As I made my way into the familiar theater, my excitement grew. I'd been here probably 15 times in the past few years to see my favorite local band. The lead singer was a gorgeous lesbian named Melissa. She was about 5'7 with curves in all the right places. Usually she wore her silky brown hair about shoulder length and her eyes were a bright blue that lit up the whole stage. When she sang everyone in the audience fell under her spell. She became so involved in her songs that the words just seemed to flow out of her, her voice resonated in the deepest part of your soul, and the music seemed to take over her body and her hips started moving to the rhythm involuntarily. It was so sexy that I don't think there was anyone in the audience who didn't want to fuck her right there on the stage. I got wet just watching her.
I was meeting my best friend, Josh, there. He was driving in from the cape where he was spending the summer. Originally, the concert was part of my plans to celebrate my 1 year anniversary. Unfortunately, the girl in question decided to run off to Hawaii with her English professor 6 weeks before. I was crushed, but I had my work and my friends and they kept me busy. It wasn't long before I had my eye out, looking to test out the dating scene again. I always took Josh with me when I went to pick up girls. He was very gay, but not as flaming as a lot of gay boys I know. I take him with me because he's a girl magnet. Everywhere we go, girls come up to him and start talking to him. I met 3 of my ex-girlfriends that way.
I made my way towards the stage. I made sure to get there early enough so that I could get real close. Surprisingly, in all the times I'd seen the band, I'd never been up close. This time, I was there in time to get in the very front, right by the barricade before the stage. I was a woman on a mission to get a date, a phone number, even a one night stand tonight. I wore my favorite club jeans, a pair of low-rise button fly jeans from Guess. They were like second skin most of the way down my thighs. I also had a wife-beater on underneath a brown striped snap-up shirt. I was feeling hot, and I leaned on the barricade with my eye on the door, scanning the faces as they came in. I was looking for Josh, but I was also looking for any cute girls (there were quite a few).
About 45 minutes later, the band took the stage. The show was electric, as usual, and I swore I saw Melissa look at me a few times, but I passed them off as just glances through the crowd. With all those lights in her eyes, what were the odds she could actually see me anyway? A very hot Latina spent most of the show standing next to me, and I tried to flirt with her, but then her girlfriend showed up. Oops.
When the show ended, my adrenaline was pumping. I felt a natural high, almost like I'd just had sex. Having been many times, I knew it was better to just hang out for a little while when the concert ended for a couple reasons. 1- sometimes the band came out and played one last song for the hardcore fans who stood there screaming for an encore, and 2- because it was difficult to fight through the hordes of people to get to the door.
"Excuse me! Excuse me!" someone shouted, snapping me out of my daze. I looked around to find the source of the voice and saw a woman coming towards me with a security badge flapping.
"Me?" I asked.
"Yes, I was told to give this to you," she said as she handed me a folded piece of paper. I took it and she ran off again to help with crowd control.
"What does it say?" Josh asked, elbowing me.
I read the note out loud, "Hey, I've seen you around before. There's a cool show tomorrow night at Deville's, I'll be there at 10, I hope to see you there. -Melissa"
Josh laughed and said, "Oh, you'll be there. She might not recognize you, but you'll be there."
Apparently, Melissa didn't realize that I am the show she was going to. Or part of it. I'm a drag king, which really just means I dress up like a boy and make an ass of myself to music. But it makes me good money at the local lesbian bars, and it's fun. I'm part of a troupe and for this particular show, I was the finale.
So the next night I was getting ready for my show, and I was really nervous. I was dressed up as my character, wearing fairly tight jeans so they would fit under my chaps and a plain white t-shirt and a Stetson (can you tell I'm a cowboy?), and I peeked around the curtain to scan the crowd. It was about 10:30 and I was set to go on in 15 minutes, and I spotted Melissa sitting at the bar looking very disappointed. I felt bad for a moment, but smiled inwardly at the thought of her reaction when I surprised her later.
15 minutes later I strode out from behind the curtain to the beginning beats of "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" by Big & Rich. I went through my performance, even jumping off the stage for a little bit to wander through the crowd. I stopped by Melissa and winked at her, and I thought I saw a glimmer of recognition, but a moment later it was gone. After the show I turned myself back into a girl and went out to the bar, taking the Stetson with me. The lights on the dance floor had started and the beats where thumping and people started filing into the other room to dance the rest of the night away.
I tapped Melissa on the shoulder and she turned around, completely shocked to see me. She looked me up and down and I could see her trying to figure out what to say to the fact that I was an hour late. I just smiled and put the Stetson on, and her face lit up. She understood.
"Wow, that's so crazy...you were amazing..."
"Thanks," I said, and turned to order a drink. "Put it on my tab, Stace...." Then I turned back to Melissa, "I'm Ari, by the way."
"Melissa...but you know that already."
"So how come I've never seen you in here before?"
"I don't come here much. We're on tour a lot...6 months of the year, usually. We're actually leaving in a couple days."
I nodded and took a sip of my drink, "I think I knew that too."
"Well, since you seem to know so much about me already, tell me about yourself..."