To the park with Diana.

My shift ended for the day, so after seeing the last customer off we began to close up shop. Diana would wait for me outside while Maria, Isabelle and I cleaned up, but…

“So… You’re going out now?” my sister asked me.

“Yeah, but I don’t think we’ll be out for too long. I should be back early, but still, have dinner without me.”

Isabelle nodded, then turned to address Maria. “And… Will you be hiring that girl?”

“I’ll interview her tomorrow,” Maria answered. “She could just be another one of Oliver’s fangirls looking for an excuse to get closer to him.”

“You think?” Isabelle asked, not quite believing that herself. “I mean, she did hear he might be quitting and asked after that.”

“Hm. True,” Maria admitted. “And what does the man in question think?”

I sighed. “That I shouldn’t have a say in who you hire or not, but… For what it's worth, I don’t think she asked for the job because of me.”

“And we know about your gut feeling when it comes to women,” Isabelle said.

“I’ll give her a fair shot, at least,” Maria said. “Now go, Oliver. Isabelle and I can finish up here. Diana’s waiting, right?”

“What? No, I’ll close up properly,” I told her.

“It’s fine, kid. You’ve been covering for your sister all shift. Go.”

“Wait, huh?” Isabelle exclaimed, confused.

I grimaced. I didn’t feel right leaving early, but I also didn’t want to keep Diana waiting.

“Okay then. Thank you.” I took off my apron, hung it, waved Isabelle and Maria goodbye and left, meeting Diana just outside.

“Oh, you’re done?” she asked me, looking up from her phone.

“No, but Maria let me go earlier.”

She chuckled. “I see. Then… Shall we?”

I happily followed her to her car, and though the park we were going to wasn’t THAT far away, it’d still be better to leave the car closer so we wouldn’t have to come all the way back here later. Not to mention, being inside the car was helpful for… something else.

While on our way, I told Diana about the Normalizing runes and about the test we performed that day with the girls. When we got to the parking lot, I asked her, “Feel like trying them out? They work on public displays of affection, so maybe… people won’t look at us weirdly if we hold hands?”

Diana’s eyebrows shot up. And yes, I sort of expected her to agree, but I didn’t expect her to take off her thin sweater and immediately give it to me to write the runes on its label, keeping only her black undershirt on.

“Honestly, how do you do it?” She began while I wrote the runes with a pencil, her cheeks red and her smile bashful. “I wanted to see you today, so I figured I’d surprise you. I thought that… maybe we could walk around the park and hold hands since there aren’t many people at this hour.” Yeah, it was getting dark and it was only a Thursday. From where we were, we didn’t see many people or even more than three other parked cars. “How come we were thinking the same? Did you read my mind?”

“Nah, not this time,” I admitted freely.

I finished up and Diana put her top back on. I asked her if she felt anything strange and, like Grace and Sarah, she said she didn’t. Thank god.

And… Although we had tested that the runes worked already, I still felt the anxiety of trying them out again, this time in a much more public and open space. I also wasn’t the only one feeling that way.

We got out of the car, nervously held hands and stiffly began our walk. We walked down a long, straight dirt path with tall, thick trees at both sides. We were outside and finally holding hands like any two lovers would like to, but the nerves didn’t let us enjoy it.

We saw a woman in a suit getting closer, and I felt Diana’s grip on my hand tightening. My own body stiffened as well. We braced ourselves for anything, and… the woman didn’t even glance our way. We sighed in relief but didn’t have the time to comment on it, as two guys around my age were also about to walk past us. They were having a lively conversation among themselves that very suddenly came to a stop.

We tensed up again, but… Well, these two guys did look, only not at us. Not at me. They looked at Diana. Only not directly at her.

Her boobs. They looked at her boobs. Openly ogled, more like.

It made her sigh as we walked past them. “Boys will go nuts over big breasts, huh?”

“Boys, men, old men… Some women, too, I guess,” I added with a nod, unable to keep myself from smiling and giving Diana’s hand a squeeze.

She chuckled and moved closer to me so that our arms were touching. “Hmm. I thought you’d be jealous,” she teased.

“You’re gorgeous. I can’t keep them from looking.”

We grew more relaxed as we walked by some more people, none of whom gave us a second glance. Made me wonder…

“Are the runes working or were we just overthinking this?”

“I don’t know….” Diana took a deep breath and smirked at me. “Should we make sure?”

“Hm?”

She pulled my left hand and placed it firmly and confidently on her ass. Her left butt cheek, specifically. I felt a chill in my chest and horny tingling between my legs along with the softness of her peachy buttocks in my hand.

I was speechless at her bold move, then held my breath in as we walked past an old lady. She… smiled and nodded at us with casual friendliness, and Diana and I returned the gesture instinctively.

We looked at each other, speechless and still incredulous.

“I… I need to sit down,” Diana said with a weak little chuckle. “I don’t know if it’s the anxiety or the excitement, but I think my legs are getting wobbly.”

I nodded in agreement.

Look, I know this isn’t anything crazy. I’ve seen people out there do much more without giving a damn people are watching. I think I might have even seen a girl give a blowjob to a guy on a bus once but I didn’t dare to look and confirm it. My point is that this was a big deal to me, to US. We wanted to do that kind of thing in public, but we didn’t want the attention. Unrealistic fantasies were now suddenly… possible. Maybe.

We would never know until we tested the limits of what the runes would let us get away with.

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