Unexpected Love Ch. 01

When I woke up this morning, the sky was gray and rain was falling down onto the pale landscape of Norwood Ohio. Ohio is one of those states where you have no idea what the weather is going to be like. One day it's like sunny California, and the next day it snows, and then the next day it pelts out rain that makes you think you're living in a black and while film. I don't know about you, but I didn't really enjoy the Andy Griffith show till it came in color.

The only reason why I loved Ohio was because of the fall. When the leaves turned gold, red, brown, yellow, and purple. I loved to walk outside a smell the leaves; they had a distinct smell that made my spirit want to sing. Unfortunately for me, I had to wait all summer for fall to finally come.

It was spring now, and all that reminded me of was that fact that I now had to work full time at my job, and not part time with doing college work.

I got out of bed slowly, making sure I pressed my snooze button at least two times before crawling out from under my covers. I stood up and instantly hated the fact that I had hard wood floors in my room. I quickly walked over to my area rug in front of my full mirror and looked at myself quizzically.

My long dark brown, almost black hair was too curly and unruly for its own good, and my skin was to pale to be considered beautiful. I had dark blue eyes, which were too large for my heart shaped face. I was tall for a girl standing at five foot nine, but just a little over weight in all the wrong places. I have large D cup breasts with a bubble butt to even those out, and I had wide hips and large thighs.

I quickly grabbed my work uniform off the chair I had place it on last night before I went to bed. I quickly put it on and then walked into my bathroom where I brushed my teeth and hair and put on makeup. I kept my hair in a ponytail while my long bangs fell out to frame my face. I went back in my room to quickly examine myself in the mirror.

The kaki shorts that usually were too big on me were tight on my waist, and the shirt seemed to fit too snugly around my mid section. I quickly put on my regular every-day jewelry and then pulled my shoes on and headed out the door for a long afternoon of work at Silver Spring House Bar and Grill.

The beginning of my workday was great, because not many people came in during the after lunch hours, but around four thirty more people started to show up. I was a waitress, and was getting ready to start training to be a bar tender.

I was thankful to see my Saturday regulars come in, they have been my friends sense high school, and today they had brought a few extra people. Two guys and one girl, from first glance I could only tell there was one black male, and a white male and female. I sat them at a large table buy our large projector screen.

Tonight's game was the play offs, Bangles vs. Steelers and everyone was excited. I went around the table and took everyone's drink orders, and when I saw him, I couldn't help but stare. He must have told me his drink order, and when I didn't rite it down he gave me a friendly smile.

My face instantly went scarlet, "I'm sorry, what did you say?" I asked him as I looked down at my note pad, completely embarrassed. He told me his drink order and I quickly wrote it down and then moved to the next person, completing the orders in a daze.

He stared at me while I was taking the rest of the orders, and I could feel his eyes on my face. I knew I was as red as a tomato cause I could feel the heat on my skin. As soon as I finished taking orders I quickly walked form the table and headed straight for the kitchen. I leaned against a wall and took deep breaths, trying to calm myself.

Oh my G.O.D. he is fucking sexy. I couldn't stop thinking about how he smiled at me. He had the most beautifully dark skin I had ever seen in my life, it was like rich chocolate and I wanted to eat it up. He looked tall and muscular, like he was lean and skinny but had the perfect amount of muscle and fat to make him look like the worlds sexiest candy bar.

Just thinking about him gave me a burning sensation down south, a sensation that I had not had over a guy in years. For a while I had been hooking up with girls, because I knew I would never find a girl that I loved but they still gave me sexual satisfaction and I didn't have to worry about having my heart broken again. But I have just decided to flush that shit down the toilet; there was no way I could do anything with a woman again after seeing him.

I quickly got their drink orders and brought them to the table. The table was high, so when I went to set his drink down, I purposefully grazed my breast on his shoulder. "There you go guys, are you ready to order?" I asked them.

"Yeah!" said Ben, who gave me the goofy smile he always gave me. "We are going to get three buckets of chicken wings, and three baskets of fries, an order of onion rings and an order of head please."

"Ok, I have three buckets of wings, three baskets of fries, and order of onion rings and a order of in your dreams, is that all Ben?" I asked with a wicked smile across my face.

"No, when you're on break make sure you eat with us ok? We have not seen you all week you work-a-holic. And bring us a few pitchers will ya?"

"No problem, ill be right back"

The time went buy fast and before I knew it, it was time for my break. I quickly went to the table full of my friends and Ben insisted that I sit on his lap. I ate over twelve chicken wings, and drank down two full glasses of beer before I noticed that the sexy black man was staring at me.

I quickly whipped off my hands and extended it across the table, "Hi, I don't believe we have been introduced, I'm Tara." He grasped my small white hand in his large black one a gripped firmly.

"I'm Terrell, its nice to finally meet you, Ben talks about you a lot."

"Oh really?" I said with a smile on my face, "Ben, you never told me about your friend Terrell."

Ben started to bounce me up and down on his lap, "that is because I never get to see you, and I would rather talk about a hot girl over a guy any day."

"Ben your lucky your girlfriend doesn't think I am a threat, or she would be very upset with you talking about sexy girls and bouncing me on your lap at the same time."

"What ever, the only reason for her or I to be worried is if you sitting on her lap, your more of a threat to me than you are to her..."

I slapped him on the arm, "Ben! Don't bring that up, I'm not like that anymore ok?"

"Sense when?" All I could do was blush from embarrassment of the subject being brought up while Terrell was clearly listening. "Well I think there is a way we can find out." He stopped bouncing me up and down and then placed his hands on my inner thighs. "Are you nervous?" he asked me.

"No," I said. "And you could touch me anywhere and I would still not be nervous because I am not attracted to you Ben and you know that."

"Alright, we will finish your testing later, the game is back on so don't distract me too much with your bubble butt."

"You're the one who was bouncing!" I said as I grabbed another chicken wing and smothered it in ranch sauce before eating it. "So, how long have you known Ben?" I directed the question at Terrell.

"Sense we were little kids, I live next door to him, I just never hung out with him when I got older cause I was working on my music and everything."

"Oh, what college do you go to?"

"I went to college in New York for musical production, and now I'm going to University of Cincinnati for business."

"That's cool, I got to U.C. as well, I'm in the DAP program for fine arts."

"That's awesome, I hear that is really hard to get into, do you like the program so far?"

"Yeah it's a lot of fun. Well I have to get back to work, ill see you around."

"Sure will," he said as he smiled brightly at me. I couldn't help but blush at his comment, because I didn't know if he was joking or being serious. I wanted him to be serious.

The rest of the night went by fast, Ben and all my other friends left after the Bangles lost and he told me to come to this party at his place. I told him I would go if I got off early, and It was just my luck that my manager sent me home over an hour early.

I quickly drove home and changed. I had no idea what to wear, so I decided to just wear something comfortable. I put on some jeans and a tank top, opting for a white one so you could see my red bra through the material. Then I put on some simple sandals and let my curly hair fall down over my back and shoulders. I put some touch up make up on and then headed over to Ben's place.

When I got there, there were tons of cars lines up along the street. I pulled into the drive way because I knew I was allowed to. I walk inside and was amazed at how many people were in his house. Bed has had parties before, and his house was huge so I could fit a large amount of people, but I have never had to squeeze by so many people before.

I went to the kitchen and pulled a beer out of the fridge, knowing that that is where Ben kept all the good beer, then I went down in the basement where I knew people would be playing pong.

When I walked down, everyone was shouting hello to me, and giving me hugs. I was happy to see my closets friends; Stefanie, Maria, and Shannon were there. Then I walk over to the pong table and saw Ben playing with Terrell, it looked like they were loosing by one cup.

"Tara," Ben called to me, "Please I need you to celeb shoot for me, I'm getting killed here, Terrell's been making all the shots so far!"

"Ok, ok" I said as I walked up and took Bens place next to Terrell. "You shoot first" I told him. He shot his ball, and it bounced off the rim of the cup. I took a few steps back from the table and lined up for my shot, then I shot the ball and watched it sink right into the first cup.

"Hell yeah, this girl is the bitch of beer pong, un-defeated sense she first played. Ok, Tara you're playing with Terrell from now on, because I suck, so have fun and kick ass." Ben walked over to his girlfriend Jill and then disappeared into the crowd.

The next team shot and missed both times. Terrell shot and missed by hitting the rim again. Everyone was watching the game, they were all silent as I got in position to shoot the ball. I lined up and then sank the ball into the winning cup. Everyone cheered and I automatically wrapped my arms around Terrell and hugged him with all my strength.

If I caught him off guard or took him by surprise he didn't show it, he just wrapped his arms around my waist and hugged me back. "You are absolutely amazing, you have to teach me how to shoot like that," he said.

"Ok, you wanna be my partner for the next round?" I asked him, hoping he would say yes.

"Hell yes, lets kick some ass."

Terrell and I won three games in a row after that, and then we called it quits. During the games Terrell would find some way to have his hands around or on my waist. At one point I was lined up to shoot and he stood behind me with his hands on my hips while he whispered in my ear to concentrate and make the shot or he was going to punish me.

I could feel the warmth of his fingers seep through the material of my clothing and onto my skin. I could feel his hot breath tickle my neck and moving my hair. I could feel how his front was slightly pressed up against my back, and I unconsciously leaned into him. Of coarse, I didn't make that shot, he was to damn distracting.

When the last game was over Terrell grabbed me buy the hand and led me up stares. There were still tons of people here, so he kept a tight grip on my hand and pulled my ahead. "Where are we going?" I asked him, but he didn't answer he only smiled back at me.

Then he opened the door to the outside screened in porch where there was no one in sight. There was a large couch that out looked the dark forest behind the house, other than the two of us; the 'room' was empty.