It was six o'clock. I'd just watched our minor-league baseball team win a day game and I was headed toward the bus stop. The panels on the side of the shelter usually have advertisements in them. On this particular Saturday, I couldn't see any of the text, but I caught a brief glimpse of the model's silhouette, and she was a knockout. I jammed my foot against a bump in the sidewalk where a tree root had pushed the cement up. I didn't fall, but when I looked up, I realized that there was no poster at the bus stop. The beauty was actually standing there.
I didn't rush to get to the bus stop, but once I was there I had to introduce myself. She was standing up, wearing a black scoop-neck T-shirt and denim shorts that looked like they'd been painted on. Her skin had me wondering if she was Latina, biracial, or just a slightly tanned white lady. I'm 5' 10", and she was only a couple inches shorter than me. I shook a little as I said, "Hi, I'm Kevin."
She seemed annoyed, but she answered, "I'm Venus."
"Wow," I said. "That's a perfect name for you, 'cause you're--you--"
At least she didn't sound like I was bothering her. "I'm what?"
"Venus. The goddess of love. And, well, when I first saw you standing here, I thought you were a model. Not just a model standing at the bus stop." I pointed to the empty space on the side. "Usually there's a poster here, and I thought they were using you to sell something. Whatever it was, I would've bought it."
Venus giggled. "That's sweet," she said.
I had an epiphany and snapped my fingers. "I know what it is. You look like the kind of woman they use in ads for hard liquor."
She laughed again. She stood in front of the empty display case and leaned her arm against the back wall. "Like this?" she asked.
I was mesmerized. I wanted to put my hands around her, but I held back. "Yeah," I said nervously. "Your body. Venus. The goddess of love. I can't help myself. You make me want to--Wait, that sounds like the excuse some creeps use when they don't take 'no' for an answer, but I don't mean it that way."
Venus stood up straight again. I put my arms on her hips and waited an instant. She didn't scream, or punch me, or kick me in the groin. She didn't even push me away. She looked up at me and prodded me. "I know you don't mean it that way. So, I make you want to what?"
I looked into her green eyes. "Oh, God, those eyes. I was going to say I wanted to love you from head to toe, but your eyes are as beautiful as the rest of you. I just want to look in your eyes while I melt into you." I moved my hands from her hips to her upper arms.
Venus put her hands on my hips this time. "Spit it out," she said. "What do you want?"
She ran one hand down my spine, and I couldn't hold back. "I want to fuck you. And suck you. And lick you. Anything else that you'll let me do or want me to do."
She raised herself and rubbed her crotch into mine. "I haven't gotten any in a while. What are you doing tonight?"
I couldn't believe it. I had the dumbest pick-up line in recorded history, and it was working! "I just left a baseball game and I was headed home."
She pointed to a wheeled basket on the other side of the shelter. "I was headed to the grocery store, but I can wait till later."
"So you live around here?" I smacked my head. "Of course you do."
"Follow me," she said. We walked around the block to a one-story apartment complex. As I turned the corner, I could see that the units were small. I could tell by the design that it was an old building, but it was well taken care of. When we got to her door, she stopped. "Give me your driver's license," she said.
"What?"
"You said anything I want you to do, didn't you?"
"Yeah, I did," I sighed. I pulled out my wallet and pulled my license out.
Venus took a picture of it with her cell phone and sent it to someone. "If anything happens to me, Gina will know you were the last person to see me." She put her phone back, got her keys out and let me in. I picked up her basket while she opened the door.
Her apartment wasn't dirty, but it didn't look like she was expecting company. There was a book on her dining room table, and a couple dirty dishes were in her sink. She closed the only curtain that was open and reclined on her couch. "Tell me more about my beautiful body," she said.
"Your skin. I know it's not important, it's what's inside that counts, but are you Latina?"
"On my mom's side," she said.
"I couldn't tell by sight, but I thought you might be when I heard you talk. You've got that--I don't even know if I'd call it an accent. There's a certain way that I hear a lot of 'em talk, and it's only women, never men. It's sexy as hell 'cause it's just ... real."
"Thanks," Venus said. "I can imitate a TV Hispanic accent, but it doesn't sound any more authentic than my Russian accent. Before you ask, I don't speak Spanish. Now tell me more."
"Well, I told you how beautiful your eyes are. I wouldn't be able to stop staring at your figure if they didn't entrance me."
She turned so her back was against the back of the sofa and pushed her chest out. "You like my figure?"
"I saw you in silhouette at first, so the first thing I noticed were your mammaries."
"Mammaries?" she repeated with a laugh. "We're not in an anatomy class!"
"I know," I told her, "but, well, I told you you're like your namesake. I can't call 'em 'tits' while I'm picturing a clam shell behind you."
Venus laughed again, but not in a ridiculing way. "I knew there was a reason I liked you. I saw that painting on a trip to a museum when I was twelve. In eleven years, you're the first guy who's ever mentioned it when he was trying to seduce me."
"I couldn't even tell how big they were when I saw you in silhouette, but I'll bet they're really firm."
"See for yourself," Venus said. She sat up and pulled her shirt off. She was wearing a tan, seamless bra. She put my hand on the left cup. I caressed her breast through the fabric.