I'm sitting alone in the bar you told me to meet you at. Dressed as you instructed, so you know how to find me. Though we did exchange pictures, the bar is dark and I don't notice you watching me from across the room. You wait, letting my nerves and anticipation build, watching me sip my drink a little too frequently to pass off as casual. Just as I finish my drink and am about to give up you approach me, a second drink in hand, and sit down with a smile.
We start talking, not about anything specific, but just mentally feeling each other out to make sure we click. Considering the time we have planned ahead of us we're both very happy to find that we do. You quietly laugh to yourself as I prove that I get a little too chatty when I'm nervous, but you find it sort of cute instead of annoying like I worried you would. You start lightly touching me, not enough to be overtly sexual, but in a way that shows you have intent.
It's been a long time since I've been touched that way, since before my children were born...before the weight gain and the babies, the exhaustion and the age. The way you touch me reminds me that I'm not as old as I feel, and it almost makes me feel sexy again. Without realizing it I've finished my second drink.
Your eyes move from me to the door, where another man is waiting. You give a slight nod and he walks off to the bar. I barely have time to notice before you have my attention back on you, chatting again. The warmth of the alcohol spreads through me, it's been years since I've had more than one drink, and I can feel it affecting me much more easily than it did in my early 20's.