From the first time I saw her, Jan scared me. I was a relatively innocent 18 year old freshman, excited to be away from home for the first time. Okay, not very far away, just six or eight hours. But UCLA was nothing like my home in Oakland. But back to Jane.
She was scary. Tattoos, lots of tattoos. And so, well, aggressively gay. Practically the first thing she asked me was if I were gay. The way she said it made me feel like saying no was the wrong answer. I guess for her it was. She was so disappointed. Then she asked if I had a problem with her being gay. I said of course not. She said good, because her girlfriend from Fresno was going to spend the weekend with us.
That made me nervous. I even thought about going home for the weekend. But it was the first weekend! I just couldn't. I'm glad I didn't. Jane's girlfriend was lovely. She was smart, and sweet, and so, um, normal. She was also gorgeous. She didn't look it when you first met her, she was very modest. Not at all like Jane, who made sure you saw as many of her tats as possible: low rider cut offs, leather harnesses. When I asked her if it didn't draw a lot of attention, the wrong kind of attention, she just said it was hot.
But Mary was all skirts below the knees and white blouses that seemed to button up to her neck. You know the type. The only way I knew how gorgeous she was, was because, well, because it wasn't a very big dorm room. Neither Jane - for sure - nor even Mary, to my surprise, were at all modest. Friday night when it was time to turn in, their clothes came off and even in the semi-dark of the room, there was no question of what they were doing to each other. Yikes!