JM102 -- Shelly
[Author's Note: Hello again! Not much to say about this one. I'm sorry it was so long coming, but it took me a while to summon up the courage (and the mood) to write again.]
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I managed to get all my stuff unpacked without further incident. It was awfully difficult, however; my head was full of Caitlin and what we had just done together. I had fully expected my first day at university to be confusing and full of questions, but there were just so many things that didn't make sense already. Did people normally just start making out with near-strangers? Was that a university thing? Or maybe just a Caitlin thing? She hadn't seemed like the sort of girl my high school peers would have deemed a 'slut', although I was forced to admit that I didn't have much to base that off.
I quickly dismissed the notion that the cause might have been something special about me. I was entirely unremarkable in pretty much every way: a little taller and a smidgen skinnier than average; neither ugly nor particularly attractive; relatively self-confident but lacking any real charm. I had long since resigned myself to not having women show any interest in me beyond a passing glance. Yet Caitlin had basically forced herself on me -- not that I was complaining. Not only had that been the first time a girl had even deigned to so much as touch my penis, I had fucked the best pair of tits I'd ever seen and blown my load all over her face. I'd basically skipped about a million intermediate steps, and with a girl I'd only just met, no less.
Add to that her weird attitude when talking about the Jackie Midlands hall, and my head was whirling. She'd said that the wardens had a liberal attitude towards sex, but it seemed that they weren't the only ones. Then there was the curious rule about second-years not being allowed to have sex with first-years. It seemed oddly specific and pointless, so naturally there had to be some hidden meaning behind it that I was missing entirely.
With a sigh, I made my decision then and there: I wasn't going to worry about it. I would focus on trying to ignore the weirdness and make friends. Maybe keep my head down a little bit, but generally just make the best of things.
When I arrived at the dining room for lunch, I was in for another shock. It was a little after twelve, so the long tables were quickly filling up as I made my way to the back of the line. The number of students didn't surprise me as much as the absurd abundance of females. "Holy shit," I breathed quietly as I scanned the room. "Am I the only guy here?"
"Rude," said a noticeably deep voice from behind me, and I spun around guiltily. It was the second-year I'd seen at reception, his mop of bleach-blond hair hanging over his eyes. He was very tall, at least six foot five, and gangly like a beanpole. He had a lopsided grin on that told me he wasn't being serious, but I felt the need to apologise anyway.
"Sorry, uh... was it Jacob? It just seems like . . . there's no other guys here." As the line shuffled forwards, I picked up a tray and continued to search the room. There were girls of all kinds -- including a disproportionately high number of very attractive specimens, I noted -- but I couldn't see any other males sitting around.
"Well, last year the hall finally realised its single-sex model wasn't in such high demand anymore. You know, there aren't many people who insist their kids are segregated from the opposite sex these days. So last year they let five guys in with the first-year intake as a sort of test run. There were a couple of incidents, but on the whole it went relatively well, so this year they're doubling that to ten dudes. The other four didn't stick around, though -- went flatting this year. I was the only one who stayed, but it's mostly just 'cause I'm lazy." He laughed heartily.
"So . . . where are the other guys?" I asked.
"There's one other who's arrived," Jacob said, "but he's sick so they sent lunch up to his room. The others are getting in tomorrow or Sunday. You two were the only ones coming in today. It's not just the dudes, though. Most of the girls aren't here yet either.
"So how many residents are there all up?" I asked, trying to do some quick math in my head.
"Okay, all the second-years and up are here, since Wednesday at least. That's me and about eighty chicks. Twenty-odd first-years have turned up this morning, with another thirty due this afternoon. Then tomorrow it blows up, with a hundred and twenty booked to move in, and about forty stragglers on Sunday. So about three hundred people all up, over two-thirds of them being first-years. So basically," he said, leaning in close to lower his voice, "you will have the most outstanding selection of tail in the world, little man."
That was a lot more than the 80-20 split Caitlin had mentioned. I tried to laugh along with him, but it sounded a little hollow even to me. "That's not exactly what I'm here for, you know," I protested.
"Dude, as long as you aren't ugly as sin -- which you aren't -- there will be girls lining up for the D. I tell ya, man, there's something in the water here. Being one of five dudes last year with three hundred chicks, I was getting laid every other night. It was fucking awesome."
Jacob was straying into TMI territory by now, but I was distracted by something he'd said. "Something in the water? What do you mean?" I was forcibly reminded of Caitlin's warning that there was something strange about JMH.
"I dunno, man. It's weird is all I'm saying. Everybody's DTF, all the time."
I didn't know what DTF was supposed to mean, so I just nodded sagely and ladled pasta onto my plate, reminding myself of my decision not to worry about it.
Once I'd finished piling my tray with a selection of what looked like surprisingly good food, I followed Jacob to a table. I didn't know anybody else here, and I would have felt exceedingly awkward sitting myself down with a group of girls. Luckily I recognised a couple of faces at the table we ended up at: Caitlin was there, along with a couple of the other second-years that I'd seen waiting around the reception area -- all girls, of course.
Caitlin greeted me with a smile and a wave as I slid into my seat. "Hey, Tim. You get settled in all right?"