I was nervous as I drove to the meeting place, just outside the gates of the local Navy base. We had set this meeting up a week or so before after spending about two weeks chatting on the social site. I remember when we first started chatting. He had responded to a lame little picture I had posted with the caption, "Happy, happy, joy, joy, who wants to be my boy toy?" His response was wholly unique and witty, appealing to my love of intelligence and a good sense of humor. The two weeks we texted only confirmed my initial impression. This man was both fun and intelligent. We seemed to have so much in common. I was intrigued to know him further. But not for sex! I gave myself this stern warning several times before our designated meeting time.
I knew his complications. He hadn't tried to hide them from me, even in our first conversations. He was married and had been for quite some time. He shared with me his recent affairs, his unhappiness in a marriage where it seemed more like a convenient friendship of roommates. I knew his religious convictions and his two boys kept him tied to where he was. Wife and children were 2000 miles away at the moment since he was here for military training. He was preparing for deployment and I probably would never see him again. So why was I meeting with him today? What was the motivating factor? It wasn't for sex, I assured myself one more time.
I'd seen his pictures. All of them clothed. He never once sent me the customary "dick pic" I'd cringe at receiving from just about every guy I'd talk to on the social site. He struck me as handsome and I loved the green eyes he had that held the little sparkle of naughty. I knew I'd teased him a bit. I had allowed him to read my most recent erotic stories. I was proud of them, sure, but I guess I'd let him read them with the hopes of, I don't know, tantalizing and teasing him. I'd never dreamed we'd actually meet. But here we were. About to meet up...but not for sex, of course.
As I pulled up, I spotted him right away. He was wearing khaki shorts and a t-shirt with a Hawaiian print button up over it. He gave me this shy, but somewhat confident smile as I stopped the car in front of him. It was as if it said, "Here I am! Totally vulnerable, and totally at ease with it." I smiled back with what I hoped wasn't a smile of pure nervousness. I am questioning my sanity about now. This man was adorable. Totally what I was attracted to in body and spirit. Oy, this was some kind of huge mistake, I realized as he got in the car and I pulled into to traffic.
During dinner we had a few drinks and talked of our lives. Our conversation was just as natural as it had been over the last few weeks of texting, if not more so. We seemed to laugh easily and there weren't any of those long awkward lulls in conversation that we all dread when meeting a new person. By the end of dinner I knew I didn't want the evening to end at that moment, and I was pretty sure it wasn't going to end with the platonic handshake that it should end in.