It was a chilly evening in February, and I was sitting in a children's playhouse, using the yellow plastic slide as cover from the cold wind. The meeting place we'd selected was a playground alongside a bike path which ran in a loop encompassing a ball field. I'd been waiting about ten minutes when I finally saw a figure approaching from across the otherwise empty field. It was her.
She was twenty-four years old, with dark black skin and locked hair twisted into two buns atop her head. She wore blue jeans, black boots, and a black coat. She was a small woman; as she approached, her short stature became more apparent. She must have been no taller than 5'2", and I instantly realized how much I would tower over her when we would stand next to one another.
I sat inside the children's jungle gym and watched the woman approach me. She never broke eye contact; she stared me down intensely until the moment she stood in mere feet in front of me. I continued sitting where I was, although I admit I broke eye contact after a few seconds and found myself staring at the ground.
"What the fuck!?"
I instantly jolted upwards and looked the girl right in her angry eyes. She really looked furious.
"What are you doing? On your knees, shit head!"
Immediately I was on my knees in the dirt and woodchips, my head lowered into a submissive position inches from her boots. The girl jumped up to where I had been sitting in the jungle gym, dangling her legs over the side.
"Idiot. Lick my shoes."
I started to lick every inch of this woman's boots. My knees were hurting from the woodchips and I was very uncomfortable the whole time, but I focused on the job at hand. I was terrified of this girl and what she would do if I displeased her. I knew nothing about her, not even her name.
This went on for a few minutes. It didn't take long for my tongue to be coated in the dirt and grime from her boots. She was silent throughout. Then she said, "Hold on." She jumped off her seat and in an instant she was standing over me with her hand around my chin.
"I got something for you, bitch."