WARNING: English is NOT my first language - I have learned it in school and practiced it a lot in trading, but this is (even though pornographic) supposed to be literature.
So please bear with me, or, if not, just read something else.
I also need to mention that the story is true, only depicting my personal experience(s).
All the names and/or places may have nothing to do with the reality...
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I'm at the seaside, on a terrace, together with my ex-commander, his wife, a lieutenant and his wife, while I am... alone.
We really get along well, but the wife of my ex-commander, like always, each and every summer, keeps on teasing me that I should, one way or another, give up my single status, since I am already in my twenties - early twenties, right - but I need to try to settle down, have a family, kids...
Gosh! I always hate it when she starts talking about this, and she surely knows it very well...
"What are you waiting for?!? All the good girls will get married! You'll just have to choose from a bunch of girls nobody else wanted, or, eventually, get married to a girl half your age, to have her call you daddy!"...
I know that, by now, from how much booze she has swallowed, it's not her, anymore...
I let her speak on, while my commander and the lieutenant are trying to pretend that they are not there...
Gosh! Embarrassing moments, but I do know very well that, in fact, she really likes me - she's fond of me, and she really wants what's the best for me...
Suddenly, she stops.
"Now, big boy, I know that you can be discreet. If you look towards your right, you will see, at the other table, for six, on the diagonal, a pair of wonderfully blue eyes, held by a beautiful face, surrounded by an aura of blond curly hair - and I can bet that the curls are natural - who seems to have come with some friends of hers, but who doesn't have a partner. They are, just like us, two pairs and a single, with the difference that the single person there, is this beauty"...
She pauses, letting me focus the "target", then she continues:
"I have seen her going to the toilet, so that I can assure you that the rest, hidden now by the table, is just as beautiful - so, don't sit here like a bag of potatoes! Move your ass and invite her to dance! And... young man, don't you dare lead her back at her table before the orchestra sings, at least, one blues!"...
I reply, in a very military style, that I have received and understood her orders, so that I shall follow them within seconds...
The commander and the lieutenant start laughing, trying to smooth things for all of us...
Now, what can I say? The girl is really beautiful, which makes me wonder how come that she's alone over here...
Meanwhile, I must move quickly, before my commander's wife starts talking again!
I raise, approach their table, and, very politely, I excuse myself towards her companions, asking for permission to invite the young lady to dance with me.
All the five of them start looking at one another, until, one of the ladies starts speaking in French, explaining to me that they don't speak or understand Romanian...
Fuck! That's a big surprise, since from their attitude I just haven't guessed that they may be strangers!
Anyway, I immediately recompose myself, then start talking again, this time in French.
It's their time to be surprised.
In just a few words, I find myself on the dancing ring, thanking God that I haven't swallowed as much booze as I usually do, when meeting my ex commander...
In the corner of my eye, I can see my ex commander approaching the chief of the orchestra, and, whispering something to him...
Now, the usual style is that, after three "agitated" songs, the orchestra, usually, gives the dancers a break, singing a blues...
Gosh! In just a few minutes I realize that they have been instructed to let us sweat like pigs...
Truth is, that when I was young, I've used to be a really good dancer...
Finally, the guys in the orchestra seem to have pity of us, so that they start a blues...
The only problem is that this blues seems to never end, since they just jump from one tune to another...
All this combination lasts about twenty minutes, so that I have time enough to find out that the girl is named Myra and that she is Canadian...
Gosh! This will be a really big surprise for my military friends, since, according to the regulations here, they are not aloud to have any kind of contacts with foreigners...
We are living in the Ceausescu era!...
After the prolonged collection finishes, the orchestra takes a break, so that I lead Myra back at her place, thanking her, and to the rest of her friends...