You marked it down on your calendar, you wrote post it notes at home and at work, and yet here you are late Saturday afternoon scrambling to buy a birthday gift. Four stores later, you finally find what you were looking for. The sidewalks are empty of people, because everyone who has an ounce of sense did their shopping earlier. A clap of thunder draws your attention up to the sky.
“Great,” you mutter as the first rain drops start to fall. “Anything else you want to throw at me today?”
You get your answer as you get shoved sharply from behind, and your bag is ripped from your shoulder. “Stop!” You yell, chasing after him. He's got a good lead on you, when all of a sudden, a motorcycle pulls up on to the sidewalk in front of him, blocking his path.
Startled the purse snatcher turns and heads back towards you. Time to see if those self defence lessons will pay off. As he gets close you step towards him and do a perfect hip toss sending him sprawling. Well almost perfect. The instructors you tossed in practice didn't flail about and swing their arms around with a bag. Somewhere along the way the bag gets tangled between your legs and you fall hard. The purse snatcher manages to get to his feet first and scrambles away. You try to follow but a pain in your ankle brings you back down to the ground.
As the purse snatcher rounds the corner you try to stand again. A hand reaches down into view. “Here,” a soft voice interrupts your mental cursing. “Let me help you up.” you take the hand and the stranger pulls you gently to your feet.
“Thanks,” you say. You were going to add to that but you lose track of what you were going to say next when you see your rescuer's face. A soft five o'clock shadow coats his jaw, his dirty blond hair is a little mussed from his motorcycle helmet and he has the most incredible blue green eyes you've ever seen.
“Are you okay?” he asks.
“What? Oh yeah I'm fine.” And then you try to take another step. “Ow! Okay maybe not. I think I twisted my ankle.”
“Here let me help you,” he says. “Why don't you let me give you a ride home.”
“Oh I don't know,” you say, mentally kicking yourself in process. “I mean I don't even know your name.”
“You're right,” he chuckles. “My name's Kiefer, Kiefer Sutherland. What's yours?” You tell him your name and he smiles. “Great,” Kiefer says. “Now that we've been introduced how about that ride?”
Kiefer takes your silence at his unintentional double entendre, as ambivalence. “Please,” he asks. “From what I just saw I think we both know you can kick my ass.”
You sneak a glance down at his faded blue jeans. 'I can think of better things to do to your ass then kick it,' you think stifling a giggle.
“Have you ever ridden a motorcycle before?” Kiefer asks.
“No.”
“It's pretty simple,” Kiefer says as he hands you his helmet to wear, "you just hold on tight to me."
“That's not going to be a problem,” you mumble under your breath.
“What was that?”
“Nothing,” you reply, blushing under the helmet.
You gently step over the motorcycle, wincing slightly as you put weight back on your injured foot. You wrap your arms tight around Kiefer's chest as he starts up the motorcycle. You've heard the stories from your girlfriends but this is the first time you've experienced it yourself. The vibrations are going to straight to your clitoris, and it's all you can do to stifle a moan as Kiefer revs up the bike.
You half yell directions into Kiefer's ear as he drives along. The vibrations make it hard to keep your concentration. In fact it's not until you're almost at your place when you realise that you've been gently rubbing against Kiefer's ass, adding the motion of your hips to the bike's vibrations. You pull away half hoping he didn't notice what you were doing and half hoping he did.
You finally manage to make it to your place without further embarrassment. Kiefer parks the bike, but makes no move to get off. You wonder if maybe he noticed what was happening. Hoping to fix things you invite him in.
“That would be wonderful,” Kiefer says in that soft voice of his. “Just give me a minute.”
As he steps off the bike you realise the 'problem'. He definitely noticed what you were doing and certainly didn't mind. The impressive length of him is pressed so tight against his jeans that you're almost positive that it's only him underneath. The day is definitely looking up.
“So can I get you a coffee?,” you ask as you and Kiefer enter your place.
“Sure thanks,” Kiefer replies. “But you should sit down, rest your ankle.”
“I'm okay. Just put your jacket down anywhere.”
“What about my boots?,” he asks as you carefully limp your way into the kitchen.
“You can leave them in the hallway.” You stick your head out of the kitchen. “Can I get you anything to eat?”
“No thanks, I'm fine.”
You fill the kettle with water and plug it in, checking your reflection in the toaster before returning to the living room. Kiefer's sitting on the couch, his legs crossed with his ankle over his knee, his fingers playing with the cuffs of his jeans. You stand there in the doorway just watching him. Finally taking a deep breath, you step forward. Upon hearing you move, Kiefer jerks his leg off his knee with a start.
“Coffee will be ready in a couple of minutes.”
Kiefer reaches with his left hand and scratches behind his right ear, “Great.”
“So again I really want to thank you again for helping me out, it was really lucky that you came along when you did.”
“Really it was nothing, you were the one that took him down. I probably let him get away.”
“Nonsense,” you say patting his knee to emphasize your point. “If it wasn't for you he would have gotten away completely. I owe you for getting my stuff back if nothing else. I hope I didn't take you away from anything important.” You realise your hand is still on his knee and you pull it away a little self consciously.
“No, you didn't put me out in the slightest. I was actually looking to rent a video for tonight,” Kiefer says crossing his legs again. “I pretty much had a quiet evening alone planned.”
“Really?” you say unable to hide your surprise. “I wouldn't have thought you'd be spending a Saturday night alone.” “Well I usually do,” Kiefer says. “But it looks like plans have changed.” His eyes widen as he realises what he just said. “I mean the having coffee right now part. I'm sure you have plans for tonight. I didn't mean to imply that uh...”
Kiefer blushes and starts to scratch his left ear with his right hand. You manage to suppress a giggle.
“It's all right,” you say. “Actually I was going to invite you to stay for dinner, to thank you for your help.” You cut Kiefer's protest off quickly. “I know you said you didn't do anything special, but how about as a thank you for the ride home.”
Kiefer's face lights up in a wide grin. “I'd like that very much. Thank you.”
“Trust me, it's my pleasure" you start to say before you're interrupted by the kettle whistling. “Damn,” you mutter under your breath. “Let me go get that,” you say out loud. “Do you want cream and sugar?”
“Just a little,” he replies.
You get up and head to the kitchen. After you get the coffees ready you bring them back and sit down next to him a little closer then you were sitting before.
“Mmm thank you. This is delicious,” Kiefer says sipping his coffee.
You take advantage of the brief quiet to enjoy the view. His jeans are faded and worn, with small holes around the knees exposing the golden skin beneath. Unfortunately his legs are crossed again denying you, but that doesn't stop you from enjoying the rest of him. His chest and arms are well muscled without being overly built. his white t-shirt is stretched tight around his biceps and you can see the bottom of a tattoo peeking out from beneath the sleeve.