Karen saw her first, looking past me at the swirling line of people in Bryant Park waiting to order their lunch. She drew my attention to the girl in the periwinkle blue dress. I turned and saw a blue dress, short, over a long length of sweet, slender girl legs. I couldn't see her face or even her head from where I was sitting, but I recognized immediately what brought Karen to point her out -- a young, naΓ―ve sexuality that was not totally aware of the power of her body and her style.
Karen and I returned to our lunch, chatting about life stuff and enjoying being together on a warm spring afternoon. After a few minutes I noticed the blue dress sit down at the table next to us with her girlfriend. She was sitting across from me to my left and I had difficulty not ogling her incredibly long looking legs -- they were crossed, pointing in my direction and the hem of her blue dress lay across her mid-thighs. It was a truly delectable sight. It was distracting enough that I lost track of what Karen was saying -- and then realized that she wasn't saying much of anything, as she was also distracted by the vision sitting next to her.
Ultimately, we realized our distraction and, after a deep sigh, attempted to resume our connection together. But, all sense of focus on each other was gone and the moment hung in the air between us as a remarkable tension.
After some time, the blue dress' girlfriend excused herself to go back to her office work and the blue dress leaned back in her chair, face uplifted to the sun, eyes closed, a half smile on her lips. Her legs were now stretched out straight before her and the edge of blue crept up even further up her thighs. What a lovely sight.
Karen was the first to move. She turned to the blue dress (I never learned her name) and asked, "Excuse me, but it seems that I saw you in a play recently ... in the Village at Baskers Theatre?"
Blue Dress sat forward and looked at Karen and said "No, but I am an actor ... or at least working at it while I go to college at New School for Drama."
What followed was an animated exchange between the two girls about the theatre and who had seen what, who had done what, and so on. I just sat back and watched these two sexy creatures connect more and more.
While not wanting to, I looked at my watch and realized that I had to be back at the office for a meeting in ten minutes.
I gave Karen a long, lingering kiss and headed off. I looked back and saw the two of them back deeply engaged in conversation. I felt a twinge of jealousy as I felt that Karen had been quite distracted and we hadn't really had a good end to our rare lunch together.
Back at work the afternoon wore its way through the time as I dealt with a client who was anxious about getting approval from FDA for their first-in-man clinical study. E mails had stacked up and Karen and Blue Dress were not in my mind. At 5:30, my phone chimed the arrival of a text message, just as I was getting ready to head for home. It was from Karen ... she invited me to come over to her apartment. I almost called her to find out what was up, but just decided that I would stop off on the way home and texted her back to say that I would be there soon. While it was unusual for Karen to ask me come over unplanned, and I wouldn't have usually been able to agree to do so, I felt compelled by some strange force to agree to see her. But, I assumed it would be a quick visit.
Karen buzzed me in and I put away my IPod as I waited for the elevator and rode up to the 7th floor. She met me at the door ... I gave her a kiss and asked "what's up?"