It was just past 11:00 a.m. as I closed the motel room door and strode down the sidewalk toward the Galleria. It was only a few blocks ahead and I could see the Weston Hotel attached to it jutting up against the steamy skyline. The Weston's bar is where I was heading, figuring a drink or three would help kill the hour and a half wait until I was going to meet my wife for lunch at a café in the mall. She was on temporary assignment here, and being a teacher, I was off for the summer and flew down for a week. It was June in Dallas, and the muggy heat shimmered up off the sidewalk in visible waves. Puddles across the sidewalk disappeared as I approached them, heat mirages. My sleeveless t-shirt clung to me like a second skin, and my jeans were glued to my legs by the humidity. Sweat stood on my forehead and arms. The air here was sensuous… sultry… almost alive with the ozone smell of impending thunderstorms. It was testosterone weather; where tempers and cocks both rode high.
I entered the Weston's Bar and slid onto one of only two empty barstools. The air-conditioning hummed and sent chills along my bare arms, where the sweat still stood. Men and women filled most of the stools, eyes glued to the TV screen. Adding to the weather was the sports climate. The Dallas Stars had just won the Hockey title, and the Houston Rockets were presently engaged in game three of the NBA world Championship. I ordered a Jameson's 1680 on the rocks and glanced at the screen. I wasn't really a sports fan, but I had nothing else to do.
A flash of yellow caught the corner of my eye. I turned in time to see a slim, young blonde woman approach the stool next to mine, the only empty one left. Long, luscious, swirling yellow-gold hanging all the way down her back. Black short dress, petite, slim, a nice little smile just turning up the corners of her lips.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" she asked, with a slow drawl that sparked an ember inside me.
"Not at all, In fact, I'd welcome the company. That is, unless you're planning on gluing your eyes to that damn TV screen like everyone else in here.
"Where y'all from?", she asked, grinning.
"California"
"I thought so. You got that funny accent."
I laughed, wondering if she thought my accent was as much of a turn on as I thought hers was. I doubted it though, as she was so young and cute, and I was middle aged. They tell me I'm handsome and somewhat young looking for my age, but 48 is still 48 and this girl couldn't have been much past 30, if even that. I decided to be bold and just come out and ask her.
"And you think
I
talk funny." I replied with a grin, "Well, I suppose you're right, but I wonder if my 'funny California accent' affects you the way yours does me?"
"I'm sure, sir," she replied with a wonderfully wicked smile, "that I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about."
That little smile, the way one of the corners of her mouth raised up elicited a similar "raising up" of an altogether different part of my anatomy.
Damn she's cute
, I thought, as my eyes wandered down, taking in her whole appearance. Below the seductive smile was a slim, graceful neck that I wanted to bury my face against, to kiss, to lick, to bite gently until it brought, hopefully, shivers up and down her spine. And that hair… beautiful, lustrous, long, shining satin sheets of yellow gold that I wanted to wrap myself up in and spend the night—hell, the next week or two. Further down, a hint of cleavage under the slightly low cut top, not so much as to appear sluttish, just tastefully so. My mind translated that to
tastily so
, and I wondered what her nipples were like—pink or reddish brown, small or large, firm or soft.
If I could ever get my lips on one of them I knew they'd be hard… gotta stop this… she's young and so cute, she could have her pick of any of the young, muscular jocks in this bar, and I'm just an older fellow with an overactive imagination. No way is she looking at me the way I'm looking at her. No way.
My eyes continued their journey of imagination anyway. Slim waist with slight hips blossoming out from it. Her hands were clasped in the center of her lap, and I imagined snuggling my face there. And below that… where the hem of her short black dress had ridden up slightly because of her sitting on the bar stool—her feet dangling inches from the ground—equally slim but well-formed thighs, smooth, soft, and I was dying to touch them, yearning to stroke them, tickle them, and most of all, desperately wanting to feel the inside of each of them—one against each ear.
She was just a little slip of a thing—not much, if any, over five foot-tall, and she couldn't have weighed more than about a hundred pounds or so. But what was unusual about her was that her legs were so long and lithe. A genuine set of those
I want them wrapped around me twice
kind of legs. Generally, shorter women tend to have short legs, but not this woman.
The moment of silence became heavy, almost as heavy as the humid Dallas air that still managed to hang heavy in the air in spite of the air-conditioning, although at least the muggy air was cool. I reached up with my hand and wiped a bead of sweat from my forehead that had no business being there in the air-conditioned barroom. It was getting hot and sultry in here, but I knew it was from internal sources.
I raised my face, embarrassed, when I saw that she had taken note of my roaming eyes. That wasn't like me. Sure, I notice nice looking women, but I rarely ogle like that—not so outwardly, openly, obviously. But this woman had an affect on me that was different. She exuded sexuality… no, not sexuality… not so sluttish as that. More like sensuality. Subtly, softly, with a touch of cuteness that reminded me of a six month old kitten. The impression of a catlike quality about her shimmered just under the surface.
But it was there. Oh God, was it there
. Cats are such sexy animals. Sleek, lithe, sinuous, yet soft and infinitely carressable. And they love a smooth caress, usually responding with a subtle enthusiasm, literally wrapping their softness and sleekness around your hand—the way this woman was, probably unintentionally and unknowingly, wrapping me around her damn little finger.
My thoughts were deliciously interrupted by the electric charge of her fingernails brushing erotically along my left upper arm, and unexpectedly, I now saw in her expression that she had not been offended by my wandering gaze. In fact, her tongue flicked slowly across her lips and she smiled in a way that told me she had appreciated it.
"What is this symbol?" she asked, staring at my upper arm intensely as her hand shifted from fingernails to fingertips, lightly exploring the tattoo. The electric shock went into high voltage as she continued to torture my skin with soft, delicate strokes and circles, lingering and touching longer than necessary, "It looks familiar".
"Oh, my tattoo? It's called a Claddaugh. It's an ancient Irish symbol from the village where my dad's family is from. The hands represent friendship, the heart love, and the crown, loyalty.
Her fingers slid down my arm and she took my hand and raised it a bit, staring at the gold band on my finger.
"I've heard that. I'd sure like to be your friend, and I'm sure you have a good heart, but… I was kinda wondering about the loyalty part."