A Quiet Lady's Place 03: Clancy

A QUIET LADY'S PLACE: Prequel - CLANCY MARIE WILLIAMS:

Prologue:

This is my 13th erotic story and Literotica submission. I am always indebted to Candy_Kane54 (CK) for her continuing commitment to helping me improve my writing style. CK has provided all the editing and style advice for each of the 13 stories. I am ever so grateful since I would have never written these stories without CK's enthusiastic and continuing support.

My Lesbian Romance stories focus on the trials and lives of strong, loving, and powerful women. Romance and not sex is the driving factor in these stories, which are 100 percent Fiction. However, some are based on a few real-life experiences of friends or acquaintances.

While all of my previous stories have been about lesbian romance and love, this specific story is about romance and true love between a female and male character, but there is no explicit sex described.

Although this prequel is not a lesbian story, I strongly feel it is a fitting conclusion to the A Quiet Lady's Place TRILOGY.

ENJOY!

CLANCY MARIE (TRUSSET) WILLIAMS-BORN-1992-NYC:

EARLY AND TEENAGE YEARS:

Clancy Marie Trusset was born early morning on a bright spring NYC day at the New York-Presbyterian Alexandra Cohen Hospital for Women and Newborns. She was an NYC resident until nearly three years old. Clancy's parents, Jon Claude Trusset and Marie Angeline (Crescent) Trusset held senior Diplomatic Positions in the US State Department, primarily working in France and Switzerland. Both parents were fluent in French and German but preferred postings in countries where French was a common language.

Clancy's father, Jon, was a French national, later becoming a Naturalized US Citizen, while her mother, Marie, was a US Citizen with French and German heritage. Clancy's given name honored her German great-grandmother, with her middle name honoring her mother.

Jon and Marie requested a three-year posting at the UN's NYC Headquarters immediately upon confirmation that Marie was pregnant. They wanted to be sure Clancy was born in the US, affirming her citizenry as a birthright. Jon and Marie Trusset wanted to make sure that their daughter Clancy was legally qualified to be President, which requires US Birthright Citizenship.

Clancy was quite long at nearly 25" when born, so her adult height of almost 6' was not surprising. She was also blond and blue-eyed, relating heavily to her German Ancestry. Clancy's height, complexion, hair, and eye color were all recessive genetic traits inherited from her German namesake.

Clancy's parents returned to a US State Department posting in Paris when she was nearly three years old. Jon and Marie mainly lived in Europe for the remainder of their State Department careers, eventually retiring to the Boudreaux Region of France.

Clancy's life from birth through her teenage years was typical for the child of seasoned diplomats. Her parent's family background was mildly conservative in nature, although definitely not ultraconservative. Jon and Marie actively reared Clancy with minimal help from an occasional government-qualified nanny. Those rare times when a live-in Nanny was needed occurred when both Jon and Marie needed to travel simultaneously for brief European meetings. Otherwise, one of Clancy's parents was always home with her until she was twelve years old.

Jon and Marie desired a solid USA learning experience for their daughter Clancy even though she was reared in European culture. So before Clancy's 12th birthday, they contacted a few Christian-based private universities that offered approved student exchange programs in France. The initial high-quality religious-affiliated universities they approached were ACC schools; Boston College, Catholic; Duke, Methodist; and Wake Forest, Baptist.

Jon and Marie's second requirement was for the university's student exchange program to be affiliated with the University of Paris. Their long-range plan was for Clancy to study her 'Fresher' year at the U of Paris and then transfer to the American university as a sophomore. Jon and Marie's reasoning for the university's relationship with the U of Paris was that Clancy's moving to an American university would be less complicated. Eventually, Jon and Marie expanded their search to include exchange programs with any major French university near Paris. They also expanded their list of acceptable USA Universities with religious ties.

Jon and Marie were basically non-religious, generally attending church at Christmas, Easter, and Weddings or Funerals. Mostly, they wanted to host a serious student that would positively influence Clancy's learning of the American culture. But they also sought an academically inclined student, having a positive attitude or view of life in the US. They felt exchange students with a formal religious background would provide a more stable influence on Clancy during her teenage years.

Virtually all of Clancy's primary education until age 12 was at a Paris-based International Day School while she lived at home. She would continue her secondary education at this same International School Program. Jon and Marie wanted to host a student who would be more like an elder sister or best friend to Clancy versus an academic tutor. The host student would also be expected to guide Clancy on understanding the current US lifestyle versus serving as a nanny or caretaker.

Clancy's parents desired to host each exchange student for one year until Clancy began her formal education attending the U of Paris. Each American exchange student they selected would be a full-time student at U of Paris or equivalent French university. They would only have limited free time to academically tutor Clancy. Academically helping Clancy was not an essential consideration for her parents. She was an outstanding student with a 4.0 GPA while also fluent in French and German.

When Clancy was twelve, Jon and Marie selected a young female exchange student to host every year until Clancy graduated secondary school. There were five different young ladies selected from the time Clancy was age 12 until she entered the U of Paris as a Fresher at age 17. The hosted student's primary responsibility was to Americanize Clancy to a moderate lifestyle. Her parents had studiously avoided any super conservative religious universities such as Liberty or Oral Roberts on their list of appropriate schools.

The hosted exchange student received many free extra benefits from the Trusset family. The student attended many cultural and entertainment-type activities with Clancy, such as concerts, theater, museum annual-passes, annual year Eurail Pass, and others. Jon and Marie bore the total cost of these extracurricular activities, which was an awesome perk for each exchange student.

Jon and Marie's time investment and extra effort in selecting the best possible students to host annually for five years worked out spectacularly for them. They successfully hosted five extraordinary and talented young ladies during Clancy's teenage years until she started college. By then, Clancy's heavily French-accented English had mellowed into more of an international brogue English. Her accented English mellowed due to Clancy's time spent socially interacting with her five exchange student American lifestyle tutors from 12 to 17.

Clancy turned 18 years old in her Fresher year at the University of Paris. After successfully completing her fresher year, she transferred to Georgetown University as a sophomore. Clancy had constantly maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout all of her academic life. This included International K-12 Day Schools and her Fresher year at the University of Paris.

Jon and Marie had always intended Clancy's formal education to be at a high-quality American university. So, she and her parents had many lively discussions about several colleges before mutually agreeing on Georgetown University (GU) as their all-around favorite. GU was located in Washington, D.C., where Jon and Marie had many excellent State Department connections. They had also had a few close personal friends in the D.C. area, so they were quite comfortable with Clancy attending GU, a Catholic school.

Clancy was also pleased with GU since she would be on the East Coast. She would only have a seven-hour flight to Paris when visiting Mom and Dad. GU also had a highly-rated women's track and field program, which was essential to Clancy, as she was a first-class European competitor in 800m races. Clancy definitely intended to make the GU team and become a top-rated USA 800m runner.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (GU):

Georgetown University is a well-known Catholic private university, with the current annual cost of matriculating there averaging $90,000USD. This extended price included tuition, dorm/meal plan, and extra expenses such as clothes, local transportation, social and sports events, etc.

Although Georgetown was quite expensive, the cost was not a problem for Jon and Marie. Clancy received a 'Full-Ride' Academic Scholarship in Journalism because of her outstanding grades in secondary school and test scores at the U of Paris. Clancy also chose to pursue a double minor in Juvenile Psychology and Economics. Depending on Clancy's desired course load, the double minor might require her to study a full four years at Georgetown.

Clancy's long-range plan was to work approximately five years as an editor for a major Publishing House. She had already been hired as a USA Specialty Wine editor for Decanter Magazine on a per article basis. Clancy was considered an expert on certain exquisite wines because of her parents' love for excellent Boudreaux Vintage wines.

After a few years working as a senior editor for a major publisher, Clancy wanted to get married and start a family before age 30. Clancy's plan would be to write and self-publish Children's books while raising a family. She wanted to be a stay-at-home mom with two or three kids until all were in secondary school and college.

Jon and Marie were relatively wealthy through family inheritances and excellent long-term investment strategies during their state department careers. So they leased a small two-bedroom apartment for Clancy in a quaint restored building close to GU's campus. The rent was expensive, but the apartment was located in a safe, centrally located neighborhood. This lovely apartment was their reward to Clancy for her academic excellence in receiving a full-ride GU undergraduate scholarship valued at $400,000USD. In addition to her apartment's quaintness, the location was excellent. Most of her classes were only a twenty-minute walk or shorter when using university transport.

Clancy's parents traveled with her to the USA for registration and moving her into her cozy, newly furnished apartment. They stayed for two weeks, using much of this time in joining with Clancy in familiarizing herself with the campus. The following month would be extremely difficult for all three since they had always been a close-knit family. Now, Jon and Marie's nearly 6' tall baby girl would be living 3,000 miles and an ocean away from them. Clancy dearly loved her Mom and Dad, so they would surely talk or Zoom for an hour every week. Jon and Marie planned on spending each Christmas through New Year's Holiday with Clancy in the USA. Then Clancy would return home to France for a six-week visit every year during the summer break.

Although blissfully unaware, Clancy was already somewhat of a celebrity at GU, being a U of Paris international transfer student. Her lifetime 4.0 GPA at the Paris International Day School and U of Paris and having fluency in French and German set her apart from most current sophomores.

The two primary GU recognized sororities were very interested in her pledging. Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Kappa Alpha initially made soft overtures to Clancy with introduction pamphlets, pledge calendars, and other various items. One item that interested Clancy was a list of both sororities' social events. She would first focus on learning the campus layout, especially her class locations, and then investigate the social life.

Additionally, the GU women's track team was especially keen on recruiting her since Clancy had competitively run the 800m from age 13. She was the best mid-distance runner on the girls' track team for U of Paris and a natural leader. Her coach was saddened with Clancy's transfer to GU in the USA but knew this was her parents' intent for completing her formal education.

There were also several other groups interested in Clancy's type of academic excellence and life experiences. The athletic department was interested in Clancy possibly tutoring one of their high-level athletic scholarship recipients. Another on-campus social group felt someone with Clancy's life experiences and personality would make a perfect Big Sister.

Clancy first planned to get the lay of the land around the university. She'd then critically explore and evaluate her extracurricular activity choices. She was definitely going out for the track team and possibly one other social or university activity. Clancy was not really a Sorority/Greek Life type person based on her current knowledge of their programs. But she felt it best to visit the two sororities first before totally blowing them off.

Clancy had already received invitations to various university-sponsored social gatherings via her email inbox. One invitation was to a Wednesday night Jazz Club wine tasting, which she would definitely check out later. She really loved the old-style Dixieland Jazz, along with the modern-day Bluesy-Jazz sound.

Clancy immediately decided her first social outing would be hitting the Jazz Club on a Dixieland and Blues night. She was only 19 years old, so she could not legally drink wine or other alcoholic drinks in the USA. Clancy thought this was absolutely absurd since she could legally drink wine in Paris at 18 years old. It would be quite strange for her to not have a glass of wine at the Jazz Club because of her age.

Clancy was reared European, so she had occasionally sipped Red Table Wine since age 13, generally at dinner with her parents. Bordeaux's wines were her absolute favorite, and she was thrilled her parents intended to retire in that region of France. The 1982 Chateau Lafleur Pomerol was simply a divine Bordeaux wine and one of Clancy's favorites. It was pretty expensive, so her mom and dad only allowed her a small half-glass at dinner.

Clancy walked all over GU's widely spread campus during the first two weeks after her mom and dad returned home. She was just enjoying the on and off-campus sights and atmosphere of surely being alone on her own. At age 19, this was her first venture alone which she readily admitted was sometimes scary.

While on one of her daily walks, Clancy saw what was apparently two teams of girls playing a bizarre game. Both teams had what seemed to be different colored handkerchiefs or scarfs hanging from the back of their pants. All the girls looked as if they were running to grab the other teams' scarves, which just did not make any sense to her.

She watched for a while as some girls played while others stood around laughing, talking, and cheering.

One dark-haired girl jogged over to Clancy, saying, "Hi, I am Raleigh Kay Jameson from New Orleans. Come on over and join us." She then took notice of Clancy's height, saying, "Wow, you are very tall."

Clancy introduced herself. "I am Clancy Marie Trusset, and I am nearly 6' tall. I am a transfer student from the U of Paris and starting my sophomore year at GU. I am American but have mostly lived in Europe since age three, as both my parents are career USA Diplomats."

Clancy walked over to the group with Raleigh to introduce herself but spent most of her time talking with Raleigh, who was a Fresher. Raleigh appeared to be 5'7" or 8" and solidly built. Raleigh had an off-tan color, owing to her being a Louisiana Creole of Color descendant, but she did not speak the language. Raleigh had four older brothers, with who Raleigh had played pick-up football since her early youth. Raleigh was frustrated that she could not play football in high school or college since it was not a girls' sport. She excelled in track, so she hoped to anchor the 4 X 400m relay team by her junior year.

They chatted off and on until Clancy decided to continue her campus walk around after talking with the girls for an hour. She and Raleigh exchanged mobile and email contacts, tentatively planning to meet for lunch on Friday. They would talk more about schedules for getting in shape together since both planned to make the GU woman's track team. Clancy felt quite optimistic about their potentially becoming good friends. Raleigh was a friendly type of person who was easy-going, which Clancy later learned was the laid-back southern lifestyle.

Clancy continued on with her life through the usual adjustment period of such a major move away from family and friends. She told her mom about meeting Raleigh and how they had a nice long lunch last Friday. Mom was pleased with Clancy meeting a charming young lady and gradually settling in at GU.

Clancy learned the AKA group was actively participating in this Wednesday's Jazz Hour Wine tasting. She rang Raleigh, inviting her to go along. "Please come to the Jazz Club with me, Raleigh, and spend the night at my place since neither of us has Thursday morning classes."

Raleigh seemed hesitant before saying yes, which concerned Clancy.

She asked Raleigh, "Do you not want to go? I thought you really liked Jazz from our many talks about music. After all, your home is just outside New Orleans."

Raleigh replied, "I do not think I am the type person these girls would invite into their AKA Sorority and would feel out of place. Also, I do not have any of the outrageously expensive clothes like most sorority girls wear."

Clancy countered, "Wear one of the jumper outfits you like. How about you wear the blue one and I will wear something similar? If you are uncomfortable after an hour, we can leave and stop at another nice club near my place. I have not been there or anywhere social since moving here, but my neighbor said it was really nice."

Wednesday came, with Raleigh bringing her blue jumper outfit, as well as a shorts set to Clancy's apartment in the early afternoon after her last class. The second bedroom was nicely decorated, and Raleigh was delighted to stay over for four days. Once they were dressed, Clancy poured them a nice glass of red wine since they could not legally drink at the club.

The girls arrived via Uber at nearly 8:00 PM and entered the club, looking around since this was their first time there.

An AKA girl came over asking, "Are you here for the future pledge night registration?"

Clancy answered, "No, we saw the open invitation and wanted to hear some good Jazz. I am Clancy, a transfer from Paris, and this is my friend Raleigh from New Orleans."

There was a bit of whispering among the AKA girls. Another girl sauntered over, asking, "Are you Clancy Marie Trusset from the U of Paris?"

Clancy replied, "Yes."

The AKA girl said, "Okay, go on over and enjoy the music. We would like to talk with you later this evening."

As they walked toward the bar area, Clancy said, "Raleigh, that was really rude as the two girls did not introduce themselves to us."

Raleigh fidgeting, "I am not sure I want to stay Clancy. She did not even glance my way like I did not exist in her sight."

Before Clancy could respond, some half-drunk guy yelled, "AKA gals over here and have some whiskey shots!"

"No thanks!" Clancy quickly answered, steering Raleigh to the end of the bar, where there were two empty bar stools. They were in a corner but still had a decent view of the stage.