"In the mood for anything special?" LJ asked as they slipped into his SUV and headed out the school parking lot to find a place to grab dinner.
The sticky wetness of LJ's release still sloshing around her crotch as she told him it didn't matter where they went, Hope was pretty sure it was the first time she'd been out in public without any panties in a very, very long time. The bare sensation without them, especially when wearing a dress that draped just below her knee, was going to take some getting use to. Still, she couldn't help but feel a tingle of naughtiness knowing LJ had taken her underwear as a trophy for what he'd done to her twice over the past three days. Purposefully putting out of her mind how many other such trophies he might have taken from women in the past, for once Hope was strangely content to just ride the wave.
Turning onto the highway and heading uptown, Hope started to get fidgety the further they went. Having left her car back at the school when LJ said he'd bring her back to pick it up, Hope had assumed he intended to stop at a place within a few blocks. The further he drove along however, the more Hope realized he had something more detailed than just dinner in mind.
With each mile marker they passed, Hope's anxiety grew. Looking across to LJ to try and gauge any hint of his intentions, all she saw was the same steely-eyed focus she'd quickly grown accustomed to.
"You must be in the mood for something special to drive this far out?" she folded her arms and said, trying to make conversation.
"Yes...yes I am," LJ looked over and smiled without elaborating further.
When LJ turned off at the exit that was only two miles from her home, a cold jolt ripped through Hope's spine. Realizing she'd eaten at most of the restaurants along that strip, suddenly Hope was confronted with the fact that someone she knew might see her with LJ.
Sitting there in the passenger seat, Hope was forced to face the fact that LJ had steadily become her little dirty secret, the one man that had truly tapped into her most primal of needs and she feared if anyone saw her with him, they'd see her for what she was. In her own litte way, Hope had tried to compartmentalize LJ and the rest of her life into two distinctly different worlds, but suddenly those worlds were about crash headlong into the other.
When LJ eventually did turn into one of those bistro's parking lot, Hope knew she was helpless, both in a literal and a figurative sense, to do anything but go along for the ride.
"Have you ever been here before?" LJ asked Hope once he'd backed into a parking spot facing the front door.
"Yeah..a few times..not since I came back home though," she replied, her head spinning as she sat there, trying to picture how the night might end.
Her body exhausted and reeling from the paces LJ had already put her through, Hope reached for the door handle to get out, but LJ didn't budge from his seat. Instead he just sat there in an almost trance-like state, surveying the surroundings as dusk fell over the town.
Hope watched as several people came and went, entering and leaving the restaurant over the next few minutes before LJ finally snapped himself out of his self-induced fog.
"Ready to go?" he asked Hope as if nothing had happened.
There was tension, albeit unspoken, from the instant LJ and Hope walked inside. While the place wasn't overly formal, it wasn't exactly casual either and the sight of a man in basketball warm-ups and a woman in a plain blouse and skirt did cause some stares from the patrons sitting around the dining area. Even in a place as supposedly liberal as the Bay Area, the fact that it was also a black man with a white woman in the otherwise white bread surroundings probably played a role as well.
Taking a seat as the waitress handed them their menus, whether real or imagined, Hope felt what amounted to 30 sets of eyes on her. LJ seemed totally unfazed by it all, but sitting there without her panties as the man's semen dried on the insides of her thighs, Hope felt naked and horribly self-conscious as she tried to concentrate on the entree choices. Thankfully, as she stole a peek or two around the room, she didn't see anyone she recognized.
Within five minutes of entering the restaurant, LJ had latched on to two potential foils for his plan. "Gawkers" he called them.
One was a blonde guy that looked to be in his late 20's who was sitting with a couple of other guys over at the bar. LJ had caught him several times looking over at he and Hope sitting there with a somewhat perturbed and bothered expression on his face. Figuring that guy was too far away to maximum the effect of his plan, LJ decided to concentrate his efforts on the man who was sitting directly across at a slight diagonal angle facing he and Hope. The man appeared to be in his mid 40's and was having dinner with his Wife. LJ could feel the weight of the man's stare over his left shoulder and each time he turned to subtly measure the man's intent, LJ could see all the tell-tale non-verbal signs he'd grown use to in similar situations.
The waitress had also sparked LJ's interest. The tall, auburn-haired girl appeared to be a college grad student and had the name 'Shelly' on her tag. Instantly striking up a rapport with the server, LJ could feel the jealousy glow from several of the other men in the room as the waitress giggled and blushed at several of his open advances. Ever perceptive, at some point Hope started to realize what LJ was up to.
The meal delivered, LJ heartily dug in. Even though she was famished, Hope was so anxious all she could do was pick at her salad and nibble around the edges of her entree as the hustle and bustle of the dinner rush swirled around her.