I woke softly the next morning. Peacefully opening my eyes as the sun began to peek through the drapes. She was gone, but the memory of her against my body was still with me.
So there’s a ghost in my dorm… that’s a thing. I felt taken aback in many ways. For starters, ghosts are real, cool. Second, she didn’t really seem like the scary ones from any horror movie I’ve seen, great. Third, I’ve lost my virginity to someone who’s been dead for at least a year… less great.
Yeah, it was pretty messed up. Regardless, I woke with a smile on my face. I’m sure most people do post-virginity-losing. Even if that weren’t the case, today was Friday. Friday is always a good day.
Usually the end of the week is where a lot of classes build up to make sure they squeeze in all the required information. Professors are on a schedule just as much as the students are, after all. I, however, was incredibly lucky. Because of my football scholarship, and practices starting every Friday afternoon, my schedule was shifted around to accommodate.
Thoughts of Mary-Jane still filled my mind, but on a day without lectures that was hardly a problem. Most of what I did during practice was from muscle memory anyway.
After breakfast, I decided to hit the campus gym for a quick pre-workout. I really should be studying but I think I needed a break from it even more. I’d have time to study over the weekend after all.
I nodded a hello to the gym receptionist when I arrived. A student I recognized but couldn’t quite place. There were plenty of opportunities for student employment on campus. Because of my scholarship, I didn’t really need one. She had her nose in a textbook as I walked in. I doubt she noticed me. As most of the employment opportunities were reception jobs like this one, students often used them as paid study time.
I had done this workout routine dozens of times, my body going through the familiar motions on it’s own freed my mind to focus on Mary-Jane.
Janie… she said her friends called her Janie.
So I had finally made a friend. That was good. A very horny friend. Even better.
This was kind of a lot to process. On the one hand, I’d been sexually active for the first time in my life, and I suspected that yesterday wouldn’t be the last time. I had made a friend, and more importantly one that really helped with the stress of college. On the other, she’s a ghost.
I wasn’t scared of being possessed or some sort of poltergeist thing going on. But still, why was she still here? I really don’t know too much about spirits and whatnot but aren’t they supposed to pass on or something? Was she haunting the place? Miss Burrow said the dormitory had caught fire but did someone do it on purpose to kill her?
That thought passed my mind as quickly as it entered. Among other things, Miss Burrow had mentioned she didn’t get out much. I doubted anyone hated her, especially enough to do something that malicious.
But that still left the question of why she was still here? And why had she been appearing to me, of all people? For someone as horny as she is, why would her first choice of sexual partners be a virgin?
Maybe I could talk with her about this? Or could she only appear for sex? So many questions.
I finished my workout pretty quick and left the empty gym. As most students were in class at this time, I was almost alone in the gym area. Unlike most others, this gym actually had stalled showers, rather than one large communal area. Not that I needed it in the near-empty building, but the privacy was nice.
As I scrubbed my body, my worried thoughts of Janie too were washed away. The heat from the water felt as soothing to my mind as it did my body. A part of me wanted to overthink what exactly was going on between us, but as I stood there in the stall quickly filling with steam, I just felt happy to have something.
I was almost surprised when I felt her near me, I managed to suppress a jump as she ran her hands down my chest. I opened my eyes and my breath was nearly taken from me.
She was fully nude, her steamy almost whisp-like form swirling with the steam from the shower. Standing in front of me, resting her head and arms on my chest. Where we touched I felt a tingling sensation. Like when your leg falls asleep, you feel pins and needles. But less of a pricking sensation and more… comforting, delicate almost.
I wrapped my arms around her, hesitantly. She had a habit of vanishing as quickly and inexplicably as she appeared. When my hands met her back however, she stayed with me.
We remained in the stall like that for a while, just holding each other as the hot water washed over us. Her just being there with me was soothing. My mind felt at ease and my whole body was relaxed. When she was with me I felt all my insecurities and troubles melt away. I was a thousand miles from my lectures and textbooks, right now it was just me and her.
Her hand ran up my neck as she looked up to me. I hadn’t noticed until now how startling her eyes were. Green as emeralds, they sparkled like stars in the night sky.
She pulled my face to hers and placed a gentle kiss on my cheek. I closed my eyes to savour her touch, when I opened them again she was gone. I looked around the stall and saw plenty of steam but none that took her form. As I shut off the water and began to dry off I heard a faint giggling far off. I smiled, never too far away from me, it seems.
I only pat-dried most of the water from myself as I prefered to mosty air-dry. I walked out of the shower stall in my jeans and sneakers without my shirt as I had become accustomed to doing around my own room on campus.
As I was leaving the gym, a sharp inhale from behind me caught my attention. I was quickly reminded that my current attire was less appropriate when I was not in my dorm. I felt my face flush as I locked eyes with the receptionist whose attention had apparently been taken away from her studies and towards my half naked body.