“Hey, I got your message.”
“Oh, so do you have a break?”
“I have an hour.” Dorian answered.
“Me too.”
I dialed his number twenty minutes later.
“Where are you?” I asked looking up at the street sign. I was still about two blocks away wondering if he was there already.
“Waiting inside. Where are you?”
“About two blocks away.”
“You wanna know something interesting?”
I hesitated, not expecting him to pose a question.
“Do I wanna know something interesting?”
“Yeah.”
“Sure. What?”
“I got a lot of respect for you, Denise.”
“Really?” I asked, looking down before stepping off the curb.
“You know, you’re the first woman to ask me out since...” He stumbled a bit and chuckled. “Sixth grade?”
I grinned, stared at the man who had undoubtedly been one of the most common fodders of young girls’ fantasies since he hit puberty.
“You’re kidding. No girl has asked out Mr. New Kid With Fresh Energy and Old Drive?” I said, quoting a commentator from the last game I stayed home and watched.
“Well, I mean besides launching themselves at me after stalking me for weeks and leaning on me talking about luxury hotel suites with Bacardi breath...yeah, you are.”
“I guess that is really interesting.”
“What made you do it?”
“Well, I figured if you don’t ask, the answer’s no and I really wanted to hear a yes...so I did.”
“That was sexy of you.”
I smiled, bit down on my lip, and pushed through the fancy glass doors. He was usually the one who called me and I planned on keeping that that way. When I realized that what we were launching ourselves into was going to be exclusive, I decided that I would work around his schedule, but I wanted to take a risk. Now I felt great that he liked it because I was very reluctant to go that route because I knew it was important to give him his own personal space.
“You know what I think is really sexy about you?”
I spotted him sitting alone at a table with two little boys, maybe thirteen or fourteen waiting to wrap up his phone call and get his attention.
“This I got to hear. What do you think is really sexy about me?”
“Turn around.”
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