"She did what?" Miriam Simms asked, holding the phone tightly to her ear. "Oh, no! What's the dean going to do to her?"
She listened for a moment and an expression of indignation spread over her pretty face. "Why that uptight son of a bitch!" she exploded. "Well! We'll just see about that!"
It was eleven o'clock before Miriam Simms' little red station wagon pulled up front of the frat house. All the lights were on and Linc met her at the door.
"The girls are all here," he said, leading her upstairs. "Sorry to disturb you like this, but we figured you'd want to know. Ginny and Professor Harris should be here in a couple of minutes. They called right after the dean left, and he's bringing her out here for a council of war!"
Everyone was assembled on the second floor. It was a glum-looking group. Even Fat Susie looked depressed. When Miriam came in the door, everyone started talking at once. Linc held up his hands for silence.
"Look, kids," he said. "There's really nothing we can do until Ginny and Professor Harris get here and we find out exactly what the dean is going to do. Meanwhile, Herbie, why don't you explain to Miriam what's going on? I just told her that Ginny and Professor Harris were caught by the campus police in the physics lab. You fill her in on the rest."
As Herbie told her about the boys' part in the whole incident, Miriam Simms sat silently, with an angry expression on her face. "We'll have to do something," she commented angrily as he finished speaking. "You realize that none of this is Ginny's fault. The dean is a two-faced bastard anyway. He'll probably suspend Ginny and fire Professor Harris if we don't figure out a way to stop him."
Suddenly a grin spread across her face. "I wish I'd taken him up on one of those veiled little propositions he made to me last year. Maybe he would have mellowed down a little if he'd gotten a good fuck."
Fat Susie gasped in astonishment. "What?" she asked, gazing at Miriam Simms with an incredulous expression on her face. "You mean Dean Jones actually propositioned you, Miriam?"
"Don't look so surprised, Susie!" Miriam exclaimed, flushing slightly. "I'm not exactly a saint, you know. Dean Jones has been panting around after me for a whole year. He even offered me a promotion if I made regular little visits to his apartment."
"Oh, God! That's rich!" Susie sputtered, giggling wildly. "That son of a bitch wanted you to do the same thing Ginny got caught doing with Gimpy Harris, but he's probably going to suspend Ginny for it. And he was going to promote you. What a bastard!"
Just then the doorbell rang and Linc hurried off to answer it. Within a few seconds, Linc appeared in the doorway escorting a pale and shaking Ginny, followed by Professor Harris, who didn't look too well himself.
Everyone fell silent at the couple's appearance. No one knew just what to say. Finally Miriam broke the heavy silence.
"Come on and sit down," she said firmly, leading Ginny over to a pillow on the floor. "You, too, Harold," she said, gesturing towards Professor Harris. "We're going to have a little council of war. First, tell us what the dean said."
Professor Harris sank down to the floor. "Jesus Christ, Miriam," he said weakly, "you hire the best librarians in the whole world!"
The whole room was silent for a second until Professor Harris' comment sank in. Then there was a loud burst of laughter.
"Harold!" Miriam laughed. "I see you haven't lost your sense of humor! What is old Fuddy Duddy Jones going to do?"
"Well, he was a little upset," Professor Harris answered, grinning weakly. "Seems he didn't think my conduct was fitting for a full professor. He's decided that I should have my resignation on his desk by five o'clock tomorrow afternoon. If I turn in my resignation, he won't call Ginny's parents. If I don't voluntarily resign, he's going to suspend Ginny and call her parents and tell them exactly why she's suspended. As it is, he put Ginny on probation."
"Don't worry, Miriam," he said, looking around at the rest of the group as well. "I'm going to turn in my resignation. Guess I'll be dead as far as the academic world is concerned, but it certainly was worth it, wasn't it, girlie?"
Ginny just sat there and looked at him with tears rolling down her face. "You can't just quit," she said tearfully. "You'll never get another teaching job if you have to use the dean as a recommendation. Besides, you're a good teacher and it just isn't fair."
"Hold it," Miriam said, firmly. "Calm down, Ginny. No one is going to quit, and Dean Jones isn't going to call your parents, either. I've got a plan that could turn the tables on Dean Jones, and it might be a hell of a lot of fun, too!" She gazed around at her rapt audience and chuckled softly. "Now listen, everybody. This is what we'll do!"
There was a stunned silence as Miriam finished outlining her plan. Then Fat Susie stood up and started laughing and applauding. "Wow!" she shouted. "What a great idea! It just might work. What do you think, gang?"
"Why not?"
"It's worth a try!"
"Let's do it!"
"I think it'll work!"
The favorable comments filled the air.
Professor Harris was the only one who didn't say anything. He just say there on his pillow, looking around. "But what if it doesn't work?" he asked, shaking his head in amazement. "If your plans fail, Miriam, all of you will be in big trouble. I can't let you take the risk. It would be easier if I just went along with the dean and handed in my resignation."
"Come on, Harold." Miriam put her arm around his shoulder. "Think about it for a while. We have thirteen people involved. Maybe more. The dean can't suspend all of us. Just think of what would happen if the newspapers picked up on it. He'd lose his job. The only thing we have to figure out is how to get him so rattled that he'll fall right into our hands."
"Hold it!" Linc said loudly. "Let's see if I have all this right. We're going to create disturbances all over campus tomorrow. Get the dean rattled, right? Then we're all going to make a run for the library and hole up in there. Miriam is going to call the dean and tell him the troublemakers are all in the library and they want to talk to him. He'll come to the library and Miriam is going to trick him into fucking her. Then we're going to videotape the whole thing and threaten to show it to the Board of Regents if he doesn't drop all the charges against Ginny and Professor Harris. Is that right?"
"That's it!" Miriam grinned. "I can hardly wait to get that stiff-necked bastard right where I want him! The only thing we have to figure out is what to do to get the dean rattled enough to fall for it. I thought of having a student strike or something like that, but we couldn't get organized in time. It'll have to be something really upsetting that all of us can do without outside help. Any ideas?"
"Too bad Professor Harris and I can't fuck in the main square in front of the administration building," Ginny commented sarcastically. "That sure shook him up tonight. If we could do that tomorrow, it would really freak him out. You should have seen him tonight. He was so uptight, he was shaking all over."
"That's it!" Fat Susie squealed excitedly. "You've got it, Ginny! That's what we'll do! We'll have a ball-in all over campus tomorrow! We'll pick a certain time and fuck wherever we are. Sort of a 'Come as you are' party!" She held up her hands to stop the groans filling the room from her unintended pun.
"Okay, okay, I didn't mean it that way! Anyway, we'll all fuck at exactly two o'clock and quit in exactly ten minutes. Everyone will be so shocked that they won't have time to call the campus police. Then we'll hightail it over to the library and let Miriam make her call. The dean will be so rattled, hearing about the ball-in, that he'll believe anything Miriam tells him. Then we'll videotape Miriam and the dean in some lewd little poses and hit him with the tape. How can we lose?"
"Whew!" Linc said as Susie sat down again. "That's some idea. I vote yes. How about the rest of you?"
After all the details were worked out and watches synchronized, a much happier-looking crowd of girls left in time for the one-o'clock curfew at the dorm.
"See you tomorrow," Susie whispered as she left Rhea and Ginny at their door. "Don't forget. We're going to have a ball!"