A flurry of activity caught Andy's eye and he glanced up to see a girl hurrying in his direction. Girl, he thought, because she couldn't have been more than 20. His eyes travelled from the girl's red toes peeking out of her sandals up her long, tanned legs to the tiny white shorts and the tight red t-shirt that barely covered her obviously braless, perky, round, large-but not-too-large breasts. His eyes stopped on her face, because she was right there, sliding onto the bar stool next to him.
"Oh thank God!" She said, turning to him slightly. "I'm glad to see someone else here, so there's hope I haven't missed last call." She looked around the otherwise empty bar. "Anyone sitting here?"
Andy shook his head. "No." His glanced dropped from her face to her cleavage.
She smiled and tilted her head a little. "Thanks. I've had such a day, and I just need to have as many drinks as they'll serve me." She waved at the bartender. "Excuse me ... hi ... can get a Jack and Diet Coke, please? A double."
"ID, please," the bartender said. By the look on his face, he seemed certain that she wouldn't be able to produce a valid one.
"My ID? Of course. I'm still breaking it in. I've been legal to drink for a whole four days now."
Andy grinned slightly. Everything about this girl was flirtatious. And probably dangerous. He took a sip from his own drink and glanced again at her legs, then her breasts, feeling a slight stirring in his pants.
He cleared his throat. "Put it on my tab," he said.
"Sure, whatever," he bartended said, handing the girl back her driver's license.
"Excuse me?" She said, putting her hand to her chest and curling a finger around a thin gold chain. "Aww, you're so sweet." She laid her hand on Andy's arm. "Thank you!"
He shook his head. "It's not a problem. I have an expense account. Company's paying for it."
"An expense account? Should we talk about business then?" She giggled.
Dangerous
, Andy warned himself.
The bartender put her drink in front of her and she picked it up. "Cheers!"
Andy smiled and raised his glass to hers.
"I'm Tori," she said, although Andy had really no intention of asking.
"I'm Andy."
"Andy." She let the name roll off her tongue. "Very cute."
"Yeah," he said dismissively. "So Tori...how was your day? What are you trying to drink away?"
"Oh, my day? My weekend! You sure you want to hear? Oh of course you do. It would be rude of me to accept your drink and not bear my soul to you." She laughed, and again brushed his arm with her hand.
He turned to her slightly. "Yeah, tell me all about it."
"Well, I turned 21 a few days ago. Woo hoo! Two of my sorority sisters also turned 21 this month, so we planned this weekend together at the beach with our boyfriends. All six of us flew down here on Thursday. First day ... everything is great. Laying in the sun. Margaritas. Good food ... Perfect!
"Friday morning I'm laying in bed watching TV while my boyfriend is in the shower and his phone starts buzzing. I just ignored it, but it kept going. Five or six times. I thought maybe someone died or something, so I grabbed it, and I see all these texts from someone named Jen. They're all 'Heyyy. What's up? You there? I miss you.'
"Oh geez." Andy said, quickly glancing at his phone as it buzzed, and a notification popped up that he had a message. He flipped the phone over.
"I know! What the fuck, right?" Tori seemed too preoccupied with her story to pay attention to Andy's phone that was vibrating again.
"So, he gets out of the shower and I'm just standing there, holding his phone up in his face, and I say, 'Who the fuck is Jen?'."
"What did he say?"
"He sort of stammered around and tried to come up with some lie for a few minutes, but he is a terrible liar. Finally, he just gave up and came clean. She's some skank he met online. I told him he had 10 minutes to get dressed and pack up his shit and get out."
"Oh, that sucks. For you, not him."
She sighed. "But it's cool now. I ... am ... so ... done ... with ... him. My girls were there to remind me that he was never good enough for me in the first place."
"Probably not," Andy agreed.
"After that little nightmare, the five of us actually managed a good time the rest of the weekend. We went to some bars and clubs, and of course a girl can always find someone to keep her company." She smiled slyly. "I allowed myself to enjoy the attention of the boys, but ultimately guys my age are mostly immature idiots."
She straightened her shoulders a bit. "I think I need to shift my focus more toward grown men," she added with a wink and a smile.
Holy shit
, Andy thought,
this is really going to happen.
"Anyway," she continued, "Everything was OK until today, when I spent three hours waiting around that fucking airport BEFORE my flight got cancelled. And I was alone because my friends all took earlier flights since they have early class tomorrow. So here I am, with one unplanned night at this Airport Hilton."
"Sounds like you've had quite a weekend."
"Quite a weekend," she agreed. "But I just roll with the punches! Got that from my mom." She smiled again and ran her hand through her long blonde hair. "And how about you? What sort of company is paying for my drinks?" She held up her hand before Andy could speak. "Oh, let me guess! Hmm, you're well dressed, fit. You seem like some sort of lawyer to me."
Andy smiled and shook his head. "No, not quite. I'm a consultant for a company in Texas." He had thought up the lie on the spot. He hoped she didn't notice he didn't have a Texas accent.
"A consultant? And the company that's brought you to town doesn't put you in a fancier hotel than this one at the airport? Maybe you're just not that good of a consultant." She giggled and clearly didn't care if his story was true. "Do you travel a lot?"