Content warning: This story contains graphic images that cover the topics of coercion and sexual assault. If these topics offend you, please leave the page.
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"Layla, are you almost out? I need to shower too!" shouted Aubrey, Layla's dorm mate.
"Just one second!" she responded. Layla washed the rest of her body wash off her legs and stepped out of the shower. She towel dried her hair as she examined her body in the mirror. Layla had a small frame at about 4 feet 11 inches. She was half white and half asian, so her skin took a golden tone. She had long, brown hair all the way down her back and 34b cup breasts. It was orientation week and she was going to her first college party with her roommate.
Layla stepped out of the bathroom in her towel and Aubrey quickly rushed past her, towel in hand. "Sorry I took a while," she started, "I usually don't take this long I promise."
"No worries! I understand. Besides, we don't wanna show up too early do we?"
"No of course not." Layla felt a bit uncomfortable around Aubrey still. They had only known each other for two days and didn't know how to make small talk with her. "Hey, Aubrey." she called through the door.
"Yeah?"
"Are you gonna drink?"
"Yeah definitely. Aren't you?"
"Yeah, of course.." Truth was, Layla was nervous. She really hated the taste of booze of any sort. But she knew that she would really seem like a stick in the mud if she didn't have anything. "Maybe not too much though."
Layla dressed into a pair of white short shorts with a light green crop top. The two girls walked outside and began to read the directions off of Aubrey's phone.
"Okay..." Aubrey announced quietly "McKenna says we want to walk two blocks south, then take a right on Eastwood and it will be the first house on our right."
Layla and Aubrey found themselves outside of a mid sized house in the middle of suburbia. The two girls walked right in and recognized a few people from their dorms and their orientation groups. "I think McKenna is over there!" Layla shouted over the loud music.
The two girls walked over and met up with McKenna, a sophomore, who introduced them to her friends. However, Layla could barely hear her and was too nervous to ask their names again. She did notice that one of the guys kept staring at her.
"I think he likes you." Aubrey whispered to Layla as they attempted to stomach tequila shots at everyone else's pace.
"Could he maybe show me by not being a creep?"
"Layla give him a chance! He is an older boy. How often does that happen? You can be the cute 18 year old girl with the 21 year old boyfriend who buys her booze."
"Lets just see what happens."
Layla was beginning to get considerably drunk when she was invited outside. The small group sit around a fire pit as McKenna explained some complex drinking game. Layla leaned over to Aubrey and said "I don't really get this game."
"Just drink when I tell you to drink and answer truth or dare when you are asked."
"Okay whatever works then."
About ten minutes and a few shots passed by when the tall guy who had been staring at her all night asked if she preferred truth or dare.
"Truth I guess."
"Is it true that you sleep naked."
"Uh, uhm, I used to when I had my own room."
"Oh Layla I don't mind." Aubrey joked. The group laughed, but the tall guy gave Layla an awkward look.