I married my husband Cameron when he was a junior in college. He was twenty-one and I was twenty-six. Usually the age discrepancy of couples is the opposite of our situation. He was going to university and living at home throughout his college days. He was working as a waiter in a local pub and eatery. I was there for lunch with my then boyfriend Alex. He is one of the reasons why my relationship with Cam got started.
My name is Beverly. Cameron was working at his job two years before we got married. Alex is a thirty something entrepreneur who owned several businesses and was quite successful. He had met me for lunch to plan our weekend together. When we got our table, Cam was our waiter. From the start Alex was a complete asshole. He toyed with Cam when he ordered our drinks. Cam was young and inexperienced and a bit nervous. Alex picked up on this and started asking about the food or the drinks and generally taunting Cam about his lack of experience.
I shot Alex a glance when we finally placed our drink order and Cam walked away. He gave me the thumbs up 'winners' smile, like 'what did I do'? Cam returned with our drinks and Alex again spoke to him in a condescending tone. Cam was even more nervous. He stuttered taking our order and Alex made a comment again. This time when Cam walked away, I chastised Alex for the way he was treating our young waiter. He sighed and seemed to be annoyed with me for correcting him.
"Lighten up," Alex said, "I am just messing with the young fella. Why are you so worried about him, he is just a waiter?"
"What do you mean? Just a waiter. He may be young, but you certainly don't know anything about him. Did you start out on top, Bigshot?"
"Woah," Alex exclaimed, "Aren't we touchy today? What are you, the patron saint of young timid boys?"
I was beginning to grow tired of Alex's macho man attitude anyway, so I shot back at him, "That young man may be able to buy and sell you in about five or ten years. Why do you feel like you need to belittle people like that? Are you having some masculinity issues?"
The disagreement escalated from there until Alex just paid our drink tab and we left. We were both angry at this point. When Alex and I walked outside, he pulled me aside and gruffly said, "I was going to ask you to marry me this weekend, but you fucked that up."
What a jerk, I thought. "Why?" I asked, "So you could treat me like your servant?"
I turned and got into my car. Alex squealed his tires and left. When I got back to work, I felt in my purse for my phone. I went through a mental checklist and finally decided that I had left it on the table at the restaurant. Crap. It was an expensive phone and I did not carry insurance on it. I had no choice but to get in my car and return to the restaurant. I didn't want to call and have them look. Things have a way of disappearing over time.
I told the receptionist about my phone and she called Cameron up to the front. He saw me and realized what I had come back for.
"Hello, Cameron, I left my phone on our table. I hope that is where it is."
"Yes," he said. "I tried to catch you before you left, but I was too late. I hope that I did not cause you to have a bad date."
"Quite the contrary," I assured him, "It was just with a bad date as in 'the wrong guy'. I want to apologize for my boyfriend's behavior. I don't know why he acted that way. Maybe he was just nervous and tried to cover it up with that macho bullshit. Anyway, I apologize for the way he barked at you."
Cameron retrieved my phone from lost and found. That should have been the end of our brief encounter, but fate has a way of intervening. On a whim, I said, "Would you let me make it up to you?"
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Oh, I don't know, let me cook you dinner on your night off. Okay? I really feel badly about what happened."
"I don't think your boyfriend would approve of that, especially since he seemed to show his disdain for me."
"Yeah, well my boyfriend as I call him, is on very thin ice with me. He thinks he is god's gift to women, and he might be to another woman, but not me. A person's actions and inner self means more to me that looks and money."
I gave him my phone number and told him to call me the next time he had a night off. I didn't even think to ask if he had a girlfriend or what his circumstance was. When I got back in my car, I wondered what I had just done. All the way back to my work I questioned myself about why I had offered a young guy, clearly younger than me, dinner at my place. He certainly didn't look like an ax murderer, but still, what was I thinking? I giggled inwardly at my silly attempt to apologize. I thought that he wouldn't call anyway, so I would not have to worry about it.
That evening, I again questioned my impromptu offer to Cameron. Here I was twenty-five. Out of college for three years. I have a master's degree in graphic design and work for a large firm in the city. I am inviting a guy younger than me to my place and I don't know a thing about him. Well, he is young. He looks even younger than I think he is. I couldn't even tell if he was shaving regularly or not. He is about 5'-6", longish dark brown hair and slight of build.
I am 5'-8" tall and weigh 130 lbs. I work out almost every day and run three miles, four days a week. I have D cup breasts and a nice ass, if I do say so. I have never had any trouble attracting guys and I have my pick usually. I guess Cameron just struck me as a poor young guy who had been run over all his life. Probably bullied in school. Might have had girlfriends, but who knew at this point. The next day I regretted making a fool out of myself. I wondered if Alex would call. I was going to have to decide whether I was going to keep seeing him. He was handsome and he was a great lay. His cock is bigger than most and it is thick. He made me cum every time we had sex.
I was pretty sure that he would be calling and when my phone rang that afternoon, I expected it to be him. It was not. It was Cameron.
"Uh, Beverly?"
"Yes?'
"It's Cameron."
"Oh, my god, you did call."
"Uh, yeah, uh, I just wanted to uh, well, thank you for inviting me over for dinner, but you, uh don't really have to do that. Uh, it was sweet of you to, uh, well, uh apologize for your boyfriend, but, well, I don't want to cause any trouble with, well, uh, you guys."
He was so shy. There was something about him that I couldn't describe, but he seemed to have something beyond his shy nervousness. It was not just geekiness either. He had called to disinvite himself. What a blow to my pride. I could have just about any man I was interested in, but this little guy was trying to stand me up.
"Nonsense, Cameron. I invited you because I like you. I really want you to come over. You probably eat enough steak at the restaurant. Will you come? I will cook Italian. Do you like Italian?
"Yes, I like Italian food, but you don't have to do this."
"Cameron, when can you come?"
"I am off tomorrow night. I only work three nights a week. I am at the university full time."