Late one night, I was sitting in my dorm room agonizing over our latest defeat at football.Late one night, I was sitting in my dorm room agonizing over our latest defeat at football. To make matters worse, I had suffered a knee injury in the second quarter and wasn't very effective after that. I changed into my robe and limped down the hall to the bathroom to take a shower and reflect on next week's opponent. I stepped into the shower area and took off my robe after closing the curtain and stepped into the shower. The rush of hot water coming out of the shower head was exhilerating! I stood there for an eternity, just letting the water splash on my face. After a while, I got enough strength to wash my body and limp out of the shower. After drying off and shaving, I walked out of the bathroom feeling like a new man. I walked to my room and saw a note on my message board. It said: "Mike, Saw you walking into the shower room so I'll be back in a half-hour. Bambi" Bambi? What does she want? I guess she just wants to see if I'm OK or not. Bambi is a freshman cheerleader from California. Her long, straight blonde hair cascades down to her shoulders and her naturally tanned skin make her look like the stereotypical blonde that I like to joke about at times. She is a very beautiful woman of 20 and her curves are in all the right places. All of the players love to look at her on the sidelines when we're not in the game and it's not very hard to see why. But I like her because of her intelligence and our frequent conversations at the Abbey on a variety of subjects. I'll still never forget the first time we really talked. We had smiled to each other in the training room as we had our ankles taped before practice every day. One day, I was on the VAX during a break between classes and she approached me for help on something, like all freshmen and freshwomen do at the beginning of the year. Most of the time, it's in the manual so it irritates me when they don't bother reading but they'll bother other users. But with Bambi, I didn't mind at all and after I got her problem solved, she hugged me and kissed my cheek in gratitude. My face became a beet red, but fortunately, nobody was around to embarrass me about it. I was just sitting on my bed and reminiscing about this when my light flashed. |