This is a contribution to the
Survivor Revival Challenge
,
organized by Tara Cox. My first eleven stories were called My Junior Year Abroad. Next up was the little story, "Why I love Wives." This is my thirteenth story for this challenge, and I hope the stories are helping.
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Melissa's a freshman and trying to meet a guy
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I was fairly innocent to the ways of the world when I entered college. I was excited about my classes, but I tended to like subjects that attracted women (naturally enough) and gay men. It took me a while to realize the problem with this, since classes are a natural way to meet a romantic love interest, something I was looking forward to happening.
Nope. Not happening.
Well, there are lots of other ways, too, right? Friends, for example. My roommate had a boyfriend, and I was often banished from the room so the two of them could have some hanky-panky. I'd waste away in the library, sometimes being the only person there, but at least I never fell behind in my studies. My roommate was thoughtful, and she would text me when it was okay for me to return. I was kind of hoping I'd meet a really cool friend of my roommate's boyfriend, you know?
Nope. Never happened.
I tried out for the orchestra. Hey, there were guys in the orchestra, and I was third chair violin at my small high school, and we'd have a love of music in common, but this was college, and I didn't make the cut.
Scratch that.
I decided to take my pride, and put it in my wastebasket. I wrote the words 'self-respect' on a piece of paper and threw it into my wastebasket. I could always retrieve it later if I changed my mind, right? Having done that, I went to the welcome dance.
Before the dance I shaved myself smooth, and I applied my perfumed creams all over my lithe bod, making my skin soft and rich to the touch. You know, just in case? I thought long and hard about what to wear.
I wanted to look appealing, but obviously not like a tramp, nor a slut. I wasn't going there for meaningless, gratuitous sex, but rather to meet a guy. Sure, I knew if I met a guy, we'd kiss and stuff (we'd better at least kiss!), but mostly I wanted a guy. Serious sex could wait. Serious sex had already waited eighteen and a half years; it could wait a little longer. After all, I'm not a slut, of that much I was sure.
At the last minute I made a change of clothes. I decided to use my boobs as an area of attraction, and I took out my push-up bra, about to make its maiden appearance. I wore a slightly low-cut blouse, and looked in the mirror. All I saw were my boobs, but frankly, not enough of them. Okay guys, I thought to myself, you're in for a treat tonight, and I switched to a top that had some serious dΓ©colletage. I had never before had the guts to wear that particular top.
Desperate times call for desperate acts, right?
Well, the dance was chock-a-block full of freshman girls, just like myself, except that the other freshman girls were trying to look like porn actresses or something. A good half of them were not even wearing bras, and the other half were wearing skirts that were so short their panties were on display with the slightest movement. I was wearing an outfit that I had innocently thought pushed me to the edge of decency, and yet comparatively speaking, I looked like a nun!
Well, as it turned out, there was a guy at the dance who must have had a thing for nuns. How else could I explain it? Or maybe I reminded him of his sister, or worse, his Mom? Of maybe he was a neurotic wimp and the flagrant out-there sexiness of the other girls intimidated him? Who knows why, but he seemed interested in me, of all people!
I decided not to analyze what his problems were that led him to being interested in me, and just to go with the flow. We danced, and of course I was a much better dancer, but hey: He was a guy, and he wanted to dance with me. Just then, that was enough for yours truly!