Thank you for reading my story, I hope that you enjoy it. Love Mica xx, Yorkshire England.
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Please note that I am a British female, and I write in British English and vernacular, so for me a fanny is the correct term for female genitalia, a pussy is a pet cat and the ass is a bum or arse.
I apologise for any typo errors in my story - I edit these myself, and I'm not perfect...
We met, as you do sometimes, in a busy coffee bar in Leeds. We both aimed for the only empty table and arrived simultaneously, both pulling out a chair. I supposed that I should be a gentleman and concede ownership to a lady, but, well, I was not really a gentleman, and I had no real idea if she was actually a woman, never mind a lady.
"Shall we share?" She said, absolving me of any requirement to make a decision on whether should I claim or whether should I concede.
"What an excellent idea," I exclaimed and proceeded to sit down placing my mocha (medium) on the table before me. She was wearing a dark blue dress that seemed to fit her like a surgical glove, her shape obvious to those of us that may care to look.
"My name is Paul," I said.
She looked at me as if deciding whether to respond or just drink her coffee. She picked her coffee up and said, "mine is Lola."
"Oh, great name, we should have met in a club in Soho."
"Yes, yes, I know, and drunk champagne that tastes like Cherry Cola. Gosh, I have never heard that one." She took a drink of her coffee. I was sure that she was mentally tutting.
"Well, I can say that although you walked like a woman, you sure as heck don't sound like a man."
"Would it matter?"
"No, not in the slightest."
"Good."
"Good."
Well, this was going downhill fast. I picked up my Mocha and took a slurp and tried to disguise the fact that I had just burned my tongue, bloody thing was like napalm.
"God you must have an asbestos tongue," she said, "mine is way too hot to drink."
"Yup, as is mine, as I just discovered."
"Ah."
"I was distracted you see and was not thinking."
"Much better than the club in Soho line."
"Indeed, that, in hindsight, was remarkably lame, again, I was distracted,"
"Don't milk it, you had a win, take it."
"So Lola, I have possibly the most boring job in the world, I run my own company and am a Consultant that sorts out failing Government departments. The amount of government red tape that I have to wade through is just unbelievable."
"I bet there are stories that you could tell."
"There may be, only I am not allowed to tell them. It took a long time to get my security clearance, I for sure do not want to lose it."
"I see. Is this a roundabout way of you telling me that you are a spy and that do actually work in import and export."
"Ha, nothing so exciting, and even if I were, I could neither confirm nor deny it. What about you?"
"I am self employed as a legal secretary. I go from company to company on short contracts doing legal work. Exceedingly boring."
"I studied law once, oh, a very long time ago. I got as far as Carlill versus the Carbolic Smoke Ball Co and decided life was too short."
"Ha, yes, almost the beginning of Contract Case law that. You didn't study for long then, I think that is almost the first thing they teach you."
"Well, long enough to get an O Level in Law, and that is it. It was just not for me."
"Ah, so, an O Level. Heady stuff." She laughed. "I did four years at university to become a legal secretary."
"A little longer than my three months for an 'O' level then. Well done for surviving and coming out the other side."
"That was easy compared to the drivel that I have to deal with now, the stuff that they find too inconsequential to handle in chambers."
"I would ask you, but I expect you have a duty of confidentiality."
"Indeed I do, and there are a lot of very clever legal minds that would take me through every court in the land should I be silly enough to be indiscrete."
"Instead, may I ask you, I see you have no rings on your fingers, if you would care to meet me for dinner one evening?"
"I see. You don't really waste any time, do you?"
"Well, you say that, but it is over four minutes since we sat at this table, and some would consider that a considerable delay in proceedings."
"Indeed, they might, I would not however."
"Ah, I see."
"I will, however, accept your offer for dinner, we will however share the bill."
"Okay, not my usual position, if I invite, I pay, usually."
"Nothing here is usual."
"Okay, where would you like to meet, what food do you like?"
"Pretty much anything, I live in Shipley, somewhere that way?" Not too far from me then, good.
"Okay, how about the Pepper Mill?" I suggested.
"You know it?"
"I have been a few times, and it has always been okay. How about I buy the food, and you chose a bottle of wine?"
"Okay, seems fair, how far is that from you?"
"Not far, I live in Cottingley, so, I usually go to Bingley, but often Shipley too."