"I want to taste that."
"Excuse me?"
"You." As he looked at the V of my jeans. "I want to taste that."
We had a met an hour earlier, at a mutual friend's Christmas party at a Santa studio.
A large table was covered with holiday appetizers and another with booze. The host, Randy, had introduced me to Isaiah. Isaiah, this is Amy. She's from Texas and even went to the Cowboys game with them against the Rams in Dallas. Amy this is Isaiah. He's my oldest friend and played baseball for the Chicago Cubs.
He talked about baseball. About the farm teams he played on and the injury that kept out a year and from getting anything more than a cup of coffee in the big leagues. We talked about Durham. I had lived there a decade, after he was there in the minor leagues. We kept guessing to find places that survived.
The traditional photo shoots with antique toys in the background happened and a couple shots of a beautiful white girl with long brunette curls, blue eyes and curves sat across from a handsome athletic black man. Both of them with infectious smiles and sparkling eyes.
The large group photos finished and the party crowd thinned. We finished the vodka raspberry lemonade and he made me another strong rum drink. I knew I was passing the point of no return, but I didn't care. He was holding my hand by then, and telling me he wanted to taste me. He said I be one of the girls on his home team.
His dad died when he was ten, his mom raised him and he had more girlfriends than guys. I joked I didn't want to be on the team, I hadn't seen the uniforms. Didn't know the benefits.
Randy was closing up shop. He came upon us deeply passionately French kissing in the dressing room. Isaiah asked his best friend, "would you hit that?"
Randy replied, "Fuck yeah I'd hit that." I'd later chastise him for that. Talk about making a woman feel like an object! Isaiah asked where he could take me. He offered the same back, dressing room we had been in.
Randy had hit on me hard in the past. He said that his girlfriend wouldn't mind since he had already told her he had a thing for me. He made me nervous until we had recently been to a party to watch a football game and said I was like a sister to him. But tonight he was scoping me out again.