Choosing Her

by Jessika Klide

  Mr. Untouchable. I like his nickname!

  Jess says, "We are honored to have you with us tonight. Your waitress will be right over to get your drink order. If you need anything, let her know. Good to see you, Aurei."

  "Thanks. I really wasn't expecting any special treatment."

  She smiles at me, touches Aurei's arm and leaves us.

  Aurei pulls a chair out for me and I sit down. He hangs my jacket on the back of his chair, sits and pulls it up to mine.

  I tease him. "I like your Mr. Untouchable nickname. It goes with my Rule #1."

  He smirks. "Mike, the DJ, is a friend of mine from high school too. He tagged me with it a long time ago."

  "Did he tag you with Sexy Boy too?"

  He laughs. "He loves to rag me."

  "It's good crowd entertainment. He's just doing his job."

  "Yeah, I guess."

  My eyes twinkle at him. "I didn't dance erotic, did you notice?"

  His eyes crinkle at me. "You did good, Wild Thang, and I notice every move you make."

  I smile at him. "So where are your Bro's?"

  "They're at our usual table." He checks his phone. "They haven't read my text."

  "Well, go get them." I command. Aurei raises his eyebrows at me so I tone it down. "Pretty please, with sugar on top?"

  "I don't want to leave you alone."

  I roll my eyes at him. "I know how to say no!"

  He stands and looks out across the room.

  I reach out and touch his beautiful golden hand.

  He stares down at me. "What, Baby Thang?"

  Looking up into his sincere face, I feel myself fall another notch. "What shall I order you if the waitress comes before you return?"

  "Crown, neat."

  I blink and shake my head. Did he just say that?

  "Get me whatever you're having then."

  I look at him. "That's what I drink."

  "Great. Get us both one." He winks as he walks off into the crowd, evading the dance floor. His route makes me giggle. I decide to sit up on the table so I can see him.

  I'm glad he wore the aqua color. He's easy to spot.

  I look around the bar. The DJ stage is across the opposite side of the dance floor. Our table is half way to the center stage on the left. It's a great location and the music isn't so loud you can't hear yourself think, plus you can see the whole place from this vantage point. I analyze The Stallion's set up with a trained business woman's eye.

  The actual bar is too small. It's too crowded. There isn't a separate area for the servers to fill their orders with ease. They need another bar along that wall. But the rest of the area is well laid out. The ceilings are very high and have ceiling fans spinning on high, circulating the air, keeping it moving. The ventilation is excellent. The air is crisp despite the crowd. There must be dehumidifiers and multiple air units.

  The stage is a good size. You could put a live band up there. And there are the stripper poles over there too. But, way too high. You have to crane your neck to see them.

  The Stallion is obviously a reference to an MMA fighter. I thought it was going to be a Cowboy Club. I like the concept. The servers are showing a lot of skin. Always good for business. T & A sells. The male uniforms are the equivalent of boxer briefs with sponsor logo's printed on them. They all have on athletic cups too. Mandatory no doubt. Can't have a python sneaking out, but gotta show those tight asses. The female uniforms are the ring girls two piece suits, complete with extreme push-up inserts. The more cleavage the better the tips.

  I keep an eye on the area where Aurei went. Every now and then I see his golden halo shining above the heads or his aqua shirt, but the going is slow. The place is packed and without the music blasting, the men stop him to speak and shake his hand, rising from their table briefly, and the girls call out to him or speak as he passes by their crew, flirting.

  He is both well respected and liked. I smile with the visual acknowledgement of what I know in my heart to be true. He's a good man.

  Our waitress comes over, studying me.

  I smile sweetly, knowing word has spread that Mr. Untouchable has a date.

  She returns it. "Hi, I'm Gaby."

  "Nice to meet you, Gaby. My name is Siri." I stick my hand out to shake hers.

  She blinks. "Seriously? Your name is Seary?" She leans down to get a good look.

  "Seriously, I’m Siri." I laugh, thinking she is surprised someone has the name as Apple’s Siri.

  "Welcome to The Stallion." She takes my hand and shakes it hard. "Nice to meet you. Are you here alone?"

  "No, my date went to get his friends. They'll be right back."

  "Of course, you wouldn't be here alone. Forget I asked that." She rolls her eyes. "I like your hair like that."

  I smirk. Conversation about hair is always a safe topic. "Thanks. I usually wear it straight."

  A crew of 8 girls come over to the table to join us. Gaby looks at them and says, "Let me finish here, then I’ll come over and take your drink order." She nods for them to take off.

  The lead girl tells her. "We didn’t come to give you our order. We came to tell her." She nods at me. "Congrats on putting The Bitch in her place."

  Gaby stares at them, then looks at me. "Wait a minute. You're with Aurei?"

  "Yes." I crinkle my forehead. "Is there something wrong?"

  "No. No." She laughs. "Of course, he would be with you, and of course, you would be with him. Perfect!" Then she looks at the lead girl. "What happened?"

  She says. "We couldn’t believe our eyes. Ruthless hit on him outside in line. Sober!"

  "Really? Are you sure she was sober?"

  "Pretty sure. She didn’t look drunk."

  "She might have been high."

  "Maybe, but she didn’t look strung out."

  "Well, it doesn’t really matter, does it."

  "No. She's getting braver."

  "Or more desperate! What did Aurei do?"

  I answer. "Nothing. I handled her."

  She laughs. "I would have loved to have seen that! What did you do?"

  The tall girl behind the leader says, "She intimated the hell out of her. Ruthless walked off fucking speechless!"

  I laugh at her outburst. "I marked my territory; that's all."

  "Hell yeah, she did. No doubt who's her man!"

  "WHAT did you do?" Gaby asks again.

  The lead girl brags. "Oh man! Gaby, she touched Mr. Untouchable!"

  "And that sent Ruthless away speechless?" Gaby frowns.

  "Gaby! Listen! She TOUCHED him!" Gaby looks at her. She demonstrates on her friend. "She stroked him."

  "Right in front of everyone!" Another girl says.

  "And he fucking let her!" A different girl chimes in.

  "Damn! It was hot as fuck too!" A different girl adds.

  "He is hot as fuck, and she is hot as fuck, and yeah, it was hot as fuck!" A totally different girl agrees.

  "Ruthless’ face was fucking priceless!"

  "Here. Look!" They shove a phone in her face.

  "SWEET!" Gaby exclaims. "I hate I missed it!"

  They look at me all smiles.

  "You girls, obviously don't care for her."

  "Fuck no!" They all say together, then the crew turns to go too saying as a collective group. "See ya!"

  "Wait. We weren’t introduced. I'm Siri, and you all are?"

  "I'm Resa. This is Grace, Prissy, Daisy, Ana, Kay, Holly, and Boo."

  "Nice to meet you ladies."

  "Likewise." They wave and walk off.

  Well, that was nice of them to come over.

  Gaby grins at me. "Wow! What a night and it isn't even midnight yet! Ruthless speechless. Aurei with a date and touched. You are here at The Stallion with Aurei!" She shakes her head and places her pen on her pad. "I know what Aurei will order. What do you want to drink?"

  "I'll have the same."

  She shakes her head again. "Fucking perfect!" Then she turns to the bar and walks away.


  Chapter Seven

  Luke Bryan's, "Country Girl (Shake It For Me)" starts to play.

  Wow, this DJ mixes it up. I like it!

  My toes are tapping in the chair as I look for Aurei. I don't see him, but I do see girls and servers all over the bar stepping up on the tables to dance. It reminds me of my Coyote Ugly days dancing on the bar.

  Fun times. I wonder what Piper is doing these days?

  One of the male servers stops in front of me. "That's true, you know."

  "What?"

  "You have everyone looking." He offers me his hand to help me climb on the table. "You might as well shake it for them!"

  I might as well.

  I take his hand and join the Country Girls shaking it. I follow the dance of the other girls very mindful that erotic is out. I simply twitch my booty while I clap, looking for Aurei. My view from this height is much better and I can see across to the other side of the bar. I spot him easily.

  There he is! There's my Fucking Golden God! Handsome hunk!

  He is standing with his back to the wall staring back in my direction next to a table with two men and a couple of girls. He points and begins walking back to me. The two guys stand up immediately. They grab their drinks and follow as he snakes his way back through the tables. His progress is much faster with the music blasting.

  I have to smirk, noticing his face never drops to see his path.

  When he is half way, I kick into choreography mode, shaking my booty with the video. I'm having a blast! Whipping my hair, I twirl around and twinkle wave at him.

  He gives me his sexy head nod and a smile.

  We're good.

  His face stays locked on me as I shake my booty, turning around on the table top, giving him a view of my moving assets.

  He is within four tables of me when the DJ spins right into the next song, and while most of the other girls start to climb down, I stay.

  I lock eyes with him and the intense look on my face makes him stop. I recognize "DANCE Until The World Ends" by Britney Spears immediately. I know the choreography forward and backwards. It's one we use now for training but I performed it many times in that first year.

  When the black lights strobe, I know I’m standing out like a beacon. My leg starts to pump with the beat. I can't help myself. I start to cat walk in place on the table.

  I hear Cat's voice. "If you're gonna dance Britney, you better give it everything you have. If you going to dance Britney, you better do her justice and blow their fucking minds."

  As soon as the black lights stop, I lock eyes with Aurei again. He is still standing in the same place. His bro's are next to him, watching. I lip to him. "I'm going to blow your mind!"

  Dragging my fingers across my lips, I salute him as I become Britney.

  This kitten's gonna tie your tongue in a knot.

  He watches as I dance a Surreal performance. His first. His beautiful smile forms the words. "You already have, Wild Thang!"

  The same thing that happened the very first time I transformed in Been Jammin's, and always happens when we do a flash mob dance on the floor, happens here in. The people immediately around me notice, then it fans out like a wave through the dance hall. Some people just stop and stare. Some people look, than go back to whatever they were doing. Some people join in the dance and become part of the show. But by the time the song gets to the pause where the world may end, more than half the girls and a lot of the guys are a part of the dance, squatting down waiting. Every time it happens, it never ceases to amaze me.

  Fucking awesome! I've got to ask if I can do this one again in my show. Maybe a salute to Britney bringing her concert venue to the Vegas strip.

  We finish the dance as a group. The cheer that goes up drowns out the beginning of the next song, which is "Raise Your Glass" by Pink.

  I watch Aurei weave his way through the standing, clapping people between us. Grinning and pumped up, I wait for him. When he arrives he extends his hand to me and I take it, coming down off the table to be wrapped into his waiting arms. "Wow! Wild Thang, my mind is truly blown away and so is half the bar's."

  I give him a butterfly kiss. I'm so happy!

  He turns me to face his friends. "Steve, Paul, I'd like to introduce you to The Girl of My Dreams."

  I extend my hand to shake theirs. "Siri to you." They laugh.

  Steve and Paul are the same height and build like Aurei, but they aren't cut as dramatic as he is.

  Still either of them would be a good catch for a girl.

  Steve has blonde hair, cut in a buzz, with honest blue eyes. While Paul has thick, curly black hair with brown twinkling eyes. I like them immediately, just like I liked Ann right away.

  Neither of them say anything. It's always about sex and conquests with males. They simply grin at me like adolescent boys.

  Aurei puts his hand on the back of my chair. "Sit!"

  I do as I'm told. He sits with me. Sliding his hand down the inside on my thigh, he leaves it there. He looks at Steve and Paul, who are still standing and staring. "Hey, she's not a fucking alien. Sit."

  They laugh and sit across from us. Right away two girls come over to Paul and put their arms around him, lean in, whisper something in his ears while they rub his back and chest. He smiles up at them and nods. They sit down on his lap and he gets lost in their bodies.

  Steve ignores Paul and the girls, and stares at me, then Aurei, then me, then Aurei. Aurei asks him. "What?"

  "What? Fuck man! How did you manage to land such a beautiful girl? And how long have you two been hooking up? And why am I only now meeting her? And how could you keep her a secret from me? From us?" He gestures to Paul. "I thought we were bro's!" He shakes his head, still gobsmacked. "Fuck you, man! You and your secrets."

  "Stop your whining, you sound like a bitch!" Aurei says, laughing.

  Steve turns to me. "Well?"

  "Well, we met in our apartment building. We hit it off. We're together." Aurei squeezes my thigh and I know he approves of my concise communication.

  He chuckles, not taking his eyes off Steve.

  "Shit! There's more to it than that! It can't be that simple."

  "I'm not saying another word." I look at Aurei and our eyes twinkle.

  "Wait a minute… you said 'we met in OUR apartment building.'" He frowns at Aurei. "You've moved into an apartment? Why would you move out of your house into an apartment?"

  Aurei gives him a patient look. "Isn't it obvious? I moved in to meet her. And I didn't tell you because I didn't want you interfering with my seduction."

  Gaby interrupts the interrogation. She sets our drinks down, while the guy server that walked me up the table, stands behind her holding a huge platter of chicken fingers and fries. "Hey Aurei. I brought the usual."

  "Sup, Gaby girl, thanks."

  She takes the chicken platter. "Thanks, Bruce."

  "No problem, Gabs. Let me know if you need anything else. You know I'm into you." He cuts his eyes at Steve as he walks away.

  Gaby, who is well endowed, leans over the table to set the platter down so her cleavage is in full view for Steve. Her tits distract him and he forgets all about me and Aurei.

  I smirk. Tits always, always draws the attention of a man's eye.

  She walks to Steve's side and puts her hand on his shoulder. "When I get off later, you gonna come over and give me a booty call?" She leans over again to put napkins on the table for us. Her tit is inches from his face.

  "Sure. I need to get laid."

  Paul's face surfaces from between the tits and hair of the two girls as they stand up. They each take a hand and pull him to his feet. "Excuse us. We have a little booty business to take care of in. I'll be right back."

  The DJ announces another graduating class as shouts of "hooahs" fill the air.

  I look around. Content for the first time in a long time. I lay my hand on Aurei's and squeeze it gently as I slide my fingers between his. He looks at me and smiles, relaxed and in his element. My stomach grow
ls loud enough for everyone to hear and I blush. "Excuse me. My PB&J has warn off."

  Gaby looks at me. "You need to eat, girl. You're too skinny." She looks down at Steve. "On second thought, I'll come get you on my break and we can hookup then. I've got to go to early church with my parents in the morning."

  "Alrighty then. I'll be waiting right here for you."

  Aurei reaches over and pulls the whole platter of chicken fingers to us. He picks up a handful of both fingers and fries, and stacks them on both our plates, then he pushes the platter back to the center.

  Steve pulls it to him and does the same, then slides it over to Paul's empty place. He stands and excuses himself. "Pit stop."

  Aurei takes a fork and stabs one, then puts it to my mouth and commands. "Eat."

  I giggle. "You sure are bossy! But I'll be damned if I don't like it!" I open my mouth and he holds it out for me to take a bite. My eyes flash wickedness as I lower my face under it, lean my head back, opening my mouth. I guide his hand with the fork, so I can engulf the whole piece, closing my lips around it. It fills my mouth making my cheeks puff out. My eyes twinkle at him as I try not to laugh.

  "Not as easy as a cookie to swallow, is it?"

  Grinning, I open my mouth, letting the fork and chicken slowly slide back out, then I take a very dainty, ladylike bite. "Nope, but I've swallowed bigger and tastier. Have you forgotten already? Do I need to follow you into the Men's room to remind you?"

  He puts the rest in his mouth. "Nope, I won't ever forget the view of you eating me." He chews slowly enjoying our twinkling eyes, then he adjusts his chair, draping my legs over his. He forks another piece and feeds me. I bite without fanfare and eat. "I like to watch you eat. Your mouth looks so interesting as you chew. It's so … quiet. And your body looks so comfy sitting here with me. It is so … still."

  I play slap him. "Don't get used to it. It won't last."

  The DJ spins again. This time it's Toby Keith, "I Love This Bar." It sounds like the whole place knows the song. Everyone is singing with it.

  Aurei feeds me a bite off each of the chicken fingers he eats. I manage to eat most of them before I hold up my hand. "Yummy, but stuffed."