We jumped in my car and drove the ten minutes across town. I was right, the sign in their window said they were open till eleven. We still had about an hour. When we went in there were two other couples waiting to be seated so I gave the host our names, Robert and Jacqui and we waited. While we were waiting, I had a thought. I wondered if Trisha was working tonight. I hoped so and presumed she likely was since she had been last Saturday. Apparently they were just cleaning off tables because it was only a few minutes until they called our names.
I asked the host if Trisha was working that evening and when he assured me that she was, I asked if it would be possible to be seated in her area. He asked us to wait for a moment while he'd check to see if she was available. He came back shortly with a smile on his face and again asked us to follow him, veering in a different direction from before, showing us to our table and offering us both a menu.
A couple minutes later a familiar face appeared at our table, smartly dressed in a knee length black skirt and white satin blouse. "Well hello again," she said, "Nice to see you. Welcome!"
"Hi Trisha, this is my friend Jacqui. Jacqui, this is Trisha." Then I explained briefly to Jacqui, "We met Trisha here last week."
"Hi Jacqui, you must be the young lady I read so much about in the last few days."
Jacqui looked at me kind of quizzically. I explained to her, "After we were here last week and Shaun and Michelle had made, umm, quite an impression on Trisha, I suggested to her she might want to read my stories on Lit."
Then I turned back to Trisha, "We're celebrating tonight. Jacqui was promoted to manager of a Victoria's Secret store." I didn't mention that our 'celebration' was tinged with a huge degree of sadness at what that promotion entailed.
Trisha gave Jacqui a big smile, her pretty blue eyes beaming, "Well congratulations, I'm glad you decided to come here for your celebration." Then she turned back to her professional self and asked, "What would you like to drink on your celebration night?"
I asked for my standby, ice tea and Jacqui asked for strawberry lemonade. Trisha said she'd be right back with our drinks, her long blonde ponytail swaying back and forth as she walked away.
After she left, Jacqui asked me what happened last week. I explained about the kiss between Shaun and Michelle that Trisha had watched when she stopped to take our orders.
"I'll bet that shocked her a little, didn't it?"
"She acted like she really enjoyed it. The rest of the dinner, we kind of flirted back and forth a little. When we left I left a note with my name and lit website so she'd see the stories and understand what was going on."
"And obviously she was curious enough to read them from what she said."
"Yeah, the morning Michelle left, I had a message from Trisha saying that she'd read them." I knew I was going to be treading on dangerous ground here, but I went on, "She also gave me her phone number to call her sometime."
"Oh really! Seems like I remember another girl giving you a phone number at one time. You seem to have a habit of collecting young ladies phone numbers, don't you? Are you going to call her?"
"I doubt it, I know my wife would like me to, but I also have another young lady in my life that I'm pretty dedicated to. I think between a wife and a girlfriend, it's about all the female I could possibly handle."
"She's very attractive, don't you think?"
I definitely did think so. She looks like she's in her late twenties or early thirties, has nice boobs and legs, very pretty face. Funny how I just realized the 'order' in which a guy notices a pretty girl's appearance. "She's okay, but not nearly as attractive as my date tonight!"
Trisha interrupted our conversation by bringing our drinks. Jacqui seemed to be handling my revelation pretty nicely. She took a sip of her lemonade and told Trisha it was really good. Then said to her, "I understand you're maybe trying to steal my boyfriend?" Her tone and the twinkle in her eye gave a pretty good indication that she was talking in jest, not with any anger.
Trisha smiled right back at her, "I don't know, is he stealable? Looks like a pretty good catch to me. Not sure my boyfriend would want me to steal him though, maybe we could work a trade sometime?"
Jacqui looked at me, then at Trisha, "I'd need to at least see a picture of your boyfriend first before agreeing to something like that."
Wow, this conversation was getting more and more risquΓ© by the moment! Not what I'd intended at all. I just wanted a nice dinner with Jacqui and hadn't even thought about Trisha until we were here. Where the heck was this going to go? It was more than a little flattering and had my blood surging to have two pretty ladies talk about me like that! She's kidding, right?
Trisha came right back, "Nah, I'm just a waitress. Remember that George Strait song, 'I'm married to a waitress and don't even know her name'? I don't want to be just some anonymous waitress."
"But Robert does know your name Trisha, and I'm sure he wouldn't have anything against a waitress. I was just a sales clerk and he certainly didn't mind glomming onto me."
I had to interject a little, "Uhh, for the record, you were an assistant manager. But no, it wouldn't have mattered." And I gave Jacqui a nice kiss on her cheek.
Trisha looked around and apparently thought maybe she better get back to work, "I have a couple more tables finishing up, are you guys ready to order?" Her smiley face gave the impression that she really did want to continue this conversation but after all, she was working now.
Jacqui quickly looked at the menu, "I haven't even looked." She scanned down it and asked for the six ounce prime rib. I already knew what I wanted before we got there, "The biggest rib steak you have." She asked Jacqui about the salad and so on, then asked me, "Same as last time?"
"Exactly, you remember?"
"I do, salad, lots of thousand island, no olives, baked potato butter only."
I was more than impressed, "Guess you only get one or two customers a week so you can remember, right?"
"Haha! You three were kind of memorable. I'll put in your order." Then she walked away, wiggling her cute bottom just a little extra I thought.
I looked at Jacqui who was sitting across from me giggling. She said, "That was fun, wasn't it?"
I gritted my teeth a little, "Just where the heck are you going with this?"
"Well you brought me here and introduced me to this cute waitress who you obviously have a thing for. I thought we should have a little fun to lighten our evening."
"I do NOT have a thing for her!"
She looked at me with a smirk on her face, "Maybe you can convince yourself of that, but I saw how you looked at her. You want to get in her pants and I just might make that happen!"
My jaw dropped about a mile. She was right, I did. What normal, red-blooded guy wouldn't? I wasn't about to admit it though! And make it happen? Not a chance in hell! But I was going to call her bluff, "I double-dog dare you to!" I told her.
She just looked at me with what seemed at the time like an evil grin on her face and didn't say a word. She just winked at me like she was thinking, "OK buster, watch this!"
Trisha stopped by a few minutes later to refill our drinks. While she was there, Jacqui took the opportunity to quiz me, "You never did answer Trisha's question sweetie. Do you have anything against waitresses?"
I was trying to take a drink and about choked on that question! "Umm no, I love waitresses." Then realized what I'd said, "What I'm trying to say is that there's nothing at all wrong with being a waitress."
Trisha said, "I liked your first answer better." Jacqui nodded that she did too.
Then Jacqui asked her, "This boyfriend, do you have a picture of him?"
I looked at Jacqui. One thing I did NOT want to do is get into some boyfriend-girlfriend swap thing. It was bad enough for me that Jacqui was leaving in a couple months, but I didn't want her having sex with some random guy! Is that weird or what? I wanted my wife to have a lover, but my girlfriend - NO WAY!
I don't know if Jacqui saw a look on my face or if she'd only been kidding about the boyfriend in the first place but she told Trisha, "Just kidding, I have all the guy I can handle right now." That was fine, but then she went on, "But my guy, I'm not so sure about him, he's insatiable! Maybe I could use a little help with that."
I spit out another drink with that statement!
Trisha asked Jacqui, "Is he any good?"
Have you ever been in the middle of a conversation like that? If not, I assure it's surreal! Damn good thing our food wasn't there yet or I'd probably have choked to death and been carried out on a stretcher!
"Well, you saw his wife kissing, how'd that look?"