With this latest story, I reach a milestone of sorts β it will be my 550th submission to LIT. When I started all those years ago, I would never have imagined that when I began this journey β was it really over a decade ago? - I would write so much kinky stuff. Nor did I expect to earn so many fans to whom I am grateful or have it lead to a career. I am far from done β so keep reading, there is much more on the way. Please know your continuing patronage is very much appreciated. ~~ BrettJ β July 2016
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There she was again β the girl. Brent didn't know her name and he didn't need to. She wasn't his type β not his type at all. So why couldn't he stop staring at her? What drew his attention to this young woman day after day?
She sat in the same spot every day and it was likely the only thing the two of them had in common. Brent didn't like change; he didn't like it a bit. He always sat in the seat behind the bus driver and he hated it if someone else was sitting there. He never would ask them to move, but having to sit in a different seat made him uncomfortable. He especially hated it when the bus was full and he had to share. Brent liked to stretch across the two seats and enjoy the leg room. He took the bus to save wear and tear on his cars and to people watch, a habit of his since his youth.
She drew his eye every time, situated across from him. She sure wasn't like Belinda, although that was likely a good thing, given how that had turned out. For the first time ever in his life, Brent was prepared to make a change. Belinda had snared his heart and he was ready to make a commitment to someone β and then, his new girlfriend up and vanished.
She didn't dump him β she just vanished. Moved out on her roommate, stopped answering her phone, her cell, her texts and her E-Mails. The petite blonde vanished off the face of the earth as if she had never existed. As if she had never been a part of Brent's life. He didn't think anything before in his life had felt that awful. A year later and it still stung like the worst betrayal of his life β which it had been. They hadn't been together for a year when it happened and still, she had to know what such a thing would do to a person. How could a human being with any sort of heart do that to another human being?
The girl sitting across from him β she likely was kinder than that, she looked kind, if unorthodox with her punky pink hair and her leather pants and gauzy blouse. She had a heart tattoo on her back, on the left shoulder blade β Brent had seen that yesterday. She was tiny and he liked his women tall, although Belinda had been on the petite side. She was Asian and Brent tended to favor blondes. None of that really mattered because he wasn't interested in β whoever she was β he was just observing the girl. She was a girl too, probably in her early twenties. Brent usually dated women close to his own age, 30. Belinda had been 25 and that had worked for them β no, it hadn't. He had to stop being dishonest β obviously, nothing had worked or Belinda would still be in his life. If he only knew WHY ...
The bus lurched, breaking Brent's musings and sending the girl's groceries every which way. His mother had raised a gentleman, so he helped her pick them up. She smiled at him and he noticed perfect teeth. "Thank you so very much," she beamed at him and scowled at the other passengers who had not budged to assist. "My name's Tina, that was very kind of you, Mister ..."
"I'm Brent," he smiled, minding his manners. "Think nothing of it; it was the right thing to do."
"Yes, it was," she looked at everyone else. "It was still worthy of a coffee. I get off at the same stop as you do; may I take you to Matter of Taste and buy you one?"
"How did you ...?"
"My friend, Alicia, works there. She talks about you a lot and when I started seeing you on the bus, I put two and two together. We live close to the cafΓ©, come on, I don't bite and I really could use some coffee," Tina smiled again.
Brent knew Tina, a willowy and somewhat exotic brunette with lousy taste in men, if the oaf she was talking to yesterday was any indication. He decided it wouldn't hurt to have coffee with Tina, coffee wouldn't hurt anyone. He wasn't pursuing a relationship, he was just having coffee. There was no future with a girl like Tina, they were unlikely candidates. After all, Brent was who he was and Tina β well, she was Tina.
However, as the new friends began conversing, the two of them seemed to have a great deal in common. In fact, Brent discovered that she had far more in common with Tina than he ever had with Belinda. They shared several interests in common, including Anime. To his great surprise, Tina had actually done voice-over work for several Anime studios, in both English and Japanese, in which she was fluent. She had even worked on a few Hentai videos, which she readily confessed to him. Tina was actually quite delightful and didn't seem to have any guile to her. She played it close to the vest while still being quite open about herself. Brent didn't pry, but didn't have to. She was quite happy to talk about herself and her life, which was starting to interest him.
"I live life on my own terms," Tina smiled as she leaned in close. "I make no apologies for past mistakes, although I do try to learn from them. I dress how I like, act how I like and I usually go for what I want."
"I admire that," Brent said truthfully. "More people need to be like you and not be concerned with what other people think. I don't have that quality myself; I care too much about what other people think. Of course, I was raised in a very traditional home," he concluded.
"Believe it or not, so was I," Tina laughed. "You'd never know it to look at me, but my parents were traditional Asian parents. I couldn't take it anymore and rebelled."
"Oh, is that so? How did you `rail against the machine'?" Brent asked, interested. Despite his inclination not to get too involved with Tina, he was finding her absolutely fascinating. She might be tattooed and a bit "punky" - although the proper term might correctly be New Wave, but she was an individual with a unique perspective. Under the gaudy layers, she also happened to be a very attractive young woman with a terrific body. Brent tried a bit harder to relax and just go with the flow. What would it hurt to learn something new and experience something off the beaten path?
"I'm outspoken, I'm loud, I'm a bit naughty and daring and I don't take shit from anyone," Tina said to Brent. She leaned closer and showed a bit more of her sexy little figure. "I know I've got a great body and I like to strut my stuff. Even a guy like you can't help noticing me. I bet that if I offered, you'd fuck me in a heartbeat."
Brent was momentarily taken aback, yet he was not about to let this saucy little minx get the upper hand. "Why Tina,
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