The following story is 100% true, just as it happened. After all, why make something up when you can tell the story of something real that happened instead.
I hope you enjoy it! I did.
Leah xoxo
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It all started with a WhatsApp message.
Well, ok, that isn't strictly true. It all started on a dating app, about 5 days before that. But none of that matters. I'm talking about the interesting part -- the part where it dawned on me that I was starting to get really attracted to him. I asked him if he wanted to move things off the dating app and gave him my phone number.
So, there I was, sitting on my bed in my pajamas, staring at the phone, waiting for something to happen.
It didn't take him long before the phone vibrated and his message appeared at the top. Without thinking, I touched my finger to the screen and WhatsApp opened itself up. There he was, being pretty brazen about it all.
"Does this mean you like me then? Micheal."
Ha!
I liked his fun touch of confidence, asking outright. I smiled and started typing. "We'll have to see. I haven't even met you yet."
I remember thinking he was probably right, though. Somehow, I had the impression I was going to like him.
A few seconds later, the phone vibrated again. "I'm free this weekend. Saturday?"
And, just like that, I had a date. A jitter of excitement flared up through my chest. I couldn't believe I was thinking about this at all - about a guy I'd never even met. But my new approach was to embrace my 20s as fully as I could. I was going all out.
And if I liked him when we met, my plan was to fuck him on the first date.
Saturday came around all too quickly, it seemed. It was closing on 7pm and Micheal was supposed to be arriving any moment.
I can't say it was a clever idea, inviting a guy around to where I lived like that, having never properly met him. I admit that much but, on the other hand, our dating app experience was not the first I knew of him. He was a friend of a girl I knew and they seemed to be fairly close. She was (and still is) in a really strong relationship, so they were just friends, but it meant I knew who he was. I also knew people that knew him, so it felt relatively safe. We'd said hi before and had been in the same places, and sometimes even in the same groups, but I didn't properly know him.
What I do know, is that he was hot. So, when his profile turned up on the app, I hatched a little bit of a plan. And that led me to where I was, feeling both very excited and nervous as fuck at the same time, wondering whether this was going to turn out to actually be a good idea or a terrible one.
I was living in a shared house and the other girls were in. They'd offered to go out for my date, but I'd asked them to stay, just to make sure I was safe. I didn't tell them I'd never really met him before though, just in case I did go through with it all and they heard me having sex with him. That would have been a disaster. So, I kept it to myself.
The doorbell jolted my mind back on track.
Shit.
He's here. Thoughts started racing around my head of what I was going to do if we didn't get on at all and I couldn't get rid of him. Why the fuck didn't I meet him out in a bar somewhere? I could have just taken him home if we'd got on well, or called the plan off if we didn't. How fucking silly of me!
Anyway, that was all out the window now. He was at my door, and I had to let him in. Time to live in the moment.
I took the latch off and slowly swung the door open, revealing him. He did look very handsome, I have to say that, give him his credit. The boy had style, and he was fairly tall. He was always well-groomed, with stubble and his hair carefully cut short.
I swallowed and felt my midsection tighten up, but did my best to plaster a relaxed smile over my face. I have no idea how good a job I did of convincing him I wasn't nervous as fuck. Anyway, he probably either didn't care or thought it was cute. He was here because he wanted to fuck me.
I'd like to think he was expecting to have to go at least a few dates before I'd give it up for him. I guess he didn't know how close he was to getting laid, if he played his cards right.
"Hello," I said, mustering up a more playful smile and looking him in the eyes.
He held my gaze and a tiny, but very handsome smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. "Hi Leah. You look gorgeous." His eyes filled with a quiet, blazing confidence that hypnotised me just a little, taking the edge off and helping me relax.
My smile became more genuine, all of a sudden. There was just something about him -- a kind of charm that I couldn't put my finger on. Right at that moment, I got my first sense of how the night was going to play out.
"Come inside," I said. "We have just under an hour until dinner's ready." I kicked myself on the inside.
For fuck's sake, Leah, he doesn't need to know that right now. Let him come in through the fucking door first, at least.
After taking his coat and placing it up on a hook on the wall, I made an intuitive, if slightly anxious, decision to put my foot down on the gas just a little. I turned to him in the fairly tight hallway and put my hand on his forearm, looking up into his eyes again. I leaned in slightly and stroked a fingertip against his chest playfully. "Can I get you some wine?" My smile broadened out. "Don't judge me, but I've had a little bit already."
We had dinner on the sofa because it's way more comfortable than having a table between you, especially when you're trying to get more physical with someone. In the end, any fears I might have had that things would get weird between us were pretty quickly alleviated. He was charming and funny... and very confident. I really enjoyed his company, in fact.
I deliberately made tapas-style dishes so there was lots of playful tasting to be done, and we didn't shy away from feeding things to each other. And then there was wine. Lots and lots of wine.
I basically spent the entire evening giving him signal after signal that touch was what I wanted, shifting closer and closer as we went on into the night. It started with his forearms again, but then soon after I was touching and stroking his lovely strong shoulders. Soon, I moved on to his chest, with little, playful strokes every time he said something funny or cheeky.