Kate and Isla were on a girl's trip to New York City and after a few hours of wandering around the cold, windy city and a few stops into whatever bar looked appealing on their haphazard route, they ended up at a wine tasting in Chelsea. After their five glass tasting, they decided to venture to a different bar within the same massive winery. Kate sidled up to the bar - this one with a view of the Hudson, taking in her new surroundings, squinting and maybe stumbling a bit as she did. She turned to her friend saying "the bartender is cute." She couldn't help herself and didn't care if he heard.
He was cute, but certainly not the type she normally went for - slighter than the sturdy men she typically liked with one ear full of earrings and a mop of messy dirty blonde hair on his head, not to mention she could tell there were multiple tattoos under that black button down.
She put on her flirtiest smile and grabbed a stemless wine glass on the bar within reach that contained the lids to lots of pretty liquor bottles. "This lid is pretty." "It goes to a bottle of elderberry liqueur. Would you like a sample?" "Of course," she said. "I'm Kate." "Gabriel." the cute bartender said with a smile that reached his hazel eyes.
Next thing she knew, Kate and Isla had spent all afternoon sitting at Gabriel's bar, drinking everything from Cabernet to shots of well tequila to fancy elderberry and whatever cocktails. After getting up at 3:45 am for a 6:30 flight to New York, Kate realized she hadn't eaten anything since half a bagel from an airport Starbucks at 5 am. Isla wisely ordered them a pizza, likely realizing the same thing Kate did.
The afternoon continued to pass in a blur. After some liquid courage, she asked Gabriel where the sexiest places in New York City were. What she meant by that, she had no idea. All she knew was that she needed some fun - whether that was watching or participating. She also knew there was a huge kink community in NYC. With a wink and a grin, he told her about a bar in Brooklyn where patrons could really let loose. It became clear to her that this guy was a little kinky, but she wasn't exactly sure what his preference might be - men, women or both. He did give her his phone number, but that didn't necessarily mean he was interested.
Eventually Kate and Isla left, promising to reach out later in the night. They headed to finally check into their cracker box sized hotel room located close to Times Square. "Fuck," Kate thought. "I should have booked us a room at a boutique hotel in SoHo." They were both exhausted and it was barely 8 pm. They decided on grabbing burgers at the Shake Shack around the corner and calling it an early night - vowing to take NYC by storm tomorrow.
Kate woke up early the next morning with a horrible headache. She checked her phone and realized at some point she texted Gabriel. She must have fallen asleep before he responded when he got off around 11. She also texted one of her guy friends back home in Cincinnati that she "freed the nipple" at Shake Shack. She cringed reading that very weird text. "This is why one should never look back at drunken messages." she thought.
Once Isla started showing signs of life, they both got ready and headed out for the day. They took an Uber to lower Manhattan and hit all of the tourist destinations. Kate had been to NYC a few times, but Isla hadn't, so she was just going with the flow, open to where the day/night took them. At some point she texted Gabriel again- playing it off like she was continuing their conversation from last night. He was working until 11 again that night, but was game to meet after. Typically, she would never have considered meeting anyone that late, but they were in the city that never slept after all.
After accidentally flirting themselves into an uncomfortable situation with a few waiters in Little Italy, Kate and Isla decided to take an Uber to Brooklyn and wait for Gabriel to get off on his side of the East River. He said he'd be back that way eventually after having a drink with a few friends. As she was sitting at a dive bar in Williamsburg, Kate started having second thoughts. She was tired anyway and Isla was clearly really drunk after all those free drinks in Little Italy. She turned her phone off and threw it in her purse, determined to ghost Gabriel. Isla went to the bathroom and when she returned, Kate was going to suggest they go back to their hotel, or at least to Manhattan.
Before Isla got back though, Gabriel walked in the front door of the mostly empty bar. There was nowhere to hide as Kate realized she told him what bar they were at an hour ago. She tried to play it cool, like she wasn't totally ignoring him. He was wearing all black and rocking a crossbody aka a fanny pack. She shook her head and laughed. Definitely not her type, but it was a look that worked for him, plus he smelled amazing- like cashmere, cedar and fresh rain.
Isla came back from the bathroom, raising her eyebrow in Kate's direction as she took a seat on the other side of Gabriel. He ordered them a round of drinks - an espresso martini for Isla, a Jack and ginger for himself and a vodka seltzer that tasted like Pine Sol for Kate. After a few more rounds, somehow the topic of sex came up- like it normally does when two people who are attracted to each other are drunk. He told her he was a pleasure dom. His goal in every sexual encounter was always to pleasure his partners. She knew what a dom was of course. Kate was a dominant person by nature, but she loved to submit in the bedroom. He asked her what she was into, but even knowing he was kinky, she was afraid to tell him. How do you tell a stranger you want to be fucked in public, double penetrated by two men at once or held as a sexual slave by a sadistic lesbian? Instead she managed to slur that she had recently gotten a Brazilian wax. At that, he leaned in and kissed her - hard. What. The. Fuck.
This stranger stuck his tongue down her throat in a dive bar in Brooklyn. And she didn't stop him. Isla winked and made herself scarce. So they just kept kissing.
It was clear that he was as intoxicated as she was - luckily. She could spin this the next day as a silly mistake. The three of them relocated to a different bar and she immediately went into the bathroom. When she came out, there he was pushing her back in. Thank god for complicated (but sexy) bodysuits and being on her period, because if not, she would have let him fuck her right there- risking a disease that you probably can only get from a dive bar toilet. Because of this, she refrained from reaching between his legs and seeing what he was working with- part of her was afraid of what she would find anyway.
"You have a fantastic ass, and you're a phenomenal kisser." Gabriel told her. She snorted in response. "Clearly you don't know how to take a compliment."
It's not that she didn't know how to take a compliment, but it felt weird being complimented by a stranger, one who she also learned was more than a few years younger than her. At 33, Kate had a few wrinkles between her eyes and needed to lose 15 pounds (in her opinion), but she knew despite those things, with her bright blonde hair that fell slightly below her shoulders, aquamarine eyes, straight white smile, huge tits and charming personality, she was still hot AF.
She had no idea where Isla was, but looked at her phone, which at some point she had turned back on and noticed it was 3:45. In the morning. "Fuck we have to get out of here." she thought through a haze. Meanwhile, Gabriel kept kissing her.