punk/geek

[cumaholic21]

((closed for lionguy1975))

Halloween was over, and Jenni was feeling that way she always did this time of year. It was a long haul til Christmas break, with nothing to look forward to except trying to stay on her diet through a food holocaust. At least this year, she was in college. In the middle of the massive Psych 101 lecture, she got a ping on a MyFace account. Everyone had their laptops out, so she didn't even think twice about checking it.

It was another one of their automatic connections. It turned out that someone else born in the same zip code she was was at the college, so just for a laugh, she checked the page. She could hardly believe her eyes. It was Chris.

Chris had been her best friend through elementary school. They had been inseperable through childhood, until her parents split up. The summer before she started middle school, she was given the choice. Stay with her mother at home, and go on with the life she had been living, or go back east with her father, and start a new life.

She hadn't really thought about what she was leaving behind, and once school started, she had been so involved in being the new Jenni that she fell out of touch with Chris. By the time they started High School, even the annual Christmas emails had stopped coming. She had reinvented herself from a kind of a geek to a rebel. Her father had been too busy with work to really do anything about it, and she managed to keep her grades up and avoid expulsion.

Chris reminded her of when she was just a regular girl, and she wondered what had happened to him. She searched the campus directory and found his dorm room, and after class, she decided to drop in. She wondered what he would do when he saw her. Would he recognize her with the black streaks in her blonde hair? Would her big goth boots and the frilly little lacy skirt that didn't come near to the tops of her torn thigh highs shock him? Would he be surprised that she had grown a pair of double D breasts, or that they were practically spilling out of the velvet bustier she was wearing as a top?

 

[lionguy1975]

Chris was sitting in his dorm room, like it seemed he did every night. He liked college, he really did, but as he had suspected the social scene was not quite for him. He was friendly and had made plenty of friends, both male and female, but he was not a big partier, never had been, and as far as he knew, never would be. However, on a campus as big as this one, there was plenty for him to do, and he had made some good friends with people who enjoyed playing games online. These were not just any games, but MMORPG, with literally hundreds, if not thousands playing at any given time across the world. He and some of his new buddies would all get on their computers at the same time and they would search out new places to find, new opponents to defeat and battle.

Chris was majoring in computer science, so he had a knack not only for the games, but even had tinkered a bit in designing some games like this. So as Chris logged on for another Friday evening, he expected to be on most of the night playing long hours with his friends. He hooked up his headset, turned up the volume and settled in with his keyboard and his tower that he had bought specifically for playing games like this. He seldom used his laptop, keeping it for homework and some social networking that his friends had introduced him to. They wanted him to be on MyFace with them, so he created an account but he did not really pay attention to it at all. So when he got a link from a girl that he had known when he was much younger, and been good friends with, he did not even notice.

So, as Chris settled in, and started searching for some new zombies to find and destroy with his friends, he was shocked when he heard someone banging on his door. He figured it was either someone drunk looking for the wrong room, or someone playing a prank. Either way, he told his friends to hold on, and got up and walked over to the door in his tshirt, gym shorts and socks and answered the door. He had no idea who the girl was, but he knew that certainly she was not at the right place. Here was this incredibly hot girl, dressed a bit punk, a bit goth, knocking at his door? Something was a bit odd here, and he was not sure exactly what it was.

 

[cumaholic21]

She hadn't really known what to expect, but she had certainly been hoping for a bit warmer of a reception than this. He was staring at her as if she were interrupting something, and it was perfectly obvious he had no idea who she was. Still, she thought, she had been a kid the last time they saw eachother, and here she was, dropping in out of the blue, all dressed and made up like a freak. She barely recognized him, and he looked almost the same, except for having grown up.

"Hey," she said. "It's Jenni. Remember me? I used to live across the street. I just saw you went to school here too, and I thought I'd say hi."

 

[lionguy1975]

Chris just stared for a while, not even paying attention to what she was saying, just noticing that there was this incredibly hot girl at his door who had stopped at his room. This by itself was enough to amaze him, and then he heard her introduce herself. "Jenni?" he thought to himself...could it really be the same sweet girl he had been so close to when he was living at home when he was younger. It had been years and years. She had stopped responding to him completely, he was smart enough to know that she had probably just gotten new friends, new interests, and he had been ok with it. Still, she had grown up, well, incredibly beautiful. He was shocked by seeing her, and wondered how she had found him.

"Jenni, how in the world did you find me?" he said, as he opened his arms for a hug, as if they had been best friends forever. He had forgotten that his computer was still on in the background, and he could hear his friends yelling over the headset, but he was so in shock from her arrival, that he just stared at her, mouth agape, not really knowing what to say. "Do you go to school here? I can't believe it's you! You're all grown up." He regretted how corny it sounded as he said it, but he really couldn't think of more to say. "Can you stay a bit and chat?" Man, he thought to himself, was he awkward...couldn't he come up with anything at all better?

 

[cumaholic21]

He held his arms open for her, and for just a second, she thought it was a little strange from someone that hadn't recognized her a moment ago, but it was good to see him. She put her arms around him and pressed herself into his arms. She couldn't help giggling at first, as he held her as if she was made of glass. She thumped him on the back and said 'Hey, I won't break, OK?"

As they squeezed each other, she looked over his shoulder into his room. Typical guy, though from the posters on the wall and the amount of gear around the room, he was a computer guy. That was kind of cool, she thought. It was kind of how he had been all those years ago. She smiled as they stepped back from each other, looking one another over again. She gave him a wicked little grin when his eyes flicked back up to her face. She knew how she looked to most people, and she could pretty well guess what he was thinking.

"I saw you went here on MyFace, and I figured I'd stalk you." She winked. "I wanted to see what you were like. I mean, you were like my best friend all the time I was growing up. I know I kind of dropped the ball, but ... hey, it was a long time ago."

She looked past him into the room. She could hear voices from his headphones, and saw the computer screen, set on what looked like a screen from a horror movie. "So what are you up to? Am I interrupting?"

 

[lionguy1975]

Chris couldn't help but laugh as she talked about MyFace. "Yeah, I joined because my friends wanted me to, but I don't pay any attention to it at all." He stopped to really look at Jenni, and she was gorgeous. She was dressed very provocatively, goodness knows that he had not anyone like this in his dorm room since he got to college. Jenni was, by far, an incredibly hot looking young woman, there was no doubting that. It took everything that he had to not just stare at her, especially her breasts coming out of the bustier. Her voice snapped her back to reality.

"No, you're not really interrupting, I was just busy being a geek, some things die hard," he laughed as he said it. "Still on the computer all the time, except now I do some design and programming, not just playing. Me and my friends get together, especially on weekend nights, and we hunt down zombies and other games, talking together on the headsets, and just generally have a good time. We've all designed av's that look just like us, and it looks like we are actually in the game. But I'm sure you really don't want to hear all about that. Do you want something to drink? I am sure that I have some soda or something. Afraid that I don't have any beer, haven't found the special someone to supply me yet who is over 21!" He realized that he was rambling and was probably boring Jenni to death. Chris was certain that she would not be staying long if he kept on acting like this.

 

[cumaholic21]

She smiled as he talked about his game. It was the strangest thing, she thought. She had tried so hard to turn into someone different, to stop being a geek, and she thought she had done it. None of the people who knew her now would have believed she had ever been into gaming or anything like that. Chris had hardly changed at all though. Sure, he was a man now, instead of a kid, but that was it. He was the same person he always had been, and he was talking to the girl she had been, all geeky and awkward but excitable. And she was excited.

"That's so cool!" She stepped around him, into his room, looking at the screen and sure enough, it was an animated version of him, in some holding pattern animation in a ruined city. Three other guys, who must have been his friends, were beating off hordes of zombies. She looked closer at the fat one with the mullet, who was wielding a shovel bat with ninja-like skills. "I think he's in my Astronomy lecture."

"Is that hard to set up? I mean, making yourself be the characters? It must be so much fun."

 

[lionguy1975]

Chris couldn't help but chuckle when she thought that Ron was in her astronomy lecture. How funny would that have been. But he was more surprised that she thought it was interested in the computer game. "It was not really that hard to set up. You start with a picture of yourself, and make a flat image, have the computer texturize it into 3-D, decide what you want to wear, and you have yourself in the game." He really couldn't believe that she was interested! "I thought you had gone and become way too cool for this, Jenni," he teased her as he was starting to relax. It was funny how quickly he felt that old familiar friendship returning despite the years apart. Of course, she had definitely become quite beautiful in those years, while he remained the geek.

"So what's up with you? What's your major? Are you enjoying campus?" He was firing questions fast and furious at her, but he just enjoyed interacting in person with someone, anyone. "Do you still find the computer as fascinating as you did before you moved? I mean I am sure that you don't hang out the way that I do, but you and I really used to have some mean games going on when we were younger." He smiled and picked up the headset, telling the guys he would be back in a bit. "Sorry, I needed them to know to go on without me for right now. So what brings you around these parts on a Friday night? Dressed to go out for the night?" He meant it as a compliment, but it did not come out right. She really was incredibly sexy, but he only wanted her to know that she looked good, not that she looked naughty or anything. "I'm sorry, that doesn't sound right, I didn't mean it. You want a snack? My mom just sent me some incredible cookies!"

 

[cumaholic21]

"I'm way too cool for this," she said, and winked at him. "That's why it has to be our secret." She clicked through the browser to her page on MyFace. The picture there had much more extreme make-up, and her hair was a deep violet shade. "See, that's me dressed to go out," she said. "I was actually just coming from class."

She looked down at what she was wearing and blushed. She didn't think about it that way usually, but when she thought how she must look to him, she suddenly felt slutty. Maybe it was a little much to wear to class, but she didn't want to be lost in the sea of generic girls. "You know, it's not like I ... I mean, I'm not like a complete slut. I just like sex and I like to look sexy." Except, when she said it to him, it sounded a lot like she was a complete slut.

Changing the subject before she felt any more awkward, she went back to the computer. She saved the pic from her page and followed Chris's directions for uploading it to the game's site. "I'm not that much of a gamer anymore. I mean, when I moved, I kind of had to find a way to fit in ... anyway. It isn't like I decided not to do it, you know? I just didn't end up having friends who did. Oh shit, look at that!"

The character on the screen was like a cartoon of her, carrying a .45 in each hand and aiming vaguely into space. She stared at it for a minute. "Do you think it would be cool if I played with you guys? I mean, I'm rusty, but you know I can kick some serious ass once I get going."

She reached into the box and took out a big chocolate chip cookie. Grinning up at him, she said. "This is like a flashback. Killing zombies and eating your mom's homemade cookies? I don't even need beer to love that, but if you ever want, I can make you a pretty good fake ID."

 

[lionguy1975]

"I know you're not a slut, or at least I presume that you're not. You never were before." he said, almost stammering as he stared a bit closer at her incredibly sexy outfit. She DID look sexy. Beyond sexy, sultry almost. He was at a loss for words again, but her comments about the character on the screen snapped him back. He couldn't believe his ears, she wanted to play with them?

"You sure that you'd want to play? I could set you up right now on my laptop while I use the desktop, if you want to. Are you really sure that you'd want to hang out with geeks like us, Jenni? We are pretty stupid sometimes, I'll be the first to admit it!" He really hoped that she would play with them, things like this never happened to him, although he certainly wished that they would start now. Still, he felt awkward, here he was in such crappy clothes, basically ready to settle in for the evening with his buddies, cookies and his guns. Now he had to figure out what to do, so he dug around and got out the laptop, so if she wanted to play he would be ready.

He smiled when her heard her talking about the chocolate chip cookies, although he had to admit that beer sounded good. He had heard all about the great beer parties in college, yet he had not yet had any since he got here. He certainly had drunk before, but not at school. "You know, while I do love mom's cookies, do you think that you could get us some beer now? I'd love to have some and see how good I can kill zombies while a bit drunk. Any way to get some fast?"

He finished setting up the computer for Jenni, "Here you are, if you want to stay and play for a bit. I am sure that the guys right about now are wondering who the hot babe character is that just dropped in with me, guns ablaze and ready to fight with geeky old me."

 

[cumaholic21]

"OK," she said. "I'll go on a beer run, but don't let me die."

She headed off to the store, thinking about what a strange turn things had taken. Normally on a friday night she'd be heading down to one of the clubs in town, getting trashed and flirting with whatever "cool" guys tried hitting on her. Instead she was going to get beer to hang out playing video games. Even this morning, she would have talked about how lame that was, how it was for kids, but as she thought now, it seemed almost like coming home. The club scene that she had always thought was so cool suddenly seemed too predictable. It had seemed so wild and dangerous when it was new, but lately, it had become a habit, no more exciting than going to breakfast.

She got a 12 pack and headed back to campus. She hadn't thought about Chris for a long time. At first, it had been too hard to think about him when she was trying to adapt to a new school, so she had made herself forget, but she had never had a friend like him since. As strange as it was, hanging out with him felt as natural as if they hadn't missed a day, never mind almost half of their lives. She realized, walking down the hall to his dorm, how incredibly glad she was that he hadn't changed. Except for growing up.

She knocked on the door twice and then let herself in and began to stuff the beer into his mini fridge. She opened the last two and handed one to him, and grinned. She took up the laptop, and sat on the foot of his bed, leaning back against the wall with her legs stretched out. She could see their characters on the screen and when she looked up, there he was in real life, just a few feet away.

"Let's kill some shit. But I don't want to hear you bragging about getting me in bed, OK?" she winked at him, and then looked back at the screen, where all the action had suddenly ground to a halt. "Um.... I guess the mic's on, huh?"

 

[lionguy1975]

Chris decided to get cleaned up a bit while she was gone. He got on the mic and told his friends that he would be right back, and that the new character was probably going to go searching with them. With that, he quickly got undressed, threw on a towel and ran down to the shower. He freshened up, all smelling better, all the while thinking about Jenni. He couldn't believe how beautiful she had become in the years away, of course, he was really too young to think about how hot she had been when they had barely even been in middle school. Oh every once in a while he thought of her in high school, but her lack of response convinced him it was time to move on. And now, here she was, searching HIM out and finding him, and dressed like she knew she wanted to show off her body to boot. All the thoughts gave Chris an enormous erection in the shower, and he had to finish himself off if he wanted it to go away. So he stroked until he came, exploding and watching it all go down the drain, he dried off and quickly came back to the room.

Chris was getting settled back in with his headset on when the teasing started from his friends. "Who's the hottie in the screen." "Did you decide that the only way that you were ever going to get laid was to make yourself a woman to go with you." "What's the babe doing here, going to get some tonight in cyberland." He knew his buddies all meant it as good-natured teasing, but they wouldn't believe that he actually could have someone that hot with him in the room. Then they asked for her to talk, but of course, she was gone, so he had no way of proving it. Oh how he hoped she'd still be up for playing when she got back. As if on cue, the knocks came on the door and she came back in and sat on the bed. She then added, "Let's kill some shit. But I don't want to hear you bragging about getting me in bed, OK?" and sure enough, his friends heard a definite woman's voice, who could not just be Chris faking it. "I won't give you a hard time about being in my bed," Chris added, for effect, before slipping on his headset and handing the second one to Jenni.

He hit the mute for a second. "You do realize that they all heard what you just said. They won't say anything, they'll just be stunned that I even know a woman and am having a conversation. Needless to say, none of them are getting any action either," he laughed as he said it, knowing that they would never believe that he had such a beautiful woman here. He took a sip of the beer. "This is good, seems like you have pretty good taste. Better than the swill I've had before." He smiled at her and added, "So are you ready to kill some zombies, Jenni?" He looked at her for a signal, when she nodded, he said, "OK, I am going to introduce you," and he flipped the mic back on.

"Hey guys, thanks for waiting, this here is Jenni. She is an old friend of mine who goes to school here and asked if she could join in. I figured that none of you would have any problem allowing a hottie carrying a gun to join us in our game." He looked back at Jenni, smiled and winked. "So let's go save the world, shall we?" Chris took another drink, encouraged Jenni to talk with a finger to his mouth, and started off on the computer screen in search of some monsters.

 

[cumaholic21]

"So we're saving it, not destroying it? I'll try to remember." She put on as tough a voice as she could manage, and then blew the head off a zombie.

She giggled softly as they began to move through the game, blasting anything that came at them. It didn't take long for her to get back into the rhythm of gaming, though every time there was a pause in the carnage, she grinned at the sight of her digital self kicking gore off her boots, or peering down the sight of her pistols. In the few years since she had been a big gamer, things hadn't changed much in terms of play, but the graphics and the realism of the game was a thousand times better.

As the characters on the screen made their way through the ruined cityscape, towards some destination that Chris and the others all seemed to have a clear idea of, she started to get a feel for the voices coming through the speakers. There was the dirty-minded one who kept embarrassing himself by saying absurdly pervy things and then remembering there was a girl with them. There was the one who knew way too much for his own good, and seemed to leak trivia like a dam overflowing. There was the fat one who looked like the guy in her Astronomy class. He swore that he wasn't taking it, but she wondered why he seemed so panicky at the idea. All in all, they were exactly the type of guys she would have been friends with if her family hadn't moved.

After fighting the giant Plague Monster, the first boss on the level, she got up for a bio break. As she slid off Chris's bed, she turned back and said into the mic "I better not find you guys molesting my toon when I get back."

She shot a wink at Chris and looked around. They had started on the second sixpack already, and the box of cookies was almost gone. "Holy shit," she said. "Time flies, huh? I'll be back in a sec, ok?"

 

[lionguy1975]

As Jenni left, the other guys all started immediately to tease him about what he was doing with a girl over, asking if he was going to get action, the normal guy stuff. "NO, she is just a friend, a very hot friend, but just a friend. We knew each other a long time ago and haven't stayed connected."

"I bet you two aren't connected," said Ron, the pervy one that Jenni had correctly identified as such. "Fuck you, Ron," said Chris. "We aren't doing anything." Of course, deep inside, he wished that they were, but he knew that wasn't happening anytime soon. The closest thing he had to a girlfriend was his right hand. But, Chris also was mature enough to know that whatever was meant to be would happen in time. He wasn't big into going out and getting hammered just to get a piece. However, he was basically doing that right now...well getting drunk at least, since the first six-pack was polished off and they really had not been playing for that long at all. He started to daydream while waiting for Jenni to get back about what she looked like under that bustier and the incredibly sexy clothes that she had on. He snapped out of it, not wanting to be embarrassed when Jenni walked back in.

Chris realized that he had some of his Playboys sitting out on his desk, and hoped that she had not noticed. He was shuffling them away into the corner, hiding them under some stuff, when Jennie walked back in. He turned around quickly, knowing he read guilty all over his face, but tried to act very cool and relaxed. "Ready to go back at it?" He smiled at her and patted the seat next to his for her to sit at.

 

[cumaholic21]

When she came back, Chris looked like he had just swallowed a hot pepper. His face was red and he was sitting bolt upright. She glanced at the screen, but her toon was where she had left it, so she looked around the room. The one corner of his desk was suspiciously clear, and she tried to think what had been there before. Some sort of magazines or something that she had hardly glanced at, but then she remembered when she first walked in. She had looked at something and thought well, now I know he's not gay.

She giggled, and sat beside him. As she picked up the laptop, she grinned a wicked grin, and leaned over. She put a hand over the mic and whispered softly. "It's very gentlemanly of you to clean up, but you didn't have to. I have seen porn before."

She clicked back into the game and as they started blasting their way towards the next big thing, she couldn't help herself. She shot Chris a wicked look, and then asked the rest of the crew. "So ... I haven't seen Chris since we were like .. little kids. Who has the dirt on him?"

 

[lionguy1975]

Chris turned five more shades of red when Jenni acknowledged that she had seen the Playboys. He just decided to try to roll with it, besides, the beer was really relaxing him, and he wanted to get back to the game, so he jumped back into with Jenni. Next thing Chris knows, she is asking his buddies for dirt on him. "You tell her, I'll shoot you guys out of the game," he joked with them, knowing he didn't have much of a chance. Of course, he was curious what they would tell her. Each of them knew something different, as he knew each of them differently.

John, the trivia one, blurted out, almost surprisingly, "He has a great stash of Playboys hiding in his room, well not hiding, but in his room." Chris looked at Jenni and laughed, adding, "Yeah, she already saw those, so that is nothing new." "Not much else then, I'm afraid Jenni, but I probably know him the least, I've only met him a few times."

Anthony, the astronomy class guy quickly chimed in, "Well, I know that he has a real thing for girls with enormous breasts, and if you look anything like your character in here, you definitely would be his type." Chris just started to turn red again, and took a big sip of the beer, waiting for the comment from Ron. He knew Ron the best, and Ron had some really good dirt he could share on him if he wanted to.

"So Jenni, what's in it for me? I have a piece of information that you would just LOVE to know, I bet," said Ron, as he fought against a huge two-headed zombie chief. "What am I going to get out of it from you if I share this information from you. Your character going to get all naked for us?" Ron was definitely the perv of the group, but Chris figured that he had probably never done anything at all with a woman in his life, and might pass out if something ever did. At least Chris had been with a couple of women, well kissed them and felt them up at least. He was certain that Ron had not at all.

He was shaken back to reality by Ron calling out again to Jenni, "So, what you going to do? I have some really great things to tell you." Chris knew that Ron probably did have some things that he wouldn't be awfully embarrassed to have Jenni know, but he also didn't want to come across as crude, so he whispered to Jenni, "You don't have to do anything you don't want to. I'll tell you anything you want to know." Chris just watched Jenni to see what her answer and response would be to both him and Ron.