He saw her first, across the dance floor, near the bar. Her hair dark and worn in a style which reminded him of movie stars from the 50's. It looked good on her, but made her seem just a little unreal. Her dress was black and followed closely the curves of her figure finishing in black lace around her knees; beneath she wore black stockings – he knew they would be stockings. She stood completely still as if in some way separate from everything around her and that seemed to throw some hypnotic effect upon him.
It was sometime before he became aware that he was looking, such was the power of entrancement. When he realised, he turned away, momentarily embarrassed though unsure exactly why. Perhaps it was that sensation of not being properly in control.
He had to meet her.
Somehow, his thoughts seemed to bring her to him. In an instant her eyes had found him and she started to move. His heart missed a beat when he realised she was moving towards him, to him.
She moved with a grace he had never seen before. Purposeful, her entire body swayed with a slow seductive power. Despite the black dress or maybe because of it and the way it clung and concealed, flowed and revealed, he was strangely aware of her naked body coming to him – the dress inhabited some other, unreal, dimension which both cloaked her and presented her to him.
He remembered, or thought he remembered, hearing that a snake can hypnotise its prey by the way it moves. He understood how that might be and felt a dryness in his throat.
Although she appeared to be seeking him out, as she approached she seemed to change direction. Spurred into action, not wishing to lose her now she was so close, he intercepted her with a clumsy request for a dance though he knew his vocabulary was not functioning properly. Afterwards, he could not remember if he had actually asked, but the fact that within a few seconds he had his arm around her on the dance floor, led him to assume that he must have done, though he could remember no spoken words.
A slow number. Ideal. He could not believe it had been so easy: the simple transition from strangers to a formal embrace on the dance floor. Like a gift, it seemed she had just given herself to him.
‘Maria’, she said and for a short while said nothing more. He assumed it was her name.
‘Daniel’, he said, leading the two of them. Only his mother had ever called him Daniel, and he was surprised that he had used the name now.
She felt soft and warm in his arms. Her perfume, hardly noticeable at first, slowly began to pervade his senses. She was breathing lightly; he could feel the gentle movement of breasts moving freely behind the thin fabric of her dress and he thought he could detect the harder texture of her nipples against his skin making their presence felt through her dress, through his shirt. His hand was on her waist and the warmth of her body felt good.
She moved closer to him. Deliberately using her body as an erotic challenge to him. He felt both aroused and threatened. The arousal was easily winning the battle though. Her head moved closer to his shoulder, her lips closer to his ear.
'You like me, don't you?' she whispered, her fingers exerting a subtle pressure on his back just below his neck.
The hard bulge in the front of his trousers pressing into the shallow valley between the top of her thigh and her pubic region seemed to make the answer to the question irrelevant. He felt awkward, his body betraying him so blatently to this bewitching stranger, but she moved again, her mound, proud and uncompromising, rolling over the fabric concealed mound of his manlust making his mound seem like a mountain. The discomfort he felt, he had no power to move from. Holding her on the dance floor, he felt himself held even more securely in a vicelike grip of words and animal need.
‘I know you do.’ She said, her breath’s warmth lightly disturbing the air beside his ear.
They moved together across the dance floor, but not as one. Moving with him, she also moved against him, shifting the pressure of her body against his. His hardened cock was massaged by her body pressing through her thin layer of clothing, through his. Moving with the music and within the music, her body expressed itself against his in some dance within a dance. And she continued to whisper in his ear.
‘Some men’, she continued, ‘like to hold me close, like this, press their body up against mine. They use the dance floor as an excuse to rub themselves against me. They get erections and hold them close against me. Isn’t that nasty, using me like that … like a cheap whore? They move against me pretending that they are slipping them selves in and out of my private place.’
‘They want to fuh me.’ she said, not pronouncing the hard ‘ck’ of fuck, building up the tension of the word but not allowing the final release; stopping the full expression with a hard ‘H’. She had an eroticism all of her own.
She held herself against him submissively, as if seeking protection. He felt the need to hold her, to protect her, to take her as his. He felt her domination crawling over him like a spider.