I stood outside the fast food restaurant for a minute or two, trying to figure out if the person I was looking for was working this evening. The pictures he had sent me hadn't show very much of his face, so I didn't really know who I was looking for as I peeked inside the nearly deserted Burger King.
There were four people working behind the counter, either cooking or waiting for customers to come into the place. Two I eliminated right away because of their gender, which left the two males as candidates. The one male was the right age but had dark skin, and the pigmentation of the penis that I had been blessed with several pictures of was very pale with a pinkish hue, which could not belong to that guy.
That left the tall and skinny dude, whose curly blonde hair was nearly my match, and he seemed to be around the same age my reader claimed to be, which was 19. The guy looked to be the type that belonged on a skateboard, and when I looked at him all I could think of was Sean Penn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Taking a deep breath, I entered the restaurant when my prey was closest to the register, not wanting to have to deal with any of the other staff. The guy didn't seem to be all that excited to have a customer come in and interrupt his conversation with the little redhead working the drive-thru window, but he moved toward the counter with the forced smile staff were supposed to greet their patrons with.
"Welcome to Burger King," the kid said, his face still bearing the faint acne scars from his earlier years, and as I returned his smile my eyes went to his name tag. "Would you like to try a value meal?"
DYLAN
Bingo! The name on the badge was indeed the moniker used by my ardent reader, who had exchanged several raunchy e-mails with me after reading my stories at literotica, and had been so kind to forward me pictures of his genitalia in various states of arousal.
It was difficult to connect the photos of that over-sized penis with the scrawny kid behind the counter, but there was no way to tell from the baggy jeans he was wearing.
"What I was really interested in was a Whopper," I said in a low voice, biting my lower lip in as coy a manner that a 57 year old woman could manage. "Never had a Whopper before... Dylan."
The kid started to tell me about how much I could save if I got fries and a drink with that, but I cut him off.
"I only want a Whopper," I said. "Hopefully something that resembles the pictures you sent me."
Poor Dylan turned around and looked up at the board behind him before doing a double-take that nearly broke his skinny neck.
"Marie?" he whispered as his eyes bulged out wildly.
"Told you I didn't live that far away from you," I reminded him, Dylan having given me his life story in his e-mails - where he worked and where he went to school - and when I mentioned that I didn't live that far from him, I had told him that maybe I would drop in to see him sometime.
From his reaction, he didn't believe it, and frankly, if I hadn't needed to do business tonight in a town near here, I would never have driven the 35 miles to see if he really existed. Here I was though, and my appearance seemed to give my young fan a very nervous reaction.
"Disappointed?" I asked, hoping that I didn't look all that much worse than my self-appraisal had indicated, and he shook his head wildly in response.
"I don't get off until 11," Dylan stammered.
"I can't stick around," I explained. "You want to get off for real before then? You get a break?"
"Um - yeah," Dylan said. "In a half hour."
"Can't you switch with somebody?" I said, looking at my watch. "Kind of pressed for time."
Dylan looked around for a second, his mannerisms and expression resembling a rat in a maze, and while he tried to figure out if Burger King could spare him for a few minutes this late in the evening, I made it easier for him.
"I'm in the Toyota Matrix in the back of the parking lot," I said. "I'll be back there for another ten minutes. If you can sneak out, I'll see you there. If not, that's okay. I understand. I will take a Diet Coke. Make it a large."
***
I had barely gotten back out to my car when I saw the rear door of the restaurant open up and a shadowy figure race toward me. Situated in the back seat, I watched my eager young fan run to the rear of the lot, which all of a sudden looked a lot brighter than it had when I parked there. There was a bank of lights illuminating the drive-thru lane, which was on the other side, and this didn't give me the seclusion I had first thought, but it was too late now.
Dylan looked into the car, nearly getting into the front seat before I motioned for him to get into the back with me. He was out of breath and after he closed the door we stared at each other across the back seat in a few seconds of awkward silence.
"Well?" I asked.
"Can't believe this," Dylan said.
"Can't believe what?"
"Can't believe you exist. Can't believe you found me - actually looked for me."