It's Only Temporary: A Stand In Fake Fiancee Romance
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As they reach the door, she turns back to wave to someone and he turns around too and I see his face. He’s damned hot. Darlene is clearly going home with him tonight. For the first time in my life I feel a pang of jealousy go through me at the thought of the night she is going to have. Horrified with myself I look away from them quickly and catch the eye of the waitress who is patrolling around the club selling shots from a tray. She raises the tray and an eyebrow in question and I nod my answer.
I move to the side slightly and put my drinks down on an empty table and fish some money out of my purse.
“Two please,” I say.
“Seven dollars,” the shot girl says.
I pay her and I’m rewarded with two electric blue shots. I shrug and pick up the first one and down it. The second one follows soon after it. It’s slightly better than the Sambuca shots, but not by much. As I pick up our drinks and then start to head back to the dance floor again, I know that Darlene had the right idea getting out of here with her hottie in tow. And at this moment, I know I’m going to do the same thing tonight.
I’m going to embrace my inner Darlene and have a fun night with a guy I have known for all of ten minutes and I’m going to enjoy it. I’m going to let my hair down and have wild sex, the kind of sex I’ve only ever dreamed of having. But I’m going to do one thing better than Darlene. The guy I go home with is going to be even hotter than hers. I smile to myself. Yes, that sounds like a damned good plan, even if I do say so myself.
I rejoin the girls and by the time we finish our drinks and get some more, I’ve not forgotten my plan exactly, but I have convinced myself I was just being silly, just being drunk so to speak. I am no Darlene, nor do I want to be anything like her.
Still when I look up and spot the most handsome man I have ever seen in my life across the crowded room, I feel a stirring inside of myself, like my inner Darlene is waking up and giving me confidence.
“Go get him,” she seems to say. “God Ava, have one night where you just act your age and have fun.”
That voice makes it sound so easy, and suddenly I see that it is that easy. I just need to act like I’m confident and the hot guy won’t know that it’s all an act. How could he? He doesn’t know anything about me. I can be anyone I want to be while I’m with him.
Suddenly the hot guy looks over towards me and for a split second, everything else fades away. I can’t hear the pounding music anymore. I can’t see the other people around me. All I can see is him.
And my God is he a sight to behold.
He’s tall, a little bit over six feet I’d guess, and he has the sort of build that says he works out, but that he’s not obsessed with building huge muscles. His dark brown hair is just long enough to hang in his eyes or get tossed about in the wind. He runs his fingers through it as he looks at me.
I can feel my body responding to him as surely as if he was right by my side, touching me. Goosebumps skitter back and forth across my skin and my clit tingles, my pussy dampening and longing to be filled by the handsome stranger.
The spell is broken when Sophie touches my shoulder. I half jump and look towards her. She frowns slightly.
“Are you ok?” she asks.
“Yeah, I’m fine. I was just lost in thought for a minute there,” I say.
“Melanie needs to get out of here,” Sophie says, nodding her head towards Melanie who stands beside her swaying wildly.
The drink seems to have hit Melanie all of a sudden and I think it’s only Sophie’s arm around her waist that’s keeping her from falling over.
“I’m going to take her outside and grab a cab. Are you coming?” Sophie asks.
I start to nod, but I imagine the handsome stranger. I imagine that I can feel his warm lips on mine, his hands roaming over my body, and suddenly I’m shaking my head.
“No. If you don’t mind, I think I’m going to hang around and grab another drink or two,” I say.
“Are you sure?” Sophie says, looking around herself dubiously as if she suddenly expects a group of armed ninjas to appear or something. “You want to stay here on your own?”
“A couple of old school friends are here. I promised I’d go and grab a drink and catch up with them,” I lie.
I don’t know why I’m lying. I could tell Sophie the truth, but something stops me and I don’t question it, I just roll with it. This way will definitely invite less questions and I reckon that’s a good thing.
“Well if you’re definitely sure you’ll be ok,” Sophie says, her voice trailing off.
I am definitely sure I’ll be ok, hell I’ll be better than just ok if I get my way tonight, but Sophie is sounding less and less sure of the idea of me staying behind here alone by the minute. I’m almost pleased when Melanie groans. She rubs her stomach with one hand and presses the other one to her mouth.
“Soph? I think I’m going to be sick,” she says.
“Go,” I tell Sophie who says a quick goodbye and starts to lead a very unsteady on her feet Melanie towards the exit.
They get through it without Melanie being sick which is a good thing. I feel kind of relieved once they’re gone. I don’t think I would have found the confidence to approach the handsome stranger with Melanie and Sophie watching me. But now there is nothing to stop me. If he rejects me, no one ever needs to know, so I have nothing to lose. But even as I think it, I know he won’t reject me.
I know he should – he’s at least three or four levels too hot for me – but I know he won’t. I could see my own desire mirrored in his grey blue eyes when he looked at me. And I know it’s only a matter of time before I am in his bed tonight.
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