Note from the author
Most of my stories are either
autobiographical
,
semi-autobiographical
, or
fantasies I made up
(albeit, like any writer, with some reliance on personal experience). This story is none of these.
This piece is actually hard to categorize. It is maybe semi-biographical, semi-fantasy. The basic scaffold of the story and its two main characters were provided to me by another Literotica member. The scenario he approached me to write about relates to him meeting a lady of his acquaintance. My working assumption is that the acquaintance is probably real, but that his ideas about the meeting are things he would like to happen rather than ones that have actually happened. He tells me that he would like to preserve some ambiguity on this point.
I have "filled in the blanks" with my own thoughts, ideas and imaginings, so the resulting text is, at best, "inspired by a true story", as they say.
I would like to thank the Literotica member, who wants to remain anonymous, for both providing the inspiration and helpfully reviewing more than one draft.
Please also see the comments I have included as endnotes, because they could compromise plot points.
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It felt as if my heart had expanded to occupy my entire body. Every part of me was pounding, throbbing, pulsating. It was messing with my vision too, I could clearly see a shiny, metallic 6 on a teal field, but around that I lost focus and everything became swirls. If I shifted my gaze, which seemed to require inordinate effort, then a black doorbell, with a cream-colored button, became the new center of my constrained Universe. It was crystalline in its sharp-edged, cuboid precision, almost begging me to press it, yet I hesitated.
As well as space, it felt that time was distorted. How long had I been standing there? Hours surely. Seconds most likely. Had I even breathed since arriving? Probably not. I did now, a gasping intake. Maybe the additional oxygen helped my clouded brain as I was finally able to raise my arm, extend a digit and push the button. The chime seemed like a church bell.
I am thankfully yet to have a near-death experience, but they say your life flashes before you. For me it wasn't my whole life that played out as I waited, but instead the bits of it pertaining to her. I guess that was still a considerable chunk.
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It would be nice and neat to be able to pinpoint when we first "met", but I can't. It couldn't have been before 2016, because I knew most of her filmography and it started then, when she was 19. Rather than a single moment, she swam into my consciousness. I don't even know which video of hers was the first I viewed, just that -- out of so many young starlets -- she somehow stood out.
She wasn't an obsession at first. I had so many girls at my fingertips to entertain me. But she was one that made a lasting impression. Enough of an impression that she became a search term, but still at that point, one of several. When did things change? It was relatively recently, at most a year ago. One search led me to her Twitter photos, I assumed the account was old, there has been no new videos since The Plague, but I checked anyway. And there she was, posting new selfies, chatting with industry friends. Different to 2016, older, but still with the same angelic looks. Still the intoxicating mixture of beauty and sin.
I was hooked. I revisited her back catalog, from youthful innocence to blossoming womanhood. Most of all, I listened to her talking, I consumed clothed interviews with the same relish as nude ones. I wanted to get to know her better.
And then it happened. The event that directly led to me standing here. She posted a link to her new OnlyFans page. You might think that I signed up immediately, but I prevaricated. What held me back? Nervousness. An unwillingness to connect my fantasy world with reality. The voice saying "never meet your heroes". But eventually my desire overcame my reticence and I subscribed.
...and she was delightful. She was smart and funny and friendly. Like, I assume, for many in her line of business, it seemed like the last few years had been a challenge. There had been a hiatus, maybe just The Plague, maybe other stuff, I didn't like to pry. She was now looking to reengage with her previous work, but I got the sense that perhaps she wanted it to be more on her terms. I can imagine in an area dominated by youth, effectively starting again in your mid-twenties might feel daunting; no matter what you had done before, perhaps because of what you had done before.
Whatever the reasons, she seemed uncertain of herself. Given she is, at the end of the day, a business woman, maybe it was all cleverly constructed artifice, but she seemed in need of help and I was more than happy to provide it. It's not like I did a lot, I told her the truth. I said she was just as beautiful as she had ever been. I said that she had many fans who would love to see her work again. She has her own personal support now and it appears to be good, but I did my best to buttress this. Maybe it's my own conceit, how I want the world to be, but I think I helped a little; she said that I did, which was sweet. Perhaps just a little help was all she really needed.
We went from there. I'm not claiming to be special. I'm sure she was nice to many of her fans. She seems to be a nice person. Undeniably some of our interactions were transactional, she has a living to make, but quite a few weren't and some (at least to my perhaps wishful thinking) had an extra dimension to them. I'm not bold enough to claim we became friends, but we were certainly friendly. We chatted, we talked about what was occupying our time. We joked. It was fun.
And then she said that she was flying to my country, to my home town. She made an announcement on Twitter, but she had told me a few days before. That made me feel special. Of course I wanted to meet her in person. It would be a dream come true. But now...
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The door partly opened and my tunnel focus made out a pair of big blue eyes, framed in a mop of platinum blonde hair peeping round the side of it.
"So glad to meet you finally, please come in."
Her voice seemed to reach me from a long distance. Echoing down an empty corridor. Almost drowned out by the timpani of my heart. Her voice. It had always enchanted me. American clearly, but hard to pin down to a specific locale, at least for me. It was deeper than her petite frame might suggest, sonorous, but not gravelly, hinting at mischief. Here and now, it had an ethereal, dreamlike quality, or maybe it was just my hearing, or more likely my brain, that was not working properly.
She opened the door further, remaining partially concealed by it. I paused and then stepped, almost stumbled, inside. I slipped off my shoes and hung my coat on one of four hooks. She closed the door, her back to it and smiled radiantly at me. She was bare-footed and apparently wrapped in just a toweling robe, as if fresh from the shower.
It was her. It was really her. I knew her height, I knew her weight, I knew her cup size, I knew her place and date of birth and what she had done both educationally and extracurricularly. But this was different. I had seen her nude and
in flagrante
countless times. But this wasn't a quasi-human viewed on a screen, it was a flesh and blood person.
I knew she was small, 5'3", but that didn't really compute until she was standing in front of me. I knew she was pretty, but surely she couldn't be this pretty in the flesh, with little or no make-up. Even without gloss, her lips were full, her cheekbones high and those sapphire eyes arresting.
I realized I had said nothing, not returned her greeting. I tried to remedy the situation, but no words came to mind and even if they had, my mouth felt that it was incapable of uttering anything coherent. Perhaps she was used to having this effect of people, as she took the initiative.
"Cat got your tongue?"
She smiled again, her head titled to one side and eased her robe off her shoulder. It was her right one, revealing the first of the tattoos on her arm. I knew these too. I had seen them appear gradually and could probably hazard a guess as to which was from which year.