This is my first submission to this site. I hope you guys enjoy the story! It's part fiction, and part based on real life. It'll be up to you, the reader, to determine which is which... Enjoy!
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I saw her at the cafΓ©. I was sipping a tall, double-shot latte, and glanced up to see herβall five feet, five inches of her. Her silky, long hair, sweeping down to her shoulders. Her eyes, vivid and blue, lively and seductive all at once. Her breasts, pert and firm, bouncing slightly as she laughed. Her crop top revealed a smooth belly, sloping down towards the greatest treasure of all.
I recognized her instantly. Natalie Taylor, from my Calculus class. Every day I had known her, I had wanted her. But I never had the courage to ask. As a result, it was to my great surprise that she slid into the stool beside me.
"Hey, Jake!" she said. Her words sounded like honey poured into my ears. I satisfied myself with a perfunctory nod in her direction. "Natalie." She called over the barista.
"I'll have what he's having, please."
I was waiting on tenterhooks. What did she want with me?
The second latte arrived, and she sipped it, nodding with approval. She nodded. "Good taste, Jake." I responded with a noncommittal shrug. "I'm glad you're enjoying it."
She took another sip. "Jake, I actually wanted to ask you something." I toyed with my straw. "Go ahead." She took a deep breath. "I've liked you for a while now, and I never had the courage to say it, but will you go out with me?"
I almost choked on my coffee. My eyes watered and I shook my head to clear my brain. Did Natalie Taylor just ask me out?
I heard her voice, cutting through my haze like a beam of light through fog. "Oh, if you don't want to..." I hastily put my cup down. "No, no. I mean, yes, not no. Not no." I sighed. "Yes, Natalie, I'd love to go on a date with you."
Her face lit up. "Alright, then. Should we meet at the theater at 8:00?"
"Sounds good," I responded
...
The news that I was dating Natalie took our school by storm. Everyone in our school, not just the seniors in my class, but even newly inducted freshmen, had a crush on her. She had eyes following her every time she walked down the hall. The eyes stared harder now that I was beside her as well. Snide whispers and murmurs followed us as we walked to class every single day.
"Him? Really?"
"I swear, she could've picked me!"
"I've been flirting with her every single day!"
"And he's a nerd!"
The last statement was true, however. I suppose I'm not bad looking, almost six feet tall with a mop of dark hair and a clearly defined jawline. And I'm on the Varsity swim team, so my body has always been in shape.
But I valued numbers over everything. The calculus class I was taking in school was for the credit. In reality, I had finished the most advanced number theory and multivariable differential equations classes that the nearby community college had to offer. I was always shunned in school for being too nerdy.
And Natalie was different. While she was smart, she was one of the most popular kids in the school. She was on the cheer team, and she ran track. Even I sometimes wondered what she was doing with the likes of me.
But we were blissful together. We would spend hours on the weekends making out with each other, enjoying the feeling of each other's arms. It never went farther than that, though; we would just sit in conversation until the sun set; then, we would watch as the sky changed color from azure to obsidian.
Things continued like this for a few months. We would visit restaurants from time to time, often frequenting the cafΓ© where our relationship began. We would drive down to the coast on weekends, enjoying the thrum of the ocean and the sand between our toes. But most of all, we were happy in each other's company.
Then, on our shared 18
th
birthdays, we had an incredible day out. We packed a picnic lunch and a blanket and drove to the mountains. We spent the whole day whispering to each other under the eaves of an immense oak tree, its leaves casting a cool shadow on us.
Natalie was looking radiant that day, the setting sun making her face glow, her eyes shining brightly. She looked at me and smiled a wicked smile. She put her hand on mine and guided me to her breasts. I rested my hands on them gently, feeling them depress under my fingers. Her nipples were at stiff attention. I opened my mouth, and she put a finger on my lips. The wicked grin remained. We drove home that night, and she didn't talk about it again.
...
The spring was progressing into summer. It was our last week of school and I was working on finishing up a project when Natalie ran up to me.
"Jake! Come here! You have to see this!"
I walked out into dusk. The fireflies were coming out, and the smell of honeysuckle was heavy on the air. She tugged on my hand and led me to her car. I took the shotgun seat.
"Where are we going?"
She responded by turning on the ignition. The little car jumped forward, and she drove with unacceptable speed through winding country lanes. My heart was in my throat as the speedometer approached ninety. "What's the hurry?" I asked. Natalie gritted her teeth and stayed transfixed on the road. "We need to reach on time."
Then, with a great crunch, she turned into a gravel parking lot. The brakes squealed and the car shuddered to a stop. She opened the door and ran outside. "Come
on
, Jake!" She pulled on my hand, and I half-ran, half-stumbled behind her. Slipping on tufts of grass, we ran across a large green field, and then we reached the shade of a large oak tree.
"What is this, Natalie?"
"Oh, Jake, it's starting!"
I turned to hear a whistling sound. The sky erupted in flames. Large flowers blossomed before my eyes. Enormous maelstroms of swirling light and heat lit up the ceiling of the world, turning the deep onyx red and green and purple. The fireworks were an incredible display. I could see their reflection in Natalie's eyes. In the dark, the blue almost looked violet. She was entranced.
"Have you ever seen anything more beautiful?" she asked.