Gosh! She's a beauty! She surely isn't my kind of girl - too exquisite and too snob for my way of being!...
Still, I look at her, and when she catches my eyes, I smile...
We are beside the Atheneum, in The National Art Museum, where there is a small concert room, with less than fifty chairs, listening to a four instruments classical music concert...
She frowns and looks some other way...
I know what that means, so I just let go...
The second evening, the same place, another concert - I see her, I let her see that I've seen her, but, this time, it's my turn to frown and hurry towards the exit doors...
Here comes day number three...
We've already seen each other while being in the concert hall...
While exiting, she does what she does, and comes closer to me, and, smiling, she says:
"When I first saw you, I just couldn't believe that you are a... "melomaniac"!"...
My first impulse was to say that I've thought that they were selling pizzas over there, but I prefer to keep my mouth shut...
We are walking towards the exit - if I keep quiet like a fish, then my chances are running down to zero in seconds...
Finally, I get started: "It so happens that I like Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Olivia Newton John, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Dassin, Vivaldi, Beethoven - shall I continue?"
She smiles...
"By the way, please let me introduce myself":
"Corinna"
"Nice to meet you"! We shake hands.
Gosh! She's got a fine, delicate hand, and pretty cold at touch...
We are out already, so that we stop in front of each other - I must speak, and quick!
"So, your hands make me think that somehow you are connected with this - so, what instrument do you play?"
"Oboe, but I'm not a pro!"...
She's a student at philology.
It's the moment to ask: "So, will you come back here tomorrow?"
"I'd love to, but, unfortunately, I do have some other things to attend to"...
"Too bad! That's too bad!"...
She thinks for a moment, then tells me: "Look, if you'd like, we can see each other right here on Sunday morning, at, let's say, ten o'clock"...
My boats are floating, even if, to be honest, I'll have to invent something to tell one of my fuck buddies who will surely be surprised when I shall tell her that on Sunday I have some other matters to attend...
Yes, I know that she's only a fuck buddy, but I don't find it delicate to tell her, after I've been fucking her all night or however, that she should put her clothes on and leave...
Luckily, she knows where I work, so that she knows that sometimes I also go at the institute on Sundays...
"So, Sunday at ten, right here!"...
She backs up a little: "Only if it's all right with you! I mean... maybe you have a girl friend, or something"...
So, she's directly aiming the target: are you married, engaged, have a girl friend, do you have kids?...
I know that it won't take her long to ask me all those questions...
So, for the moment I need to make a quick statement and come with some evidence...
"Well, if I did have a girlfriend, she would surely have been here, with me!"...
She seems pleased with the answer: "Well then, on Sunday! See you!"
And she starts walking...
"Corinna! Wait, please! Why don't you let me accompany you wherever you are going to now?"
"No worries! The bus station is close enough! Bye!"
I don't insist. The only problem is that she is going the way that I should also go, since it so happens that I live over there - and, if I'm guessing right, she will go at the bus station that is reeeeeaaaaaly close to the entrance in my block of flats...
I light a cigarette and let the time pass...
After, let's say, ten minutes, I start strolling, real slow, towards my apartment.
I look at my wrist watch - no problem, there is still time enough before a very good and dear fuck buddy of mine will come to visit me...
I reach at the entrance of my block of flats and... in the station, I can clearly see Corinna!
Things may become complicated, so I enter the block of flats, like Speedy Gonzales, climbing three stairs in one step, praying that Corinna has not observed me...
I don't even wait for the elevator - I start climbing the stairs...
Whew! That was close!...
Sunday Morning
It's a sunny day, even if it's winter. I have a dilemma - I've seen that Corinna is getting dressed quite exquisite - fur coat, dress, high heeled boots...
But we were at a classical music concert!
What shall she be wearing on a Sunday morning?!?
Finally, I choose to get dressed in a suit, but wearing a sweater instead of a shirt and a tie, and, of course, an overcoat...
At five minutes to ten I exit the block...
Surprise! I can see a beauty, with her back at me for the moment, standing just a few meters from the entrance...
Her blond hair is reflecting the beams of the sun in a manner that makes my heart explode with the desire to touch her, caress her, and grab her by it while I'm doing to her what my dirty mind is thinking about...
I just say to myself: take it easy, lad, it's not yet the moment!...
She turns while I get close to her. I try to make a surprised face - I only hope that it works...
Then I smile, with enthusiasm: "Corinna! I'm surprised! I don't remember to have told you where I live!"... I say all this crap while shaking her hand and kissing it... I surely would have kissed something else, but... Patience! Boy! Patience!...
"I have seen you that evening climbing the stairs as if you were a fireman - I haven't even have had the time to call your name! You've just vanished!"...
My first impulse is to invite her upstairs, but, rethinking a little, I decide that the best strategy is to let her freeze for a while in the cold outside...
I take her in the park, almost empty at this time, but the white snow makes the old trees and bushes look wonderful...
She lives with her parents, in an apartment, a few stations from my place, she has no sisters or brothers, and the oboe was the passion of her mother, who's a Romanian literature teacher...
Her father is a chief engineer at a very large and well known factory in Bucharest...
I tell her about my collection of music, about the fact that I also have lots of vinyls with classical music, and, nice and easy, we are aiming towards the exit of the park...