Last night I had gone to meet a friend who was in town for a couple of days. We went to college together, and while we once shared a drunken kiss but that was it, we didn’t progress any further. Yesterday I left work early to meet Adriana. She didn’t know anybody in this town and had arrived a day early, so she didn’t even have much work to do.
I arrived at her hotel, hoping to meet my old friend, who was always jovial and full of life and sometimes freaky as a college girl. Who I met was someone pretty different from that, a woman who on first glance I noticed had put on a significant amount of weight. She used to be skinny back in college, now she is curvy! As we greeted each other with a hug, I noticed that it was more of a formal hug. The warm way in which she used to greet people was gone!
“You look good,” I told her.
“Haha...I know I don’t but thats pretty sweet of you,” she smiled.
This left me a bit puzzled as I was starting to wonder whether I was meeting my old friend or a stranger.
“Come on, lets catch up over a couple of drinks.”
I agreed and we uber-ed to a bar nearby. After placing our orders, both of us ordered a Scotch, we started catching up on what had been happening in our lives. I remembered that I had seen an old facebook post of her getting engaged and so I asked her about that.
“We’re not together anymore, we ended it a couple of months before we were about to get married.”
I was shocked. “I’m sorry...I didn’t know that, if I knew then I would have never brought it up.”
“It’s okay...it’s been a while since then...initially I was broken but slowly I managed to pick up the pieces. I developed an unhealthy food obsession, put on a lot of weight and while I have lost some, I still need to lose a lot more to get back in shape.”
“Aren’t you happy with the way you look?” I asked her.
“No...I am not.”
“Well speaking from the point of view of a guy there is really no need. You look lovely just as you are. Guys don’t really care about women’s weights as much as you guys think we do.”
“You are just being good to an old friend...or maybe you are one of the good guys, but there are guys who would sleep with me but would never be seen in public with me.”
“Maybe there are creeps like that but most of us wouldn’t feel that way. There are still many gentlemen left who know how to treat their lady right.”
She looked at me in disbelief. I knelt forward and pulled her by her neck and kissed her on the lips for quite a few seconds. She was pleasantly surprised. “See I kissed you in public among so many people and I would do that again and again, because I would be very lucky to go out with a beautiful woman like you.”
After having our drinks when we came out of the bar she pulled me and kissed me now.