I lit a cigarette and opened the zipper on my leather jacket. The April evening was warmer than I had thought. The street was busy with cars going back and forth and several of my student buddies walked by and waved at me.
"Hey good looking, do you want a ride?"
I turned to the soft voice and saw my girlfriend inside the convertible Audi. Liza was what every man wants, or at least what the men on campus wanted. Smart, rich, good looking and she had the personality of a saint. Add a pair of beautiful boobs and an ass that could crack a walnut and you had yourself a dream girl.
"Hi, baby," I said as I jumped over the car door and landed perfectly in the seat.
"Show off, you should use the door like normal people do."
"Just drive, honey."
She put the car in gear and it shot forward like a racehorse. It was the S4 model and it was a dream of a car. My own shitty Chevy was parked outside my dorm. Liza's dad had bought her the car when she turned twenty-five and she loved it.
"Where are we going I asked?"
"Everyone is going to be a Ding's."
"Okay, Ding's it is," I said and leaned back in the soft leather car seat. Liza wasn't much of a drinker so she often was the designated driver when we went out, which was great for me because I liked my beers and shots.
Liza and I had been dating for over a year. We had met in a class we took together. I don't have much going for me except for my looks. I come from a poor part of a Chicago neighborhood and the only reason I could go to college was because I had a wrestling scholarship. My grandparents emigrated from Yugoslavia sometime in the late twenties. After skipping a few generations their DNA came out in me, making me well over six feet tall, broad-shouldered with a strong face and a slightly too big nose. Women love it and me, but ones they find out where I come from and that I ate with my elbows on the table and talked with my mouth full they quickly dump me, but not Liza. She took it upon herself to teach me table manners, how to sit and walk right, how not to use swear words as adjectives and how to dress.
She basically invented a new and improved Dragan, which is my name. I liked the new me but my family thought I had become a sissy. I laughed it off and ignored them. They were not in college and didn't have to deal with the people that I had to. I had only met her parent's ones, and that went pretty well considering. Liza introduced me as her special friend and her dad gave me a look like if he wanted to place a doubled-barrel shotgun up my ass and pull the trigger. Her mom, a very good looking woman in her late fifties gave me one look and said to her daughter that I was the best-looking man she had ever had the pleasure to meet. So, fuck her dad, I had mommy on my side.
When we walked into Ding's heads turned. We make quite the couple. I am dark and big, she is blonde and slim. I wore my leather jacket, a white t-shirt and designer jeans with boots on my feet. Liza had a red dress that some would call too short for polite company but which I loved. It hugged her body like a second skin and showed off all the curves she had.
"Get us a drink, I'll say hi to some of the girls," she said and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
Liza only drank one thing, Mimosa's and only two per night. I didn't like them but who was I to complain. I ordered one for her and a vodka tonic for myself. As I waited for the drinks I spotted a guy who I knew on the other side of the bar.
I waved and he came over. "What's up Dragan?"
"Nothing much, I came here with Liza but she is over there talking to some friends."
You lucky bastard, I still don't know how a poor slob like you could land a woman like her."
I patted his shoulder and said, "Gregg, my friend, you will never understand because you don't understand women. It's not about the money or the pedigree, it's how you treat them."
"Right, and you are the perfect gentleman?"
I laughed and drank from my drink before saying, "I don't kiss and tell."
Gregg smiled and then said, "Are you going to the after-party?"
"Who's holding it?"
"Who do you think, Angelo of course?"
"Fuck, I wouldn't miss that, I'll let Liza know."
"Cool," he said and wandered off to see some friends at a table.
I looked over to where Liza was standing with her friends talking and laughing. I still had her drink next to me but I didn't feel like going over there and have to listen to the latest gossip. Instead, I ordered another drink and sat down on a bar stool.
And that's when he entered. I swear to God when Angelo walked through the door the world stopped and everyone stared at him. He has that kind of effect on people. He had shown up on campus the previous fall and no one knew much about him. The rumors went from him being an Italian princeling to being the son of a mafia don. All we knew was that he was Italian, had a shit load of money and threw the best after parties the campus had ever seen.
He was adored by the women and respected by the guys. He drove a red Ducati Monster and you could hear him miles away when he was coming. He dressed impeccably, and even though he was over thirty he could party with the best of us. No one had ever seen him drunk, but we all knew he drank a lot, especially red wine, that was his thing.
"Hello, everyone," he said and opened his arms.
There was a collective "Hello Angelo," from the crowd.
He spotted me at the bar and walked over to where I sat. "Dragan, my big Yugoslavian, how are you? I expect to see you and that lovely Liza back at my place later on."
I shook his hand and said, "Wouldn't miss it for the world."
"Good, that way I can get a chance to steal your woman," he laughed and gave me a hug.
"Bartender, a glass from my bottle," he told the barman who took down a wine bottle from a shelf.
"You have to stop with the vodka, Dragan. Wine is much better for you."
"I can't stand the stuff, it gives me headaches."
"That's because you drink the cheap shit. This bottle is only four hundred and it will not give you any hangovers." He poured himself a large glass and slowly sipped from it.
"Ah, that is good," he said and smiled at me. Then he continued, "I think the lovely Liza wants your attention."
I turned and saw her waving at me and making signs that she was thirsty.
"Got to go, Angelo, I'll see you later."
"Ciao."
"He has an after-party at his place," I told Liza after giving her the Mimosa.
"Cool, I am up for it."
"What's the latest gossip?" I asked her when we had walked away from her friends.
"Oh, the usual, mostly about Angelo."
I laughed. "That doesn't surprise me, what is it with that guy and women."
She closed her eyes and said, "You would never understand."
"Try me."
"It's hard to explain. He isn't very good looking, his hair is thinning and he is a lot older than most guys on campus. I think it is the mystery of who he is mixed with the way he is so nice to everyone. Did you know he gave a guy five thousand so he could fix his car? He just gave it to him, no questions asked and it's not the first time I hear that kind of story. Amy just told me that one of the professor's in the art department needed some things for his classes. The Dean refused to buy it so Angelo gave the professor a check."
"Wow, and that makes him so wanted by women because he gives money away?"
"No stupid, it's that he doesn't think about himself first, he worries about others and that makes him a good person which is a turn on.
I couldn't help myself when I said, "so, you would sleep with him?"
Liza gave me a sideway look. "Well, if I was single, I would."
"Lucky me you aren't."
She looked around and when she saw that no one was watching us she stepped closer and grabbed my cock through the jeans. "Yes, lucky you, I also happen to love the way you fuck me and how your cock tastes in my mouth."
"I love it when you talk dirty, baby."