I love math, and I'm good at it. It wasn't my major, but in my first semester of college I took the standard calculus course everyone in science and engineering takes. I thought I was picking it up fairly well because I could do the homework, and spent more time on my other courses.
Then came the first test. We got them back on a Friday just after lunch, and I was shocked. As I stood there looking at the 63, nearly a failing grade, I heard the girl next to me say, "Looks like you got a little overconfident." I hadn't wanted her or anyone else to see the grade. She was a math major who had sat next to me starting with the second week. She tossed her shoulder-length brown hair back and looked up at me. Until now I hadn't paid a lot of attention to her, even though there weren't many girls in the class, or, for that matter, in the school.
Pam was not at all attractive. She was short, at least 100 pounds overweight, and had some acne left over from her earlier teens. Her glasses were thicker than mine. But for all that, she was pleasant and friendly, when I talked with her at all, and even more so now that she could see the lousy grade I had gotten. I found that odd; I would have expected she would gloat a little, or not say anything.
She showed me her test, with a 98 on the top. She said she had screwed up on one problem. I folded my test in half so nobody else could see the grade and said, in a low voice that conveyed my disgust with myself and wouldn't be audible too far away, "I screwed up on nearly half of them," and looked away.
I could feel her looking up at me and turned back to her. Her deep brown eyes seemed to search mine. "Do you want a little help? I used to do tutoring when I was in high school," she offered, and touched me on the arm.
I looked back at her, and down; she was at least a full head shorter than me. My first thought was, "Great. She's thinking of me like some dumb kid." I said, "I don't know, Pam. I think I'll go back to my room and have a look at it myself." I did that, and by dinnertime I was starting to think that maybe I wasn't all that good at math. Everyone had told me college would be a different game, and now I was made painfully aware of just how different. The scary part was that one of my scholarships required me to maintain a 3.5 GPA or I would be out of there with nowhere to go. Literally. It was too late to go to an easier school, or a less expensive state university, and I had no home to which I could return to lick my wounds and try again.
I went down to the cafeteria at 6:00, my usual dinnertime, and Pam was at a table with her roommate and another student. She motioned me over, and since my usual group wasn't there, I could hardly refuse and sit by myself. I put my tray down across from hers, since she had called me over, and sat down. I was glad she didn't say anything about the test. She and the others talked about weekend plans and movies, and she asked what I would be doing. "I'll be studying, and I have to work half a day tomorrow." I had a job in the library, shelving books.
The other girls left and Pam reiterated her offer to help me with math. After a little consideration, I agreed to go to her room later and work with her. It couldn't hurt, and she was very smart.
I spent another 30 minutes in my room after dinner going over one particular rate problem, and although I got the right answer I had to admit to myself that I didn't really understand it. What got me was that I had done the assigned homework perfectly, but the test was much harder and the professor counted tests much more heavily than homework. I gave up and walked down the stairs, across the quad, up the stairs in the dorm where Pam lived, found her room, and knocked. She answered quickly, smiling. She was wearing a white blouse with the top two buttons undone. I could see the cleavage between her huge breasts, and that threw me off for a second. I'm a sucker for breasts, and cleavage is a big turn-on, although I didn't expect to be turned on by her. I recalled that she had been wearing a sweatshirt at dinner, her more usual attire.
She invited me in and pulled her roommate's desk chair over to her desk, motioning for me to sit. She got out the textbook and opened it to the end of the relevant chapter, where she picked out a problem similar to one I had missed, one that had not been given as homework. She asked, "What's the first step in solving this?" And so it went for well over an hour, with her asking questions, gently correcting my mistakes, going back to where I got lost, never being nasty or scolding, even when I made dumb mistakes like getting the right number with the wrong sign. Some of my mistakes were due to nervousness. I wasn't used to studying with anyone else, and especially not a girl with big tits. I solved the textbook problem and several others like it. I got it. After a while, I could solve even the toughest problems. I had filled four pages in my spiral-bound notebook with problems. I figured she must have gone to a far better high school than the one I attended.
Some time while we were working her roommate breezed in and put a few things in an overnight bag. She gave me a look I couldn't quite interpret and didn't seem at all surprised at me being there. Perhaps a knowing look? Maybe a little bit of a leer? As she started for the door she said to Pam, "See you Sunday. You kids have fun." She smiled and was gone. Pam must have told her she had invited me up to study.
Pam explained that Lynne went home every weekend, and that she was probably eager to see her boyfriend. "We know what she's going to be doing," Pam said with a smile. I let that remark go, not knowing how to respond. I had a guess, and it involved biology, not math.
We finished the last problem and she closed the book, then turned to face me. "You're really smart. You just needed a little practice." Her face flushed a little. "And so do I." Her chubby little hand gently touched my inner forearm near the elbow.
I was a little confused. Her? Need practice? She noticed my blank look and continued. "I didn't invite you up here just to do math." Oh. I thought she had. "You didn't?" was all I could manage.
"No, silly. I've always liked you, from the first day of class. You just seemed a lot nicer then the other people here, and your voice, when you spoke up in class, was wonderful." With that, she leaned over and kissed me on the mouth, not too quick but not lingering, and pulled back. It felt good, but I was confused. She smiled. "You're not used to girls coming on to you, are you?"
"No. This is kind of a first." I still wasn't sure where this was leading, what she wanted, but even though I was a nerd, I was starting to catch on.
"You don't have a girlfriend, do you? Someone waiting at home to see you on holidays?" She knew I spent the weekends on campus, but not why. My personal life was a complicated flaming mess, and college was my escape. That was all the more reason to do well. None of that was any of her business. I had been seeing someone, but she had dumped me in July, a month before school started, which didn't surprise me. What had surprised me was that she ever went out with me to begin with. This was also the time things really fell apart at home, such as it was. "No, no girlfriend," I managed. Her intentions were becoming clearer.
She got to the point. "Jack, I know I'm not your idea of gorgeous, but I think I can be a lot of fun." And she kissed me again. I could see down the Grand Canyon of her cleavage as she leaned in. She was wearing a low-cut bra. I gave in to the kiss, enjoying it this time. When she pulled back she said, "You may not know it, but you're hot. You're, what, nearly 6 feet of solid muscle? I don't know how you got that way, but all of the girls notice. And you know how to kiss."