it served as the interview area for my date with Brian. “ Very well.” He slid in the booth opposite me. Sitting face to face with him seemed unreal as if I were in one of my dreams. One of the more vivid ones I had been having for a week since we decided to meet. They always ended with me in some compromising position. One had us both 69 style in the forest. My head in between his legs and he in between mine. The thought of it caused me to fan myself with the menu. I shook the images away as a waitress, Miranda, came back to take our order. “ Oh. How are you?” Miranda said giving Brian the eye. She twirled her ginger colored hair with her pen as she gawked at Brian. I couldn’t blame her, as he was more attractive in person than on his profile picture if that were possible. She glanced at me with the look of awe probably trying to verify if I noticed he was gorgeous. Brian looked over the two paged brown menu, but his lips never departed from a frown. Perfect, that meant he didn’t like this place. Miranda was still there giving me the googly eyes and pointing to Brian with her eyes. She mouthed the words hot right before he looked up at her. “ Just ice water with lemon for me thanks.” He said handing her the menu. “ Just my usual Miranda. Thanks.” She grinned and walked off saying nothing. My usual consisted of a cheeseburger with bacon and fries with cheese. As she walked off I followed Miranda with my eyes, thinking that maybe I should have canceled the order. It was a little awkward for someone to watch you eat. Turning back to Brian, his attention was his eyes were stuck on me. An intense stare into his ocean like eyes. Breathe Kara I told myself as I engaged in his game of chicken, the staring addition anyway. My heart felt like the fluttering of a hummingbird's wings; he had me frazzled. With any other guy, I was slick, quick witted, but with him I was...flustered. It was easy being flirty and bold through emails and over the phone, but in person I was afraid of this man. “ So you were afraid to meet me at night?” He spoke still not breaking eye contact. No warming up for this man; he went straight for the gusto. “ Just thought it would be safer to meet here?” The other choice was my house, and that wasn’t a good idea on the first meeting. “ From the way you act on the computer, I’m surprised anything could scare you.” I stopped myself from chuckling. I could see he wasn’t amused and showing weakness wasn’t attractive. Thinking of all the ways I taunted him, but it was hard to read someone through a monitor. Now here at this table he looked ready to fight back. “ I thought the same about you.” I looked down, focusing on a signature in the table trying to avert his stare as I squeezed my thighs together under the table. I thought of all of the things he claimed he would do to me, the things I thought were a lie but now seemed possible. Miranda reappeared with his water. Her eyes still big as grapefruits eyeing Brian, but he paid no attention to her. Which was weird, all the guys usually paid attention to Miranda. She scurried off, and he said nothing as he placed two lemons in the water stirring them around with a straw. “ Would you let someone take control of you?” He blurted out the question. Looking at me, he searched my confused expression. “ Ummm...you mean like take care of me? If I’m sick or break a leg or something.” My nervous giggle overcame me again. I wasn’t sure what he meant. He did some mumbling under his breath picking up his now vibrating phone and tapping some keys. “ Sorry, that was work.” He sipped his water eyeing the caveman like carvings on the booth from the previous bar customers. “ Why did you ask me that? Like...what did you mean?” “ It’s just a question.” As if he asked me something simple like the weather or the color of the sky. The weather actually would have been better to lead in with instead of this