I needed to gather up some will, and when I do that I sometimes lecture myself. "Girl, you're in London. You're overseas for the first time in your life. You just got divorced and you need to have some fun." That's what I told myself when I was packing for a three month stint working in London. I told myself that again as I checked in at my Hotel, which turned out to be old and bit run-down. The lower cost made accounting happy and what in the world could be more important than a happy accountant? And it's what I told myself as I began my first free weekend night in town.
Of course my first free weekend didn't come immediately, adding to my frustration. London branch wanted to show me around, which was nice. A salesman from Brighton seemed to think I had come her specifically to sleep with him, which was less pleasant for us both. Oh, I wanted to get laid, it had been way too long because my lawyer advised me to keep my legs crossed until the papers were final. I had been good far too long, now I could be bad in a city where no one knew I'd ever kissed a man.
No, Tim did not turn me into a lesbian. The sexual part of our relationship was not the problem. It was the "everything else" part that lead me to leave. Nor was he was horrible. He was
wrong
and wrong is enough when you're talking about he rest of your life . I'd dated men and women alternately for years before I met Tim. Since I'd spent five years with a man, at this point in my life I decided women deserved equal time. Fact is, I just wanted to date women for a while.
And I was in London. Here I could have an epic fling and no I knew need ever find out about it. I could try the things I'd read about, live out the secret fantasies living in the back of my mind. Overseas is
always
the best place to experiment because if I failed spectacularly the witnesses cold be left behind with ease. Unlike my marriage, for example.
But the thing is where do you go when you're in a strange city and looking for same sex dating? In Afghanistan, I'd have been fucked, and not in the way I wanted. But England is a civilized country. They have lesbians here and treat them like actual human beings. In the 21st century gay people don't have to hide. So I went to the internet. And lo and behold, about five blocks from my bar was a place called La Bustier. It sounded like it was for drag queens, but it was near my tube station so easy to check out. Which I did. I didn't see anything scary. I saw women in the doorway. Women in leather.
That turned me on. You see I may be a sweet-looking Midwestern girl, but I'm not entirely vanilla. A few years earlier my husband talked me into trying anal sex. Not being stupid, I read up on the topic and prepared myself using a specially purchased probe, which likely gave the TSA guys an extra thrill when they X-rayed my suitcase. It turned out watching me prepare turned Tim on, so the Anal Experiment did our sex life a lot of good for a while. And I got to
like
, the dirty, nasty feeling of a cock deep in my ass and the sensation of walking around with friends later with his seed in my bowels. When we finally were coming apart a brief affair with a bull dyke taught me that yes, I really did like being spanked, and second that there is simply nothing hotter than having your face shoved into another woman's pussy. Women in leather make me hot. The cross around my neck isn't for show but I have my dark side. And so I decided La Bustier would be a good place to begin my English Adventure.
Having researched the establishment thoroughly (Thanks google!) I mapped out my strategy. I knew I that I liked being the bottom, and I really wanted to get laid. So if the place is full of Leather, which I owned very little of anyway, it struck me the smart thing to do was go Lace. I did own a rather tight strapless blue dress with a short flared skirt that showed off all the dieting and exercising I'd done since leaving Tim. I don't have a ton up top, but I had a peach strapless bra that did a mighty good job of pushing up what I did have. I had a cute peach thong to match and white lace stockings with garters built into their top. I chose heels just low enough to dance in should I be asked. An hour spent primping in front of the mirror and I looked pretty good indeed. I picked up m smallest purse and put in the bare essentials, my passport, phone, wallet a couple condoms (just in case) and on impulse a tube of lubricant, lipstick, eyeshadow and some breath mints. I was, as they say in Britain, "all tarted up". Being smart I had an uber run me over to the door though it was within walking distance.
La Bustier turned out louder than I'd expected, but hip-hop and loud metallic punk never bothered me. It didn't smell bad either, which was a plus. I stepped inside and immediately realized I had chosen the right strategy. I was a mouse in room full of cats. Two very leather dykes in tight t-shirts with too many piercings stood by the jukebox, joking and looking at the tunes. A very, very tall butch girl leaned over the pool table making a shot. Other women congregated around the bar, some in lace, far more in leather. I liked what I saw and a few of them liked me enough to look back. I slowly perused the room, mapping about a strategy, figuring out where I should plant myself for best effect.
Then that I saw her, the woman I hoped would take me home, she was tall, clad in a leather biker jacket, leather heeled boots and tight faded blue jeans that showed off a trim, toned body. Her hair was long and dark, just a little wild. Lots of eye makeup with blue over the eyes and her lipstick was blood red, bringing out her lips. Her earrings sparkled. Real diamonds, I realized. Only the real thing sparkles like that. Whoever she was, she wasn't working class. Before I'd finished the appraisal I knew she was the woman I was looking for.
Now in America, I might have plopped down next to her and bought her a drink. But I was England, and it suddenly occurred to me that I had not the slightest idea of what proper international lesbian seduction etiquette might be. I realized that "Nice boots, let's fuck" probably wouldn't get it. Neither would running back to my hotel, which a part of me argued was exactly what I should do. Miss Caution lost. I compromised enough to her to chose a sane middle ground which meant a seat at the bar with two stools between us. If she wanted to move over she could. If she didn't, well the bartender was kinda cute. Nor was she the only hottie. But I had my dream woman in my sights and sadly, but encouragingly, she was one of the few who didn't look as I made my way to the bar. In fact, she barely even looked at me. "Well, damn" I told myself, sat down, ordered a zinfandel and contemplated the bartender's bottom. My mystery paramour stayed where she was. I could watch her drinking a and laughing reflected in the mirror behind the bars. And oh was she cute. I felt very clever, the very model of discrete stalking.
Naturally she was not the first predator to approach me. I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was a round faced woman, about my height but bigger boned and much more buxom. She wore her hair in a buzzcut with a line fo rings in her ear, a ring in her nose and little stud in her tongue. She wore a leather bustier, that pushed up her quite impressive cleavage and tight jeans and tall heels. Not horrible, but hardly what I was looking for. She put her arm around my shoulder and leaned over me. I could smell the whiskey on her breath. "Hey Darling, don't I know you from somewhere."
"I rather doubt that,"I said. "i've only been in London for a little while now."