Karina Rene and I first met for about three minutes in which we didn't speak. Since that time we have grown extremely close, and I call her simply Rene. But it wasn't until we "met" online several weeks after our first encounter that our relationship began in earnest. We exchanged the usual jokes and innuendos, laughed together at similar things and generally just had fun learning about each other and flirting. One night she sent me a message that she just wanted to drive, to go somewhere else, to get away for an hour. I was in a singular mood in which I wanted to meet new people and experience the world all at once, so I offered to drive if she'd meet me. She agreed, as we all knew she would.
I drove her towards a tiny spot I knew well, hidden by a lake. She sat in my passenger seat with her blonde highlighted hair blowing in the wind from the open windows and seemed to relax. Her hazel eyes often rested on me as I drove, and occasionally I caught them with my own before she smiled and looked away into the night. She was a cute little punk rock kind of girl with long pale legs extending under my dash and a tiny little body barely filling the seat. I admit I chose a place where I hoped to explore that body as I had been exploring her mind and personality online.