Chapter Two

---Eddie---

It was nearly 5 o'clock when she finished her hike and finally reached her car. She checked the vitals; oil, water, tires; before getting in and heading off to the nearest coffee house. It was a long chilly hike and she knew that she was definitely craving a nice hot cup of coffee to warm her insides back up! 

She pulled up to the Starbucks just down the road and went into the restroom to clean up a bit... 

As she stood looking in the mirror, her mind remembered C... 

He had taken a picture of himself right where she was standing and he sent it to her.

She blinked a few times and made the thought disappear. That was all gone now, She told herself. Move forward already. 

She ordered her favorite coffee, and went to sit down. 

Reaching into her back pocket to grab her phone, she realized it wasn't there! Crap! Did she leave it on the counter? She felt disorientated... She never leaves her phone anywhere.. why now? Then she stops and thinks... where was the last place she had it? And she remembered.. the bathroom. 

Maybe she cleared more memories then just C. She laughed at the thought. 

She went back to bathroom and a guy walked passed her and stopped as he saw her go towards the restroom.. He yells to her, I gave it to the lady at the counter! 

She turns and thanks him and heads straight to the counter. 

With her phone finally back in her hand where she wanted it, she begins to make a video. In chimes a text!

"Are you ready for me? "

Eddie!

She was so not ready for him, but she responded anyways. 

She was honest though. 

"I'm at Starbucks. I'll be home in 30 minutes,  is that ok?"

Eddie complies. What else could he do. 

As she is driving home, traffic is slow which gives her time to reminisce... 

She met Eddie at the place she hikes.

Eddie and her attracted each other because of their sexual desires. 

In a way, their sexual nature was the same. 

Both of them feared intimacy. 

They both feared to be vulnerable. 

And they both had an ego as high as the mountains they both were climbing when they had chanced upon each other.

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She reached her house not long after only a few reminiscing thoughts and was walking up the sidewalk when she could have swore she saw his huge black truck parked by the side of the road.
She thought to herself... wow... This boy is either really desperate for sex, or he is really short for time and perhaps scheduled 2 people in one time frame. She laughed at that thought knowing it was only her fear, but then she caught a lump in her throat when she realized just how dirty the idea actually was.
 "Too late now," she said out loud to herself as if to give herself the consequences ahead of time to soften the blow when it would hit her later anyways. 

Shaking her head in disbelief, she goes into the house and starts walking up the stairs when she gets a text right away...

Ding! 

She looks at her phone... 

Eddie... 

Sure enough, That was him on the side of the street. 

Immediately the thought popped in her head;

  Should this be creepy weird,

 or

 more like a fairy tale fantasy dream come true?
Just Imagine... 

Prince charming wearing his tin foil proudly sitting in front of the castle on his brave and trusty donkey... 

Asking Rapunzel to throw him a bone! 

Yeah... this was that...
and it was so unorthodox...

so...
 Fairy tale
 or
 stranger then fiction?
She figured both..
But she definitely knew
She was no Rapunzel, and she was definitely not about to fall short of her loyalty to her spoken words...
 So she responded to his message with , "I'm putting on a dress... Be right out. "

Five minutes later she was heading down the stairs and out the door. 

Not much was required to please Eddie and that was one thing she really did kind of admire about him. 

When she got to the car... 

She got in and gave him a hug hello.. She always tried to lean in for a kiss but Eddie turned his head every time. She basically boiled it all down to the assumed facts that; 

Eddie was married and had a family with the love of his life. But every now and then the wolf inside him called out the need to feed his deeper animal hunger. 

And that's where she came in.

She was the juicy meat to satisfy the hungry wolf inside him that so desperately needed  to get fed or else die.

Good enough, she thought.
It Definitely gets her out of owning up to the responsibility that she was really just throwing herself down a bottomless pit!  

Not even Ten minutes later, and she was back home.
She got up to her room and felt like...
She really needed something...
She grabbed her vibrator and sure enough...
Found the missing piece.
Her vibrator gave her more emotions then Eddie could ever convey.
But during her emotional time with the cold hard fakeness in her hand... her mind was on the forbidden fruit... Tric... 
Somehow... He knew exactly what she needed..
and everytime she was alone with only false hope in her hands, Tric was behind each movement.
She wondered...
Would C have been like Eddie?
Or more like Tric?
Or maybe C would have been a whole different experience altogether..
Would she ever get the chance to find out?