Rain, vacation with visiting family and a small town on the coast of Maine. I just needed someplace to get a beer and read the book I had been trying to read for days now. By myself, with no one else. I found a small bar, out of the way down a side street and sat a small table in the back. The place was pretty lively for a late Thursday afternoon. About half the seats at the bar were filled and a few couples sitting at tables scattered throughout. It was for the most part a local bar, with a few tourists who had stumbled in making up the rest of the clientele. I exhaled, as it was finally a place just to be, with my book and my beer.
I go two pages into the book when a beer bottle slammed down on the the table, followed by a shot glass.
"What the hell is it with men?" she asked as she dropped heavily into the seat opposite me. "I mean really, what is it? All this for nothing."
And she just stared at me. Waiting for an answer.
"Um, are you referring to to some particular man, all men or have I done something I'm unaware of to anger you?"
Now she stared at me again. Very beautiful eyes I was now able to notice after the initial shock had worn off. She looked like she was ready for a night out. Nothing really fancy, but I was beginning to start to sort things out. She was pretty.
"I mean look, I dressed really nice." And she continued to stare at me, assuming, I guess, that I had the answer.
"Well you are dressed rather nice, your pretty actually. But there are some pieces of this puzzle I believe I'm missing."
"Puzzle, there's no puzzle." She was getting angry now. "I had it all worked out, planned really special things for tonight, now, nothing. That's it, nothing." and she fired the shot back and took a long pull on her beer.
"Ok, may I ask a few questions?"
"Yes."
"I don't know you correct?"
"No."
"Can I assume you had a date planned?"
"A date. A date!" She was getting angry again. "It wasn't JUST a date. It was going to be great. More than that. I was going to be an experience, off the charts. I was going to show him something else tonight. I mean look. Look at this. I never would have done this before I decided to put this night together. See, see what I mean..."
She had moved her left leg from out under the table so I could see her high heeled mary janes and the jet black stockings she was wearing.
"You mean the heels?"
"No." And she looked around to see if any eyes were looking our way. "This." And she slowly pulled back the hem of her black dress to reveal the tops of her white thighs above the stockings and garters. "See what I mean, I even got the ones with a little rose on top of the stockings." She said as she pointed to the embroidered rose. "I just wanted to be sexy in a way I'd never been before."
"That is, uh, very nice. Maybe nice really isn't the word for it." And I gave her a smile hoping to calm things down a bit. "But, I'd like to ask you, and it's not that I'm not interested in our conversation, but, well, why in the world are you talking to me?"
"Look around you." She said as she pulled the hem back down on her dress. "Lobstermen and tourists. Who the hell else was I going to talk to." She said a matter of factly. "You ARE the only one reading a book in this bar, so I figured you were smart enough."
I wasn't sure what I was supposedly smart enough for, but I was flattered, so I went with it. The bartender was walking by, so I ordered another beer for her. "Well, I'm smart enough to know your probably need another one."
"Uuugh, yes. Just because his band got a last minute gig. He knew I had this big plan. Damn him. I had a room for us at the Ocean View, the big room and everything. A nice dinner in the room, I had oysters ordered. And then. Then, I mean, then...all the stuff he'd been asking for. I was doing this all for him, well and me too, but...I had done all this research. I come from a pretty closed minded family you know, home schooled, sheltered from the rest of the world. I mean I've had boyfriends before him, but it was all pretty straight forward when there was sex involved."
The conversation was taking a turn. But a pretty woman was about to tell me the history of her sex life and I couldn't see getting in the way of that. I was able now to take a bit of a breath and take her in. She was actually pretty stunning in her small town all American way. Blonde hair, clingy black dress and what looked to be a lace bra underneath that would revel itself when she moved a certain way.
"And sex wasn't always involved, especially when my folks first began to allow me to date. They would actually fall over dead if they knew I had sex now. God help me if they knew what I had planned. I was pretty shocked myself once I realized what I was willing to try." And she took a sip of the beer that had just arrived. "Thank you. You are very nice. Thanks. I should... probably..."
"It's fine, really. And you just got your beer. Stay at least until you finish that. It's not often a pretty girl sits with me and show's me the top of her stockings." And that got a bit of an embarrassed smile. "I mean I even got a, um, a, one of those...hang on I'l show you." And she reached down and opened her purse to reveal a vibrator. "That was like the first thing I got while doing my research."
"What kind of research did you do?"
"Oh the internet. You wouldn't believe what is on there. He was asking me to do all this stuff that I had never heard of, or couldn't imagine why people would do them. So I thought I needed to find out for myself. I watched a lot of stuff, wow, did I. I really started to understand. I mean he would ask me to talk certain ways, and I just didn't know the words. I mean, I knew the word pussy, but NEVER in that way. I kept wondering why he was saying that. I was such a ditz."
Although every bone in my body told me not to ask, "Are you ok with telling me all this? It is kind of personal..."
"You know, whatever, I was going to reveal all this stuff I learned to him tonight. In some ways, I've kept it to myself so long, to make it a surprise, that I'm bursting at the seams." She was off now, it felt like she wasn't going to look back.
"I got that thing, you know in my purse, I still have a hard time saying it, and I used it. Wow, talk about surprises. I had the biggest orgasm of my life, right there in my bedroom. With nobody else there. Man, was that an eye opener. I wanted that every time. So read everything I could find. Watched so much porn I am certainly going to hell. I realized I liked being dirty. Just plain ol' dirty. But it was hard for me to be that with him just yet. It was all just so personal you know. It was like it was mine, and I didn't want to put it out there just yet." She took a breath and another swig of the beer.
"Well, that must have been liberating in a way. Being able to let yourself go like that, even if it was just with yourself for the time being." I tried to assure her.
"It. Was. Great. And he noticed to. I started buying just really nice underwear. He loved that and I did too. Even if I was wearing running clothes, man I would wear some hot underwear, and I would feel just so wicked dirty. You should really see what I have on now. Our sex started getting better, but nothing like it was going to be tonight. Damn him. I had wine chilling, nice soft ropes for him to tie me up with, I shaved everything, really, everything" She said with a very serious look on her face. "Just incredible underwear and all this sexy, dirty stuff on mind." She said with a longing look on face. "I'll be right back, I have to go to the ladies room. Look at my ass when I walk away. Someone at least should notice. I'm wearing a thong..." She informed me as she walked away.
What the hell was this. I looked down at my book and it seemed to have lost interest in it. I grabbed my phone to text my cousin that I wouldn't make it for dinner tonight, and shut it off. I had no idea where this was going. And wherever it went, so far it was pretty great.
She came bouncing out of the bathroom and sat again at the table.
"You know, I'm still mad as hell, but thank you very much. I realized while I was away that it was kind of rude of me just to pick you to dump all this on you. But I feel so much better. I can leave you alone if you want so you don't have to listen to my rambling."
"No, please. I'm rather enjoying you actually. All I had was this boring book and a beer, now I have a beer and a great story about a woman's sexual awaking."
She smiled, the first real smile of our conversation.
"Lets get a celebratory drink then. To my sexual awaking as you put it. See, I knew you were smart." and she swiveled around, "Ken, Ken, two whiskeys please, and not that crap you always serve." She turned back to me. "He is so going to hear about this, from me and the rest of the regulars here. He is done, toast and he missed out on great night." The two drinks landed on the table. "To me." And she lifted the drink up.