Waffle house really was some place that you ended up, never some place that you planned to go to. If you were planning on going somewhere to eat breakfast food iHop was far better, and the town had finally gotten its own location of the chain last year. Even Perkins would have been better, but this particular night, after this particular shitty concert, after this particular incident of her shitty friends ditching her, Sam was at waffle house.
This was the absolute last time that she was going to do this. Stuck in Plattsburg, MO for her whole life she'd been following around the same girl for the last 7 years; through most of high school and all of college. She'd become friends with Jessica when she was in high school because she'd been a closeted bisexual teenager and she replaced romantic relationships with intense codependent friendships. As luck would have it Jes was also bi, but she'd dated literally everyone else BUT Sam and it was time for this all to end.
She'd gone to a concert she hadn't been interested in, dressed up cute and slutty, and been subtly excluded from the pictures and ditched at waffle house. All for nothing since a year before finishing her degree Jes had gotten pregnant then married then divorced and now was in an on again off again relationship with a local tattoo artist. Literally Jessica's high school dream, one she'd shared with Sam during one of their many adventures in body modification in their time since turning 18. Now Sam was truly starting to realize that Jes was kind of a townie loser who only cared about herself, demanding to be the center of attention even as Sam got her nipples pierced (though to be fair, Sam had just been trying to get Jes's attention with that stunt herself and had taken the barbells out within a year). Seven years wasted on a girl who honestly had probably only ever dated girls as an attempt at getting attention. In all those years Jes had also stolen all the boys that Sam had ever had an interest in or a chance with.
She sighed, staring down at her waffle and sausage, following girls like Jes around is how you ended up stuck in your home town, single, horny and at waffle house at 1:30am on a Saturday night. It was time to cut the cord on that friendship. Sam was finally at the point in her life that she liked her job and her little apartment, so maybe she wouldn't leave town, but it was time to start getting laid and make some friends with hobbies, skills, and interests.
Matt had ended up at waffle house. Again. He really needed something to change in his life because this was not working. In high school he'd shown a lot of promise. He'd been a star athlete, had gotten a scholarship to play basketball in college, he'd left town for long enough to get a mostly useless degree, win some championships for his school, experience college town life and then come back when his father was dying. He'd turned down a chance at playing on a professional team to help nurse his father back to health and he'd failed at that. Now he was hanging out with his high school friends and going to waffle house, just like he was 17 years old again. Except he was in his 20's, and before he knew it, he'd be in his 30's and he couldn't still be doing this at that age.
His friends were nice enough guys, Matt had been very popular in high school and he'd set an example of kindness which they'd been forced to follow if they wanted to keep being part of the in crowd. A decade later and the lesson had stuck; he should be receiving thank you cards from their girlfriends and wives to be completely honest. He'd made a big stink about respecting women and he'd taken an active oral interest in all his high school girlfriends that he'd bragged about to his friends (he wasn't completely wholesome, sometimes you wanted to tell everybody in the locker room how you were the first one to make a cheerleader cum) and he'd started a trend of it.
The problem was they didn't really get him; and they kept people who did get him away. He'd dated cheerleaders and played sports and gone to house parties, but really he would have enjoyed being on the debate team and fucking the nerd girls with glasses, the ones who had big tits because they were kind of chunky, fat asses to jiggle around, the ones that read books in the back of the classroom and got excited to go to philosophy club meetings. Something about a huge ass and a librarian vibe really got his dick hard. But historically, it hadn't gotten his dick WET.
He remembered asking Brittany Newell to go out and being harshly and immediately rejected, told he was an asshole for playing a prank on her as she glanced around to see if any of his friends were around waiting to jump out and mock her. She'd wiggled her fat ass and frizzy hair out of his life, dragging her golf bag behind her. He felt like nothing had changed in the time since. Except now he wasn't getting consolation cheerleader sex now. All the cheerleaders had either gotten pregnant or gotten out of town, moving to Kansas City to start careers as real estate agents.
He worked as a personal trainer/manager at the local rec center, volunteered to coach youth basketball and lived in the same house he grew up in, that he now also owned since his father's death. He enjoyed it, but it was essentially high school 2.0 and he needed a change.
As he stepped into the waffle house, trying hard to ignore the filthy open kitchen and abject misery on the faces of the employees he glanced around to find a booth to sit in and saw the change he needed. She looked familiar and with a little searching he realized they'd gone to high school together, though he'd never paid her much attention, she had looked a little different then, a little blander maybe. She was certainly his type now. A type that even in college he'd never managed to score with. She'd put on weight since high school, he'd have to wait until she stood up but he was pretty sure she was sitting on a round ass. The dress she was wearing made it clear she had some world class tits. She had on a ton of eyeliner and lipstick, which was smeared at this point in the night. She looked like a bit of a mess, she also looked like a lot of fun. Her arms were scattered with tattoos running down both, when he glanced down further he saw her legs were fairly well covered in ink also. Her dark brown hair was long, wavy and frizzy and she wore huge glasses; seventies nerd glasses, like something from a teen movie.
He was charmed to notice that she wasn't wearing heels, at 6'5 he was used to his dates wearing them, toddling everywhere like baby deer and complaining about their foot pain. As an athlete he wasn't really a fan of footwear that basically crippled the wearer, he also liked that she looked close to him in height. He didn't really remember how tall she was in high school, but clearly she'd had a growth spurt in several directions since then. If he was remembering right, her name was Samantha.
He picked the booth next to her, and his friends all fell into step with him. He wasn't really sure what the best game plan would be here, he suspected that he might need to gently rid himself of his friends if he wanted to make a move on her. Since he hadn't noticed her around, he assumed he'd have to make a move tonight, here and now, or risk losing his chance. They ordered their food from the only waitress in the waffle house, the only waitress he had even seen working here in all his time coming, and he set about trying to come up with a plan ignoring his friends' typical chatter.
Well, well, well, Sam thought to herself, the answer to all my questions just walked in. Matt Powell had been a big fucking deal in high school. She'd personally never been in to him back then, her confliction about her attraction to both men and women had really put her on the side of femme men attraction wise. However as an adult she found men that could physically beat her the most attractive. She didn't want to be beaten, but she preferred the idea of men who decided not to hurt her much sexier than men who were simply unable to hurt her. Matt definitely fell into the category of men that could physically overpower her. At 6 feet tall and a fair amount of pounds, much of which was muscle, that was kind of a tall order.