Many thanks to snowbear for the editing of this story.
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ROBIN'S STORY
It was a bad day. It really was a very bad day for me, indeed. I had lost my job and I had lost my apartment. Though none of these matters were my fault, they happened with the worst possible timing.
Only one week ago my girlfriend of one and a half years and I had agreed that we were not mature enough for a long lasting and faithful relationship and parted without any hard feelings by saying, without really meaning it, "It would be nice to see you again in a year or two."
And now all my plans about happy single life had turned to crap. Of course it wasn't my fault that fewer people bought their homes at the estate broker company where I worked and the company rule for such a situation was "Last in - first out" and "Last in" was me. Neither was it my fault that the guy who owned the apartment where I was living decided to quit his UN job in Kenya after only six months, instead the three years he had planned to stay there. I couldn't blame him that he had written such a condition in our contract, which I had accepted.
What should I do?
I, Robin Swensson, did just the same thing as many other single 25 year old Scandinavian guys would have done; I invited three of my best friends to my place for a dinner before going out for a fun Friday evening.
The dinner was with take away food from a nearby Thai restaurant and good supply of well-chilled booze. About eleven o'clock in the evening we once again discovered that boys are boys and we need some pussy to be happy. We went to the best place in town where such pleasures might be found.
One of the hotels in our town had a dance band in their bar that evening and somehow we managed to bribe our way past the bouncer at the entrance door and got inside.
As soon as we entered I saw two nice girls sitting at a table sharing a bottle of red wine. One of them was a real "dream girl" in my opinion. She was tall, blond with her hair nicely done and dressed in a yellow dress. Of course, I wanted to dance with her.
But something happened as I walked towards her. I lost my balance and fell over their table, which almost fell on the blond. As her wine spilled in her lap, she began screaming.
Only a few seconds later I found myself thrown out and sitting on the pavement outside the hotel bar. Some further seconds later I found a furious blonde with a soiled short yellow dress standing besides me and shouting, "You damn bastard, look what you did. You know that you have to pay for it."
I remained sitting, doing my best to calm her down and replied, "Yes, of course, no problems. I'm sorry and will fix it, please no hard feelings?"
"Nothing harder than I wish you burning slowly in the hell."
"I'm sorry, yes I'm very sorry, indeed."
She had very nice legs and sitting down I even tried to see under her dress when she was standing close to me. Her legs were really nice so I could not resist the temptation to say, "Damn nice legs."
She teased me by remaining standing close to me and said, "Shut up and be serious. Show me an ID."
I decided to make some kind of attempt to get acquainted with her and gave her my driver's license and business card as ID and said. "Choose a mall and I'll drive you there tomorrow and I will pay for a dress, lunch and everything."
"Are you insane? You can't drive tomorrow, but I'll keep your license until you have paid for the damages and we are even."
"Would you like to drive my car tomorrow then, please do?"
She said, "I'll think about it and be sure that I'll call you for a solution. By the way, what car?"
"Audi A4"
"Okay or junk?"
"One year old."
A taxi arrived and she opened a door and shouted, "I call you tomorrow morning"
She called promptly at eight thirty in the morning and asked me, "Are you ready within a half hour?"
I found out that I had a terrible hangover, but I did remember the reason why an unknown girl asked me if I was ready. I asked, "You are the beauty in the yellow dress, are you?"
"Not really, I'm wearing blue jeans, but you soiled my yellow dress yesterday."
"I'm sorry and yes, I will be ready in thirty minutes."
After an ice cold shower and two aspirin as breakfast, I was standing on the street outside my home just as the blond girl arrived on a bike. She said, "You look better than expected."
"You look great too. By the way, do you have a driver's license?
"Yes, of course. My name is Emmelie Landgren, if that was your reason to see it?
Obviously she was a clever girl and we went away. She was a good driver and I could take it easy and relax along the way. I looked at Emmelie and found out that she was a very handsome girl even in bright daylight.
Once again she read my mind and asked, "Am I okay?"
"I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention to offend you. Yes you are a very handsome girl, indeed."
"You said it even yesterday when you sat on the pavement and tried to look under my skirt."
"You teased me by standing so close that I couldn't resist the great view. I'm sorry if that offended you."
Now she gave me a smile and she said, "You are forgiven for that, but is it your common behavior on the weekend to be as boozed as you were yesterday?"
"No, of course not but please show some mercy to a poor sinner who has lost his girlfriend, job and apartment all within two weeks. I do agree that consulting 'Doctor Bottle' caused me new problems instead of solving any of my old problems. But I will never regret that I called you a handsome girl."
"It wasn't my intention to offend you and of course I was flattered by your kind comments."
I understood that she would do her shopping in a city about 60 kilometers from home and during the remaining driving time we talked about ourselves. Emmelie had recently dumped a boyfriend after she had found him cheating. She was 24 years old and worked as teacher and had got a job in my hometown. Both her parents were teachers and living in a town about 40 kilometers away.
The simple reason why I hadn't seen her before was that she had spent most of her spare time in her old hometown. But only a month ago she had rented a nice three-room apartment in our town and she intended to spend more weekends in our town now that she was single.
I had always regarded shopping together with my ex to be rather boring but somehow it was quite different with Emmelie. To my great surprise I found out that it was amusing and we had fun together. After some searching in several stores, she found a very nice brown dress, which I paid for without any complaints though it was quite expensive.
After a lunch at a nice place, Emmelie asked me if I would mind if she tried to find nice shoes for her new dress. I accepted and only two hours later she had found both nice shoes and stockings.
I suggested that she join me for dinner at a popular Italian restaurant that evening but Emmelie suggested that we cook a dinner at her place instead, but only if I accepted her condition about "No intentions or attempts to have sex nor even talk about sex during the evening". What could I do? I wasn't very happy about that condition but accepted it without any complaints.
After some shopping for our dinner at a supermarket I drove Emmelie to her apartment. She gave me a quick kiss before she left the car with her bags. So far my day had been much better than expected because I had really enjoyed my time together with Emmelie. She was a lovely girl and obviously she had no hard feelings left against me after I paid my debts to her.
We had agreed about seven o'clock for the dinner and "on the dot " I rang Emmelie's doorbell. She opened her door dressed in a nice black top and a knee length red skirt. I gave her a bunch of red roses and a bottle of wine and got a quick kiss.
Her apartment was in good order with rather expensive furniture. After looking around for a while she took me to the kitchen where she gave me a hug and said, "I didn't dare to tease you with a shorter skirt."
What could I say? I said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome and now it's time for us to cook the dinner."
She took two pink frilled aprons with a pattern of red flowers, gave me one and put one on herself and said, "Put it on!"
"I can't"