The next weekend, as I was headed off for a nice walk downtown, I noticed a note taped to my apartment door. It was just a white piece of paper with a two inch pink circular sticker affixed to it. The note said, FOLLOW ME, DARLING.
My heart and loins reacted. What was I supposed to do, then? Was I going to drop whatever I was doing and look to follow these stickers, like a prey animal following bread crumbs? Of course I was. I looked at my watch and acknowledged that the rest of this morning was hers—it was her play.
Looking around me, there was another sticker at the elevator, so my course was laid out for me. Heading down the elevator, I realized that if this were to lead to something, anything -- if I were to be led somewhere to meet her, she'd have to be in "position A", wherever that was, at the right time along with me. She'd have to know when I'd be following the trail. I knew that she had to be watching for me right then. She had to know when I found the note and started on my path, otherwise her timing would not be right. In fact, she had to have been watching me all morning and would know when I'd left the apartment. She had to have seen me somehow this morning!
Why in the world had I/we not just exchanged phone nos. or eMails? I knew the reason, though. This was just the play she had wanted to run.
Creeped out, but intrigued and sexually charged, I was not going to let anything get in my way of completing this mission -- whatever it was. Outside the building on a sign post was another pink sticker with an arrow pointing East. Simple, but effective, she was leading me along like a puppy searching for a treat. Needless to say, I spent the next 40 minutes walking along, following her lead obediently, but it was not leading to her apartment building. She was taking me somewhere else.
The "somewhere else" was getting seedier and seedier as I moved along. This was not a great part of town, so my guess of meeting at a nice café for brunch seemed to be amiss. Then the pink spots directed me down an alley between some buildings and then the alley turned to the right and dead-ended about a half block ahead. There was a person standing, smoking a cigarette at the far end.