Pam - Part 2

Pam and I started seeing each other but since her and her ex-boyfriend were doing the same course it became very hard for us to go out without him bitching and sniping. We tried to ignore it but since they were living in the same house it became almost impossible to have a normal date.

She'd often show up crying at mine and always insisted I didn't go round to talk/thump her ex-boyfriend.

Still that made things very difficult because he tried to use a nasty trick that a lot of boyfriends do when they know their girlfriend is leaving them for someone else:

"It'd be okay if it was anyone but him."

It nearly worked, I'll tell you how another time.

Sophie - Part 3

Sophie and I were pretty competative. We were both pretty studious but at the same time sporty. For some reason we decided to wrestle one day. I thought this would be fun and playful but as it turned out Sophie was pretty technical and fast.

I found after a few minutes that I was getting slapped silly by her. I remember thinking that I needed to pin her just to show her who was better. I pounced on her, grabbing her by the shoulders and pushing hard. My shoulders touched the bed and Sophie loomed over me, giggling.

I struggled and struggled but just couldn't manage to get myself free. Sophie let go of my shoulders, and pinned me down with one knee on my shoulder.

She sat there with her hands on her hips, giggling and shaking her head and saying "just give up."

I didn't have a choice.

Lindsay - Part 1

Lindsay was my first college girlfriend. Or at least the first proper one. At the start of college it was almost like high-school again, going out with girls for maybe a few days to a week or two but nothing of any substance. That was until I met Lindsay.

She was on the same course as me, a big and sometimes bitchy course and it took me a while to make friends. One day a group of ones from the course who all lived together were going to the seaside. I was invited and because I didn't really know anyone from my course yet I said yes.

The day itself was a typical studenty one and it really helped me to feel settled at college. Lindsay and me clicked as we hung out. We liked the same music and laughed at the same things.

A few of us went to a club when we got back. This was the start of me and Lindsay.

Sophie - Part 1

When I met Sophie I was at college. Sophie was dating another guy but it was long distance (one of those long distance relationships some people are in when they first go to college). Like most long distance relationships it was in the process of breaking up. Sophie and her boyfriend had been better than some and managed to keep it going beyond the first semester.

They way I met her was that I used to sit out in front of my block in halls of residence. The phones were all in my block so every once in a while I'd hear one ring and answer it. Then I'd have to go and get the person that was being called for.

On this particular occasion it was Sophie's boyfriend.

When I spoke to her on the intercom she came straight out and headed over with me to my block to get the call.

Afterwards she thanked me and went back to her own dorm. I sat reading my book for a while.

It would be two months before we met again.