It began with a dare. Two of my group of friends accepted it from two other people in the group.
With women, there's short and then there's "actually a midget". A woman who's four-feet-eleven-inches tall is short. Cindy was 25 years old -- a year younger than me -- and was three-feet-three-inches tall. That most definitely qualifies as "actually a midget".
And even for a guy, I'm tall. Six-feet-seven-inches tall to be precise. Which just accentuated the contrast between Cindy and I. I'm the tallest person in our group of friends by a good five inches.
Anyway, getting back to the dare, most of us in the group had significant others. But Cindy and I were both unattached. Obviously, all of us in the group liked each other's company or we wouldn't all hang out together. But there's a difference between "I think this person is cool to hang out with" and "I'd like to take this person on a date and court them and make them into my partner."
One day, we were all hanging out and suddenly Rob pushed Cindy over towards me and Jill pushed me over towards Cindy.
"Tim, you should ask Cindy on a date," Jill intoned.
"Cindy, you should ask Tim out," Rob grunted.
"Are you two trying to set us up?" I giggled.
Jill smirked. "What was your first clue, Sherlock?"
I looked at Cindy. She looked at me. We simultaneously shrugged.
"What the hell, you only live once."
And so, Saturday morning, I found myself driving over to Cindy's house. It's not like we needed to get to know each other. I already knew that she had finished college the year before and was working from home for a big advertising agency, proofing newspaper ads. She already knew that I had finished college two years before and was working as a low-level office grunt for a company that had 20 offices in the state. We knew what each other looked like (clothed, anyway). I had a pretty good idea of her interests and she knew most of mine. We had arranged to have me come over and bring a movie we both liked ("The Cutting Edge"), which we'd watch and then we'd have lunch together.
Cindy nestled against me while we watched. Normally, I'd say her head was resting on my chest. But she's so small and I'm so lanky that it seemed like her entire body was pressed against me.
I held her gently and dipped my head. Cindy tilted hers upwards and I kissed her cheek. She tried to wrap her arms around me, but they were so short she couldn't quite succeed. I put one of mine around her, and she smiled.
I hadn't realized quite how pretty she was. Her light-brown, wavy shoulder-length hair framed her face. Her body was small, but not mis-proportioned. Her brown eyes seemed to twinkle with happiness and her smile could melt an iceberg. She didn't appear to be wearing a bra under her shirt, and her chest was sized perfectly for her frame. (B cups, as I found out later.) She had just enough meat on her bones to give her ass, now clearly outlined by her leggings, nice curvature.
We watched the movie and enjoyed it, as expected. When it ended, Cindy seemed reluctant to get off the couch. And since we were at her house, I didn't feel that it was my place to tell her to do so.
"Tim, this feels very nice. Hold me closer."
"Okay, Cindy." I put my other arm around her and snuggled her more firmly against me.
"It's been a long time since I've had a... partner I could trust. Most men just want me to have sex with them so they can say they banged a midget. Another thing checked off the bucket list and then they move on."
"I'm sorry."
Cindy smiled up at me. "You already like me for who I am, not what I am."
I dipped my head, and this time kissed her very gently on the lips. "True."