Over the next hour of spending time together Carol thought more and more John was to chatty and had really sick jokes. He spoke words like “dick” and “cunt” without a problem in front of her, like he was in male company. In the last few years Carol was used to men apologizing using those words in her company, if they happen to slip out. She is still a lady, and not some twenty year old hussy. He told the stupidest story eve of how he used to buy vibrators for his girl friends who were ashamed to enter a sex shop.
He was brutally frank and talked about anything he could think of like it was normal. Chris wasn’t impressed by that. He coolly rolled up a joint and started smoking. He would glance up at Carol from time to time like he wanted to say “Fuck it, he’s just like that.”
All the other time he tried to be a good host to John and her. He was probably used to him by now. Carol took a drag of the joint after Chris and pretended to be interested in John’s stories, all the time thinking “who in their right mind talks about vibrators to someone he just met a few seconds ago?! To a female!! Go home buddy.” But the weed started to work and Carol started to tolerate the intruder much easier. Chris was occupied with the choice of music. He gave Carol a gentle look when he saw her inhaling a smoke and said “take it easy“, and then he smiled.
Carol knew what he was getting at (throwing up from last time) and smiled back at him. John saw that as an internal joke between them and finally said:
“Ok, I am leaving you two alone. Enjoy watching the movie.” winking discreetly at Chris.
Carol ignored the obvious signs when he mentioned watching the movie. She was pretty stoned by now so she thought how John reminded her of those court jesters they had at royal courts. He had that kind of face and everything else that jesters have so Carol just smiled to herself.
Chris walked his friend out. Returning he said, “And?” he smiled showing off a perfect teeth.
“And what?” Carol smiled.
“What is it?” Chris continued to laugh.
“And you what?” joked Carol.
“Nothing” while flashing a broad smile. “And you?” Chris continued to joke around.
“Well nothing, what about you?” Carol said biting the edge of her lip.
Chris thought “Fuck it, she’s cute!”
“Are you stoned?” he asked.
“Well not too much” she answered.
And so they would continue with their very “intellectual” conversation if his cell phone hadn’t rang. Carol watched as Chris picked up the phone in a cool manner. She saw animalistic attraction in his cool manner. She wasn’t going to be able to resist not wanting him.
By the way he changed his face expression she concluded that the phone call was not nice, and he probably wasn’t expecting to get a call from the person on the other side of the line.
Like he wanted to hang up as quickly as he could but had respect toward this person to listen to the end. She didn’t want to seem rude and listen in on the conversation so she flipped through the CD-s pretending to search for some music. She also used this opportunity to go to the bathroom. When she came back he wasn’t on the phone anymore and he greeted her with a question:
“Do you want to watch the movie we were supposed to watch last time?” he smiled showing off his perfect teeth.
“Great, sure”, Carol laughed.
They settled on the movie very quickly because Chris was ready for all compromises. The guest had the advantage here after all.
They lay one next to the other on a large bed in front of his home movie theatre.
Chapter 6: Gentle touch
A few minutes later he came closer and gently pulled her towards him. Carol put her head on his chest and he hugged her close. It all happened very spontaneously and naturally. Just like it was supposed to be. And so they hugged each other as they watched the whole movie. Carol got the strong feeling like she has known him for years. She felt good around him.
Chris watched the movie and took it very seriously. He would always do that when he stoned. He felt her body beside his and of course he had to have her. He wanted to have her since the first moment when they met on the freeway. He always thought she was hot. Now that he had the chance to know her, he didn’t want to screw things up. He started to think about her differently. Right now he would look at her when she got talking and thought, “This woman is really special.” She wasn’t superficial like most of the women he dated recently. “I am going to control myself”, he thought, “I just need to focus on the movie.”
He didn’t even try to kiss her or anything like that. Carol was impressed. He really is different, she thought. She liked the fact that she could be so relaxed around him, that he didn’t expect anything and everything was ok to him. He was just being human to her. How wonderful. Carol got home that night in a dazzled state of mind and then realized that she could easily fall in love with him.