The Illusionary affair

a short story.

Richard Nagbi was somewhat perturbed because he made a week ago a few passes at a young good looking girl some fifteen years younger than himself, and after what seened to him as a promising start it blew up in his face soundlessly would be the right description; as it happened without nasty quarles, or angry accusations, thus what blew up in fact were his hopes and that’s all.

He was thirty nine years old, on the verge of becoming a middle aged man, while the young female with whom he wished so much to eevelop an affair, was just twenty four years old.

Her name is Moira Norfolk, she was well known in her neighborhood and the at local pub. but to him she was just the good looking youngish stranger, which he met for the first time in Archie’s pub; a pub he did not visit up to that time, when he noticed her youthful beauty.

She sat on a stool next to the bar in a natural pose, which accentuated the alluring and lovely lines of her lithe body; but two young men were sitting on both her sides, and were trying each one of them rather hard to win her heart.

All he could do was to sit at the closest table to the bar, and to listen to her and to her suitors’ conversation; and watch wih envy her white alluring nape, which he craved so much to kiss.

Hardly ten minutes of watching her back passed, and he heard her excusing herself; she left her stool in a rush, and she close to his table she stumbled and if has not quick enough to get up and hold her shouldes, she would have collapsed.

She’s tipsy no doubt, he realized as he helped her to reach the service rooms. Right after he opened the door. she made a desperate run to the nearest sink and bent over it. She’s vomitting! Richard panicked and rushed to help her, he held her brow with right hand and caressed gently her back with his left one. She was not aware to his help, but when it was over she pushed his hands away.

‘Thanks so much daddy and let’s go out toghater, so noone would think that we’d sex in there; but get back to your table, and don’t you dare to bother me from now on!’ She scolded him in a low voice, and went back to join her two suitors.

Well that’s the end of our affair. Richard concluded gloomily, and left the pub.

© Haim Kadman July the 30th 2011 �" all rights reserved.