Telling Oscar was embarrassing enough. But James and Dixon’s wisecracks were pissing me off. This time we met at my place to discuss the demise of my social life.
"So who’s next?" Dixon wore a big dimpled smile on his face. "This is getting fun. It’s like dial-a-chick!"
"Shut up," I growled.
"Aww, poor wittle, Aidan." Dixon teased, lounging back in the overstuffed chair. "You got rejected from one of the girls you fucked and dumped. Who didn’t see that coming?" He laughed, boisterously.
"Okay, so who else, Aidan?" Oscar patted my shoulder. The couch shifted when he sat next to me.
"I don’t know," I sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose. "This is pathetic."
"Yeah, we know," James mumbled.
I glared at him.
"Okay what about Hannah? She was hot." James wiggled his brow.
"Yeah and completely annoying," I argued.
"Gina?" Oz threw out there with a snicker.
"Are you fucking kidding me right now? Please tell me you’re joking." I glared.
"Who’s Gina?" Dixon asked.
"She stalked me for almost a year after one night together, proclaiming we were "meant to be"." I rolled my eyes.
"Well, it sounds like stalker was right, dude," Dixon laughed.
"No way. I’m not calling Gina, not talking to her, not even letting her get wind of this." I got up for another beer, needing a moment away.
"I say you at least try Hannah then. What other option do you have, unless you want us to start fixing you up on dates?" Oz wiggled his eyebrows.
"Oh God…is that the only option left?" Putting my head down to my kitchen counter, I grunted.
"I told you, I have a pretty cool friend," Dixon threw out there again.
"I work with a woman that I could fix you up with," Oz threw out there.
"Dude, you are so screwed!" James laughed loudly.
"Thanks, James." I smacked him in the head on the way back to the couch. "I appreciate the support and apparently you don’t care too much about AIS, since our family will lose it to the damn directors." I snarled.
He put his hands up in surrender.
"Okay, okay, I’ll see if I can figure something out. Want me to call one of my friends?" He grinned.
"No. Can we try for a decent girl, please?" I shot back and he laughed me off.
"So that’s a ‘yes’ to being fixed up, right?" Dixon wanted clarification. I sighed, nodding by acceptance of blind dates. "You are going to love my friend. I just gotta convince her to do this." He grinned around the beer bottle.
~
Colored lights swirled over the walls and floor as I sat at Club, Inc., waiting for my blind date courtesy of Dixon. It was only a couple hours after the club opened, so the crowd was still sparse. Sitting with my eyes trained on the door, I sat nervously waiting.
"Expecting someone?" Lilli stood smiling from behind the bar.
"You could say that." I gulped my drink.
"What’s she look like? Maybe she’s already here." She asked nicely as she scooped ice into a large glass blender.
"I’m not quite sure."
"Are you on a blind date?" She looked amused, a smirk creeping over her lips.
"Maybe," I scowled. "Dixon—"
She burst into a fit of laughter. "You let Dixon set you up? Of all the people…" Her body shook from amusement, walking away to put the ice on the blender stand.
"Lilli!"
I spun on the bar stool, and watched a petite woman run up to the bar. She almost threw herself over it.
She was attractive and super tiny. She couldn’t be more than five foot two, if she was lucky, super thin with a really short platinum pixie haircut. I bet she could easily work for Disney as a fairy or something.
"Look what the cat dragged in!" Lilli yelled back.
"Please, nothing drags me anywhere," the tiny woman gave a fake insulted look.
They embraced over the bar. The way Lilli’s ass was pushed out as she leaned across the bar, I couldn’t help but stare at it.
"I do the dragging" the tiny girl responded and giggled.
Her giggle was almost musical. By looking at her profile, I could tell her fine, delicate features matched the rest of her tiny frame. A little tiny for my tastes, but she was pretty.
"So, what are you dragging in here tonight, hooker?" Lilli slid off the bar and started pouring a drink before placing it in front of the tiny girl.
"Dixon set me up with one of his friends—" Lilli burst into laughter.
It took me a moment, but I realized this was my date.
"What’s so funny?" Tiny blonde narrowed her eyes.
Lilli shook her head and pointed at me.
"Aidan?" The girl looked over to me with a smile and headed in my direction.
"Yeah. Phoebe?"
She nodded and stuck out her hand.
"Can I get you guys anything before you go to a table?" Lilli appeared.
"I’m good, what about you?" Phoebe looked from Lilli to me.
"No, I think I’m good, too."
Lilli smiled an incredible smile and went back down the bar. My eyes were still attached to her ass, it took everything in me to look away before my date noticed.
"So you know Lilli?"