been up to.”
I rolled my eyes. “Oh, shut up.” My cheeks were
burning, and I sat against the back of a chair, unable to help the smile that
kept tugging at my lips despite how embarrassed I felt. “He came and apologized
for being an asshole, that’s all.”
“Oh, so you accept all apologies naked in your
bedroom, I see.” I shoved Jess’ shoulder as she laughed.
“Okay, fine, we had sex again. It’s not that big a
deal.”
Jess crossed her arms over her chest and looked me
up and down once more, snickering.
“You know, the way you stormed out of the dining
hall, I would not have thought you’d even let him in the room.”
I shrugged. “I wouldn’t have thought so either,” I
admitted. “I sort of opened the door before I even thought about it, and there
he was.”
I told her about what Zack had told me—that he had
intended to embarrass himself, not me, that it had been aimed at getting the stupid
girls at his table to shut up.
“I have to admit, I thought you were overreacting.
No one in the DH was actually laughing at you—they thought Zack was being an
idiot.”
“Yeah, well, it felt an awful lot like they were—and
I thought Zack was doing it just to be a jerk, like he didn’t mean it.”
“Be careful, Evie ,” Jess
suggested. “But I will admit that announcing that he’s in love with you in
front of the entire dining hall is a pretty good indication that he feels
something at least. It was kind of romantic.”
I rolled my eyes. “It was dumb and silly. But I’m
glad he came and apologized to me. I made him promise no more public
spectacles.”
“Well in fairness to him, the last one was all you.”
I shook my head, still smiling, and turned to go
back to my room.
“Oh! Did you by any chance think to grab my bag?” My
cheeks were burning again and I realized I had forgotten all about the fact
that I’d left my backpack behind in the dining hall when I’d fled Zack’s public
declaration of love.
“I did, in fact. What would you do without a
conscientious roommate like me?” Jess went into her bedroom and came back out a
moment later, carrying my backpack.
“If I didn’t have a conscientious roommate like you
I wouldn’t have been the subject of two very embarrassing public displays
because I would have never run into Zack at the party you made me go to.”
“So then, you still wouldn’t be getting laid, is
what you’re saying.”
I couldn’t say anything to that—she was,
technically, right. “I can get my own guys!” I shouted as Jess sauntered back
to her room.
I had to hurry to get ready; there was my assignment
for class to print out, and of course I couldn’t walk across campus in my
bathrobe. I found my clothes and put them on while I printed my assignment for
the class, humming along with the music still playing on my computer. My body
was tingling still, and I could feel a ghost of the sensation of Zack’s cock
inside of me, the lingering wetness between my thighs from the sex we’d had.
****
I managed to make it to class on time, hurrying
across campus and avoiding everyone’s gaze as my cheeks burned. I didn’t know
how many of the people I passed on the walkways had seen Zack’s pronouncement
of love in the dining hall—or how far the word of it had spread throughout
campus since I’d gone back to my room. It had been an hour and a half since I’d
run back to my dorm—so it could have easily spread throughout half the campus
already. I wondered, feeling mortified, if someone had gotten a video of it;
they probably had.
Once I was in class, I tried to turn my thoughts
firmly onto the task at hand, but I found my attention straying every few
minutes. I imagined Zack at practice, running through plays, doing the standard
exercises that seemed to always come up for football
players. I assumed that the routine at the college level wasn’t that different
from what I had seen Zack work through when we had been dating in high school;
there
I rolled my eyes. “Oh, shut up.” My cheeks were
burning, and I sat against the back of a chair, unable to help the smile that
kept tugging at my lips despite how embarrassed I felt. “He came and apologized
for being an asshole, that’s all.”
“Oh, so you accept all apologies naked in your
bedroom, I see.” I shoved Jess’ shoulder as she laughed.
“Okay, fine, we had sex again. It’s not that big a
deal.”
Jess crossed her arms over her chest and looked me
up and down once more, snickering.
“You know, the way you stormed out of the dining
hall, I would not have thought you’d even let him in the room.”
I shrugged. “I wouldn’t have thought so either,” I
admitted. “I sort of opened the door before I even thought about it, and there
he was.”
I told her about what Zack had told me—that he had
intended to embarrass himself, not me, that it had been aimed at getting the stupid
girls at his table to shut up.
“I have to admit, I thought you were overreacting.
No one in the DH was actually laughing at you—they thought Zack was being an
idiot.”
“Yeah, well, it felt an awful lot like they were—and
I thought Zack was doing it just to be a jerk, like he didn’t mean it.”
“Be careful, Evie ,” Jess
suggested. “But I will admit that announcing that he’s in love with you in
front of the entire dining hall is a pretty good indication that he feels
something at least. It was kind of romantic.”
I rolled my eyes. “It was dumb and silly. But I’m
glad he came and apologized to me. I made him promise no more public
spectacles.”
“Well in fairness to him, the last one was all you.”
I shook my head, still smiling, and turned to go
back to my room.
“Oh! Did you by any chance think to grab my bag?” My
cheeks were burning again and I realized I had forgotten all about the fact
that I’d left my backpack behind in the dining hall when I’d fled Zack’s public
declaration of love.
“I did, in fact. What would you do without a
conscientious roommate like me?” Jess went into her bedroom and came back out a
moment later, carrying my backpack.
“If I didn’t have a conscientious roommate like you
I wouldn’t have been the subject of two very embarrassing public displays
because I would have never run into Zack at the party you made me go to.”
“So then, you still wouldn’t be getting laid, is
what you’re saying.”
I couldn’t say anything to that—she was,
technically, right. “I can get my own guys!” I shouted as Jess sauntered back
to her room.
I had to hurry to get ready; there was my assignment
for class to print out, and of course I couldn’t walk across campus in my
bathrobe. I found my clothes and put them on while I printed my assignment for
the class, humming along with the music still playing on my computer. My body
was tingling still, and I could feel a ghost of the sensation of Zack’s cock
inside of me, the lingering wetness between my thighs from the sex we’d had.
****
I managed to make it to class on time, hurrying
across campus and avoiding everyone’s gaze as my cheeks burned. I didn’t know
how many of the people I passed on the walkways had seen Zack’s pronouncement
of love in the dining hall—or how far the word of it had spread throughout
campus since I’d gone back to my room. It had been an hour and a half since I’d
run back to my dorm—so it could have easily spread throughout half the campus
already. I wondered, feeling mortified, if someone had gotten a video of it;
they probably had.
Once I was in class, I tried to turn my thoughts
firmly onto the task at hand, but I found my attention straying every few
minutes. I imagined Zack at practice, running through plays, doing the standard
exercises that seemed to always come up for football
players. I assumed that the routine at the college level wasn’t that different
from what I had seen Zack work through when we had been dating in high school;
there
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