This is a work of fiction, all characters are over the age of 18.
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Oh! Oh! Oh!
I bounced breathlessly up to the bar.
"Hit me Tony!" The barman grinned and handed over a glass he had just finished filling.
"Saw you heading my way gorgeous, this one's on me!" I giggled and was about to take a drink when a voice behind me spoke. "I wouldn't if I were you." I turned and gazed into the good looking face of a guy who was, unfortunately, at least 20 years younger than me. I gave a mental shrug; I could enjoy looking without him thinking me a pervert. I smiled at him. "Why wouldn't you?"
"You didn't see him pour it, he might have slipped anything in there." Out of a sense of mischief I turned to Tony who was glowering at my new friend. "Hey Tony, you trying to slip me a mickey so you can slip me a length later?" A cough and sudden wetness on the back of my neck suggested my young pal had spluttered his drink over me.
"Nah, you're safe with me sis, not really into incest." Tony grinned and moved off to serve elsewhere knowing I was perfectly capable of looking after myself.
"Sorry." My erstwhile saviour looked crestfallen as he attempted to mop the back of my neck with a napkin. "It's only water, so at least it won't stain." He grinned sheepishly and held out a hand. "Start again? Nick."
I shook his hand. "Chelle. And that was rather unfair of me, especially when you meant well." I waved at his water. "You here for a top up?" Nick nodded. I looked over the bar. "Tony, when you've a chance, another two of these." I waved my glass at him, he nodded to show he'd heard as I turned back to Nick.
"So, you sober through choice or short straw tonight?"
"Choice." He didn't elaborate. "You?"
"Ditto" I waved an arm at the room. "Doesn't make it easy to tolerate all this shite though does it?"
Nick snorted a laugh as we studied the festive excesses around us. Several smaller companies shared the hall for a sit down Christmas dinner followed by a disco. Each company sat at their own tables where drink had been flowing for a couple of hours now. Women of all ages and sensibilities, who wouldn't normally look twice at their male colleagues, had dressed in slinky, spangly, slutty outfits and teetered on lethally spiked heels as they flirted, danced, wiggled and jiggled, vying for masculine attention.
Their male cohorts, having already given each woman marks out of ten, were debating which woman they would shag in the toilets, which they would allow to give them a blowjob in the car and which they would go home with and righteously roger all night. Obviously as the night went on, these guys would get drunker and the list of amenable women would shrink until they ended up having a quickie against the outside wall with the fat bird with buck teeth from accounting and spend the next twelve months avoiding her at work. (Quite possibly repeating the whole sorry scenario nextChristmas.)
Nick and I spent the next hour or so pointing out various 'attributes' male and female on display, and chatting easily. We shared a similar snarky humour and several times Nick made me laugh out loud. I found myself yet again ruefully wishing he were older or I were younger. - who the fuck am I kidding? I just wished I were younger!
"So Chelle, now I've friended you on Facebook and added you to my Twitter account," deadpanned Nick, "can I ask why the water?"
I shrugged, it was no big secret. "I enjoyed drinking a little too much; decided I prefer to respect myself in the mornings."
"I get that. So you used to throw yourself at the likes of 'skinny jeans' over there after a few sherries huh?"
"Seriously, did you know they made them that big?" I chuckled. "Nah, I'm too old for him. More like 'glittery chest hair' over there"
"Fuck babe, no wonder you stopped drinking" Nick grinned at me his eyes loaded with interest and I began to get a warm and moist feeling. No, I wasn't sitting on a leaky hot water bottle. But I did suddenly wise up. Sure it was too good to be true.
"So Nick, you and your pals got a bet going, who can pick up the saddest old bag in the room?" My enjoyment in his company dissipating as I turned away.
"Hey," a pair of strong arms turned me around and a firm hand raised my chin until my eyes unwillingly met his. "I was actually enjoying the company of the first woman I had seen in this room who wasn't desperately seeking to be centre of attention."
"Yeah right." I mumbled.
"Okay I realise you are a little older than I am," he held a finger to my lips as I tried to speak and looked sternly at me. "But all that interests me is that you are fun to be with, you have a great laugh,you are intelligent stimulating company... and you keep my glass topped up!" Turning to check Tony was serving down the other end he leaned in. "Quite apart from all that, you have a cleavage I could spend hours in and an ass I want to spank as I plunder your cunt with my cock."