(1)
Ms. Angelino taught a night class on vampires at Loyola University in New Orleans. A class on the influence of vampires on contemporary culture and their origins in history. It was the highlight of my junior year curriculum at the college. All of my other classes just seemed like obstacles on my journey to the treasure that each evening was in her room. We covered everything from the true stories of Vlad Tepes himself to the impact of Ann Rice's vampire chronicles on modern media.
Ms. Angelino was a treat herself, a mysterious and exotic figure, always clad in black. Tonight it was a black pantsuit, her blouse's neckline plunging deeply to the crevass that seperated her two firm breasts. Her movements were smooth and fluid, her voice enchanting, the hint of an elusive accent creeping into the way she pronounced certain words.
Her lecture tonight, and for several more evenings to come, concerned the vampire in cinema. Now that was a lesson I could sink my proverbial fangs into. Renting some primo Hollywood bloodsucking fare and soaking it all up. I think maybe I have seen everything the silver screen has to offer on vampires, but I am always up for a second serving, a third, even more.
The motion of Ms. Angelino's arms catch my eye, long slender and pale, the way I imagine her legs must be. Something about her reminds me of a gypsy, her facial features, her full lips behind their coating of bloodred lipstick, the way she swings her hips when she turns, like a dancer ready to spin into a graceful pirouette.
She mentions the Halloween party tomorrow night as she closes, and I stand with a sigh, realizing I don't have a date to it. Realizing I haven't had a date to a single party since I started college. Since I can remember. I guess having a name like Isaac doesn't help. It's as if I have my lover always with me, the same hand that hefts the load of books from my desk now. Still a virgin, all my lovers some imaginary woman in my mind.
I make my way back to my dorm room, to pick up some things. I transform from Isaac, student of vampire literature to Isaac, brave tutor of calculus. My crusade, to spread the gospel of calculus to all infidels who can't grasp the intricacies of higher mathematics. It's all boring rote to me. Just one grim necessity in navigating my course in college.
When I first came to Loyola, I became a volunteer tutor in the hopes of meeting pretty girls and working my way into their pants once I won them over with my tremendous charm as I took them to straight A's in math. So much for that plan. Most of them would have noticed a wad of gum on the sidewalk before they noticed me. I had all the significance of a calculator to them.
Tonight's special case was Marnie Lewis. A junior like me, she was a bronze goddess, a standard fixture in the campus gym, long legged, shapely, with the kind of curves that beg to be touched just to confirm they are real. She had a voice that reminded me of a pre-adolescent, but it didn't detract from her sexiness, it only added to it. It made me wonder how she sounded when she was fucking. How did she moan? How did she sound when she said your name at the height of passion?
All these things I run over in my head for the nth time as I walk to her room. She answers the door the way she usually does for our evening sessions, dressed only in some long t-shirt bearing a cartoonish design. Tonight it is a leering jack-o-lantern. The sharp points of her nipples against the white cotton fabric tell me she wears no bra, and as she greets me, I wonder if she wears panties either.
Her deeply tanned legs stand in stark contrast to the white of her shirt. No doubt, she sees me as harmless. Surely Isaac is gay, or at the least a eunich. I doubt she has any idea that I spend the majority of our sessions in the thrall of a massive erection as she twists long whisps of her hair and chews the gum she always seems to have in her mouth.
Tonight, as we navigate the mindefield of math so she can safely acquire her liberal arts degree, I find even my concentration broken by her actions. She begins to paint her toenails. Opening a bottle of metallic, silver nail polish, she begins to carefully brush it onto her delicate toes, her shapely foot propped on the edge of her chair. For a moment, I can't even remember where I had been.
She glances up, talking in her little girl voice, "I'm sorry Isaac, I am paying attention. Would you like me to stop?"
I swallow hard, "No. Um. Sorry, I just lost my place."
She flashes me a fake smile then returns to painting her nails again as I manage to find my place. I notice I have begun to sweat, and my hand shakes slightly. She was the kind of girl I had started all this tutoring for and here I am sitting across from her without the balls to ask her to tomorrow night's Halloween party. What kind of inexcusable weenie had I become?
Briefly I glance around the room looking for pictures of her with some boyfriend. I don't see any. Surely somebody like Marnie had a boyfriend. Maybe not. Maybe she is just waiting for Mr. Right to ask her. Maybe she is anxiously waiting for her shy math tutor to seduce her. Get a grip Isaac, I tell myself. I swallow again, close my eyes and say to hell with it.
"Marnie, would you like to go to the Halloween party with me tomorrow night?"
She glances up from the intent work on her nails, tilting her head to one side, for a brief moment a look of slight confusion on her face, one that reads, "Not if you were the last guy on earth you hopeless freak." Then she smiles, the letters F-A-K-E practically painted across her perfect white teeth.
"I'm sorry Isaac, I already have a date."
I just nod as I gather up my stuff and she seems to forget that I had ever even asked. What had I been thinking? What if she didn't even want me to tutor her anymore after that idiotic question?
As she walks me to the door, she asks, "See you at the party tomorrow?"
"Uh, sure," I mutter.
Then the door closes and I am alone again, defeated, deflated, headed back to my own dorm room.
After I put my things away and strip off my clothes I plop onto my bed, staring at the ceiling. I close my eyes, imagining Marnie there again, her leg tucked close to her chest, her head ducked down to see her hand as it slowly brushes the silver enamel on her toenails. I can see up her shirt now, and see the soft golden down of her pubic hair, and know she isn't wearing any panties.
As I wrap my hand around my dick, she looks up at me, her lips slightly parted, her eyes half lidded, and she asks, "Do you want to fuck me Isaac?" I stroke myself hard and fast as I imagine riding her, hearing her little girl voice calling my name as I plunge deep inside of her. But even in my dreams, in my fantasies, in her screams of passion, Isaac is still a stupid name. I curse my parents as I feel my own cum pour over my hand.
(2)
The Halloween party is at some frat house on campus, it's Greek letters meaningless to me because no fraternity was ever going to ask me to join it's ranks. From the sidewalk, the music pours out like an angry river, grinding guitar riffs juxtaposed with a throbbing drum machine. Some new band I haven't heard before, but that beckons you to shake you ass and smash your brains out at the same time. I have chosen my customary costume, the ruffled shirt and red satin lined cloak of a vampire, topped off with some pale paint for my face and a decent looking set of fangs. The only fault in the outfit of course is my glasses, the bitter curse of near-sightedness detracting from my goth look. It's a trade off, be the four eyed vampire or sacrifice the ability to recognize anybody from a distance of greater than six feet.