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- okay, but I never really took to forced communal living. Around
- Christmas of my sophomore year, two friends took me aside one evening
- and made me a proposition. They had found a three-bedroom apartment not
- too far from campus and they were looking for a third roommate to share
- the expenses. The had discussed the possibilities for several days and
- I was their first choice. Both of them were good students, neither was
- addicted to wild parties, and the money was considerably less than I was
- paying for room and board in the dorm. The term was ending so I agreed
- and cleared the arrangement with my folks (I was still under 21). By
- New Year's Eve, I was moved in.
- Gary and Ed, my new roomies, valued their privacy as much as I did
- and we got along fine, each with his own room to escape to. I was a
- much better cook than either of them, though I taught them the basics.
- On the other hand, they didn't mind housework and I hated it, so the
- chores divided up pretty evenly. As it turned out, the three of us
- shared quarters for 2-1/2 years until graduation with a minimum of
- squabbling, and we parted good friends. We all live in different parts
- of the country now but we still keep in touch.
- Ed was from Baton Rouge and didn't know many girls in Austin, but
- Gary, who was from Fort Worth, was luckier: His high school sweetheart
- had also chosen UT. She was a blonde, bouncy little drama major named
- more [q=quit] Sherry (I know: "Gary and Sherry," like a bad song) and she was careful
- not to intrude when she came over to see Gary. She was cheerful and
- pleasant and pretty, and Ed and I quickly accepted her frequent
- presence. She never stayed overnight, though.
- Sometimes I'd come home and hear muffled sounds of bedsprings and
- passionate moaning from behind Gary's closed bedroom door. I'd go on
- about my business and when they emerged, Sherry would pat me on the arm
- in greeting and I'd give her a big smile in return, and no one would
- mention the bedroom. She was a sweet girl, very much in love with Gary,
- and Ed and I silently envied them both.
- In mid-December of my junior year, almost exactly a year since the
- three of us had set up housekeeping, Sherry took me aside one afternoon
- and asked with elaborate casualness if I might be interested in meeting
- a friend of hers who had just transferred from Texas Wesleyan. Ed had
- begun dating a certain special girl regularly by then, and I think
- Sherry felt it was her responsibility to see that I wasn't left out. I
- was flattered, certainly, but I'd become cautious about women and it was
- a habit I didn't intend to break. I dated often enough, though only on
- a purely social basis, and I enjoyed the occasional sweaty make-out
- session with a girl at a party, but there was very little emotional
- involvement. The last thing I wanted was entanglements.
- more [q=quit] Sherry was so earnest, I suggested she bring her friend to the
- pre-Christmas open-house we were planning the next weekend. That way,
- if it didn't work out, her friend would have the party as fallback
- entertainment. Had I known what I was getting into, I might have
- chickened out.
- I was bedding down a case of Lone Star in the ice-filled bathtub the
- evening of the open-house when Sherry turned up with her friend in tow.
- She didn't seem to think it odd, making introductions in the bathroom,
- and Rose and I hit it off immediately. She was a compact little
- brunette with sultry dark eyes and almost too much makeup, and lots of
- tan. She favored tight blouses and short skirts, which was okay with
- me.
- Rose glanced around at the tile and the hand towels and laughed.
- "First time I ever had a date in the john," she said, and her eyes
- twinkled conspiratorially, making it a shared joke.
- About a third of our small apartment complex was older students and
- another third was young faculty, so most of the tenants were having
- open-door parties. I pulled on my Christmas sweater, the one with
- reindeer all over it (my mother's idea), and Rose and I went out to make
- the rounds of the parties while Gary and Ed and their girlfriends held
- down the fort for awhile at our place. She was the perfect date for
- more [q=quit] such an occasion: Pretty and charming, friendly and outgoing, and
- apparently capable of drinking anyone under the table. We had a great
- time.
- After three or four hours of conviviality, we found ourselves back at
- the apartment; Gary and Ed headed out with their dates and I wasn't
- about to start on the litter until morning, if then. I was a bit
- unfocused, being unaccustomed to so much beer in so short a time. I was
- too gassed to drive but I could walk and talk if I took it slow. Once I
- sat down on the couch it seemed easier to stay there. And when Rose
- plopped down on my lap and kicked off her shoes, it seemed easier to
- keep her there, too.
- I had nothing specific in mind when I gave her a friendly squeeze and
- kissed her briefly on the neck. I liked her and it seemed like the
- thing to do. Rose hooked her arm around my shoulder and studied my face
- thoughtfully for a moment. Then she leaned in and kissed me, long,
- hard, and deep. I hadn't been kissed with that much initiative since--
- Well, since Mary.
- Then she put her lips close to my ear and said softly, "I really like
- you, Mike. Let's go in the bedroom and fuck."
- The seconds passed while I digested that. It was a week short of
- 1965, but the Sixties hadn't really arrived in Texas, wouldn't for
- more [q=quit] several years yet, and I had never heard a suggestion like that from a
- girl. I must have been staring at her in disbelief, because Rose sort
- of shrugged and said "Well, if you don't want to, that's okay..."
- At which point I said something suave like "No, let's do it!" A bad
- mistake.
- I don't know whether it was the beer, or the fact that I hadn't
- gotten laid since I started college, or just general nervousness, but it
- turned into a long evening. When we got to my bedroom and shut the
- door, I fumbled badly trying to take off Rose's blouse and skirt and she
- had to finish. I couldn't manage her bra at all. Then she had to help
- me out of my own clothes. I was barely sober enough to be aware that I
- was embarrassing myself badly.
- The next mental snapshot on that roll is of me, sucking Rose's lavish
- tits and trying desperately to will myself into an erection. We both
- were doing a lot of moaning, but for different reasons. She was very
- understanding, though, and did a class job of sucking on my cock until I
- was stiff enough to be useful to her.
- Then she climbed on top of me and stuffed my bewildered cock into her
- cunt. I squeezed her large, jiggling breasts and I squeezed her smooth,
- muscular ass. I squeezed every part of her I could reach. Perhaps I
- was still astonished at suddenly being completely naked and in bed with
- more [q=quit] a very sexy girl only a few hours after we'd met. And perhaps I'm too
- much of a romantic to get very worked up without foreplay.
- It ended after ten or fifteen minutes with Rose masturbating herself
- to a climax while the head of my cowardly cock sat lodged just inside
- her, as if it had dozed off. When she finished her series of little
- shudders, she slid off me and lay propped up on her elbow.
- She stroked my hair and said, not unkindly, "Don't worry about it,
- honey. You're just tired and you had a little too much to drink
- tonight. It happens to all guys once in awhile." It was too much. I
- was frustrated, mortified, horny, and half-drunk -- and now she was
- offering me a convenient excuse, like tossing a life preserver.
- "Don't be so fuckin' *nice* about it, for chrissake!"
- She snatched her hand back. "Well, pardon *me* all to hell!" She
- hopped off the bed and began snatching up clothes from the floor. She
- was seriously annoyed.
- On the third try, I managed to sit upright. Rose had her underwear
- on and was yanking her skirt up over her hips. "Please," I begged, "I
- didn't mean that. I'm sorry, Rose." She was shrugging into her blouse
- and moving toward the bedroom door, a stormy look on her face.
- "Rose, *please* come back, just for a minute! I have to explain..."
- She glanced at me and, I suppose, saw the misery scrawled all over my
- more [q=quit] face. She hesitated and then came back and sat on the edge of the bed
- just beyond my reach while she put on her shoes.
- "I'm sorry, Rose, I had no right to be ugly when you've been so
- terrific." I was a little more composed and she sat quietly and waited
- for me to continue. So I gave her the two-minute version -- that she
- was only the second girl I'd ever really had sex with, and what had
- happened the first time with Mary, and why I had become unreasonably
- angry.
- "Rose, if you'd gotten mad at me for conking out on you, I probably
- could have handled it. But you were so understanding about
- everything,... I just couldn't deal with it. I'm sorry -- God, I'm so
- sorry. I seem to say that a lot to women I get involved with," I added,
- and I heard the bitterness in my own voice.
- She gave me that thoughtful look again and scooted closer. She held
- my hand and her tacit acceptance of my apology almost brought me to
- tears. I guess it showed.
- "Want to try it again?" she asked softly. "From the top? I can even
- stay the night if you think you want me to." I almost accepted but I
- knew I couldn't. I squeezed her fingers.
- "I don't think you'd better," I replied, with an attempt at a wry
- smile. "I'm afraid all I'm good for right now is self-pity. But you
- more [q=quit] don't know how much I needed to hear you say that."
- "Okay; I really do understand." She leaned over and kissed me very
- gently. "I hope you find her some day." I must have looked blank.
- "The right girl," she added. She stood, touched my cheek for a moment,
- and then slipped out. I heard the apartment door click shut a moment
- later.
- I lay on my side staring into the dark and wondering what it was
- about me that attracted disastrous relationships.
-
-
- I don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier, but the first time I
- saw Sherry after the Christmas holidays, I suddenly remembered that Rose
- was a friend of hers. Oh, God, I thought -- what stories were making
- the rounds now?
- But Sherry grinned at me and said "Rose tells me you two really hit
- it off at the open house." I waited for the other shoe to drop. "She
- didn't give me any details,... but she *did* say you were *very*
- interesting in bed...." She gave me a friendly leer and I silently
- thanked Rose for her discretion.
- "Rose is quite a girl," I agreed, with what I hoped was a mysterious
- smirk.
- more [q=quit] I didn't call her, but I bumped into Rose on campus a couple weeks
- later. She was in animated conversation with a tall young man in a
- basketball letter sweater (she came up to the Longhorn on the front),
- but when I gave her a little wave she put him on hold and detoured in my
- direction with a big smile.
- "How you doing?" She seemed genuinely interested.
- "I'll get by," I replied. "I talked to Sherry; I wanted to thank
- you."
- She glanced down and looked at me through her mascara. "No problem.
- You *are* a nice guy, even though we, um, had a problem that night."
- She glanced back at the basketball player, who was waiting patiently.
- "I've been getting acquainted with Dave, over there, and I'm meeting a
- lot of other people, too." What she meant was that her free time was
- taken for the foreseeable future.
- "Well, I'm glad your transfer to UT is working out so well." Which
- meant I understood and I wouldn't pester her for dates, trying to prove
- myself to her. She smiled again, patted me on the arm, and went back to
- her tall friend. I saw her occasionally, around campus or with Sherry,
- and we exchanged greetings, but we never had another date. I have no
- idea what happened to her after we graduated.
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