands covering his eyes from behind interrupted his panty daydream.
"Guess who," the voice behind the hands said.
"Umm, Christie Brinkley?"
"You wish."
Marcy was wearing her signature
Flashdance
-inspired mini-dress made from an oversized sweatshirt. It was loose and just barely long enough to cover the exciting parts, and today it looked like she had gone sans bra as well. Damn! She gave him a peck on the cheek and sat down on the bleacher. They took in the pitches and the crack of the bats and the warm sunshine for awhile, just content to be outside of classroom walls and next to each other.
"Did you hear anything from Ohio State yet?" he asked.
"Not yet. Michigan either. Hopefully I'll get an answer soon." Marcy was applying to grad school, and was hoping her grades and GRE scores were going to be good enough to get into one of her top school choices. It was looking pretty iffy. They had the last class of the day together - Genetics with Professor Jackson, and only 5 minutes until class started.
"We'd better get going," she said. The baseball crowd was starting to thin out as people headed off to class. Two girls in short skirts halfway down the bleachers got up to leave, and one swung her legs wide for a couple of seconds - 2 long seconds of bare thighs and flowery panties and the promise of heaven.
She goosed him playfully in the ribs: "Get an eyeful there, did you?"
"Well, yes. Do you blame me? I was just an innocent bystander. Visually assaulted, so to speak. Beyond my control."
"You're so full of bullshit," she laughed.
"You know I'm really just anxiously anticipating finding out what color
your
panties are."
I think you'll find out sooner or later," she said.
As they walked together toward Room #315 in the Garner Science building, he had a wicked idea: "How about you show me sooner rather than later?"
"What do you mean?"
"Why don't you flash me in class?"