Note: This story came about in a hurry - well, it already was pretty much done in my head, but it got out in a hurry, being spurred on by a request in the comments to the first instalment - 'A most enjoyable Niterói morning' - that a sequel wouldn't be a bad idea.
To meet the 2024NDC contest deadline, not much editing has been done - but I hope the result is enjoyable still. -Thanks!
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Strolling along the beachfront sidewalk, I had a certain spring in my step - I'd spent the day's available moments - and a few strictly speaking, not available ones - reviewing the morning and imagining what the evening might bring.
I probably hadn't been as hard, as long, since I was a teenager - and my work... Well, suffice to say I'd had more productive days in Brazil. To their credit, though, everyone in the shipyard had been very understanding once I told them the reason I was so distracted was a woman - a woman I'd scored a date with the very same evening, to boot!
I did, however, leave out the details of how we'd met. Well, technically speaking, I guess we hadn't yet - I'd never been within 50 feet of her.
Would she be there? Surely she wouldn't stand me up after the fun we'd had? Or? She had claimed she enjoyed the attention, seeing the effect she had on me. I hoped she'd been sincere. I believed she had been. I REALLY wanted to believe she had been.
Glancing at my watch, it showed just a quarter past six - the guys at Wilson's had generously let me go early to get ready for my date. If Barbara wasn't already at the beach bar when I arrived, I figured I'd take my chances darting by my hotel room for a quick shower before returning - it was only a six- or seven minute walk from the bar.
A second later, the decision was made for me, as I spotted a hand waving eagerly and then, half a second later, saw her face, lit up in a smile I really could do with seeing more often when a woman spotted me.
I simply jumped over the rope fence separating the bar from the rest of the beach and sat down opposite her, putting on my best smile for her. She looked astonishing, in a simple, bright yellow dress which really made her stand out. Oh, and the cleavage... I quickly raised my gaze to meet hers, hopefully before my staring became embarrassing. Not that her face looked any less astonishing, now that I got a look at her up close - her full lips were seemingly without any make-up except a hint of lip gloss, high cheekbones, nose perhaps slightly on the broad side if she'd considered a career in modeling, but damn, did it make her look cute. Oh, and her eyes? So large, so dark brown I almost felt drawn into them. Another smile.
"So glad to see you, I will admit to wondering on and off throughout the day whether you were just pulling my leg or if we'd meet..."
With a laugh, she threw her head back, then shook it. "No, no - of course I'd like to... Well, you made me curious, Norwegian. For one, how come you speak Portuguese so well? You even speak it like a Brasileiro - with an accent, mind - not like a European?
I shrugged. "Work. I've been working at length in both Mozambique, Angola and Brazil, dropped by the Cabo Verde and Guinea-Bissau, too, for a few weeks - so... Well, I've picked up quite a bit. Fun thing is, when I'm in Lisbon, which is not very often, people tend to observe I speak like a, uh, melanin-rich person."
Another laugh from across the table as I waved for a waiter's attention. "Melanin-rich, huh? I guess that wasn't quite the phrase they used?"
"Not quite. Anyway, I tend to come here three or four times a year, have for the past fifteen, now - so I kind of consider this bairro my own by now."
Nods from Barbara, who shook her head and laughed softly.
"With that track record, I guess you may know this neighbourhood better than I do, I only came here last year."
She shrugged. "From a godforsaken place called Aimorés, down in Minas Gerais. Farm girl. College was my ticket out of there."
As if on cue, the waiter arrived. I looked at her. "What would you like?"
She started a rapid-fire exchange with the waiter which I barely caught half of, before settling on what I took to be a domestic sparkling wine. OK, I'd had decent espumantes myself, on occasion, so I asked the waiter if it was veeee-eery dry? After an affirmative nod, I ordered the same - oh, and a beer on the side, please.
He was off, and we just looked at each other for a second, quiet.
Barbara took the lead.
"I'm a secretary over in Rio, by the way - that's why I get up so early. My employer relocated to Horto this spring, you know it?" She stared intently at me, slight smirk, seeming to enjoy quizzing me.
"Uh, I'm not sure, but is that out past the Jardim Botanico? I think I saw some signs with directions to Horto when I was there, but didn't know there were beautiful women with mad yoga skills there then, so I didn't pay it a visit..."
Another laugh. "Very good, Norwegian. Very good. You're right. Anyway, the commute is about an hour and a half on a good day, so if I am to be in the office by seven, the 0518 bus from the corner it is."
She giggled. "Only thing keeping me sane is doing the yoga routine before heading off. Today was more pleasant than usual, though."
She paused for a moment as the waiter returned with our glasses and a bottle - a classic, we hadn't explicitly said we only wanted two glasses, so obviously, he upsold us to a bottle. Oh well, I didn't mind. He expertly uncorked it and filled her glass, then mine, realized he'd forgotten my beer and promised to be back in no time.
"Speaking of which," she quipped as she sipped the espumante and nodded in approval. "Speaking of which", she repeated while the waiter hastily moved out of earshot and within reach of a beer - "You do realize that unless you turn out to be a real dork, we'll be fucking each other within the hour, right?"
I had kind of, sort of, figured as much, but I was thrilled to hear her say it. "I'll happily drink to that," I replied, raising my glass to her.
We just looked at each other for a while, in a somewhat awkward, but not at all unpleasant silence as the waiter made his way back to our table with a frosty glass of Brahma.
Under the table, her bare calf came to rest on my shin, rubbing it softly, deliberately as the waiter did his thing and made his retreat, after probably spending a little longer than needed to put down the beer mat and positioning my glass in the exact center of it. I assumed it had less to do with OCD and more to do with Barbara's ample cleavage.
I nodded towards it once he went away. "Dress to impress, do you? Poor waiter was tormented, trying to come up with a reason to stay. I give him five minutes until he returns with a rag to wipe off the table!"
That earned me a giggle. "As I told you this morning - I like making an impression. Speaking of this morning, I..." she blushed, shook her head, looked out towards the bay for a moment before reverting her gaze to me. "It was, truth be told, the hottest experience I can remember ever having. Sure, I like, uh, showing off, occasionally and innocently, seeing what effect I have on men - oh, and some women, too - but what we did..."
She shook her head again, before asking me, imploringly - "Please, tell me you, too, felt it was something, uh, special? That rapport we built, as we pleased ourselves and each other, the naughtiness of doing it out in public, the thrill..."
She laughed. "Nevermind, I am lowering my standards. You can be a dork, even - I draw the line at crazed killer, now. Fuck, I am so ready for..."
I was already painfully hard, and her words made my cock throb. Moving closer to the table, I could just put a hand on her knee without having to get into an awkward pose.
"No worries, then - I have been called a dork on occasion, but I've yet to kill anyone. As for this morning, I agree. Never, ever, I believe, have I felt as turned on by anyone. Seeing you - beautiful you, by the way - so intimate, yet so out of reach - part of me, you know, wanted to ask you right then what flat you lived in, so I could come over to join you - but then, alas, you told me you had to go to work..."
Her knee felt so good to the touch - so warm, so smooth, so... So Barbara. She'd become my Ylajali - look it up - my muse, my temptress, my... I hadn't been able to keep her out of my mind for even an instant, all day. And here she was, smiling at me, assuring me we'd be having sex shortly, parting her legs slightly, inviting me, perhaps, to slide my hand up her thigh...
I did, reaching as far forward as I could, given the table. Barbara smirked as she had another sip of her wine, then suggested it was a pity the table was this big, as if I'd been able to reach just a little bit longer, I'd find that she wasn't wearing any panties.
I swallowed, hard. Who would have imagined that finishing off a bottle of decent sparkling wine in good company would feel like torture?
Trying - very hard, but fighting a losing battle - I tried to make small talk about this and that - to keep my mind distracted from what was on the cards as soon as we paid our bill and headed up into town.