The rain was coming down in lively sheets as I drank the last bit of my beer. It was closing time at the cafe and as the waitresses counted their tips and split them over the few free beers that were allotted to us, I watched the rain from the big picture window fall so hard it that it seemed to wash the world away.. Audibly I remarked that a taxi was in order.
Cindy, heard me and made herself available for the share. "Hey, that makes two of us." she said loudly, waving a tan arm in the air for recognition , as if I called attendance or something. "I'll call it up right now!", she exclaimed and leaped almost straight up in the air. The payphone's receiver was off the hook and in a long fingernailed hand in a second. Cindy talked quickly in her soft voice. Her teeth gleamed perfectly thought a quick smiling mouth. She tossed her shoulder length reddish brown hair as she talked, making fast flirty movements with hands. The perfect long nails on the tips of her fingers reflected the candle lights on the cafe's checkered tabletops as they twirled.
Looking at her made my eyes hurt. She was a long limbed, petite, but full bodied angel. I had fallen in lust the moment I laid eyes on her. On that fateful day. I introduced myself as Benjiman Wier and she just laughed that little girl laugh and said that she would just call me Ben. I would come to call her Cindy, as everyone else did. She was quick to be a friend, and that was to my young tender soul more torture than I could bear. But I was after all Nineteen and women w ere still the biggest mystery in my life. I had my share of teenage romps in girlfriends living rooms, while the parents slept upstairs. Or the occasional quick oral fixation in that not so secret place in my old high school. But that was not enough to pierce the veil that all women young or old had holding just above their collected faces.
She bounced off the phone and to my side, slipping a that cool arm around my waist she told me to watch for the cab while she got her things and peed. I nodded and tried really hard not to hold her and kiss her while she stood there next to me. "Hey, hey Ben? Are you okay?" She pushed a brown lock of her hair out of her face as she said it. I felt the heat of her as one of her full breasts pushed softly against my arm. I pushed the distraction away . "No, no I'm cool...consider the eyes peeled!" I watched her bounce away again into the cool darkness of the cafe. Her round full bottom calling for my attention.
Luckily my things were already with me. I had the dubious honor of working as a dishwasher. To be honest it was messy work that left me stinking like food after my 6 hour shift was over. Clean up at the end of the night was an unsightly chore. The saving grace was the pay ( it was off the books) and of course Cindy. I had changed as quickly as I could after the clean up work was done. I wave of exhaustion hit me and I realized that I just wanted to go home.
The Honking of the cab broke me out of my stupor. Cindy grabbed my arm and pushed open the door. She and I yelled our good-bye's as we dashed though the sheets of cold fall rain to the waiting cab. I closed the door behind me and fell deep into the warm leather of the cab right next to Cindy as she shook the water out of her shoulder hair and let out a "BRRR" of disapproval.
I gave the driver the directions to my place. It was always first anyway. I only lived about Two miles away and would take the bus if not for their scarcity at this time of night or the weather or any other excuse I could use to share a cab with Cindy. I was beginning to wonder if she was on to me yet.
She spread out in her space next to me. Giving herself to the heat of the cab and opening her jacket. Then exposing the full roundness of her breasts through her white shirt as she arched her back and shunted the jacket off her shoulders. "Man its hot in here!" She waved her Red tipped hands in front of her face. I had to pull of my anorak in agreement. I thought I caught something , some kind of expression on her face, as I pulled my head out of my anorak. It was the first time I had ever seen that look in her light brown eyes. What could it had been? Hunger? Interest? Gas?