Coed Witchery 101 - Chapter 10

Wednesday was another early morning, so I was up at 6:30 again. This time the shower area wasn’t quite as packed… the line was only just extended outside the bathroom door. As I walked up, I noticed Holly right in front of me.
“Hi Emma. How’s it going?” she asked, clearly still not quite awake. She was wearing just her robe and shower shoes, and carrying her little basket of shower supplies, same as me.
“Oh, alright. Bio 100 again this morning. Good thing it’s only on Monday and Wednesday. I’d hate to be up this early on Fridays.”
“Lucky. My Friday morning will be just as early as this. Photography class involves us going out and catching scenes with morning dew and stuff like that, so they make it pretty early, but it’s only for an hour and then I have a break for an hour and a half before Philosophy.”
“Oh I guess that means we’re not in the same section. I have mine at ten with Anglo. You?”
“Eleven with Walters. She seems pretty cool, albeit a bit behind the times. She uses overhead transparencies instead of Powerpoint!”
“Sucks,” I said. “Anglo seems fine, nothing special.” The girl in front of Holly took a shower as two girls finished up and vacated. “Looks like you’re up.”
“Yep. See you later Emma.” She pulled off her robe as she was walking toward the shower area, giving me a bit too much of a peek at her ass. Ok, seriously, I thought to myself, I know they say that college girls all turn bi, but is it really supposed to happen to me during the first week? First Brenda, now Holly?
I took the next open shower and washed off quickly, hoping to finish up before Holly got done to avoid another awkward, naked conversation. I was in luck, as she was nowhere to be seen when I pulled back my curtain after toweling off. I headed back to my room, got dressed and such, and walked to class.
Dr. Docker’s lecture was a bit more interesting, as he went over the theory of evolution in detail. Our high school was, of course, required to teach evolution, but our Bio teacher was a Christian, and as such she had felt it necessary to also cover “Intelligent Design”, intentionally not telling us much about either theory. I had been forced to learn more about evolution myself by reading a few books on the subject.
Dr. Docker, however, started off the lecture by saying “If you are strongly opposed to the theory of evolution, then you have the option of leaving the class today. However, the material covered here WILL be on the midterm, and you will be responsible for it whether you believe in it or not.” When someone tried to protest, he suggested that if she had a problem with it, she could take it up with the head of the Biology department. She left the lecture hall, making a scene by stomping her feet like a five-year-old, and most of the class chuckled at her.
“I would like to point out, now that only reasonable people are left in the room, that evolutionary theory does not in any way preclude the existence of a higher power or even a creator of all life,” Dr. Docker said. “I myself attend church every Sunday and personally believe in God. If you would like to discuss more with me about the subject, I would be happy to meet with you during office hours. For now, let’s begin.”
The lecture was great, full of colorful images and short movies on the subject of evolution. I got the feeling that I would enjoy this class a lot more than high school biology. I made a note of Dr. Docker’s office hours when he showed them at the end of his talk, in case I wanted to ask him a question.
On my way out of the lecture hall, I recognized Tara, one of the twins from Magic 101, walking in front of me with a small group of friends. She saw me as she turned the corner and winked, then went back to chatting. I suppose that’s how we should deal with each other outside of class, I thought. We can’t make it seem like we’re a group.
Philosophy and Chem were sort of lame again, and both professors assigned a lot of reading for Friday. I went to the Student Center again for lunch and had a pretty decent veggie burger and fries. During the next hour and a half until my Seminar, I went to the library and sat in a cozy corner to start on the Chemistry reading. The material was familiar from high school Chem but much more in-depth than we had ever gone. I got lost a few times in the jargon that the book was using until I found the glossary at the end. I had only gotten three-quarters through the assigned reading before I had to go to seminar, so I vowed to myself to finish it that night.
Dr. Holden’s seminar for the day included scenes from the “Into the Future” series involving Doc Brown and his portrayal as a “mad scientist”. He went on to point out that there were real scientists who disliked the stereotype. “As for myself, however, I embrace my inner mad scientist,” he said with a chuckle. “You should see my office full of beakers and test tubes of all sizes.”
After class, I decided to take the long way back to Randall, as the sun was shining really nicely and I felt like a walk. I started around the circle toward the Greek housing. As I was passing the ADO house, I saw two people enter the woods next to the bus stop where I had gotten dropped off, across from Greek Row. Just before they disappeared into the woods, I realized that one of them was Yaseiko, one of the girls at dinner Monday night before Magic 101, along with a tall guy wearing shorts, no shirt, and a backwards visor. They looked like they might have been sneaking off for a quickie or something, so I smiled and kept going.
When I got back to Randall, Allie was there, actually doing some homework for the first time that I had seen. “Hey,” I said as I walked in. “How was your day?”
“Eh, not bad I guess. Classes seem simple enough, I’m just trying to get used to the way the professors lecture. My Comp Sci prof just reads off of his Powerpoint, so he’s pretty boring. I may not even go to most of the lectures and just download them myself and go through them.”
I thought that was a bad idea, but didn’t say that. “So far my professors are pretty good. At least, I don’t have any specific complaints. But it’s still the first week. Who knows what fresh hell they may have waiting for us?” We both laughed at that.
Since I didn’t have anything else specific to do for the evening, I decided I’d take a run before it got late. I hadn’t gotten to exercise at all really since arriving, so it would be nice to stretch my legs again. I put on some bike shorts and a tight t-shirt over a sports bra, clipped my mp3 player to my shorts, and walked out of Randall.
I hadn’t really decided where I would run yet, but once I got outside I realized it would be easiest to just follow the large loop around campus, maybe making a detour into the gym for a little cardio on an elliptical machine or something after a lap or two. I put my headphones on, started up some up-beat emo music, and got up to a nice pace. I jogged past Fraternity Row and got a few catcalls from some guys smoking on the porch of the LXA house. I gave them a small wave and kept going, passing Frat Row and going toward the academic row. I passed a couple of people I recognized, including Crystal from the diving class, who gave me a little wave.
I went past the gym and the dorms, finishing my first lap, and started on my second. I was just about to pass the LXA house again when I saw the guys from the porch running across the road toward the bus stop. I couldn’t hear what they were yelling with my headphones in, but as soon as I removed them I heard a girl’s scream coming from the woods behind the bus stop. I saw that one of the LXA guys was already talking to someone on an emergency call box in front of their house, so I decided to follow the others and see what was going on. I ran across the road and into the woods where I had seen the guys enter.
I could still hear the girl screaming, over and over. Once in a while she would get out something like “Oh my GOD!” in between screams. She finally stopped screaming, and within a minute I could see the LXA guys standing in a sort of semi-circle in a clearing ahead, with two of them holding onto an extremely frantic-looking girl wearing ADO letters. I ran up and asked the guys “What the hell happened to her?”
One of the guys turned around, looking pale and sickened. “You may not want to see this,” was all he said before falling to his knees and retching. As he bent down, I got a glimpse of the scene behind him.
At the foot of a large oak tree lay two bodies, mostly naked. I could see some of their clothing that had been thrown off to the side, presumably in the throes of passion. However, their bodies were almost entirely burned, head to toe. Just as I saw them, the stench of burned hair and flesh hit me, and I gagged and retched. The tree behind the poor couple was also burned, which made it seem like someone had simply turned a flamethrower in their direction and held it on them until they were dead. It was a horrible thing to see, and all of my instincts were telling me to run away as fast as I could.
“Wh-who would do something like this?” one of the guys asked. “Why would anyone… oh God…”
After losing my lunch, I was able to bear the stench enough to look more closely at the bodies of the poor couple. I realized that the skirt and tank top that had been thrown off to the side were the same ones that Yaseiko was wearing when I saw her sneak off into the woods earlier, and then I realized that, even with her hair burned off and her face indistinguishable, this must be her lying dead, next to the guy she went into the woods with. “I… I know that girl,” I said, feeling a deep sickness at what I was seeing. “Her name’s Yaseiko… and I saw her going off into the woods with that guy earlier. Oh God… this is…”
“Oh God… oh no… Yaseiko. That means this is…. Jason? Oh God no! Jason!” One of the LXA guys was on his knees weeping now, and the others looked even more distraught. The girl who had been screaming was just sobbing on the shoulder of one of the other guys now, unable to bear looking anymore.
“No way man, that couldn’t be Jason. That guy’s too tall… it looks like Yaseiko was out here with someone else man. Look at the shorts he was wearing…” he picked them up, “this guy was a Gamma.”
“Hey man, you shouldn’t touch anything here,” I said, still trying to keep from screaming bloody murder myself. “The cops will need to… like… see all of this. Oh God, this is just… horrible…” I couldn’t come up with any more words, and just doubled over, weeping.
A campus police officer showed up a few minutes later, wide-eyed at the carnage, and told us all to back off. He radioed back and asked to have the state police contacted, and set up a perimeter with some “CAUTION” tape he had on his belt.
The next two hours are a blur in my mind, giving statements to the police and signing documents. I told the police about how I had seen Yaseiko and her mystery man going off into the woods on my way back from class, and described him as best I could remember. The police had apparently contacted the Gamma Delta Pi house to see if any of their brothers were missing, but the body had not yet been identified. The officer in charge said they would try to keep the local news away at least for a few hours, but to expect them to try to get interviews the next day, and advised all of us to stick with “no comment” until the investigation was concluded.
I went back to my room after an exhausting time with the police, numb from everything I had witnessed. After I got to my room and saw that Allie wasn’t around, I decided that what I really needed was some time in the hot tub to try to relax. I stripped out of my running outfit and put on my robe, not bothering with a bathing suit this time, and walked down the hall to the bathroom.
No one was in the bathroom, as it was only around 5:30, so I entered the hot tub area, turned on the jets and heater, and sat for a few minutes waiting for the water to heat up. Once it was up to ninety-seven, I hung up my robe and sank down in the hot water, willing the day’s events away.
I don’t know how long I was actually in the hot tub, because I think I may’ve fallen asleep for a time, but I was awoken by the water level going up a bit and the feeling of something brushing past my foot. I opened my eyes to see that Holly was there, naked again, but with her chest submerged. “Sorry Emma, didn’t mean to wake you,” she said, smiling.
“No problem. I didn’t really mean to fall asleep in here. What time is it?”
“About six. You know it's dangerous to fall asleep in a hot tub... what’s wrong? You look… well, terrible, no offense.”
“None taken. I actually had about the worst day possible. I… umm… well I saw a murder scene today.”
“What?? Where? Are you okay?” She was obviously alarmed, but seemed really worried about me, which I found sweet.
“I mean, yeah. I’m not supposed to talk about it much yet until the investigation is like… finished or whatever. Basically, I was one of several who found a couple dead in the woods today. I was out jogging… and… sorry, I just don’t want to talk about it right now. It was really horrible.”
“Oh, no, don’t worry about it, I understand. My God… I’m so sorry you had to go through that. If you ever want to talk about it, I’ll be around, okay? Do you want to be left alone? I can go back to my room…”
“No, not at all. Let’s just talk about something else…”
“Would you like another back massage? You know… anything that will help.”
“Umm… actually, yeah, that would be great.” I moved to the other side of the tub and turned my back to Holly, grateful for anything that could possibly take my mind off of the day’s events. She began massaging my shoulders and neck, and it felt great.
“So were your classes okay today?” she asked, obviously just trying to make conversation.
“Yeah… wow I had almost forgotten I had classes today. Yeah they were fine. I don’t even remember my Bio class anymore.” She had moved down to the middle of my back, massaging while the jets helped also, and it felt really amazing. I leaned my head against my arm on the side of the hot tub, just reveling in the feeling of the massage and the jets.
There was some chatting, and I mentioned the party in my room on Friday night, then I started trailing off. Holly was still speaking softly, about her classes, but I was beginning to lull off to sleep again. Her hands felt really amazing on my back and shoulders, and she just kept going for what seemed like forever. I settled in closer to her so she could do a better job.
“Umm, Emma?” she asked.
“Mmm?” I could barely answer, totally caught up in the moment.
“I can’t tell from your reactions, so I’m just going to ask. Are you into me?”
I sat up straighter, but didn’t turn around, letting her continue her massage. “I… I’m not sure. I’ve never really had feelings for a girl before or anything… you’re really good-looking though… I don’t know.” I was stammering, surprised and flustered and turned on all at the same time.
Holly started massaging my back a bit slower, putting more work into each stroke. “Well, see, I think you’re really hot, and I don’t want to mess up our friendship or anything, but…” She moved up to my shoulders again, and then moved her hands forward a bit, moving down toward my breasts. It felt so amazing, I couldn’t help but lean back and let her keep going.
“Alright girls, it’s time to take that to one of your rooms,” a voice said from the doorway of the hot tub room.
“Aah!” I yelped. I looked over and there was Natasha the RA, to ruin the fun as only an RA can.
“S… sorry Natasha,” Holly said. She jumped out of the hot tub and pulled on her robe. I did the same. “Come on Emma, let’s umm… go to my room. No one’s there.”
Without even thinking about what I was doing, I followed Holly down the hall to her room. She unlocked and opened the door, and beckoned me through into the dark room. As soon as the door was closed behind her, she dropped her robe, turned toward me and kissed me. For some reason, my dumb ass wasn’t expecting it and I started tipping backwards, and ended up pulling us both down onto the hard floor. “Oww!” I yelped, as my elbow hit the wood. Holly made a matching sound as her knee hit hard. We lay there on the floor and burst out laughing at the absurdity of the situation.
“Ok, let’s start over,” Emma said, leaning over me. She untied my bathrobe and pulled it back to expose my chest. “Are you sure you’re okay with this?”
I nodded my head, not trusting my words. I was about to have sex for the first time at college. I just never expected it would be with a girl.