Seduce her (Philanderer 2, Alice (Lust) 20)

Instead of doing anything elaborate, you walk toward her, unflinching in your confident smile.

"What...what are you doing?" Alice asks, looking you up and down.

"I have a question, Alice," you say, once you're right in front of her. "Are you always this nervous, or is it specifically around me?"

Her face flushes, she opens her mouth. You see her about to deny it. Then she closes her mouth again and looks off to the side.

"It's...not that I'm not nervous, normally," she mumbles.

"But why around me, particularly?"

There's a long silence. Around you, various fast-forming couples are flirting in the sight of the fountain. There's something about the presence of water on a hot September day. It creates an aura.

You don't **** Alice's answer. You wait. And you're rewarded.

She finally says, "I don't think I was ready to be around boys, again. Real boys, I mean. Ones that are. Um..."

She looks you up and down. Her face flushes further, now it's bright red.

"So you want something, and you're ashamed of it?" you ask, cheekily indirect.

"You could...say that," she says. "Look, Ryan. I'm really sorry. None of this is your fault."

"It might not be, but I can fix it," you say. "Only if you want me to."

She freezes, like a deer in headlights. All at once the red of her face disappears, as if it was somehow drained. Now she is ghost-white.

"What...does that mean?" she speaks just above a whisper. "Fixing it?"

"It means," You step even closer, right in front of her, now. "Whatever it is you want to do with me, we can do it."

You almost miss it, when she licks her lip. Just slightly. Is there another side to her? Is it possible that, inside her head, she's not actually such a 'good girl' after all?

"There are so many people around here," she says, a half-hearted objection.

"Alice, are you that much of an exhibitionist, to take it that way?" you tease. "We can go wherever you want."

Her face doesn't change, but there's a sensation, suddenly, on your hand. You look down to see that she is tugging it. Curious, you let her lead you, and go where she follows.

The two of you enter the campus library, and from there she gets you one of the private rooms. Not for the first time, you consider that whoever designed this library really should have thought about giving those rooms the giant soundproof windows that are commonplace in libraries like these. Not the entirely sequestered spaces like the one you're about to enter. Well 'should have' from their perspective. From your point of view, it's great.

Alice leads you upstairs, to the room that was made available for your 'study-session,' but once you get in there, and she closes the door behind you, she places her back to it. Her entire body heaves with her breaths.

She says, "I have something to admit."

"What is it?" you say. After seeing how quickly this 'good girl' brought you up to a private room, you're ready for pretty much anything.

She takes one more breath, then says. "I don't actually know what I want. I mean...I do. I totally do know what I want. But I don't know how to act on it, in reality. Like when I imagine someone doing it, that person isn't me."

You try to thread the needle. "So...you brought me here because...?"

"Because I don't want to be like that!" she almost shouts, then covers her own mouth. After a pause, she pulls her hands away and says. "I know. People have told me, and I agree. I have one life to live. And I want to live it enjoying myself, and doing the things that I want to do. I don't want to be nervous, and scared. So..."

She takes a deep breath.

"...I don't want to go all the way. Not right now. But...I like you. And we're here. Alone. What do you want to do?"

Alice (Lust) +10