For reasons that don't exist, or at least are beyond my ability to justify (which ability is my superpower), I'm in his town, meeting him at his bar. Which is, not for nothing, a college bar. It's after class for him. I'm older than he is, and by a lot, although I keep trying to tell myself that he's not a puppy, that he's a bit older his classmates - these obvious children at bellied up at the bar - that his time overseas put off college.
Brain: "He's a puppy, you pervert."
But anyhow I look pretty, I think. I'm wearing the sort of little dress he ordered up..."I like'em girly."
My fluttering skirt and easy-access neckline stick out like a sore thumb among these casually dressed twenty-somethings, and the sky high heels and piled up hair only serve to underline how much taller he is than me. How much bigger. He's dressed like a student.
Brain: "Because he's a student, you pervert."
I'm such a weirdo, I touch his nose. Whatever else is true, I just like this guy. "You're handsome."
"You sound surprised. You saw a hundred pictures, and you said I'm handsome. You didn't think I'd look the same?"
"I just mean...you know, pictures."
"Yeah, I do. You're gorgeous. You look just like the chick in the pictures you sent."
"Whew."
"Exactly."
We're in a pub, a beer garden. I don't know if he knows anyone there or not, because he's giving me all his attention as I chatter nervously. He's quite obviously looking me over, eyes wandering from mouth to the tits he'd complimented so profusely online. At some point in my talking jag, he touches my nose. "You didn't come here to talk, Jane. You came here to get fucked." He manages to say that and not sound like an asshole, which is amazing. The teasing note in his voice puts the needle halfway between impish and cocksure. Again with the touching his face, this time his cheek.
Brain: "God. I hope he doesn't hate that."
"You make that remark sound sexy. Which, I mean, impressive." This time touching the back of his hand, resting on the top of his thigh, really close to his dick.
Brain: "He'll probably hate that less."
"Would it kill you to help me perpetuate the polite fiction that we're on a date?"
"That's not fiction. What else is this but a date?" He steps in closer, so close that I can feel his breath teasing the hypersensitive fuzz in my ear, he doesn't quite whisper. "Just because we know it ends with you stuffed full of my cock, does not make it not a date."
How does he do that? I immediately want to lick him like an ice cream cone, ears to ankle, lingering a while in the middle. "You should give a class on how to say shit like that charmingly."
"It helps that it's a defense mechanism, and I'm just as nervous as you are. Maybe more"
"You aren't nervous."
"Lies. I come equipped with a poker face." Tossing back the rest of his pint, reaching for the check. "Fuck it. Let's get out of here, go to my place and take our minds off our nerves. I'll fuck you til you can't see straight, how about that?"
Panic.
Brain: "What if he murders me? Or, and this would be way worse, what if he doesn't like my body?"
"I can't just ... go to your house. I got a hotel so I could spend time with you in person before I decide. I can't put myself alone with you inside four walls, with no safety. Can we be here for a little while?"
"Of course." And gives me that sweet smile from his pictures and takes a half step back. "We can be here a long while, even. But at some point, you have to decide what you think of me." Pause. "You never had a one-night stand? Never got picked up?" This, with a skeptical eye. "That was different." His fingers are spread wide on the small of my back. "No it wasn't." I feel myself get wetter.
"I still can't believe I did this, though. Reasons for this do not exist."
"You did, though. Let's take a walk." He covers his pint with a coaster, and pulls my wine closer to it. To the bartender. "We'll be back."
Then he puts that hand back on my back again. Without making a decision, I arch my back a little, so his hand slips even lower, his middle finger resting a millimeter from the crack of my ass, and we walk outside. It's chilly enough that I hug myself with my arms, and he laughs at me. "This is nothing, are you kidding? This is balmy." But he moves behind and wraps his arms around me, and I can feel the heat of his body from his breath on the top of my head all the way down to my calves. "I was beginning to think you were a fever dream. Which I guess you might be. Have you ever read 'The Queen of the Tambourine'?" He's so warm.
"No, what is it?"
"It's a very odd epistolary novel; a collection of letters from a woman to another woman, except that the other woman doesn't exist. It's a dotty little British woman's descent into madness."
"I swear to god this is weird enough. You really don't have to go out of your way to make it weirder, Jane." But there's a smile in his voice. He takes a step forward, and I have no choice but to advance. In a few steps, we're in some kind of alcove, and I'm facing a wall. His dick, hard under his jeans, is pressing against me, and then I feel it. I'm out of control.
My belly drops and my chest goes hollow from its sudden altitude change. A periphery scan, assures me that it's quite dark, nobody's around, nobody will see. Probably. Maybe. But my heels will be ruined, sinking into the soft grass. I kick them off, and now he's even bigger, almost too big for comfort, but all my bullshit back at the bar has left my head. Breathing him in.
He kisses the back of my neck, fingers traveling from ear to clavicle, nudging my bra strap off my shoulder. Five o'clock shadow against my skin makes me shiver. One hand slips around the side of my body to squeeze my breast, sort of...heft it, his palm stroking the lace. "Nice." I can feel the other one adjust his cock. I raise up high on my toes and arch my back again, brace myself against the wall, push backward into his erection. He steps back one pace and says, "Are your panties lace too?"
"No. But they're meant to go together."