“Me too.” I admitted.
“I’m glad I’m seeing you tonight.”
“About that…” I said, “The guys are having a party at the lodge. Julian’s been giving me shit about not being around. He knows something's up, and he’s threatening to follow me. I need to go to this, to put him off. He can’t find us out.”
“Yeah, you should go then.” She said. Her tone sounded sad, resigned.
“I can sneak out to you later tonight.” I told her.
“No, stay at the party. It would only make Julian more suspicious if you disappeared. Do what you need to do to put him off the scent.” There was an unspoken command in her voice.
“What do you mean, do what I need to do?”
She sighed. “Maybe you need to make out with someone your own age. Hell, maybe that is what you should do, anyway.”
“Right,” I huffed. “I’m coming over tonight as usual, while you are talking like this.”
“No, Garrett. God, I’m sorry, now I feel I’m pressuring you.”
“I don’t know what to do. We have another twelve months of this. Tell me what to do.”
“Go to the party, Garrett, and I will see you tomorrow night instead.”
“You sure we are okay?” I checked.
“We are. Don’t get too wasted though because Wednesday I will give you a workout. That’ll be forty-eight hours I will have been without your cock. My pussy is going to be hungry.”
“Well, I can see you tomorrow, or you can take another risk…” I teased.
“What risk?”
“You can sneak into the party tonight. I will sneak you past people and up to my room.”
“That is crazy. We would get caught.” She said, and I imagined that was the voice her students got to hear when she was annoyed with them.
“You’re right. We would.” I told her. “Meet me at your classroom instead. I can sneak out for thirty minutes or so, you will just have to make do with a quickie.”
“I have a better idea,” Mer said. “The tree I hid behind, at the back of the Dares Room. I want to fuck against it. It’s dark there and behind it no one would see. Text me when it’s dark and you are ready for me.”
“I am always ready for you.” I told her, “But yes, I will message you when it’s dark.”
The party was in full swing, there were huge punch bowls around the kitchen and living room that had God knows what in them. I stuck to beer, so I knew how much I was drinking. My roommates were drunk and loud and all had a girl on their arm. Julian brought a blonde over to me.
“This is Madelyn. She is yours for the night. You are welcome.”
I looked at my watch. It was 10:00 pm, and I was going to get Mer onto campus around midnight. I knew that to get Julian off my back I would have to give this girl some of my time so I asked what she wanted to drink and then hung out with her and my roommates. She was like a leech, she kept grabbing hold of my arm, wrapping her own around mine, like we were together. I wanted to smack her arm away, but Julian was watching me closely so instead I put up with it. The guys decided we should play spin the bottle just after 11:00 pm and Madelyn was all for it, leading me to the circle of other people and sitting at my side with her head resting on my chest. It all seemed so juvenile, and that was when I realized… I wanted no part of this. I had grown up, what I wanted was to settle down, to have a family someday. This frat boy crap was not me.
So, much to everyone’s surprise, including my own, I stood up, Madelyn’s heading lifting in confusion.
“I’m out of here, guys. Have fun.”
I went up to my room and closed the door on the lot of it.
Twenty minutes later there was a banging on my door. Sighing, I walked over and opened it to find Julian on the other side.
“What the fuck you doing man? Have you forgotten how to have fun?”
“No.” I shook my head. “I’ve just grown up.”