These stories are based upon the fantasies of two real people. Please read the intro for part one of this series to better understand the protagonists.
Chapter 2: The Commercial
We had just arrived when Elizabeth received a text on her cell phone. Reading it, she pursed her lips and exhaled through her nose in exasperation.
"What is it?" I asked, already anticipating her answer.
"The shoot has been cancelled," she explained.
As I had suspected. I nodded sympathetically.
"Do you still want to go?" she asked.
"Oh, I dunno," I replied doubtfully. "Las Vegas. Do you think we can find enough to keep us busy for three whole days?"
She cocked her head and smiled at my sarcasm before we continued into the airport to have our luggage checked.
The flight was about to board, the parking was paid for three days, we had booked our time off; it would be a waste of both time and money not to go. And it's not like we couldn't afford it, and we hadn't expected to spend all three days in front of a photographer, anyway!
The flight was uneventful; something just over four hours.
This trip, we were staying at The Planet Hollywood Hotel. I usually stayed at either here or The Hard Rock whenever I came to Vegas, but the "PH" had a deal on the room and the shuttle from the airport was free.
When we arrived at the hotel we were pleasantly surprised at having our room upgraded! Elizabeth's modelling job had given us plenty of notice for this trip and I had booked the hotel nearly four weeks ago. Even so, upon our arrival, the desk clerk informed us that there had been an error and our room had been mistakenly given away that morning. She apologized for the inconvenience and told us that she had taken the liberty of upgrading us to the Fountain View.
That was incredible. We usually just stay in a room rather than a suite, mostly because of the price, partly because we don't spend a lot of time in our hotel room, but also because you can't usually book a suite a year in advance in Las Vegas! To get even a Fountain View room, which is one of their bargain suites, on only a few hours short notice is really amazing.
I love Las Vegas! Each hotel on "The Strip" (Las Vegas Boulevard) is like an all-inclusive resort: casino, restaurants, cafes, the theatre... You could stay at some of them for a month and never leave the hotel.
In preparing for this trip our schedules had not aligned very well during the last week. I manage a bar and had to make sure that things were going to run smoothly over the weekend while I was away. Liz had also pulled a couple of extra shifts where she tended bar in order to have the weekend free for her photo shoot.
Liz and I hadn't seen much of each other that week and I had been looking forward to kicking off the weekend by making love to her when we arrived.
We had been going through a bit of a rough patch lately. Something had happened between her and her best friend during her last modelling job which had somehow overflowed into our relationship. I had even gone so far as to phone Jennifer to ask her about it, but she had always been a bit of a stuck-up bitch and seemed even more so when I talked to her. When Liz asked me to come with her on this trip I knew that we were back to smooth sailing.
We had taken a mid-afternoon flight and got into the hotel later than we would have liked. We were both pretty hungry and it was easy for Liz to talk me into dinner before sex.
Of course, I was dressed and ready for dinner
way
before Liz. The thing about models is that they always want to look like models, even when they're not modelling! So I played around with the TV for a few minutes, then told her that I was going to wait for her in
Blondies
.
I knew the thought of me drinking alone in a sports bar would light a fire under her.
I didn't really want to blow my first night in Vegas in a bar so when I sat down I ordered a black coffee and a boilermaker with bourbon. I hate bourbon, but being the manager of a sports bar in Ohio I know it makes me look more sophisticated than the average sports bar patron.
I downed the coffee to keep me awake (four hours is a long time to be sitting in a plane) and tossed back the bourbon to make an impression.
Blondies is big for a hotel bar. There were quite a few people in the place, and while it wasn't packed yet, it was still early for Vegas. I had grabbed a booth close to the bar, but not too close to the lone patron sitting on a stool several feet away from me.
I had barely noticed him when I walked in. He was an older fellow in a good suit. A typical middle-aged business man stopping off at the sports bar after a day at the office. Hardly worth noticing if it weren't for the second man who joined him several minutes later -- a cheesy-looking guy in a cheap suit, and while he hadn't said anything yet he reminded me of a used car salesman.
Elizabeth came down several minutes later. Every eye was on her as she strode into the bar. Her blonde hair contrasted her tight, mid-thigh black dress with a plunging neckline that made it obvious she was not wearing a bra tonight. She was wearing her "fuck me" pumps -- 4" heels which invited you to follow her long, tanned legs and fantasize about what was under her hemline. She set it all off with a simple charm bracelet and a delicate, silver necklace.
Simple, yet somehow slutty -- which is exactly what she wanted, I'm sure!
She did this intentionally, strolling through the bar like she was walking down the runway, not just attracting their attention, but inviting it. She liked the way men looked at her, and she liked them to fantasize about her sexually. She said "it makes me tingle".
And judging from the reactions of the other guys in the room and their girlfriends, she was getting exactly the reaction that she wanted!
I was okay with that; she knew that she could have any guy in that room, but she picked me! It gave me "cred" with other guys when they saw that.
I stood and kissed her as she got to the table, and I noticed that the two guys at the bar, both about my age, were actually gawking at her. I gave them that non-threatening look that says, "
back to your drinks, boys
".
"A beer cocktail?" she asked, eyeing my shot-glass as she sat in the booth. I smiled, stepped over to the bar, and got her a white wine. The two guys were still kinda watching me, but the last thing I wanted was trouble.
Don't get me wrong -- I wasn't
afraid
of these guys! I've had to stand toe-to-toe a few times in bars where I've worked, but these guys seemed harmless and I certainly didn't want to get thrown in jail in Nevada over the weekend.
Before leaving for the buffet, Liz and I sat in the booth talking for a few minutes as we finished our drinks. Shortly after I sat down, however, "well-dressed guy" left. "Used car salesman" came up to our table, smiled at me in cordial acknowledgement, then said to Elizabeth, "Can I talk to you for a minute, honey?" He then walked back down the bar, out of earshot, and waited for her.
Elizabeth and I exchanged doubtful glances, but she got up and walked over to him. The guy began an animated discussion with Elizabeth when a shocked look came over her face and she gave him a full-palm slap in the side of his face.
I rose from my seat immediately, as did at least three other guys, but we all stopped when we saw the glare she was giving the guy. Then she walked away from him and came back to her seat.
The bartender had come out from behind the bar saying, "Mr. Chapel!"
The guy -- "Chapel" -- put up his hands defensively saying, "My fault! My fault! Sorry!..."
I sat back down with Elizabeth and asked her, "What was that about?"
"He thought I was an escort!" she exclaimed. She did get this from time to time; quite a bit of her outward indignity was for the benefit of the others in the bar.
"So you had another opportunity to make some money this weekend and you blew it off?" I teased.
"Shut up," she scolded me with a wry smile.
We were just finishing up our drinks when this Chapel guy came over to our table with another boilermaker and white wine.
"Look, buddy," he spoke to me directly. "I'm really sorry about that. Your girlfriend looks so much younger than you. Whatever you drink in Blondies this weekend is on me. Help yourself -- whatever you want."
"Well," I started, not really sure how to react. "Thank you." Liz did not look impressed.
"You're a very lucky man," he continued. Then to Liz, "Really -- you could be a model, sweetie."
"She