_____After a few bites of your sandwich, you decide it's time to get down to business. "You wanted to talk to me about something?"
_____"Yes." Carla fiddles around with a crouton before looking you in the eye. "I've been thinking about going to the Leather Rose. Someone told me you had some experience in that area."
_____This woman is full of surprises, you think to yourself as you flash her a coy smile. "Yes, I've been a couple of times." The Leather Rose is a monthly sex party for women. You occasionally went to satisfy voyeuristic urges. There was always plenty to watch: a Latina wearing only black thigh high boots leaning against a wall as a masked woman sucked her clit; women on the floor with their asses thrust high in the air waiting to be spanked; a sister moaning as she is rimmed for the first time. "What do you want to know?"
_____"It's a little embarrassing." Carla takes a deep breath. "I want to do more than I-lay-on-my-back-while-you-eat-me-and-then-switch."
_____Lovers? All this time, you had envisioned being her first. "It couldn't have been as bad as it sounds."
_____"I don't mean that the sex was horrible. Every once in a while I wanted to have my nipples pinched instead of lovingly kissed. Anyway, I want to be in an environment were women are uninhibited. Unrestricted lust and fulfillment of desire--might as well try it now while I'm still single."
_____"Well, the Leather Rose is definitely that. It's the last Friday of the month at Club Solera. Doors close at 10pm. There is a brief safe sex presentation and then the games begin."
_____"Okay, so the next party is this coming Friday."
_____"Yes."
_____"I have a week to build up my courage."
_____Sensing an opening, you test the waters. "If you are nervous about your first time, I'll go with you." Carla gives you a questioning look, so you decide to plunge in headfirst. "I think you are very beautiful and I would like to get to know you better."
_____Leaning back, Carla takes a long sip of her soda. She eyes you suspiciously. "I thought you weren't interested?"
_____"I never said that."
_____"But you made sure to run the other way every time you saw me walk into your department. It okay if we are just friends."
_____You sigh and begin playing with an errant lettuce leaf. There is no worse feeling then something from your past rising up to sting you in the present. "I was a little nervous about starting an office romance. If we had an argument at night, I didn't want you gossiping about me at the water cooler."
_____Carla shakes her head. "A friend of yours told me that my approach was all wrong. She said you wouldn't give me a second look because I was too easy."
_____"Who told you that?"
_____Ignoring your question, Carla continues. "She said if I lost interest in you or found someone else, you would be beating down my door. That sounded like something a 2nd grader would do."
_____Either someone is trying to sabotage you or your reputation is starting to take a turn for the worse. "It sounds like you ran into one of my ex-lovers."
_____"I could tell she was bitter." Carla laughs. "After she finished bad mouthing you, she started hitting on me. Sylvia is a piece of work."
_____Suddenly, you have a migraine. There's no telling what kind of rumors Sylvia had started or how many people she's spread them to. It's the one night stand that will haunt you forever. You should have kept your ass home.
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