Alice, 22 years old, student

The morning began for Alice with a surprise. Having barely opened her eyes and stretched, the girl discovered a ring on the bedside table. An elegant gold ring with a small, but as if shining from within, sapphire.

• Maaaaam! Someone came into my room while I was sleeping???? - Alice stuck her head out the door and screamed, knowing that her mother was most likely cooking downstairs.
• No, honey. Where did you get the idea?
• To be honest, I don’t know anymore... Did i dream it?

Alice ducked back into the room and headed to the nightstand, glancing at herself in the dresser mirror.

Of average height, about 5 feet 5 inches, she had a feminine but not particularly impressive figure, which was currently hidden under her pajamas. Alice has always been a modest girl.

Her dark brown hair was pulled back into a thick, braided braid that reached down to her waist. Large green eyes looked at the world through slightly old-fashioned round glasses. Alice wore them, however, rather as part of her image: her vision was somewhere between -1 and -2 diopters, so she could easily do without glasses. However, she liked a slightly hipster look, such as old jackets, slightly hippy floor-length denim dresses and similar clothing solutions that allowed her to look a little different from everyone else. In particular, not like the cheerleader girls and other bimbos, it’s unclear what they forgot about in college.

To be honest, Alice was just jealous of them.

In fact, Alice knew that guys found her quite attractive. But... but upbringing had an effect.

Her family was a fairly religious Baptist family, in which, albeit gently, but from childhood, quite high moral standards were driven into the girl’s head. Suffice it to say that at 22 she was a virgin. And moreover, she planned to maintain her virginity right up to marriage.

This, by the way, was one of the reasons why Alice lived with her family and not on campus. Her family was quite wealthy, owning several supermarkets, a car dealership and a construction company, and being almost the main donor to the local Baptist church, so they would have had enough money to provide their beloved daughter with the best housing on campus. However, from the point of view of the entire parish, the campus was a place of sin and depravity.

Alice, at times, succumbed to dark voices from the depths of her personality, which said that she herself would not mind trying such debauchery and sin. But the weakness passed, and the pure and bright Baptist girl pacified her demons. Usually, however. not the most trivial method for a righteous Baptist girl.

In the shower.

With your fingers.

Simply put, the call of nature was strong in Alice, who was gradually becoming an “old maid”.

The girl walked up to the nightstand and cautiously took the ring in her hands. The ring looked like a work of art. Graceful, like a lace rim, legs of a nest for a gem, made in the form of very tiny Carryatids or something like them...

In general, the temptation did not last long. Alice resolutely put the ring on her finger... And felt that it was in its place. Oddly enough, it didn’t look pretentious or vulgar. Quite the opposite - it suited her image perfectly.

...

Another hour later, after taking a shower and having breakfast, the girl got into her Prius and drove off...