Ch 1 synopsis: Our protagonist Lindsay longs for a boy who enjoys having his ass finger fucked, but she keeps striking out. But as fate would have it, she overhears a group of ladies in the bar laughing about a pervert who actually begged for that kind of action. An awkward conversation and $20 later, she gets his number.
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Tom trudged towards the cafe, muttering to himself. His internal conflict continued to rage.
Better than likely this was some cruel prank. Or she'd be hideous. Or a psycho. Maybe she worked on a new spinoff reality show called 'how to catch a pervert.' Maybe she'd be some extreme fetishist and ask him to wear a dog collar out of the restaurant.
But every time this line of thinking made him pause and start to turn back, the alternative explanation pled its case. Maybe this is real. Maybe karma has finally come around to settle up. In any case, he'd eventually return to the same conclusion: he had little to lose and everything to gain. And then he'd continue walking towards the cafe where he'd agreed to meet her.
It had been an odd phone call, to say the least:
"Umm hello, is this Tom?"
"Yes..."
"Ah great. I'm Lindsay. I got your number from Megan."
"..."
Lindsay continued, "Sorry to call you out of the blue, but you see, I got to talking with her about your past relationship, and it sounded like you and I might really hit it off."
Tom felt a sinking feeling in his stomach, followed quickly by fresh anger at being kicked when he was already down. He took a deep breath and then slowly let his rage drip into the phone, "Listen...Megan and her cronies, you can go fuck yourselves. I don't appreciate...you should find something better to do with your time than making mean-spirited prank phone calls."
Lindsay was taken aback. This was not how this was supposed to go at all. She was fucking this up. She tried again, "I don't even really know Megan, I just heard about you from her and thought we could-"
Tom decided he was tired of hearing this girl try to bullshit her way into saving her prank. He was winning this one, and he wasn't about to be duped by some improvised backtracked story. "You bitches are all the same. You don't give a shit about other people's feelings. You just-"
"QUIET!!" Lindsay screamed. "Be...quiet," she seethed. Now she was angry, partly at him, partly at herself, mostly at how this phone call that she'd pinned so much of her hopes on was quickly turning to dog shit. She quickly decided to go with a more direct approach.
"I...want...to go...on a date...with you. I don't give a fuck about Megan, or prank phone calls, or any other shit. I am calling you because I think we might be particularly compatible. Do...you...under...stand?!"
Tom was confused now. She sounded really pissed. "Um...okay..."
"Say that you understand," she snapped.
Tom gulped. "I understand."
"Do you know the cafe at 5th and Main?"
"Yes."
"Can you meet there tomorrow at noon?"
"Um...I think so."
"Good. I'll be wearing a pink baseball cap. See you then."