(A story for Barb)
The house lights went down, the stage lights went up, and the crowd roared. The band filed back onto stage for the encore and picked up their instruments. The crowd continued to cheer while the lead singer looked around with a feigned expression of surprise. The final encore had happened like this every night for the past two months.
The crowd surged toward the stage, packing everyone even tighter than they were before. It was a warm night, and the concert had been magnificent. It was a fitting farewell tour for a band that had excited fans for nearly three decades.
About forty feet back from the stage, standing in the crowd, was a woman in her early thirties. She was far enough back to be out of the stage lights, but close enough to see every facial expression the musicians made. She wore a loose-fitting peasantâs blouse, a denim skirt that came to about mid-thigh, and sandals. Her black hair glistened in the darkness.
She had lost track of her friends earlier in the evening, figuring she would meet up with them again at the car. She hadnât been lonely, though, wandering from group to group and being welcomed wherever she went. Everyone was partying, and she had joined right in. After several glasses of wine, a few tokes of a joint, and a couple of lines of good coke, she was higher than she remembered being in a long time. She also was having more fun than she had had in a long time.
Several guys had tried out their lines on her, but she wasnât interested in any of them. Men were too hard, it seemed to her. The guys she had dated all needed too much attention. Lately she had started thinking that maybe she should try girls, instead. She figured that they
had
to be easier than the men she had seen recently.
The crowd grew quiet, and the band started playing their signature song. It began softly, with some low cymbal work. The bass player slowly laid down the rhythm. The song was from the psychedelic era of the late 60âs and early 70âs. The crowd started to sway to the music, and soon everyone was rocking back and forth in unison.
As the organ and the guitars joined in, the volume and speed of the music was gathering, building slowly. The woman was swaying with the crowd, her eyes closed and her face turned upward. The music was taking her back in time, to a more carefree era when she was younger and hadnât experienced the disappointments of the last few years. Back then, it had still seemed like everyone was good and anything was possible.
At first she didnât notice the hands on her hips, the crowd being packed so closely together. She slowly realized that someone behind her was resting their hands on her hips, holding her as she moved back and forth to the music. They were large, and felt like a manâs hands. Far from upsetting her, it made her feel warm and secure. It fit perfectly with the mood created by the music, the crowd, and the drug-induced buzz she had.
As the music increased in intensity, they danced in place together. He had pulled her closer, so she could feel his warm body against her back. She decided she wouldnât look around, letting this be an anonymous encounter on a wonderful night. She tried to envision his body from what she felt. He was slim and muscular. She thought he was wearing a tanktop. She glided her hands over his arms. They were lean and strong. The skin on his hands was slightly rough, but not unpleasantly so.
Without breaking the dance, he slowly moved his hands under the hem of her blouse. His fingers sill held her hips, touching the denim of her skirt. She felt his thumbs rub against the bare skin on the top of her hips. She began to move her hips more, swinging them back and forth in time to the music. His hold on her tightened so that his hands wouldnât slip off. All the time she kept her eyes closed.
His hands slowly moved upward underneath her peasantâs blouse. When she realized that he was touching the bare skin over her rib cage, her eyes popped open and she stopped moving. He stopped and stood perfectly still, as well.
A man she had never seen had his hands just inches from her breasts. She looked around at the people near her, expecting to see them staring back at her. Instead, there was a knot of humanity, each person involved in their own dream, seeing no one else, hearing only the music. She felt his hands around her again â they were warm, and their touch was gentle.
She closed her eyes again, savoring the moment. Then she slowly started moving to the music again, tacitly accepting the man into her dream. He picked up the dance again, too, and soon their bodies were moving together again.
She felt a tingle in her breasts. She now yearned for the manâs hands to cover her breasts, to play with her nipples. She pressed backward against the man, rubbing against his front with her firm ass. She thought she felt the beginnings of an erection, and it excited her even more.
As she had hoped, this encouraged the man and he resumed moving his hands toward her breasts. He was teasing her, âaccidentallyâ rubbing against the bottom of her breast, then moving away. Each time he came closer and closer to her nipples. She finally couldnât stand it and grabbed his hands through her blouse and roughly planted them on her breasts. He began to rub her nipples with the palm of his hand, making small circular motions in time to the music. Her nipples quickly grew stiff and hard. Her breathing quickened. She could feel his warm breath on the back of her neck.
Now her pussy was tingling, and she could definitely feel his erection pressing against her. Keeping her left hand over his, her right hand dropped to her side and slipped behind her, feeling the manâs lean body. He was not a tall man, and his erect cock lined up perfectly for her ass to rub against. She moved her hand down and felt his right leg below his shorts. He was wearing light, loose fitting shorts, like athletic shorts. His thigh was lean and hard, just like the rest of him. She moved her hand up, under the leg of his shorts. She reached toward his crotch, expecting to feel his hard cock underneath his underwear. She found his cock, but there was no secondary covering of underwear. She was holding his bare cock in her hand.