She wasn't really my type... or so I thought.
The woman was bubbly, enthusiastic, beautiful, and sweet. She is everyone's type, right? For me, she seemed out of reach, more of a "girl of my dreams" than "a girl in my bed" type. I wasn't anything like her. I hated crowds, was comfortable eating alone in a restaurant, and no one looked at me and thought, "sweet." Don't get me wrong; I am not a horrible person. I just don't "people" well. What could a girl like her see in me? Yet, she always seemed to see me.
I have been coming to The Garden Club for about a month now. Once, sometimes even twice, a week in an effort to force myself out of the house and at least be in a social environment, even if I don't interact much with said people, in said environment. The Garden Club has honestly become one of my favorite places to be and to "people watch." Even in the middle of the week, the place is busy but comfortable. They have a large outdoor area where I sat once to watch the changing skies at sunset. They have booths and high-top tables, along with a bustling bar. And there is a dancefloor--a place I would never dare to go. The last thing anyone wants to see is a 5'5" blonde looking like she is doing an interpretative dance related to the mating rituals of owls to a song only playing in her head. Yeah, no, thank you. But I do like watching. I like watching her. Oh wow, that seems a little creepy, but her hips move with the beat like she is setting the rhythm.
She's certainly taller than me, maybe 5'8"; shapely, with hips I imagine sinking my fingers into and breasts that are perky and round like oranges. And I know she watches me too because her eyes are a bright blue, like looking into the mid-day sky in the summer. She has pierced me with those eyes more than once when I have visited. Either she walks past my seat at the bar, skimming her hand along the back of the barstool. Or she looks at me from the dance floor as her hips sway and her auburn hair drifts down to brush against her waistline.
During one of these staring matches, Gail, another beautiful woman here and the bartender, wanders up to the other side of the bar to ask what I will have today. "Surprise me," I respond, not wanting to make one more choice today, no matter how simple. Gail's green eyes light up, and a slight smirk crosses her lips, "Sure, Sweets. Be right back." "Sweets," again, I was anything but sweet, but Gail was a beautiful woman, and right now, I would take any compliment I could get. Gail quickly returned with my drink, a Mojito (which I love). She winked while passing along that she thought I could use something refreshing, then with a glance over my shoulder and maybe a slight recognition of someone, she was back to tending to patrons down the bar.
I took one sip of my drink before a flowery scent drifted near me. It wasn't overwhelming, but the jasmine added a hint of summer to the air around me. But it was the slight touch at my elbow that had me electrified.
I glanced over to see her, the woman with blue eyes. So close to me. Touching me. Smiling at me. I tried to smile back. I am sure it looked more like someone wincing in pain. She slightly laughed, "I didn't mean to alarm you. And I can certainly leave you be. I just wanted to come over and see if you wanted to share a booth with me."
I glance behind me and to each side, even catching Gail's eyes to make sure this was still real and not some alternate universe one experiences during a coma (but would I really know, or would Gail's eyes still have such an understanding and encouraging look to them even if I was in a coma). The woman beside me laughs again. "A booth. Yes. Sure. Ok." I replied, like one affirmation wasn't enough for this elegant woman to understand.
With a smile, she grabbed my hand, pulling me a bit off my barstool. Pausing, she glanced from me to the drink in front of me, "You may want to bring that with you. It would be hard to enjoy it so far away."
"Oh, yes. Of course. My drink." Idiot, idiot, idiot.
We sat down in a corner booth; it was round, and the woman slid in next to me to where we were both at the back of the semi-private booth with a view of the dance floor and the bar. "This is my favorite spot in the whole bar. You can see everything, even catching a glimpse of outside." I looked around us, she was right, but it was also private. Or felt private, at least, like we could see out but no one could see in.
"Oh my, my manners, here I am picking up a stranger in a bar without introducing myself. I'm Lou, well, Louise, but if you value your life, you won't call me that. Just Lou." I smile at her, and she smiles back expectantly.
"Right, my name. Winter. That's my name." Wow, if Lou doesn't get up and run away from the weirdo, I will be shocked and amazed.
Lou smiles and rubs up my arm, "Winter. It suits you."
"How so?" I ask, curious. Does it suit my standoffish ways, my awkward transitions, my talent for women running to hide inside away from me?
"It is such a contrast to your tanned skin, blonde hair, hazel eyes. How can someone who looks like summer be named quite the opposite?" Lou continued to rub my arm, her hand inching up towards my shoulder and then back down to my fingertips. Her touch was light, but still, it was setting me on fire. I could feel my thighs clench every time she smoothed her fingers past the soft skin of my inner arm. "So tell me, Winter, why have you been coming to The Garden, hiding in corners, and making me go home alone to touch myself thinking of your lips and wanting to feel them on my pussy?"
Holy Hell!!! I had never had a woman come on to me, certainly not with such language. Wait,
she
masturbates thinking about
me
? In what world does that happen, and in what world does she outright say it in public to me?
"I know, I am a little much to take. I know what I want, and I don't waste time. Sometimes it is off-putting, but you seemed like the type who could take it?" There was a pause and another smirk. "Are you, Winter, the kind who can
take it
?"
Even with my tanned skin, I am sure I was blushing a bright scarlet by now. Lou's hand moved from my arm to my leg, covering the distance over my thigh, making my jeans feel too tight and too hot.