I needed someone I was sure wanted me and she would never let me go. It was that simple.
It was the first day of college for me and I was running late for orientation and I ran smack into a short girl with pale ivory skin and a radiant smile. I slammed backwards and into the ground. She helped me up her piercing green eyes stared deep into me, "You ok?" She asked as I brushed dirt from me.
"Um, y-yes. T-thank you for asking," I responded my lack of social grace glaring and I wanted to fade into the shadows.
"O, my. If your not careful people here will eat you alive. Should I keep you company for orientation?" She asked, her tone somehow shifting after I spoke. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but I found it somehow reassuring.
"Thanks. I'd like the help," I responded gathering all my courage and trying to seem confident in the face of this stunning upperclassman. She chuckled slightly and flipped her long blond ponytail. As I finished brushing myself off I took a moment to truly take in the beauty of this woman she was under five feet tall and her athletic curves were perfectly proportioned and on full display in her yoga pants and sports bra. In her hair there were three ornamental hair pins that were elaborate and breathtaking She had a small scar under her right eyed that looked like a cat had clawed her but otherwise her completion was flawless.
She reached out with her hand and I took it walking toward the auditorium where they were hosting orientation. We chatted as we walked, I told her I was called Sammy my name was Samantha she told me her name was Adria and she was like an open book. She had been hanging around for three years and was planning on moving on soon she told me. I thought the wording was cute. I guessed she wasn't the studious type. We walked in to orientation and got my packet and everything was settled quickly. After we left we were touring the grounds when somebody approached me.
"Aren't you adorable. My sorority," The woman began before Adria body checked her to the ground.
"She's busy. Don't be rude," she told the girl. Once more she reached her hand out to me and I instinctively took it. I felt an overwhelming sense of fear, but behind that a tinge of comfort. I had never felt so secure or protected. Needless to say the girl made no attempt to approach us again. We enjoyed the day and she escorted me back to my room. I invited her to hang out and have dinner in lieu of thanks. She quickly accepted and once inside she sat down and leered at me as though this was the moment she had wait for all day.
"Are you into girls?" She asked, a knowing glint playing in her eyes.
"Es-excuse me?" I replied, she chuckled.
"I seen you admiring me. It's ok I'm quite fond of you as well, but you can't be meek about this one thing. Say you like me and I'll protect you from every other bad thing in this world. If I've misunderstood I'll leave you be. You have to be a brave girl this one time," she told me and in that moment something clicked I liked her well enough, but the promise of eternal protection that was something I could love and cherish forever. I meekly shook my head and looked her up and down.
"I don't know if I'm into girls but I like you a lot," I screamed in a fast and high pitch voice.
"That's a good girl. I'll take good care of my sweetheart from now on. She went over and flopped on my roommates bed, "So what are you making for dinner?"
Making? I had never even considered making food. I hadn't cooked since junior high when I had taken home ec because all my friends did, "I don't really cook. I was going to order pizza."
"We'll if that's what my baby wants," she replied pulling out her phone. Thirty seconds later she put it back away, "Should be a little while come cuddle with me," she said holding out her hands and I climbed into my roommates bed without even thinking about it and she wrapped her arms around me. She inhaled deeply, "You smell amazing babe."
I sighed, things between us had changed so fast I couldn't wrap my head around it. Strangers, tour guide, friends, protector, lovers, all in less than a day, "You know what? We're in the wrong bed," I said while looking over my shoulder at Adria.
"It'll be fine. Promise," She said firmly and I don't know why, but I couldn't bring myself to doubt it. After all my roommate hadn't even moved in yet, but that meant she was do any time. We didn't even talk I listened to her breathing and felt her firm secure embrace. The door opened and a lanky girl with glasses and freckles burst in.
"Hi I'm your roommate. I hope we can get along. My studies are very important to me so I hope you're not a party girl. Orientation was rough this place is so big," She speed talked through without taking a breath or noticing me and my girlfriend.
Adria pulled a key card from somewhere and tossed it on the ground by my roommate, "That is a private room. It's larger than this one as well. It's Alabaster hall room H22. It's all yours. I'm moving in here. That works for you right?" My roommate quickly picked up the card and left. I glanced behind me and seen the anger and power in Adria's eyes and I thought no wonder she left that's one scary look. I thought about how everyone else in my life had been so quick to let me leave there life's and I found myself touched by her desire to be by my side.
My parents had forced me to apply to only out of state colleges and my friends had all cut ties on graduation day saying they had to get ready to move to the next phase of there life. Even my boyfriend had took me out to a beautiful candlelight dinner then a hotel and in the morning there was a note that just said, "long distance is a hassle," I texted him to figure out what he meant and he sent back "Let's not," and that was it my first relationship was over. Here in Adria's embraced though all that anxiety felt so far away. I lightly pulled her arm back around me and patted it gently. I could here her cooh in satisfaction. My serenity didn't last long as the pizza arrived followed quickly by someone delivering Adria's wardrobe.
"The rest of your belongings have been stored. Your father asked me to beg you please don't get carried away this time," the stuffy butler looking man said, running his fingers across his handle bar mustache.
I wanted to laugh at his villain minion appearance and behavior, but the conversation seemed to have serious implications so I restrained myself. After he left Adria grabbed a small box and tossed it to me, "Pick out something. I'll wear it when I get out of the shower. Once you pick it out come join me."
She disappeared out the door toward the shared bathroom. I flipped through the box eager to go meet her. I knew she'd look good in anything she took the time to buy so I grabbed something, it was a deep ocean blue and I threw it on her bed grabbed towels and shampoo and followed after her. I arrived at the showers to see women still lathered with soap and other assorted women speed walking from the showers averting their gaze from me. I sighed and headed into the shower.
"I told you I don't care what your schedule is like or how you feel on the subject. If you don't leave before my girlfriend starts to undress you're going to have more holes in you then this shower head," Adria was glaring down a tall athletic girl, as she pulled one of the hair pins from her hair. I looked at the tanned skin still glistening with the moisture of the shower then locked eyes with Adria.
"Babe are we really going to stab someone for using the public shower?" I questioned smirking at my adorable overly protective girlfriend.
"No I'm going to stab her for sneaking a peek at my woman. Did you check her out? Is she your type?" Adria asked, turning to look at me, her eyes filled with anger. Deep under the torrent of rage though I seen hurt, fear, uncertainty. I wondered had she ever been loved? Was she like me?
I pressed my hand to Adria's chest right above her breast and looked in her eye, "Never, babe. I will never look at another. Also we are here together so I would prefer if we not spend our first night in jail.
Ma'am I'm sorry for the scheduling conflict and feel free to rinse off quickly we'll wait out here. In the future I'll see that we take our shower late at night or early in the morning so please bear with us this once," I said to the tan athlete not turning to look at her. Meanwhile I hung an out of service sign on the shower room door.
"Well done love. I will try to behave, but you do spark my possessive side. I'm afraid I can be a little demanding you'll love me anyway, right?" She asked, the worry effident in her face.
I looked deep into her eyes and I took a deep breath deciding to be honest, "My love, it may be only because you are so possessive and assertive that I'm able to accept your feelings and be confident in mine. I've been so alone for so long. You'll stay by my side from now on and I will love you until the end of my being. Whether that be the grave or an eternity in the cosmos."
As I finished talking I noticed a tanned leg in my peripheral and looked at Adria a mischievous smirk spreading across my face, "Let's get you out of that yoga outfit. I'm ready to rub you down," I said in the most seductive tone I could manage. I was new to dating woman but I knew they were different then the men I had been with. They paid attention to the nuances in my tones, my expressions, all the little things that my male counter parts didn't care to see. At least I knew Adria would. I could feel it in my soul she saw every inch of me and she wanted to hold it tightly and protect it completely and I loved her more then anything for that complete devotion. So I couldn't help, but wonder why I felt such pressure when I already knew she accepted me so completely.
She stripped for me and then she slowly undressed me. She caressed my body as she did and then she led me into the shower room and we got lost in each other. It was an hour later when we left the shower room. I leaned into Adria as we walked my legs weak from pleasure. We returned to our room, and after a little t.v. lying in bed together we drifted off to sleep.