Starbucks. Same seats. Sames tables. Yet filled with strangers. I am wearing my striped wrap-around dress with the low neckline. I am at my computer, hiding behind my words, behind my rapid typing, looking at the screen, yet peeping out and looking around, trying to see if I can notice someone noticing me. He and I have been chatting online for weeks and now I am here. In person. No more hiding behind my racy flirt emails. My nerves are churning, burning, behaving with horsey childishness of someone who is behaving on the edges on normalcy. That is what was happening. Normalcy is surrounding me and it is as if I am in an invisible bubble of craziness. I wait there for him.
A man, about my age, walks in the door. His eyes shift to and fro. Is that him? I drill my eyes into this screen, hope to sink into it, to reclaim my sanity by simply keeping my fingers typing, moving over the keys. Words make sense. Sense is sanity.
I look up and see him. Short brown hair. Clean shaven. Nice fitting jeans. A button up, untucked by neat looking. Piercing blue eyes and soft creases in his cheeks. He's obviously spent a lot of time smiling. My heart starts thumping like crazy, I am having a heart attack. I both loathe and embrace this erratic feeling. Our eyes meet and I smile at him. He smiles and nods. It's him.
He walks over to my table and looks down at me. He can probably see down the front of my dress. That thought warms me between my legs. He smiles again, "Hi."
"Hi." He stands in front of me and for some reason that alone is turning me on. A wave of red shoots from my jaw upward.
He grins and takes a sip of his coffee, winces and then smiles again, "Wow, that's hot. Mind if I join you?"
I shake my head.
"Beautiful morning out there."
"Yes," my fingers pause on the keyboard, as if they are waiting to be alone again and start writing.
"And you are too."
A heat wave of blush rolls over my cheeks again. I know the words that have already come between us. Pussy. Lick. Suck. Tease. How can I act like they haven't? What the fuck was I doing here?
"So." He drums his fingers just beyond my cup. He too knows what I've said, what he's said. Our past words weigh us down. "Should we head outside?"
I shake my head. Smile.
"Okay. So, you're a writer?"
"Yes."
"What are you writing about?"
"This," My fingers finally unlock themselves and I press save. I want to crawl into my screen. It's so much easier when it I am a character who is looking out at a scene on the pages.
"Oh, let me read it." He grabs the top of my laptop but I close it first. He chuckles, "So that's how it is?"