Of Hard Nipples and Hard Choices
I keep running into "Moira," a woman I know from yoga classes we both used to attend. I have always considered her gorgeous, though I gather that Moira doesn’t see herself that way... and she is beautiful in a way I’ve never seen in another woman.
Anyway, the reason you’re hearing about it here is that one of those times I ran into her, at a cashier's station at a local supermarket, Moira looked a little emotionally down, and I asked her if she was all right. She smiled sadly and said she wasn’t feeling very good about herself at the moment. It obviously wasn’t the place to ask her to tell all, but I told her, “I hope it may help, even in a small way, for you to know that I have always felt good about you. You deserve to be happy, and talking with you has always made me happy.”
“Can I pay you to stand next to me for a couple of hours and say things like that?”
We both laughed, and Moira waited until I paid for my food. We left the store together.
We talked a little more at the mall’s entrance to the market, and she admitted she hadn’t wanted to look in the mirror the past few days. I listened, and asked her if she was open to feedback. She nodded, though she looked close to tearing up.
I told her she was one of the most gorgeous women I had ever met.
She looked at me for what seemed like a long time, and finally asked, “When you got divorced, why didn’t you ever ask me out?”
I was dumbfounded. I told her the truth (part of it, at least)... I had guessed that she had many men to choose from, and I wasn't at my best at that point. (The part I didn't say was that at that time, I was deeply in love with someone who had very much welcomed and seemed to share the attraction at first, but who got cold feet and left me feeling something close to vertigo.)
And Moira knows I've since remarried, obviously.
As Moira heard me out, I couldn't fail to notice that she wasn't wearing a bra under her blouse, and her nipples we're unmistakably hard.
Moira and I both made a choice. We shifted to small talk, and we pretty much keep it light whenever we run into each other now.
But she probably knows I fantasize about being alone with her, lifting that blouse, kissing those perfect nipples, and then going from there.