It Takes More Than a Smile
Tanith Blinn
It had been a really long day and Tanith was just happy to
finally be home. As she shut the door
behind her she smiled at the thought of the weekend that lay ahead. Tanith flopped on her bed and kicked off her
pink sandals while flipping through her phone.
She spied Karl’s number and hit send.
After a few rings his voice mail picked up and Tanith left a breathy
message. “Hey there Karl, I hope you’re
not avoiding me, we had a deal”. With
that she hung up and laughed quietly to herself. Tanith would have the place all to herself
for the evening since her roommate was off on some seduction of her own and she
was determined to take advantage of it.
Tanith had been talking to Karl for quite some time now. Actually it was more like she had been using
him for quite some time. Karl was a quiet,
unassuming, kind of guy. He was cute in
a shabby, book smart, geeky kind of way and Tanith knew how to exploit every
aspect of that. Knowing how to use her
body and feminine charm she had Karl wrapped around her finger in no time after
they first met. Since then he had been
doing her school work for her now for nearly her entire senior year at the
university; all just for the chance to hang out with Tanith and her roommate a
few evenings a week. It was that or he
was stuck in a dank dorm room with his D&D friends.
Every once in a while when Tanith sensed Karl was getting
restless or tiring of doing her work, with no true reward, she would throw him
a bone of sorts. Tanith was very
comfortable in her own skin so she had no problem parading around her dorm room
in her boy-cut panties and a lacey camisole while Karl worked. This always seemed to get his willingness to
finish her homework back into gear. Just
for good measure she would lean over his shoulder, brushing against him to
feign looking over the hard work being done for her. Tanith would even whisper
some sort of encouraging remark into his ear to help his motivation along. As of late it seemed these methods were
beginning to falter and Tanith could not afford to lose her workhorse now,
especially with a 50 page end of term paper due in two weeks. She was trying to complete her undergrad in English
with an emphasis on Creative Writing.
Tanith had planned to attend Antioch University next year to start her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing but
she was too bored with the current curriculum to really focus on it. By no means was Tanith incapable of achieving
this goal it was actually quite the opposite for her. She was destined to be the next great author
and possibly Poet Laureate but in the meantime she needed to jump through the
right hoops to reach that point and that’s where Karl came in. Karl did Tanith’s work as she passed the time
enjoying university life and everyone was happy, at least until recently. As the school year progressed Karl’s desire
to help her dwindled. The old tricks
were not working and if Tanith really wanted to get on with her life she would
have to pull out all the stops.
