There was this woman. She must have lived or worked in my neighborhood in New York City. I say this because I often saw her either when I left for work at 7:30am or returned home around 6pm. Occasionally I would also see her shopping at the same market on the weekends.
There are a lot of people in New York, especially if one includes the tourists, but one tends to notice people one sees in one's neighborhood with some regularity. This woman would be hard not to notice. She had long blonde hair, not too straight, a delightful curvaceous body, twinkling eyes, and a ready smile.
We had never met, but I saw her often enough that I began to smile at her when I saw her, as if I knew her, and she always returned my smile with an easy, ready smile of her own. It simply made me happy when she smiled at me. Women are often such a positive force.
She was around my age, which is mid to late 20s. We stayed that way for around a year, never actually meeting each other, but seemingly getting to know each other through out smiles.
During the workweek she wore a uniform of a nice blouse and skirt, a suit jacket, stockings or panty hose, low heels, perfume and jewelry. She always looked appropriately dressed to be perhaps a successful office worker, and at the same time she managed to look gorgeous.
On the weekends, however, all bets were off. She would dress casually, but it was a calculated, studied casual. If she wore a tee shirt, it would hug her curves. If she wore a skirt, it would be much shorter than during the week, and her legs might also be bare, rather than covered in nylons. If she wore pants, they would be a second skin, hugging every inch or her body, even to the point of showing off the features of her perfect behind.
One Saturday when I was sitting in a local coffee house, she came in and ordered a coffee, but there were no tables free. She saw me, and as if we knew each other, she asked if she could join my table. That was how we met. We talked nonstop for an hour or so, and ended by exchanging Facebook and texting coordinates.
One hour later I sent her a text asking her out that night, for dinner and a movie. Ten minutes later she texted me back asking when and where? I suggested that we meet at the restaurant, at a very nice Italian place in Nolita.
She had changed for the evening and I had never seen her dressed like this before. He blouse was low cut, and I mean very low cut. I'm not sure how she arranged it, but she showed quite a lot of each boob. I was not even sure if she was wearing a bra, or not.
I had a lot of trouble looking at her face and not her boobs. She broke the tension by saying,
"So I guess you're a boobs man Rich, am I right?"
"Boobs, behinds (I did not want to say 'ass'), legs, everything, at least where you are concerned. But frankly, Melissa, it's your beautiful face that has won my heart," I replied.
"So you are in love with me on the first day we meet?" Melissa teased, both smiling and with a twinkle in her eye.
"It does make me sound a bit superficial, but I feel as if we have known each other for a year now. You know, our paths often cross in this city of 15 million people," I said.
"Yes, I know. I guess we have similar work schedules and all that. I like you too, Rich. Your eyes are the color of my favorite beer," Melissa replied. Then she added, so quietly it was barely audible, "I'm glad you like my boobs."
We had a delicious dinner and finished off an entire bottle of Chianti Classico, but mostly we just looked into each other's eyes and in my case, her boobs. I treated, and then we walked over to a close by movie theater. "Do you have a preference for the movie, Melissa?" I asked.
She gave a run down on the movies, and ended by saying, "There's a lot of nudity in this one, according to the critics, and since you like boobs, why don't we go to it?"
I did not have a riposte, so we went to that one. I guess she had reapplied her perfume in the ladies' room at the restaurant, because as I sat next to her I became intoxicated with her smell. "I love your perfume," I whispered to her.
"I put it on my neck, behind my ears, and you'll never guess where else," she said.
I leaned over putting my nose in her cleavage and inhaled deeply. "Good guess," she said, and giggled fetchingly. I let my nose linger there a little, and she wiggled her chest so that her boob touched the right side of my nose and then her other boob touched the left side of my nose.
"Melissa, you are making my hands jealous," I said.
"Patience is a virtue, Richard. Now shush, the movie is starting," she said. She was smiling a mischievous little smile.
When the movie was over I said, "Let me take you home, pretty woman."
"It's okay, Richard. I'll grab a taxi," she said.
"But don't you live walking distance from here?" I asked.
"Do you know where I live?" Melissa asked. She tried to hide it, but there was alarm in her voice.
"No, but I just assumed we live near each other, and..."
Melissa cut me off, saying, "Richard, I had a great time. You have my digital coordinates, and I hope we can do something like this again soon, but for now, can you get me a taxi?"
So I did, and before she got in she leaned over and gave me an open mouth hyper sexy kiss and sped away, out of my evening but I was hoping not out of my life.
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I had never seen the Cloisters, in the northwest corner of Manhattan, far from everything else. John D. Rockefeller had built it in the early 1930s, importing many of the ingredients from ruined old churches in France, and now it is a museum.