Nikki sipped her drink, watching the man she'd gotten it from walk across the dark room into a flickering bathroom. She took a quick glance at his ass being hugged by the light blue work jeans before the door closed behind him, she'd wanted to get a look at it since he started chatting her up two hours ago. She pulled her purse across the table and reached in for the roofy detector Sarah had given her before coming out to this bar. Peeling the thin plastic off the test pad she looked over at Sarah, who'd left her at this table just a few minutes after they'd arrived.
Sarah was freshly 21, and therefore could sit at the bar itself, the only place any of the bartenders bothered to card people. Nikki had known Sarah long enough to know the high giggles coming from her were not genuine, of course it was unlikely she could find every joke being told by the half dozen college boys around her funny, but the wide perfectly white smile certainly was genuine. Sarah enjoyed the attention if nothing else.
It made sense, Nikki thought to herself. Sarah was in tight jean shorts that ended before the curve of her apple shaped ass even met her legs, and an equally tight pink tank top framing tan cleavage that was being accentuated by her pushup bra. Her perfect white smile under dark eyeshadowed eyes framed by long platinum blonde hair was clearly the main attraction to almost every man in the bar.
Nikki knew her ass was close to twice the size of Sarah's but her casual fitting jeans did not show it, and her black tank top allowed easy view of her chest and arm tattoos but also made it clear she had thrown on a sports bra before coming here. Her deep black hair with the right half dyed red, tied back in a short ponytail and red eyeshadow looked all looked nice in her opinion, but clearly wasn't as strong an attractor as Sarah's features. She typically preferred it that way.
Nikki dabbed her middle finger into her almost untouched drink and smeared it over the test pad then waited, watching. The test instructions had said to wait a minute and if the pad changed to a darker color to not drink. She took another small sip. From the corner of her eye she saw the man approaching again and put the small test pad just by her purse, out of his line of sight. She still felt conflicted about wishing Sarah hadn't left her alone, but also somewhat glad to have his attention to herself.
David took his seat across from her and picked up his half finished bottle of beer off the coaster, he was the only person she'd seen so far actually use one. He gestured at her drink, "If you don't like it I could get you something else, they can be kind of hit and miss with their mixes here."
Nikki looked down at the test pad, still no change in the color and it had to have been more than a minute by now. Then she looked at the drink, she'd never had a Malibu before but the few sips she'd had so far were nice. She looked back at David and smiled, wondering how many times the blueness of his eyes was going to catch her off guard, "Just had to shoot someone a quick text, I like it." She took a full drink. It really was quite nice.
He made a smile that was almost a smirk, "Well good. I haven't had one of those, maybe I should give one a try next time." Nikki took the moment of him drinking from his bottle to admire his hand on the table. No ring, or even mark of a removed ring for that matter. Why was she even thinking about that? She just liked the free drink and a nice conversation, that's it. He gave her another almost smirk, "Oh wow, it really is isn't it?"
Nikki felt confused a moment before seeing her drink was more than half gone. It occurred to her that her face and fingertips were pleasantly warm. She really was a lightweight, wasn't she? She smiled, wondering whether or not her smile looked stupid, "Told you I like it."
He laughed from his chest and Nikki felt a tingle between her legs from how deeply his voice hit her ears. "Just let me know if you want another."
"Ah," she smiled sheepishly, "It really is nice but I kind of... well I think I'm a bit of a lightweight actually, so that should probably be enough, I'm sorry."
He laughed out loud this time and the tingle was stronger, she was dampening her panties now and trying not to think about it. "Don't be sorry, just want the buzz and that's it, huh? Admirable to know when to stop, this is all I'm having tonight." He waved his almost empty drink, "Since I gotta drive myself home and everything, you know?"
Nikki felt her heart sink, she knew she had stopped in time to keep her wits about her, but there was no way she'd be able to drive Sarah home now. It seemed Sarah had singled out a boy and was leaning in to talk at him as though she was whispering, even though her loudness told Nikki exactly how many drinks she'd had herself. Before she could think out her options she saw Sarah nod vigorously to the boy, give her keys to the bartender, and leave with the boy through the front door without even a glance in her direction.
"Your ride home?" David had followed her line of sight through all of it. She nodded. "Well," he pulled his phone out, "Anyone we can call for you? Or..." he paused and made eye contact with her, "I could take you if you like."
