This felt eerily similar.
Matt still felt he was the better quarterback, but things crystalized for him today. They both would play in the NFL
someday. There simply wasn’t room for both of them at USC. One of them would have to transfer, and Matt’s job was to make sure it wasn’t him.
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Emily wasn’t sure if studying with David and Crystal was right because she felt like she was intruding. When she knocked on his dorm suite door, Alex answered.
“The headboard isn’t knocking, so it’s probably safe to go on back.”
“Alex! Be nice to Emily!” Crystal called from David’s bedroom.
Emily walked in to find David on his PC while Crystal had papers spread all over his bed.
“You can take David’s reading chair,” Crystal said.
Emily settled in and got her economics book out.
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David was reading his management text. They were covering conflict resolution using the CARP method. There were four steps:
-Control the situation
-Acknowledge the problem
-Refocus the conversation
-Problem-solve so the customer is happy
He heard Emily tell Crystal, “I’ve never had anyone give me an orgasm.”
His books said to get a clear understanding of what the problem was.
“You’ve never dated?” David asked.
“Not really. I was raised Catholic and went to strict Catholic schools. We were warned of what boys would try from an early age.”
“Like what?” David asked to fully understand the problem.
“When we were in middle school, we were told about the evils of masturbation,” Emily said.
“That didn’t stop you from … uhm … exploring, did it?”
Crystal asked.
“It wasn’t what you think. Masturbation wasn’t the sin.
It was what you thought when you did it that was wrong,”
Emily said to enlighten them.
David could see where they were probably right. His thoughts did tend to veer off into sinful ways when he masturbated.
“But that wasn’t all,” Emily continued. “When I was a freshman in high school, there was a dance coming up.
Everyone was excited, and I told my dad I wanted to go.
That I might even go on a date.”
“What happened?” David asked.
“My father invited Shawna, a neighbor girl, over to explain the facts of life to me. I mean, I’d had some sex education, so I knew the basics of how babies were made.
Shawna was a couple of years older but had gotten pregnant when she was only fifteen.
“Shawna went into vivid detail about all the circumstances surrounding her getting with child. She’d met a senior at a school dance, and he’d invited her to a party. Thinking she had to put out to keep him, Shawna let him sleep with her until she told him she was pregnant.
Then he ghosted her.
“During the birth, her small body wasn’t ready to have an eight-pound baby to shoot out of her hoo-ha. Shawna said the head caused a rip in her skin all the way to her butthole. She said her little kitty was never the same. The next guy she had sex with said it felt like he was sticking his dick into the Grand Canyon,” Emily said.
“Have you ever had an orgasm?” David asked.
“I’m not sure,” Emily said.
“If you’re not sure, you haven’t,” Crystal said.
“Let me summarize,” David said, using his newly acquired skills. “A priest told you that when you masturbate, you have impure thoughts. Then your father traumatizes you with tales of what will happen if a boy comes too close. Does that about cover it?”
“I guess.”
“I feel for you. I grew up with religion, and I know the kind of pressure they can bring to protect you from yourself,” David said to acknowledge Emily’s feelings.
He was so getting an ‘A’ on this assignment.
“Now you’re in college, and it feels like all the rules have changed. Everyone around you is hooking up, and from what you’re hearing, it isn’t as horrible as you were told,”
David said to refocus the conversation.
“Until I was drugged,” Emily said.
‘Crap, CARP doesn’t have a step for another roadblock to a happy resolution,’ David thought. ‘Time to refocus again.’
“We know that was an unusual circumstance, and all the fraternities are seeing what a dumpster fire doing something like that will turn your house into. I hear they can’t even have chapter meetings at the house now,”
Crystal said.
“Do you want to have an orgasm?” David asked.
Emily wouldn’t meet his eyes but gave a tiny nod ‘yes’ as an answer.
“We just have to work together to make that happen,”
David said as he jumped to the problem-solving, resolution portion of the CARP process.
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Emily’s head was still spinning because Crystal had said that David should give her an orgasm. David quietly took Crystal out to the living room to talk about it. Alex burst out laughing, making Emily think David had rejected her or said something mean. She was ready to pack up and go home when he walked in.
David walked over to the bedside and opened a drawer.
“What the …?” Emily exclaimed when David pulled out a monster dildo.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you.”
He shuffled around what looked like a drawer full of sex toys. He pulled out a box and handed it to her.
“This is everybunny’s favorite vibrator,” David said with a straight face.
It took her a second to figure out what he was talking about. The vibrator was called a rabbit.
“Funny.”
“Lady parts have been unashamedly hopping along waves of sheer delight with this little toy,” David said, apparently not done with his jokes.
Crystal came in and saw what David had given her.
“Give us a minute while I explain how this works,”
Crystal told David. Once he left, she took the box out of her hand and opened it. “My aunt bought me my first rabbit when I was in high school.”
“I was afraid David was, you know …” Emily admitted.
“Would that have been so bad?”
“Probably not, when I’m ready.”
“You’re right; it’s too soon after what happened. David would be a good choice for someone to teach you. But I
suggest you find a nice guy who cares for you and who there might be a future with,” Crystal said.
“I’m sorry. I know that you two are dating. I didn’t mean
…”
“Slow down. David does that to a girl. Me included.”
“So, what do I do with this?” Emily asked to change the subject.
Crystal explained how the rabbit was a dual stimulation of both the clitoris and G-spot and the basics of how to use it. Emily hoped her roommate was out so she could go try it.
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Chapter 15
After visiting with Lisa and taking Sadie to school, David went to work out. He stopped at Coach Stackhouse’s office first.
“I got my helmet,” he said as he handed her the box.
“I talked to the equipment manager, and he told me that Nike only handles uniforms and shoes. USC uses two manufacturers for helmets: Riddell and Schutt. I sent him to the website you gave me for your next-gen helmet. He contacted them and approved it. I’ll take it to him so his people can paint your new helmet, put on the decals so it looks right, and then get it certified for the game. It’ll be in your locker when you dress for the game.”
“I’m glad to hear it. I honestly didn’t want to run afoul of Nike. Someday, I might want them to sell Dawson cleats.