"Okay, here it is." I invited my Tinder date into my little studio apartment.
"Wow," she said neutrally. "It's kinda..."
"Messy?"
"Uh, sure. Let's go with that."
I smirked at her. She was so strange.
"May I borrow some clothes?"
I raised an eyebrow at her. "Isn't that usually after we...?"
My cute little date shook her head. "No sex tonight. I didn't bring condoms and don't trust you enough to use any of yours."
A blinked a couple extra times, at yet another bold statement like that from her tonight.
"But we can cuddle or whatever. I just wanna shower first, and smell all your clothes."
"You want to borrow my clothes... to smell them?" I slid past her thin, tiny body and moved over to my kitchen to start putting away the leftover food from the picnic meal she'd made us.
"Yeah, you have this amazing all-natural smell on you. It's gotta be your detergent," she charged for my closet without my permission. "I've been trying to find one that actually gets things clean without harsh chemicals for ages, and..."
I appeared behind her, my body pressed against hers from behind and my hands grabbing her wrists. She froze, her pulse quickening obviously in my grips as I towered over her tiny stature and pinned her still in the air with her limbs still outreached for my favorite jacket, draped over the basket in which I hide sex toys.
"I need you... to slow down," I said in my deep, low voice. I felt her shiver against me as the words traveled through her body.
"Hmm..." she moaned in thought, sounding like she was about to comply. "No," she used my trust to yank a wrist free and grab at my jacket. A gift from my last lover, whom I was very much not all the way over yet. I snatched it from her hand, and shoved her away from my closet and back onto my bed.
"Eep!" she yelped and giggled as she crashed into my pillows and plush animals.
"Why... why are you being so difficult?" I asked. "First you won't tell me your real name or where to pick you up, then—"
"I'm a brat," she leaned back on her arms and let her head fall mischievously to the side, biting her lip and eyeing me hungrily. Or maliciously. "Is... that gonna be a problem?" she kicked an innocent little plush panda off my bed. I watched as it fell on its face on the dusty floor. I eyed the skimpily-dressed bohemian temptress posing confrontational on my bed.
"Not at all," I accepted the challenge this flighty woodland creature would be, and threw some of my smallest clothes at her, turning away right after toward my bathroom to take my shower first. I tried to push out of my head how much trouble she could cause while left alone until I finished washing, and resolved to keep it slightly quicker than usual, but otherwise let those worries go.
When I got out, I tossed her a rolled up clean towel, and passed her by without looking at her on my way to finish cleaning up in the kitchen. I think she didn't take being ignored very well. I noticed her unmoved on my bed in the corner of my eye for a while before she gave in and took her shower. I sighed as the bathroom door closed. We'd been at each other's throats all night for some reason or other. This was starting to get frustrating, and I didn't need a repeat of what happened with my last sexual partner for damn sure. But some elements of this new connection were starting to shape up comparably already. I washed her picnic dishes quickly, and resolved to put this out of my head and take each challenge as it came rather than make any kind of gameplan in advance for how to deal with her. Maybe if I just focused on how incredibly fucking sexy she was, I could channel my frustration into fucking with her right back, and the whole thing would be fun. But I wasn't sure. She was starting to get on my nerves.
Soon, we cuddled in bed without saying anything else to each other. She smelled me a bit, then just turned away and yanked my arms over to make me her very big spoon. We laid together in tense, yet intimate silence while both likely wide awake for about 45 minutes before she finally said something.
"I actually like you quite a bit," she muttered. "We're having a bit of a rough start, but I think you could be a good fit..." Her voice trailed off like there was more.
"But...?" I asked kind of indifferently. I wish I'd said something better.
"But... you said... in the text. We're not..."
"Not compatible long term? Yeah, I know."
"It's not that I hate kids or anything," she said very softly. She seemed sad and dejected. "I just really don't like the idea of bringing life into—"
"No, it's ok," I cut her off a bit too soon. "You don't have to explain yourself." I really didn't want to talk about this. Not after it ruined my last love, and in a giant flaming ball of destruction, no less.
My sad little bratty Tinder date rotated around until she was staring into my eyes. They were watery. "You wouldn't, like...
ghost
me because I don't want kids, would you? I know it's only still the first date, but... like, I mean down the road? If this did work out?"
"Hey," I said softly, and kissed her cheek. I wiped her budding teardrops, and pulled her in tighter to my body. "Of course not. Never," I smiled. "That'd be really fucked up."
My date smiled. It was the most sad and beautiful little smile. She knew I was telling the truth. "Thank you," she kissed my neck because she was too short to reach my cheek to get me back. It felt so warm and tingly. She turned back around and started wiggling her sexy little ass in expertly frustrating circles against my dick. Even through four layers of clothing with both our shorts and underwear between us, she felt so impossibly close and supple and ready to be fucked. Like I was one thin sheet of paper away from slipping up inside her somehow. It was in her movement. It had only been a few seconds of grinding, and I was already losing my mind obsessing over the idea of snuggle-fucking her. But she'd said no sex. I wasn't liking this loss of power in the dynamic already. Before I'd even decided for sure to do it, a retaliation sparked in me and was full sent to regain power over the situation.
"Yeah, I mean, if I really wanted kids and you just kept saying no, I'd much sooner give them to you anyway than just ditch you without warning." I snuggled close to my date and pulled her in tighter as she froze, facing the weight of what I'd just said.
"Um," my gorgeous date verbally misstepped for the first time this evening. Her carefully calculated brat demeanor was shaken. I smiled wider as she tried to approach the topic to gain some elaboration. "What, um... what exactly do you mean exactly when you say, 'give them to you anyway', like that?"
"Hm?" I played dumb, grinding on her ass to keep up the friction as soon as she stopped moving. "Oh, I just mean like if we're a couple or something and it's getting serious and you still don't want kids, I don't exactly think you could do well to stop me giving them to you."
My date rotated again, rolling to face me. Our eyes were level, and our lips were very close.
"Are you fucking with me? Trying to turn me on with CNC because I said I like—"
"Haha, well, I'd imagine the idea would turn you on, sure," I said softly. "But that's just icing on the cake. A man has needs, you know." I smiled and closed my eyes. I saw hers start to gape at my audacity just before I did. I loved seeing that reaction in her. I loved pushing her boundaries with my words.