I was standing by the kitchen counter wondering why I was standing by the kitchen counter. I was startled when the toast popped out of the toaster. "Oh yeah, that's why I am standing here" I said to myself.
I managed to butter the toast without incident and took it and my coffee to the living room. I sat on the couch and pondered on the sad state of my mind.
I used to be smart, aware, sharp. Somehow my fine intellect has been reduced to limp linguini. "How could this happen to me?" I asked myself.
I saw her stumbling her way to the kitchen. She was wearing one of my t-shirts. Her hair was wildly mussed. She was mumbling some gibberish that vaguely sounded like "coffee."
"Oh, that's it. She is what happened to me" I realized.
She joined me on the couch and for a few minutes we drank our coffee in silence.
A small functioning part of my mind said, "OK, let's review. It is Sunday morning and the two of you are sitting on your couch playing footsie's. You have been together every single minute since Friday afternoon.
It started with an early dinner followed by La Traviata at the opera house. She had made fun of you for including operas among the loves of your life but at the opera's conclusion she was in tears while holding you tightly.
She kissed you as she got into your car. You did not want the evening to end so you suggested coffee and dessert at the furthest place you could think off. She did not object. She kissed you when she got out of the car.
You talked until you noticed the place was deserted except for the two of you. Still not wanting the evening to end you suggested a walk on the beach across from the restaurant. In the full moon the nearly deserted beach was magical. You held hands.
The two of you heard a moan above the sounds of the surf. What appeared to be a log washed up on the sand resolved itself in the moonlight into a couple, fucking. The two of you watched until they climaxed,
She told you it was time to go home.
Driving back in silence you thought that the evening was ending on a bizarre note. Your disappointment was obvious. She read it in your face. She made herself clear. It was your home she wanted to go to.
The two of you have been here since. You have fucked the hell out of each other and made love to each other for hours and hours. From the look of things, you are about to do it again."
The voice in my head was right. Sometime during the mental playback my free hand had lifted her t-shirt and was now lightly cupping her pussy. Her free hand had fished out my dick and was gently caressing it,
We were very different from each other. Her name was Xiaoping. She was Chinese-American. Her skin had a soft amber glow. She was beautiful. No, she was more than that. She was...just.....beautiful.
She was at least a foot shorter and weighed at least a hundred pounds less than I did. She was very intelligent, more than a bit brusque in manner, very direct. She rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
I was very reserved, (for a Texan), and kept most of my thoughts and feelings to myself. We worked in the same building so we saw each other often but never "visited". We each thought the other did not like us much.
I have no clue why I asked her out on a dinner date. When I did she gave me a scoffing laugh that stopped abruptly when she realized it was a serious request. Then just as abruptly she accepted.
Our dinner date went much better than either of us could have reasonably expected. We talked about many things, enough to realize that the person across from us was far different from our preconceived notion. There had been a lot of laughter.
Our second date really was not a date. Our company president invited us to join him for Happy Hour at his favorite joint. He was buying. She and I went to the place separately but ended up sitting next to each other at the same table as the boss.
To outward appearances our boss was a scary monster. Many at work were afraid of him. I had seen how erroneous that perception of him was almost immediately and we got along well.
He, however, intimidated Xiaoping. She had cause to feel that way. He thought of her as a necessary evil, tolerated because of her great talents.
Over the course of the evening I steered them towards common ground. Each saw that I was quite at ease with the other, which also helped. By the end of the evening they were comfortable with each other.
As afternoon turned into early evening Xiaoping and I fell into easy conversation. When our legs touched neither of us shrank from the contact.
I walked Xiaoping to her car when she left. Before she got in her car she turned to me and said, "Thanks for tonight. I learn quickly." She then surprised me with a quick but hard kiss, jumped in her car and sped away.
Before she left the parking lot she slammed on the breaks, put her car in reverse and stopped next to me.
She said, "We haven't eaten yet."
"True," I said. "Fuddruckers?"
"Meet you there" she said as she sped away.
I had every intention of going back into the bar but I quickly realized I had just gotten a better offer. I followed her to the restaurant and joined her in the construction of our own outrageous hamburgers. We talked and laughed until the restaurant began its closing down routine. I walked her to her car and was gifted with the best kiss I remembered ever getting. It lasted a long time and not nearly long enough.
The opera was our third date.
She was staring at me. I said, "what?"
"Are you going to fall in love with me?," she asked.