We jump as our professor pokes her head into the booth and barks, "Class is over. You'll get plenty of time to practice later. Out, out!" She disappears as quickly as appeared.

Kris and I separate ourselves. I'm about to give her a sheepish smile when she pushes aside the curtain and hurriedly leaves. I'm left standing there, feeling awkward. I stay in that booth for a while, just staring into space. My mind is trying to process what happened. I can't believe Kris and I made out. And oh god, so passionately. And now she's gone.

I walk straight to the dining hall, ravenous and exhausted. When I finish, I go up to my dorm and collapse on the bed. I thought I would be going to parties and hanging out with friends, but it's the first day and I'm already loaded with homework.

Rolling over onto my back, I open my phone. I'm about to watch the porn for homework when the door opens. All my good times are being cut short today, I think, but I stifle a groan.

Audrey walks in holding bags of groceries, pushing the door shut with her foot.

"Hey," I say, still on my back, "What's with the food?"

She sets them down on the counter. "It's my friend's birthday this week and I can't afford a dinner at a fancy restaurant. So she's getting a home cooked meal and a cake."

"Ooh." I smile. "I didn't know you could cook."

"I've always been really good at creating something delicious from random ingredients." She grins. "I'm magical like that."

She nods to my brightly lit phone screen, which still has porn on the browser. "Your phone still works, huh?"

I must look confused, because she looks at me flatly. "You never responded to my text." She actually looks hurt. Little does she know that I was too busy fantasizing about her this morning in the shower to remember to reply.

"I'm really sorry, it totally slipped my mind." I say.

"You texted Mia and Caleb." She shoots back.

Well. It still looks like she really wanted to hear from me, didn't she? Everything is pointing me in the right direction, but I'm still too much of a coward to accept it.

"I didn't know how to respond."

She shrugs like it's okay, but I know it's not. She thinks I was ignoring her.

"When are Caleb and Mia getting back?"

She smirks. "Not for a while. They're busy. Why?"

I take a deep breath. "Audrey, there's something I have to tell you." I force myself to look at her eyes. "I like you. I really like you. And I don't know if you're straight or what but I wanted to know how you felt so this didn't drag on forever. And I was so distracted thinking about what it would be like to be with you that I forgot to respond." I exhale.

We both stay in our places, frozen, and I'm beginning to think I've fucked up. Oh my god. Why did I tell her everything?

Audrey sits down on the side of her bed, looking across from me. "I guess I have something to tell you too. I don't know if I like you. But you're the reason I think I'm bisexual."

I can't think. A strangled "What?" is all I can manage.

"Remember when you ran back here after hazing?"

I nod.

"I was filling out some forms. They were to officially change my sexuality from straight to bi. Because," she pauses, looking embarrassed, "I wanted to do things with you."

By this point I'm blushing hard, looking down at my lap.

Audrey quickly adds, "Not that I ever have, or would do it."

She goes silent, letting this sink in.

"What do mean?" I ask. "You've never had sex?"

"Shhh!" She hisses, even though no one is around.

"How is that even possible?" I ask. "It's been three years! And I can't believe it's because no one would want to sleep with you."

She grins at me. "It's kind of embarrassing to be telling you this when you've actually done it, and I'm two years older than you." She laughs.

I laugh too, but not for the same reason. "I'm still a virgin. I didn't let the seniors fuck me."

Audrey just looks at me. "Oh," she says. "I thought you lost it yesterday for sure."

I shake my head. "So you why haven't done it yet?"

It's Audrey's turn to struggle with her words. "My parents were strict Catholics. When I was growing up, I was always told that if I was to be worth anything, I had to stay a virgin. Until marriage. And also the whole shtick about how if you're gay you're going to hell. Anyway. They obviously didn't know I masturbated, and they definitely didn't know that I was questioning my sexuality. It's not like I could bring a girl home. So I never got to explore.

"After I came here, I learned to separate the church's values from mind. I now know that I'm okay with dating girls and having sex before marriage. I just want to wait to go all the way until there was someone I really cared about."

We look at each other for a while. "Wow," I say, "I'm sorry. I never knew that. That must've been really hard to grow up with."

"Yeah. It's a lot better now. I don't believe that I 'have to stay pure' ", she says, rolling her eyes.

"How did you manage to survive your classes?" I ask.

"I faked it." Audrey says. "It's not hard at all to come up with sex stories as a virgin. There's so much you want to try, and it's not like anyone can tell you what experience was wrong. Hey, speaking of which, what's with the porn you were watching?"

I'm immediately on the defensive. "That was for class! I'm serious!" I say, as Audrey laughs.

"Yeah? I can help you take notes."

Before I know it, Audrey is climbing into my bed. We lie down on top of the sheets with the phone perpendicular to us. We didn't bother with earbuds, just turned the volume down a little.

I can't focus on what Audrey's saying about the plot structure and stereotypes and dominance, when she's so close to me. The people in the video are moaning louder and louder. I can feel my pussy starting to drip, and my nipples are growing hard. I'm trying to control my breathing, but it's impossible.

"Um, I'm actually gonna finish this later." I say, putting my phone away.

Audrey seems to have noticed that my mind was clearly not on homework. "Anything else you'd rather do?" She asks, raising an eyebrow.

I'm breathing heavily, staring at her, when she pulls me on top of her.

. . .

DISCLAIMER: I am not saying that I am against any religion. I am aware that there are many religious organizations that are welcoming of LGBT folx. This was based on my experiences as a friend of people with unaccepting religious family members.