I met her on-line, in an erotic chat site I should never have been frequenting. It was a Thursday, January 7, if memory serves. I had asked her a question or two in the public chat area, and she had soon sent me a private message asking if I would like to carry on a conversation with her in a different setting, a chat application for mobile. I'd never heard of the service she had mentioned, but I downloaded it and we connected. Protected by our anonymity, we could be ourselves without risk of judgment - the only thing we knew we had in common was that we were both interested in erotic chat. Very shortly after we had started conversing, she had sent me a picture of herself. I can still recall the picture it now - it was a nude, taken in the mirror, and it showed her from the chin down. I liked what I saw! Firm breasts, long hair, and a lovely, shapely body.
And it was a huge turn-on to have someone send me a nude like this within minutes of us connecting. We shared some very personal fantasies until late into the night. Late for me, at any rate - it transpired that she lives on the West Coast, and so when she went off-line for a bit, I had to go to bed. Before signing out, I left her with a photograph - to anyone else who saw it, it could would have looked random, but it told her the story of how I had finished the evening, thinking of her. I also told her I had saved the nude she had sent, but would delete it if she requested me to, as long as she contacted me at an e-mail address I use for anonymous communication. I then uninstalled the chat app since the contents of our conversation where extremely incriminating, to both of us, and it would look very suspicious if I suddenly started using a password on my tablet.
But I was hooked. I desperately hoped we could talk again, although I thought the possibility quite unlikely. The women, and some men, I had chatted with in the past had always only ever been interested in what I have come to term short "one-night-stand" chats, and not in any subsequent off-line communication. It was anonymous and exciting, with no commitment or expectation. I was sure this go be the same way.
Nevertheless, I installed the chat application on my work mobile, which I keep locked as a matter of company policy, just in case. Sure enough, as soon as I logged in to the chat app, I saw some messages from her: "Hi!! Wait!" and "Sorry, I had to go out!" I knew it was only four a.m. where she was, but I still felt the need to respond. I told her how nice and exciting I found our conversation, and that I hoped we could talk again. She was genuinely puzzled as to why I seemed to be so eager to abandon our undeniably enjoyable and exciting chat. I explained that I really had no objection, I just didn't want to presume that she wanted to stay in such close touch.
It turned out that our little conversation the night before had reminded her that she was what other people call deeply dirty at heart, and made her realize that she was neglecting this very important side of her self. She felt comfortable enough with me, had enough trust, that she wanted to carry it on to explore it more deeply.
We picked it up right where we had left off the night before. We shared very intimate thoughts about each other, private and personal pictures and videos, and even, to both of our surprise, our faces. There is an unwritten code with people you meet online that you never provide a photograph which shows skin and also your face; this presumably reduces the risk that you are dealing with a bad actor who could use this kind of picture as fodder for blackmail or revenge porn, so spread out among all the very dirty images we shared with each other, were fully-dressed shots showing what we looked like with our clothes on.
That brings us here, about a month and a half later. It turned out that she lived in the very same city the company I worked for was headquartered in, which came as a huge surprise to both of us. One almost never gets the opportunity to make physical contact with people one meets on line, and I suspect it is even more rarely a wise idea. But we were so drawn to each other, in spite of the difference in our ages (I'm almost fifty, she is not yet 20). I did make it a point to tell her that my attraction was towards her sexy mind, not her age, but she did have a fantastic body, the type I had thought I might never see up close again.
I was travelling to the Bay area for an internal company conference; it was a distance of some 2,500 miles. I made it my habit to arrive the day before I needed to be there if possible, to give me a chance to meet with friends and also to relax and get used to the three hour time change. As usual, I took an early morning flight, which required getting up at around 5:30 am to pre-clear customs and security; a pain in the neck, but it also got me in to SFO in time for lunch, and on Sundays, I could always find people to hang out with.
A former colleague and his wife met me at the airport, and we had lunch with another couple we knew, friends who had abandoned the north for Silicon Valley. After a pleasant luncheon together, I was dropped off at my hotel - Oakland, where the conference was being held, and as soon as I got to my room, I shaved and showered and then went for a quick nap.
About forty-five minutes was enough to bring me back to consciousness, or at least cope temporarily with three hours of jet lag. This brought me to four o'clock. I lay in bed, naked, reflecting on our past together and our impending first meeting.
She had agreed to meet me for an early dinner. She picked the place, a brew pub not far from the hotel. I had butterflies. I wanted us to find we had the same chemistry in person, or at least like each other, but there were so many ways this could go wrong - we might find we weren't actually attracted to each other in person (more likely she would be less attracted me; I'd had 30 years longer to let my body go), that we didn't like the sound of each others' voice, or we wouldn't smell right, or have irreconcilable political differences, or any of a hundred other reasons.
No sense in delaying it - fate had made it possible for us to actually meet with little effort, and we definitely had come to love each other as we explored our mutual attraction via naughty texts, pictures, and videos. No one knew me, on a sexual level, better than her, and I felt I knew her better than anyone else as well. I had no intention of standing her up, but I dressed with some trepidation and ventured out of my hotel room.
I headed over to the brew pub. It was a cool evening in the Bay Area, which was good. I was walking there, and I had no desire to arrive as a sweating pig. It wasn't far - a few blocks away. There is some wonderful architecture in downtown Oakland, which rather surprised and reassured me. I made it there in about ten minutes, making me ten minutes early. I decided to step inside - if she was already there, I was fairly confident I would recognize her immediately, and if she was not, I could grab us a table. I went in and looked around. No sign of her. I was sure - she was, from the pictures she had shared, truly and unforgettably beautiful; not someone I could miss, unless she had decided to disguise herself.
I appropriated a table for two I could watch the door from. We had discussed how to proceed, and my initial suggestion was that, for her own safety, she ought bring a friend with her who could give her a second opinion about me, and also act as a witness that she and I had left together should I have turned out to be an axe-murdering psychopath; but she had declined the suggestion. She trusted me completely, and wanted me to know it. And she didn't want to have to explain herself to anyone, or feel she was being chaperoned.
The selection of beers was tempting, but I decided to start with water. I was still feeling nervous, and I didn't want to let my nerves get me drunk and tongue-tied when she showed up; besides, I was still a little dehydrated from my flight. I drank my beer, and sat and waited. Every time the door opened, I looked up quickly, and looked away immediately when I saw it wasn't her, with a mild feeling of disappointment.