My name is Mateo Marcos. I'm a big and tall white guy of Jewish descent originally from the town of Stoughton, Massachusetts. After graduating high school, I did some traveling around the country. I ended up attending Bayden State College, a small, four-year private school located in the city of Boston. It's the place where I met the person who changed my life forever. Stephen Voleur, a big and tall young black man I met in my Business Management class. He was unlike anyone I'd ever met in my entire life.
Stephen was a native of the Island Nation of Haiti who came to America for a better life. He lived in Brockton and commuted to Bayden State College at the same time that I commuted from Stoughton. We moved in different circles. Bayden State College used to an all-female school. A rather quiet campus. A few years ago, they decided to add men. If you ask me, they should have been careful what kind of man they let in. The likes of Stephen should have been kept out. I'm not saying this because he's a black man. I've got nothing against black people. I don't like loudmouths, of any race, sex, religion or creed. Got it? Cool.
The year I enrolled at Bayden State College as a freshman was the year they added men's and women's varsity sports. I didn't think Bayden State College could support any sports teams. I mean, there were only one thousand students on campus. We had facilities, but we didn't have people. Oh, well. I was still amazed when the Athletic Department succeeded in their endeavor to bring sports to our school. They added Men's Varsity Baseball, Basketball, Golf, Cross Country, Soccer, Ice Hockey, Swimming and Wrestling along with Women's Varsity Softball, Basketball, Tennis, Cross Country, Soccer, Ice Hockey, Swimming and Field Hockey. The sports teams competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division Three.
Stephen was always hanging out with the jocks, that cabale of athletes who descended upon Bayden State College like the gods of Mount Olympus. I don't like jocks. Even though I'm a six-foot-three, 260-pound male, I still got picked on at Stoughton High School. I got made fun of. And I didn't like it one bit. Stephen was obviously a jock. And surely enough, he was on the Men's Wrestling team. Bayden State College didn't offer any athletic scholarships, since we were a Division Three school. Still, the jocks walked around with a sense of entitlement. Like I did in high school, I didn't attend any sports games. I went to class and hung out with the few friends I had. Then, I went home. End of story.
In our class, where there were four male students and seven females, Stephen was the loudest and most outspoken individual. I sat next to Samantha Villiers, a six-foot-tall, lean and athletic yet delightfully big-bottomed young black woman from the Isle of Dominica whom I had a crush on. I liked Samantha and we were friends but I never had the guts to tell her how I felt. In fact, I never had the guts to try many things. Enters Stephen and out the window goes my peace of my mind.