I'm straight. I now have to tell myself that when I wake up in the morning. It's been 3 years, and I still have nightmares about it. I wake up a puddle of sweat, my heart rate racing. However, other times, when my body betrays my mind, I have a different reaction.
I was 20 years old, going to college at the local state school, and things were not going well. I was partying too much, fucking too much, and skipping class WAY too much. It didn't help that I was hot. I was a cool 6'1", lean with a little muscle. Just enough so that every piece of clothing hung just right on my body. My dark hair was thick and shaggy. I liked to keep it slightly messy. I had gained a reputation within the college sororities for giving good dick and being a dick.
My parents and professors thought I needed a wake-up call that I couldn't party and fuck my way through life. They were right, but I don't think the wake-up call I received is what they had in mind.
It was winter before Christmas break. I was out with some friends going to a sorority party. There was this cute 5' nothing blonde I was trying to sleep with. Unfortunately for me, I had already moved through enough of the girls in the house that they had a picture of me in their hallway with a red line through it and " Do Not Fuck, Asshole Alert" written underneath it. Needless to say, the night didn't go my way. So I decided, "Let's get drunk." The night gets blurry from there, and I am not sure exactly how much I had to drink. I was in the process of blacking out. My memories flicker like a highlight reel of the night. I don't have the full picture, but I have some things. Dancing, shots, dancing, shots, and finally getting slapped across the face. I guess I decided to walk home. That's where the trouble starts.
I have to rely on the police report for this next part. I have no memory of it. It's too bad. I'm forced to remember other parts of the night. According to the report, the cruiser was passing by and saw me puking in some bushes. They pulled over and got out to check on me. My drunken ass apparently took a swing at one of the cops and ran for it. Lucky for me, I missed. Unlucky for me, I made it all of twenty feet and fell over. I was booked that night in the county jail. They contacted my parents, and my parents decided it was best I learned a lesson and said they could keep me for the weekend. What the fuck, Mom?!?! I haven't forgiven her for this. I blame her for my situation.
The cops threw me in the drunk tank to sleep it off. I woke up the next morning with my splitting in two and puke in my chest. My puke. An officer came in looking pissed and said I was going to be booked assaulting an officer, and that no one was coming to get me for a while. The first bits of fear washed over me. I had never been in this much trouble. On top of it, there were rumors in town that the police here HATED the college students and took any opportunity they could to make their lives hell.
The officer could see my fear and told me to follow him to get myself changed. I was brought into a small room with bright fluorescent lights hurting my head. I was so hungover. "Take your clothes off," barked the officer. It jostled my mind off my hangover and onto the current situation. I was in deep shit.
It didn't seem like the time to argue, so I stripped naked. Being as good-looking as I was, I had no problem having someone see me in my underwear. "I said, TAKE! YOUR! CLOTHES! OFF!"
What the fuck, he wanted me nude? I stared at him for a minute and saw him for the first time. He was in his late 30s or early 40s. Bigger than me, but he had a slight belly. His face was clean-shaven, and his hair was cropped tight, with hints of grey in his blonde hair. I did as I was told. Dropping my underwear to the floor, now standing under a bright light, totally naked.
The officer walked over, picked up my clothes, and left the room. I was alone and afraid. I was also now cold. The door opened again, and a second officer entered the room, followed by the original officer. He seemed kinder; his eyes seemed nice. He's older, with a horseshoe of hair running around the side of his head. He'd dyed it shoe polish black and had a thick mustache dyed the same color. He was holding a set of jail clothes and placed them on the table in the room.