Chapter Eleven
Tyler
“At least you didn’t throw your drink at me,” I joked. “That was my biggest fear coming to meet you here tonight.”
“I wouldn’t waste a drink on you,” she joked back with me.
Our dinner was going great, and we were getting along much better than I expected. The tension around me lying to her about who I was had dissipated, and there was a fun banter going back and forth. She was razzing me pretty hard, but I actually liked it. There weren’t many women in the world who were confident enough to give me a hard time, or at least not the women I went on dates with.
“I have to tell you, that dress is killing me,” I whispered as Kelsi and I walked out of the restaurant.
The meal had been amazing and our conversation equally wonderful, but all I could think about was the long zipper at the back of her dress and how fulfilling it would be to slide the metal down to her hips and pull the dress off of her. I couldn’t even bring myself to guide her through the restaurant because I liked being a step behind her and watching how her ass moved in the dress.
“You better behave back there,” she whispered before I moved back a step so I could watch her again.
Kelsi pressed the door of the restaurant open and I swooped in and pulled her around the corner of the building. My body pressed against hers as my breath got heavy from desire. Even the scent of her perfume had me throbbing as I took in the look in her big green eyes.
She didn’t say anything; she didn’t resist. Kelsi just looked at me with a slight smile on her face while she waited for me to decide what I wanted to do. What I wanted was to flip her around, pull that dress of hers up, and slide inside of her, but obviously I wouldn’t do such a thing. My body didn’t understand the niceties of dating, and I pressed my hips against her slightly.
“I still have those musical tickets,” I said as my lips moved to her collarbone and started to gently touch her.
She pulled in a deep breath and rotated her head to the other side so I could get a better angle on her neck. There was a soft moan coming from her with every kiss I delivered and each time she did it I felt like I might actually take her right there. There were limits on my ability to resist a sexy woman, and those limits seemed fairly stressed at the moment.
“Mmm, then maybe you should stop getting me all excited and we should walk over to the theater.”
“You’re excited?”
“Yes.”
“I love that I make you excited. Because you have my mind spinning so much that I can hardly remember my own name.”
“It’s Tyler,” Kelsi said as her hands ran up and down my chest.
She let her fingers run down to my belt buckle and I felt them sliding from one side of my body to the other. She didn’t move below the belt, she never felt the throbbing of my body, but she knew it was there. My throbbing member was undeniably pressed against her, and she was teasing me with her fingers as she moved closer and closer to the region without going over the border of my belt.
“Oh, yes, that is my name.” I laughed. “We should get going. Unless you’d rather come back to the hotel room I rented.”
“Let’s go to the show,” she said softly.
“Yeah, that sounded a little creepy. Sorry.”
“No, not creepy. But I haven’t been out of the house on a real date in a really long time, and I would really like to see this show. It was a great idea.”
“Then to the theater we go,” I said dramatically.
“You better be careful walking with that thing in your pants. I don’t want you to get hurt,” she teased. “That’s pretty impressive.”
“Oh, that’s just a banana I have in my pocket in case you get hungry during the show. You know they don’t let you brings snacks into these things.”
I loved that Kelsi got my sense of humor and the two of us had gone right back into our old comfortable way of communicating. It was relaxing to be around her. Even though I was a little nervous at the beginning of our evening, things between us were much better than they had been even when we were in high school. Talking with Kelsi wasn’t like talking to other women I had dated. She was easy to talk to, she laughed at all my sly jokes and even came back with some of her own. This was the sort of thing I had hoped would happen with us that evening.
“I do like bananas,” she said as we waited to get into the theater. “Maybe I will eat it while we watch the show.
“No,” I said in total shock as she turned toward me and smiled widely. “Don’t you tease me like that.”
“I thought you liked being teased,” she said as her hand briefly brushed against my pants and felt my throbbing member. “Don’t worry; I’ll behave myself. For the time being.”
Wow, this girl was driving me wild. Everything she said. Everything she did, it was all playing into my fantasies of the perfect woman. I knew no woman could actually be perfect, but Kelsi was getting pretty damn close to what I had always wanted in a woman. She was making it harder and harder to resist her, and if the rest of this evening continued the way it had been, I might not have to resist her at all.
As we found our seats and sat down, I noticed a sparkle in Kelsi’s eyes as she looked around the theater. Kelsi had always loved the theater, and so did I. For a moment, I imagined what our lives might have been like if we had stayed together. I imagined being married and having children at home, the two of us getting a night away for ourselves. But the reality was that I wouldn’t have the fortune or businesses that I’d acquired if I had stayed with Kelsi. My success was partially because I had split from her and was finding my own independence. I had nothing to lose and therefore went after the ultimate of my dreams. I wouldn’t have been so bold if I had a wife and child at home waiting on me, so for that, I was grateful.
I reached my hand to Kelsi’s and intertwined our fingers as the show started. Comfort washed over me. What had started out as pure lust earlier in the evening was now an overwhelming level of comfort. I wasn’t in the mood that I normally felt while out on a date. To be honest, I didn’t go on too many full dates at all, and I certainly wasn’t bringing women to musicals or the theater. But the moment between us was genuine and serene, it was what I imagined many couples felt when they went on their dates together, yet I hadn’t experienced it in my adult life.
“I heard that there’s a big scene in the middle that will scare us. I’m so excited,” Kelsi said as she leaned toward me.
“I think I’ll probably scream like a school child; please don’t judge me.”
“Oh, I’ll judge you,” she teased.
The show was amazing, and it did indeed have a startling parade of explosions that made both Kelsi and I flinch when they happened. It was a delightful show though and worth every moment of our time.
“It’s been years since I’ve been to the theater. Thanks for taking me, Tyler,” Kelsi said as we walked back to the restaurant.
“I have a problem. It’s not a big problem, but it is bothering me quite a bit.”
“Okay, tell me what it is, and I’ll see if I can help you.”
“I don’t want to let you go tonight. Stay with me. See that hotel right there?” I said as I pointed to the tall Marriott building just a few blocks to the south. “I’ve got a fantastic room reserved, and we could stay together. Nothing sordid if you don’t want. But come stay with me. We can talk. We can stay up all night ordering room service and watching Pay-Per-View, I don’t care, but stay with me.”
Kelsi looked up at the building and seemed to be considering my offer, but then the look on her face told me that she was going to deny it. Before she even started to talk, I remembered that look from our high school days; she was about to turn me down.
“I like you, Tyler. I like the person you are today, and I’m really glad you will be in town for a while.”
“But you don’t want to start something with me if I’m not going to be staying in town?” I said as I finished the thought I knew she was having.
“Yes, I have a lot going on here. I’ve got a life that isn’t going to disappear when you do. I’d like to concentrate on that, and I hope you understand.”
“Then we should just have a fling,” I suggested. “A hot romantic few weeks together with no strings attached.”
It was a playful idea, and for a moment I thought she might be agreeable to it. She smiled at me and then looked at the hotel like we could make this thing happen. It was about more than sleeping with Kelsi, though; I genuinely liked having her around, and the stress and tension at my own home was just too much. I would have loved to spend the evening with her in the hotel, even if all we did were G-Rated activities.
“I think I’ll have to pass,” she said with a sweet smile. “But thank you for dinner and that amazing show.”
“Am I cleared to give you a goodnight kiss?” I asked as she unlocked her car door.
“I’d like that,” she said softly as her hands pulled my coat toward her.
There was a definite mixed message when I was kissing Kelsi. She clearly wanted to go with me to my hotel room. Her body pressed against mine and her lips moved urgently against mine as we moved our soft kiss into a full on make-out session right there in the middle of the parking lot.
She wanted me; I felt the desire, I saw the longing in her. Kelsi was holding herself back from having what she wanted, perhaps out of some idea of what a good girl would do. Or maybe she didn’t want to be seen as a woman who slept around; I wasn’t sure. But what I was sure of was that she wanted me just as badly as I wanted her. It might take me a few more times, but I was still rather confident that Kelsi and I were going to get our evening alone in bed sometime soon.
“I better get going,” she said as she pushed me away softly.
Her face was flushed with excitement, and she refused to look me in the eye as she made her getaway.
“I’ll see you Monday?” I asked.
“Monday?”
“Yes, didn’t you want to come see my father? I could swing by and pick you up if you’d like.”
“Oh, yes, I really do want to visit with him. Come by before you head over there. I think that’s a perfect idea.”
She leaned up and gave me one more quick peck on the cheek and then pulled her car door closed. It acted as protection between the two of us, which I think Kelsi needed even more than I did. She smiled and blew me a kiss as she pulled away.