College Bound (Smirkin & DarkArchon1980)

Smirkin

It was early in the morning and Penelope had yet to awake for her college class. She was already running late and had snoozed through her alarms. Some she just simply slept through.

Penelope wasn’t a hottie with a body to follow, she was fairly average but a cute face sprinkled with freckles and blue eyes to follow the dazzling charm her sweetness came about. She was in her third year of college really unsure of what she wanted as she was there really for her parents.

They always picked everything for her even down to her wardrobe and panties if you can believe that. Penny wasn’t amused by any of it either but she didn’t really have a say in it because it wasn’t like she was spending the money. She didn’t need a job, and lived a fairly sheltered life.

When Penelope wasn’t doing her studies or dozing off in classes, she was on the internet or her phone talking to friends and sometimes strangers she met off the web in chat sites. There were a few that caught her attention mainly because they acted like she was a gem. She didn’t know how to act about being treated in such a way.

She was used to the guys looking the other way due to her being such an average Jane. That once she got the attention, she craved from several she didn’t know how to stop nor did she want to.

Soon enough though she dragged herself out of bed, quickly changed and darted out of her dorm room and down the hall to be tardy for her class. Not a care in the world as she prepared her day to talk to the couple of men that adorned her with attention.

DarkArchon1980

Richard had grown up, his whole life, wanting to be a Marine. It was like a family tradition. One grandfather had served in Vietnam, the other in Korea, his dad and his dad’s twin brother were, and Richard was proud to be. Sadly, the 5’10” redhead was in an accident and received a medical discharge.
He had applied and served three more years with the LAPD. But his medical discharge made it impossible to join S.W.A.T. Then a friend from the East Coast called. His wife had been transferred to an New York office, so he was moving with her and needed someone to take his job as Campus security. And that’s how Richard came to be on campus when he saw…her. He thought she was gorgeous. She was virtually being mobbed by guys but was either too oblivious, naïve, or giving an Oscar worthy performance of pretending not to notice. The world stopped for Richard. He wanted to know who she was but how? By the time he made it back to the security station, at the end of his rounds, he had a plan. He had found last year’s extra yearbooks in a pile on an unoccupied desk in the corner. He grabbed the top on, sat at his desk and began flipping through the yearbook. He hoped she was at least in her second year. He found her picture and was so ecstatic he nearly closed the book without checking her name.
“Hello there Penelope,” he said under his breath.

Smirkin

She sat there in class, half awake, half asleep. Auburn red hair falling in her face. Her eyes spanned over the lecture hall; many chairs seemed oddly empty today. There may have been an inside function that she just didn’t know about. The truth was she was in the wrong hall all together.

Once the time had passed, she excused herself to the women’s wash room. Walking in she caught herself in the mirror and dropped her bag and stared.

“You know with a half decent hair cut and some makeup you may just be above average looking… but you don’t care enough about that do you?... nah”

Penelope primped and primmed with her hair as she tried to admire herself in a different setting and makeup. She wasn’t sure what she was doing with her life at this point to be honest, she was just trying to keep her parents at ease.

Leaving the bathroom, she walked by several rooms and noticed there had been some new hires, or people that she hadn’t noticed before. She politely smiled to them and the security and went about her way aimlessly.

DarkArchon1980

Richard found it difficult to focus on his work. He was required to do rounds inside and outside every hour and he kept hoping he would run inti this redhead beauty, Penelope. He had no such luck. he would go back to the office erite the same damn thing in his reports.
"Nothing to report." when he was sitting working, he pulled up the housing lists. There were two Penelope's at the school. One was in an approved apartment off campus but the one he was looking for was in dorm. he leaned back and looked out the window. Suddenly 'she' walked by. She turned and gave a smile. To her, it was probably nothing but a friendly gesture, but to Richard, it was a sign from the universe. He kept his eye on the time.

Smirkin

Earlier in the day in the lecture hall she had noticed the teaching assistant was one of the popular kids on campus and wish she had the nerve to walk up to him and ask to go out on a date. Penelope drooled at the thought of them on a date together that she wasn’t watching where she was going in the mean time and walked right past her dorm and into another.

“What do you think you are doing?!” snarked a girl.

“My bad, please excuse me, I don’t know where my head is today.”

She laughed to herself half embarrassed as she quickly turned and hurried out into the hallway once more wondering how she could have made such a mistake but then again, it’s easy to do when Penelope was preoccupied thinking of the TA Jared.

DarkArchon1980

Richard kept an eye on the clock and an eye on the cameras following Penelope, from camera to camera. He'd always been a wee shy about meeting women and as clearly far older then she and she clearly had the boys attention wherever she went. It was finally time to go home. He rented a house just off campus. He drove home slowly hoping he would see her, but he didn't. He grabbed an envelope, and a pair of gloves before sitting at his computer.

Smirkin

Penelope had no clue there were guys interested in her, her parents always made it out to her that boys were of no importance to a girl like her because she was average. She couldn’t imagine someone thinking she was anything beyond that. Although she wishes Jared thought so.

She knew a girl like her didn’t exist in the world of a Jared. She would have to change something drastically to get his attention and then would it even be worth it? Of course, it would, she thought to herself. It’s him, almost every guy up to his class wanted to be him and all the girls love him. That would surely leave some competition.

Some times she wondered if she would be better off holding on and meeting someone who did a reputable job, and had a good head on their shoulders. Some one middle aged… She did have a thing for older men, she just never mentioned it to anybody and wasn’t like she had a lot of friends to talk to.

Penny had one friend named Blair and they were tight but in a sense that Penelope kept all of the secrets and was too shy to tell many of her own.

Laying in bed that night she kept seeing the shadows of people walking by her dorm room that night. Part of her wanted Prince charming to boom through the door and sweep her off her feet as she jumped to them in fright. Telling her everything would be okay and giving her all the affection that she could ever ask for… but that was all a dream.

Penelope then thought back to the one security guard she smiled to today. She kinda met her type in a while , he was an older gent with a good job. But he would probably think her half crazy for even having thought about him that way.

DarkArchon1980

Richard had written the letter, deleted and rewritten it several times. He finally had it exactly as he wanted it. He hoped it would be jarring to the redhead, but not creepy. He almost signed his name but knew that if she ever had a chance meeting, she might see his name on his uniform shirt so he didn't add his name. Besides, he reasoned, the anonymity might serve to add to the jarring effect.

It was well passed 1:00 when Richard arrived in a small town miles away from college. If the letter was post marked from the school or nearby community, it might be traced to someone local. The farther away, the less suspicion would fall on someone closer to home. He dropped the envelope into a mailbox. He had typed out the letter and envelope to simply 'Penelope' with her dorm and the school address.. He used a small sponge to wet the stamp and seal the envelope taking care with his gloves not to leave any DNA or fingerprints. He got in his car nd heaed back to his apartment two hours away.

Smirkin

It had been a day and Penelope had finally caught up on some sleep and wasn’t as scattered as she was before. She had run a few errands around campus including picking up her mail. Of course, she had a package from her mother and father but she had a small envelope addressed just to her and the dorm number. It had gone through the mail though so that was something. Penelope debated whether or not to open it right then, she tried to put it off until she got to her room again but the curiosity was too much for her.

She carefully started tearing the top of the envelope open, pulling out a piece of paper that had a vague, “I’m watching you.”

Distorting her face while furrowing her brow she stares at the message in disbelief. Assuming this had to be some type of joke… right? There was no possible way that someone was legitimately watching her. That was impossible, she is a plain jane. What would anyone want to do with her.

She headed back to her dorm, keeping the note close. Trying to decide what to do about it, she wondered if she should take it to the campus security or wait to see if anything else odd happens.

Heading back to the dorm she can’t help but look at every one wondering if they sent her the letter. She hardly talks to anyone; how would she gain attention. She was so confused. After making it to her dorm room she shut the door behind her immediately and went to the window looking out. Glancing down to the note briefly.

DarkArchon1980

Richard had slept in since he hadn't gotten home until the wee hours of the morning. He spent the day in his shorts and T-shirt all day as he didn't have to work that day, but his mind was on her, Penelope. He wasn't usually keenn going back to work after having a day off, but now he was kind of looking forward to it. As he walked the halls on his rounds at sat in front of the bank of monitors, he could search for her and watch her. And soon enough he was back at work and doing what he had planned. he caught sight of her once on his rounds on the other side of the square heading towards the dorms with a package in one hand and a letter in the other.

Smirkin

The woman continued to stand there looking at the letter as if it were going to morph into something else. Anything else to be honest she thought to herself. She folded and unfolded the letter so many times there had become a visible crease in the paper.

Looking out the window at all the people crawling campus, she couldn’t begin to wonder who it was.

Then she wondered if it meant anything at all but the better part of her wanted to be safe and certain. She turned from the window grabbing her things and took it down to the Security office. She wondered if that may have been overkill but she rather bypass any talk and stipulations on the matter.

Penelope knocked on the door to the office room several times, faintly at that. She was nervous especially if the new recruit that she had a glimpse of the day before answered. She didn’t want to seem crazy on their first meeting. She stood and waiting for a response and went to knock a couple of more times. thinking to herself they could be busy and not even there.

DarkArchon1980

Richard, finished with his rounds headed toward his office, whistling to himself. He had to finish up some paperwork and wanted to get out as quickly as possible the next day as it was a Thursday and his boss was on call this weekend. He hated paperwork, but he needed to get it done so he could go away this weekend to his cabin in the woods and send at least one more letter to the girl. He had planned to kidnap her, but wanted her off balance and a bit paranoid when he did it. He turned the corner toward his office and stopped. There was someone standing at his office door. Not just anybody, Penelope, that girl, was standing at his. office door with a creased piece of paper. Had she figured out that he sent it? Maybe she was showing it to security.
"Excuse me, can i help you?"

Smirkin

she nearly jumped out of her skin as she heard the male’s voice come from behind her. Taking several breaths and assuming it was one of the people she was looking for or could point her in the right direction, she turned around. Looking from the note of to the speakers face and nearly dropped the note in surprised.

The one person she didn’t want to have to deal with is who stood before her. She felt a fever wash over her as she stood there dumbfounded with the letter between her fingers and nearly crumbled it up and dropped it to the floor and walked away but hadn’t.

“Okay… so I know you are new and we haven’t met yet which makes this a bit awkward, probably more so than needs to be. But I got this letter addressed to just my first name but definitely to me as it came to the dorms. There has to be some way to figure out who it came from or if anyone else is getting these type of notes.”

I hesitantly handed the note over to the security guard, opening the note and trying to flatten it as much as possible. I looked him in the face noting how handsome he was and then back to the floor before I could start blushing.

DarkArchon1980

He ook the piece of paper, scanning his own words and smiled. His eyes lifted from the page to her as she stood with her eyes on the floor. He didn't know her but right now, staring at the floor, she was telegraphing submissive behaviour. Part of him wanted to grab her now, but with students and staff, choking the hallway around us, it wasn't the time or place.
"Have you noticed anyone paying particular attention to you?" He knew that the guys were some even ready to worship the ground she walked on, but she seemed oblivious, as if she couldn't believe that guys found her red hair and blue eyes alluring. He continued., "Can you think of anyone at all who could have sent this?" He knew she would either come up empty or pick a guy in one of her classes or dorm floor or any number of random guys on campus.

Smirkin

Staring at the ground as the Security Officer spoke, she listened but stared at the shine on his shoes. It wasn’t important but she couldn’t take her eyes off of it as she stood there with an empty look… The girl tried to find a way for things to make sense. Perhaps a boy from class… or a friend from the outside world playing a trick on her but there was no one. Nobody.

“Please Sir. Don’t let this get tossed aside, I have a feeling this will lead to something if no one is careful. It’s college after all. Isn’t that when these types of things get over looked as jokes anyway?... I’m telling you this is no joking manner on my end.”

I had brought my face up to his looking Richard square in the eye. There was something about him though, Penny chalked it up to her slight attraction to him. She always did have a thing for a man in uniform at that. But it wasn’t just the uniform, it was almost as if in another world and time they would have been together… Or the lack of sleep has gotten to her.

DarkArchon1980

He looked at Penny than back to the letter.
"I'm afraid, without evidence or leads there's nothing we can do. I would advise you to be vigilant and if you see anyone who makes you feel uncomfortable, trust your instincts and call me or one of the other security personnel." He reached into his pocket and handed her a business card. "The top number is the security office and the bottom one is my personal cell. I'm sorry I couldn't help more, miss."

Smirkin

Penny took the card and sighed… almost not wanting to look up from it to the Officer, as she felt tears welling. She quickly wiped her eyes and sniffled back and put the card in her pocket. Turning around she took a few steps as though she was going to say something but hadn’t. The girl continued walking away and headed towards her dorm.

Once arrived she set the card from her pocket onto the desk sitting there with nothing better to do other than hold her computer and strewn paperwork that she may or not get around to finishing and organizing. She sat down to it and wondered who could have sent such a vague and disturbing letter… no one had come to mind, she didn’t have many friends, definitely no boyfriends. She began to wonder if anyone would really notice if she was gone if something had happened to her.

DarkArchon1980

He watched her walk away. He wanted to take her that weekend but wanted her to be a bit more shaken and frightened, when he did so. He smiled as she walked away. He went into his office and quickly typed up a similar but darker letter. He wanted her shaken to the core. The room where he would keep her, in the cellar, was soundproofed and padded. Walking into the room, you couldn't mistake it for anything but what it was, a dungeon.. Toys and sundry other items were fastened tothe3 wall, of course, he reasoned, Penny would be blindfolded when she entered the room.

He didn't go home, he drove an hour past where he mailed the first letter and dropped it off being as careful as he could not to leave any physical evidence around for anyone to find if Penny decided to go to the police.

Smirkin

Penelope finished messing with the papers and days had gone by. Nothing was out of the ordinary except the papers she kept dealing with. For whatever reason she couldn’t leave them alone like a nervous tick or something. She would leave for classes and immediately go back to fumbling with the papers. They weren’t even interesting.

Scrunching her mouth, she figured she may have been trying to distract herself from things obvious as they were and decided to go get the mail… she made her way out to the lobby area where the mail is housed and stuck her key in to her box. She took in a breath of fresh air and turned it, opening the box. There was one letter there similar to that which she received before.

Snatching the letter from the mail box she made her way back to the resident dormitories, finding her and shutting herself away knowing this had to be another letter from the creep that sent the previous one. She quickly opened it and saw the same print typed out. She was certain it had to be the same person.

It was too late now to go to campus security and she feels like theyre already laughing at her. She threw the letter up on the desk and decided she was going to take it to class with her tomorrow so she could stop by the security office and see if there is anything at all they can do.

DarkArchon1980

As much as Richard wanted to grab Penny He wanted her to be rattled and he had made sure his letter was dark enough to rattle her alright. Given when he had seen her with his first letter, he calculated when he might see her. Even if he never saw the letter, he could estimate when she would receive it and then let her stew for a few days. Of course, if he didn't suggest the police, he would appear, at best, negligent and could loose is job, of vourse if they knew what he had planned for Penny, loosing his job would be the least of his worries.