Crystal and I walk hand in hand out of the garage. She follows my lead as I turn right and steer us towards the ice cream place I saw when I got my new clothes. It looked like the kind of fancy place I would expect in Cherry Creek.
The petite gothy/punky young woman walks next to me with obvious excitement. With her larger than life personality I kind of forget how small she actually is. Right now that's highlighted by how little her hand feels in my loose grip. At work I usually wear the large gloves but I remember the smalls being big on her.
We laugh as we bump into each other a few times in rapid succession. While she has proportionally long legs she's still about a foot shorter than I am. Our respective normal gaits don't exactly line up and we both seem to be trying to walk close to each other.
"Ok, that's not working great." Crystal grumbles. "Sheesh, it's like we're horny teenagers or something." She takes a half step sideways away from me. "Let's see if we can make it to the ice cream place without crashing too much."
I squeeze her small hand, "Sounds good to me." Grinning down at her with more confidence and less awkwardness than I would have had in the past I add, "Once we get our ice cream can we act like horny teenagers again?"
Crystal looks up at me with her piercing blue eyes and a slightly manic grin, "Promise?" I nod, not exactly knowing what I'm signing up for. "I'm gonna hold you to that and see how awkward we can make everybody feel." If that's her attitude anyways no wonder she's so excited about magical sex powers.
We start walking again and we both make minor adjustments to our gait. It doesn't take long for us to manage to walk together and not bump into each other. Crystal hesitates all of maybe five seconds before plunging right in, "Soooo, about your magic bullshit powers. What are they? How do they work? Did you just get them? Hit by a meteorite? Vat of toxic chemicals? Aliens? Demons? Gods? Gamma burst? What's up? Ooh, can you make her flash us?" She ends by nodding towards a moderately busty woman walking towards us.
"I, umm, can we talk about this after we get ice cream." I ask as we keep walking. "And yes, I could make her flash us but I'd prefer to explain things to you first." After the woman in the parking garage my arousal is definitely higher and rising and I want to keep a clear head. At least for a little bit.
"But the suspense is... and she's sexy..." Crystal starts "Yeah, OK. I can understand why you might want that." She concedes. "You'll just have to make some other hot babe flash us!"
"Thank you. And, umm, sure." I say. "So what were you doing near here? It didn't take you very long to meet me." I'm trying to change the subject but I'm also curious.
"Oh. That." Crystal seems hesitant before she just gets it out. "I was dumpster diving for clothes." She can feel my surprised reaction through out hands. "Hey, you think I can afford my clothes on my shitty pay? Most, well almost all, of my clothes came out dumpsters."
"But, isn't that dangerous? And what if you get caught?" I ask concerned about her safety. "Wait, and your clothes are that expensive? I mean, they look great but..." I trail off.
"Aww, thanks." She actually blushes slightly at the complement. "Eh, it's safe enough if you know what you're doing. And everything gets chucked in the sanitizer cycle in the washer. Whatever survives, survives. What doesn't goes back in the trash."
She plucks at her tight sleeveless black top. "And yeah, this was some designer shirt that got tossed because of some minor thing. Same with the shorts. My mesh and fishnets were ripped packages from Spencer's or Vicky's or something like that. I nearly always have to take things in to fit anyways so I take care of any serious damage too."
She leans over to look at me, "That's why I recognize your clothes as being not cheap. I have a few thing from that place too. They're one of the asshole stores that cuts up clothing when they trash it. Jokes on them that I can fix that shit. It also helps that I'm like, half the size of you so it's easier to patch and make work."
Clearly Crystal has a lot of survival skills and I'm guessing she's been on her own for a while. "Umm, wow. That's... not what I expected." She looks at me. "I'm just surprised, that's all. And impressed. No judgement from me."
"Thanks. Most people don't react that way. A lot of people are really judgey." She shrugs, "It's just what I learned to do to survive." She looks quickly at me, "Before you ask, I don't want to talk about that right now. Maybe later, but not now."
"Ok, I understand." It seems like she's had a hard life. I can relate to that and at least understand it some. I give her hand a squeeze again. From her smile and squeezing me back I can tell she appreciates me not prying. Hopefully as time goes on we'll get closer and she'll feel comfortable enough with me to share her story. I'm not going to push her on it though.
The ice cream place isn't that far, just another half block of walking in sort of mutual awkward silence together. Since it's across the street from the clothing place I didn't get a really good look at it before. It seems like a great place. One of the shops where they make almost everything here. And the ice cream is made with liquid nitrogen in big stand mixers, which is pretty neat.
The door handle is on her side so Crystal opens it for us. As we walk into the place all the incredible aromas hit us. It smells fantastic in here. Different ice cream and topping scents are wafting in the air along with the strong smell of waffle cones being cooked. I think I'm going to have a hard time deciding what to get.
It's also fairly busy, which is unsurprising since it's a beautiful warm Saturday night. There's lots of attractive people in here and my increased libido definitely notices all the sexy women. Most of the clientele seems to be in their 20s and 30s with some older folks too.
It seems like short skirts, mainly pleated, are the in thing right now since that's what at least half the women in here are wearing. That or yoga pants or short shorts like Crystal. There's a lot of tank tops and other sleeveless shirts too. It is pretty warm out so that makes sense.
Luckily there's a lull in the line and we only have to wait behind one person before getting to the counter to order our frozen treats. I get a waffle cone sundae with malted milk ball ice cream, hot fudge, and a house made cherry sauce. Crystal gets baklava ice cream and house made butterscotch over a blondie.
We both comment that what the other got was kind of a second choice so we decide to share a bit with each other. I pay for our ice cream and use the stopwatch to convince a young couple obviously on a date and done with their dessert to give us their table. I also give them what's probably going to be my usual list of loving breast play, being safe, and not staying with abusive people. Hopefully that will lead to more fun for them, especially since I also told them to go have some fun if they're both in the mood.
The couple gets up with giggles and a bit of minor groping. That leads to more, slightly embarrassed, giggling on their way out. As we sit down at the small table Crystal looks at me suspiciously, "Getting this was a little too easy. Did you do that?" I nod as I take a bite of my sundae, which is delicious. "I thought so. Ok, we have our ice cream. Spill." She says before taking a bite of her blondie sundae and obviously loving it.