Max
27 years old
5'6"
Blue eyes
Dark brown hair
It was the summer after my freshman year of college. I'd been single for awhile, with absolutely no prospects. I was 19 years old, probably the hottest I'd ever be, and still completely isolated, working a summer job at the little library five minutes from my parents' house. But there was Max.
I'd gone to an indie concert in the gym of an abandoned high school, one night before school let out. I'd danced through the sets, but when the show was over, I pretty much knew no one. I was sort of looking around as the lights came on, feeling a little lost, when Max walked up. His hair was wild, he was ripped, covered in tattoos, and about three inches taller than I. He had a kind of bouncing, nervous energy, and he stuck out his hand, like we were executives about to network over a lunch. "Hi, I'm Max!" he shouted.
I shook, and gave him my name. "Nice to meet you!"
"I haven't seen you around before!"
And that's how I met Max. He was kind of cute, in an alternative sort of way. He found me online, I gave him my phone number, and I went home for the summer. But Max found a way to message me almost every day. He flirted incessantly, paid me lots of compliments, and seemed to almost constantly be in the midst of some sort of existential crises. He distracted me from my workday. I wanted to be distracted.
It started with little things: I'd whine to him about how lonely I was, cajoling him to tell me what he'd do if he was here. I'd ask him about his love life, his dates, tell him he needed to meet a nice girl. He'd tell me how much he loved girls with short hair (I had short hair), how he'd seen me across the room and thought I was so beautiful, how much he hoped he could help me feel less lonely. I wanted more.
Finally, I once asked him if sleeping around was worth it, if never letting anyone get close left him feeling empty. That worked. He started talking to me about sex. He talked to me about how unfulfilling his one-night stands were . . . how innocent and sweet I was, how wide our age gap, how different I was from the kind of girls he dated, how much we had in common. I knew I had him on the ropes.
Over the course of the summer, I strung him along. I stroked his ego, telling him how handsome he was, how interesting, how kind, then encouraged him to get with someone else. I made him tell me I was beautiful, how much he wanted to be with someone like me. I told him eight years' difference was nothing. I told him I read erotic fiction, and I think he had a stroke. "You're so innocent. In real life, it's never like it is in books," he said.
"What's it like in real life?" I asked.
"I'm not going to tell you that!"
The best day of my entire summer was the day he told me, "Sometimes . . . when I'm talking to you . . . I find myself getting . . . bigger." Ever the innocent, I replied, "What do you mean?" then watched him dissolve into a puddle of want and self-loathing. "Nevermind." "Don't worry about it." "Forget I said anything." Then I frigged my clit in the office bathroom, imagining him jerking off to the thought of me, until I came on my own fingers. Twice.
I went back to school in the fall. I didn't meet anybody I liked, and I also didn't see Max, didn't see Max, didn't see Max. Until October, when he invited me to a Halloween party his roommates were throwing: "There'll be a bunch of people here, but I thought it might be fun for you," he said. "You don't have to wear a costume, but some people will be dressed up."
So I put on my thigh-high boots, with an oversized, cream-colored blouse, unbuttoned as far as possible without revealing a pink lace bra. I borrowed a tricorn hat. I showed up to the party, as a pirate, and set a trap.
I didn't talk to Max when I walked in. I knew he'd be too nervous to make the first move. I drank one beer, then two. I flirted with some dude in the open loft kitchen. I danced in the living room when I heard a song I liked. And, after an hour or so, flushed and buzzed, I went looking for Max.
He was sulking on the couch, nursing a beer. Uncostumed, his hair mussed, his sleeves rolled up above his biceps, covered in tattoos. Bright blue eyes studiously avoiding mine. I walked up to him, hitched my leg up on the couch next to him, and grinned. "Argh, matey."
His eyes took in my exposed thigh hungrily, then skittered away again. "Hey. You look like you're having a good time."
I flopped down on the couch, making sure to land pressed right up against him, turning myself so my soft tits were on his arm, my face close to his, smiling breathlessly. "This is a great party! I love Halloween. Thanks so much for inviting me."
He couldn't resist. He turned to look at me, his face slowly lighting up. "You look great."
I blushed and looked away, squeezing my arms to push my 34D tits up into the open neck of the blouse. "Tha-anks," I responded. Inspired, I put one elbow up on the back of the couch, leaning into him, talking almost into his ear to be heard above the music. "You don't look so bad yourself."
Now it was his turn to blush, and adjust his posture as he sat. "You don't mean that."
"I really do." I looked around. "You know, it's kind of loud. You wanna hang out somewhere quiet?"
He looked at me. "We could go outside?"
I smiled coyly. "Do you have a room? I'm kind of curious. I've been *dying* to see how the other half lives."
He looked around, checking to see if anyone was watching, and cleared his throat. "Alright . . . if you insist. It's this way."
I followed him, trying to look inconspicuous, and nonchalantly leaned up against the wall as he unlocked the door. We slipped inside, he shut (and locked, I noticed) the knob behind us, and the noise of the party quieted to a dull roar.
I made myself busy wandering the room, taking it in, exploring the books on his bookshelf, the tchotchkes on his desk, the pile of clothes on a chair in the corner.
His voice cut the quiet: "Well? Is it up to your standard?" I looked to see him smiling, a real smile, still standing by the door, arms folded, watching my perusal.
I sat myself down on the corner of a perfectly-made bed. "It's sweet! I feel like I'm learning so much about you."
He crossed the room and busied himself fussing with his desk papers. "Not much you don't already know," he said.