A cute girl waits for him

As promised, Natalie was sitting there already at a booth towards the back of the bar. It still wasn’t very late, so there weren’t many people here, but that suited me just fine. It was until I saw her, looking cute in her glasses, long brown hair shining in the lights and tight body displayed modestly, but noticing through her tight clothes, that I remembered I had never really been on a date with a girl before and started to get nervous.

Before I could chicken out, I walked to the table, trying to contain my shaking as I quickly re-introduced myself, “hi Natalie, nice to see you again, I’m John stephanie’s brother in case you forgot.”

She smiled at me, a genuine smile, not the predatory one I had gotten used to of late. “Yes John I remember you, I was the one who asked stephanie to go out with you after all.” She gestured for me to take a seat and I blushed, realizing how dumb I had sounded.

“Haha sorry that was dumb, just a bit nervous you know?”

She smiled at me again, she had a very nice smile, it was gentle, but full of kindness and life. “It’s okay, I’m a bit nervous too. It’s embarrassing but I’ve always had a bit of a crush on you.” It was her turn to blush now and she couldn’t meet my eyes now. She spoke so softly that it was clear she was very shy, but I found it so touching that even being like that, she would admit that to me just to make me more comfortable.

“Well I’m glad to hear it, I’ve uh, always thought you were,” swallows a lump in my throat, “very cute too.”

Now we were both blushing and neither could look at the other. I felt this was quickly getting out of hand, so a waived down the waiter and asked for drinks for the two of us, just a glass of wine each to settle the nerves. He came back quickly and we both downed them almost immediately and ordered another.

Thankfully, while he was off getting our second glasses, we were able to make hesitant eye contact, and started speaking again. “So,” I asked, “you’re in college like Steph right? What are you studying?”

I cringed at the lame question, but Natalie perked up and started speaking excitedly, “I am studying film theory, I always loved shows like game of thrones and supernatural, so I wanted to study all the things behind it. Like how do they pitch it, how does one bottle such an idea to the point it becomes a cultural phenomenon, how do you keep the cast so long…oh sorry, I just went off like a nerd didn’t I.”

I smile at her as she looks embarrassed and say quickly, “no not at all! I love that type of stuff, please tell me more!”

Our next drinks came and we kept drinking and talking about shows, books and all other nerdy things. Before we knew it, the bar had filled up and we had quite a bit to drink.

Now she was looking at me intently and asked…