Love is a Place Ch. 01: The Puzzle - Sex Stories

Love is a Place Ch. 01: The Puzzle

... slept. This was something Samantha valued highly about Sarah: she helped Samantha make sense of the world. However, she had plenty of past experience of Sarah changing her behaviour in response to Puzzles and Problems Samantha had shared with her, and it was clear that Samantha might not want a change in Sarah's behaviour if that would lead to Disaster. Thus, Samantha reasoned, she could not discuss this Puzzle with Sarah.

She considered her three other flatmates. They had lived in the same Hall of Residence and Sarah had become friends with them, often spending the evenings with them away from their room. Sarah had agreed to share a flat with them the following year on condition that Samantha could too. Samantha was aware that they thought her strange, and in turn they had presented Samantha with many Puzzles. However, Sarah's advice on how to solve these Puzzles - sharing food with them, doing extra cleaning, returning any hugs that they initiated, not complaining when they had boys stay over, asking them questions about themselves - had seemed to have helped. She thought that they would enjoy discussing this Puzzle with her, as they did seem to enjoy discussing similar Puzzles that their various male sexual partners presented. But she felt that they would laugh, as they often laughed at each other. Sarah had explained that the laughter was friendly, laughingwith notat, but she still struggled with this. She thought that Amanda, who laughed least, might be a ...

... possibility, so she added to her document:

Possible Actions:

1.Ask for advice from Amanda.

She then considered asking for advice from her parents or her older brother Stuart. Samantha quickly dismissed this, as in 75 out of 81 cases when she had consulted her parents on matters to do with Sarah they had told her to do whatever Sarah suggested. Thus, she reasoned, they could not be impartial in this instance. She didn't feel Stuart's perspective would be helpful: she recalled that his opinions tended to be illogical when women's breasts were involved. However, she was pleased that she had considered this, as it meant she could then move onto a positive action.

She could email Dr Alison. She had checked whether this was a matter where she could ask Sarah, or her parents, or somebody else in authority (Amanda was not in authority) and she could not. Checking her emails, she found that she had not emailed her for advice for 7 months and 3 days, so she did not feel it would be an imposition.

Actions

2.Email Dr Alison for advice.

She quickly wrote her email, including such pleasantries as she had learned she should include in correspondence with close acquaintances, attached the document she had written and sent it. Samantha immediately felt the taste of satisfaction fill her chest. She had taken steps to solve the Puzzle.

Looking up she saw her tutor Dr Summers approaching. She was walking next to a shorter Asian woman whom she kissed goodbye before heading into the ...