You know, today has NOT been a good day. I started it off in a great mood, went to work, planned a surprise for my boyfriend for when he came over to my apartment that night. I went to a boutique shop on my lunch break and bought some naughty underthings so that I could perform a strip tease before we had sex for the first time. We had started dating six months ago, but I wanted to wait to make sure things were going good before I gave in to sex. So I had bought a tight black leather corset, a black silk garter belt and stockings, and a black silk crotchless thong. I had even put it all on and wore them under my work clothes for the rest of my shift at the bank, go me!
Only, my boyfriend texted me about 3pm and said that he wasn't really feeling our relationship and he wanted to see other people. Great. So here I am, sitting in a bar after my work shift on a Friday evening, nursing a rum and Coke, and cursing online dating.
Let me introduce myself. My name is Sarah. I'm 33, and while I'm not as young as some of the college bimbos in this bar getting hammered in the hopes of getting, well, taken home and hammered, I'm not in bad shape. I do work out, enough to keep a toned body, and I am often told I look younger than I actually am, so I take that as a compliment. I have light brown hair that extends to the lower middle of my back, blue eyes, and full lips without looking like a duck. Yeah, I'm critical of beauty standards today.
I'm sitting at the end of the centralized square bar top, watching everyone else rush around me, watching the waitresses run around like crazy trying to keep up with food and drink orders, and I sympathize with them. I don't miss those days of long hours and sore feet for shitty tips and sleazy comments. I only was a waitress long enough to put myself through college, then I got a job at the bank and I've been rising through the ranks since then. Now I have a cozy little office as an assistant manager of the payment systems department.
All of a sudden, I hear a voice that sends shivers racing up my spine. It's a deep voice, smooth and svelte, a hint of a British accent, asking a waitress for a Scotch, neat, and please make it top shelf. Ooh. I never knew just a voice could do such things to me. I turn my head just a little bit, trying to hear more without being obtrusive about trying to find the source of this delectable elocution, but I can't see him nor do I hear any more. What I do see though is another woman, strawberry blonde hair and classically pretty though obviously vain about it, has picked out my mystery speaker and is making her way behind me.
"Hey there stranger, you look like you could use some company. Do you want dump this place and come over to mine?" Her voice is a little high pitched, though she is obviously trying for something a little lower, trying to be sultry.
"Thank you, but no. I'm just here to have a drink, think, and watch life go on around me."
"Why don't you come have a drink with me? Life is meant to be lived, not watched from the sidelines."
"I said no, thank you. I'm really not in the mood for festivities."
At that point, the woman's friend comes over and pulls her away from the mystery man, who also leaves his table behind me and moves to a booth tucked in the very back corner of the bar, now in front and to the left of me. I wait until he sits down before I sneak a look at him.
What I see at first glance is decent enough. A dark t-shirt that hugs his chest to show off some upper body musculature, but loose enough over his stomach to not flaunt it. A pair of black slacks that look like they've been pressed, and shiny black loafers. My eyes travel back up his body to get a look at his face, a chiseled jawline, a straight line of a nose... and I freeze.
This guy has the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. Is that an unmanly description to say? Is striking a better word? I don't know. I swear I've forgotten the English language as soon as I look at him. I've never seen eyes that color before. It's somewhere between a pale hazel and light gray, depending on the light as he looks around. It feels like forever that I stare at him, but it can't be more than a few seconds before I blink and my trance is broken. I take a shaky breath because apparently I forgot that I knew how to breathe when I saw him, and I realize that I have the beginnings of a wetness between my legs. Fuck. Worst time in the world to be wearing a crotchless thong under my skirt.
I take another sip of my drink to calm my jangled nerves, trying to look anywhere but at him but I can't help it. My eyes are drawn to him, but this time he's looking at me. I feel my breath stop in my chest, my eyes widen, and I feel my heart start hammering double time. What the hell is this guy doing to me? I don't even know him and he has me all twisted up over him. He looks at me a moment more before he moves his gaze, catching the eye of his waitress and murmuring something to her.
She trots off to the back, and returns a moment later, handing him a bill. He pays up and leaves, giving me one last look before he steps out the door. Shaken, I drop my eyes to my drink, feeling hot under my collar, and I throw the rest of it back quickly. I head to the bathroom and splash a little water on my face, wondering what on God's green earth just happened and why I am so unsettled by it.
I step back out to the bar to pay my tab, only for the bartender to tell me my drink had been paid for. Huh? By who? He didn't know. All he knew was that it was showing as paid in his till. Well. Alright then. I gave him a 10 anyway as a tip, more out of generosity and because I always take good care of wait staff. He appreciated it.
I stepped outside into the November air, a bit nippy but not truly cold yet, and I started walking towards my car in the lot.
"I wondered how long you might be."
I whirled around to see the object of my sudden and unintentional desire leaned up against the side of a large truck. He had been hidden by it when I had stepped outside, and I was rather upset by being startled.
"Are you stalking me or something? Because I don't know you," I demanded.
"You seemed rather fascinated with me inside. I caught you staring at me twice. I just didn't look back the first time," he replied idly.
"Maybe I thought you looked familiar."
"Nah, not with that adorable deer in the headlights look when I did look at you. You looked almost... terrified. Now why would that be?"
"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not afraid of you in the slightest."
"Mhm." He pushed away from the truck and took a step towards me, and I took a matching step back. He took another step forward and I took another step back. "Not afraid of me huh? Then explain this little dance, if you will."
"Maybe I'm not comfortable having my body up against yours just yet." Oh. My. God. Did I really just say that out loud? I swear I am going to get myself killed if I'm not careful.
"Yet, eh? So you might become comfortable with having your body up against mine, do I hear that right? Because while I wasn't looking for a good time, I think a good time just found me."
"You think so? What makes you think I would even give you the time of day?" I mean, I am giving him the time of day, and would give him the time of night too, but no need to make it easy.
"I dunno, luv, maybe the fact that you keep leaving it open, or maybe just the fact that right at this very second you are biting your lip in the most fetching manner and looking at me with eyes that are screaming for me to take you back to my flat."
Oh. I didn't realize I was biting my lip. Or looking at him with my lust so plain on my face. Because I really really did want him to ask me back to his place and just have some fun to get over my loser ex boyfriend. Well, nothing else for it but to go with the flow.
"Well, I suppose I might be talked into it. But I'll drive my own car there, thank you very much, so that I can drive myself home when I'm ready to go."
"Whatever suits you, then. But I'd like to be at least somewhat of a gentleman and at least ask you your name first. My name is Tim."
"Sarah."
"Nice to meet you, Sarah. Would you like to come over and hang out a spell?"
"I would, thank you."
"Well, my address is 4582 E Jackson Boulevard, Flat 318. But you can follow me there if you would like."
"Alright."
We each hopped in our cars, me in my sensible Honda Accord, Tim in an ostentatious Dodge Hellcat. Of course. At least he drove calmly and didn't lose me because I refuse to speed. We finally arrived at his place and man, it was nice. Plush furniture, upscale decor, very clean and neat. Pretty much the opposite of what I expected out of a typical guy his age. Not too bad. Things were looking up. He took my coat and hung it up in his front closet next to his.
"Would you like a glass of wine?" he called from the kitchen.
"Thank you, but no. I should probably have some water, since I'd had a few at the bar," I called back from his living room.
"Really? You don't seem like the type to be a moderate to heavy drinker."