"Lonely Women Do Make Good Lovers"

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Chapter 2: A Little Thing Called Fate

"Lightning?" she replied. Not one thing from him had changed so much these several years.

"The one and only. It's...been like a really long time..." he responded to her. Lightning never knew how passionate Anne Maria looked since they both stepped foot on the mischevious island. Not one ounce of beauty was lost in her.

"Yeah...I guess maybe I didn't see you...what are you doing in town anyway?" she asked him quite nicefully.

Lightning soon responded with a chuckle, I guess he decided to tell her anyway.

"Well...I just decided to get me a little air at first, so I decided to come here and get a drink for myself. Anything I rather do to get away from all the idiot paparazzi that surround me. Sure I don't mind it at first, but it gets a little tiring now and then. So what's up with you?" Lightning responded. Anne Maria didn't want to tell him about the stress she'd been having lately. She just decided to play it off.

"Oh...I just came here for a drink as well. Nothing fancy...care to join me?" Anne Maria asked to the handsome, yet cocky athlete.

"Well, I got minutes after the contract signing, so I guess I can kill time. Sure." Lightning agreed as the two decided to take a seat next to each other. Lightning spoke right to the bartender. "Hey, could you make it a Smirnoff ice? Blue raspberry please."

"I saw you on TV. You looked pretty awesome." said Anne Maria as she was taking a sip from her wine cooler.

"Thanks. I get that a lot. You gotta look electric when you be like me. Everyone is getting on the Greased Lightning and it's not stopping anytime soon!" he declared once again as Anne Maria displayed a comforting smile. She always gets used to guys believing their own hype.

"Nice to hear that. So...anything else you been up to?"

Lightning felt a little bit uncomfortable and she was just always willing to let him open up to her a bit.

"The truth is...everything's fine, but not that fine. I just found this amazing girl I just met in one of my training sessions. You know, she just happened to be blonde, tanned, sported some tight denims, and had that tight white tanktop...man, was she just gorgeous. I mean, we instantly hit it off, after she was impressed by my dashes through those sweaty bastards of football dummies. But it didn't last long...I just saw her kissing another random guy, and she just fooled me like that. I mean, she just turned me into a rebound. Who in the hell exactly does that to me? I just don't know why..." Lightning calmed himself down as he took a sip in his Smirnoff Ice.

As Anne Maria heard Lightning's tale, this struck her a bit. Hearing that, this made her understand a lot of what he's been going through as well.

"Wow...did you think she was important to you?" she replied taking a sip once again.

"Yeah...or she thought I was. That was just like the seventh woman who put me aside." Lightning spoke with such a lonely tone of voice.

All of his loneliness of going without love gave Anne Maria the courage to really open up as well truthfully.

"Yeah...um, Lightning...to be honest here...I'm feeling the same way that you are right now." she replied as this made Lightning turn around and look at her. That purple-shaded gaze just hypnotized Lightning personally.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Well, ever since Revenge of the Island ended, I've just been having trouble finding a man who would care about me. Just recently, I met this amazing guy who was this DJ of a club I've been going to as of now. It's called The Krush Klub, and it's really popular. He looks a lot more like Pauly D, but he's a little buffed up and he's quite the charmer. We've been sharing secrets, sharing each other's interests, and been flirting with each other. I felt like I was really in love for the first time. Or that's what I thought. He was supposed to meet me in this bar here until I just found out by my phone here that he stood me up. I thought he'd be the one...but it turns out that he's just a plain asshole through and through, and that he would just toss me around like a damn toy and such. I don't know who does that too." Anne Maria spoke out of pity.

Lightning really hated to admit it, but her story was just like his in every way. Both amassed a state of loneliness that they were now feeling.

"Wow...I'm really sorry to hear that and such. He must've really been important to you..." he replied, feeling awfully horrible for her.

"I really thought he was something, you know. I feel like...I feel like I should just give up on finding a man who would really care about me. But now as I been stood up...I feel like I don't exist anymore..." Anne Maria softly replied as the tears started to slowly form from those beautiful black eyes of hers, even though she was never crying.

Lightning soon saw a tear form across her left cheek as the tear dropped to her drink. As he saw this, this hurt Lightning way more. It just cringed him to see someone so beautiful and pretty like Anne Maria cry. Perhaps...this was actually the first time that she ever saw a girl cry right in front of him. The way her loneliness touched him so deeply.

"Take it easy, it's okay..." he said softly trying to comfort the now broken-hearted Jersey girl. Anne Maria didn't wanna be held closer to him, but hearing from his sudden tone of voice, he decided to hug him out of comfort.

"Thanks, Lightning..." she murmured nicely as she felt his body heat across from hers. So warm, so enchanting, it was just like if he was her entire shelter from abandonment. Or as if he was her guardian angel or such. Not to mention from the fact that she caught a whiff of the cologne that Lightning put on. It just felt so smooth and embrasive like pure seduction.

As they soon broke off the hug. Lightning had one heck of an idea up his sleeve.

"Um, I know it's too early to tell you this...but you got anything planned for tomorrow and such?" he asked her nicely in a gentleman-like manner.

"Well, I was gonna lock myself in my room, unless I die in some sort of nuclear apocalypse, but now that you mention it...I guess I'm available. What's on your mind?" Anne Maria replied as she wiped a tear from her cheek.

"I was gonna ask if you wanna hang out, just you and me. You know...like a date or somesort. I have the most expensive places you have gotta come check out. So...you up for it? Just you, me, no interruptions." Lightning pleaded lightly.

Anne Maria thought really clear about this. Is he gonna turn into one of the ordinary guys who just pushes her aside. Or will he be truthful for her? She had only one answer for the handsome athlete.

"Lightning...I love to go out with you..." she smiled proudly.

"Thanks. I really appreciate it. You want me to pick you up right around 12:00 tomorrow?" he questioned her.

"I like that, but you don't even know where I live..." she responded in such disappointment. Of course, from Lightning's point of view, there was no disappointment whatsoever.

"Well, I'll tell you what...we'll meet here at this bar and I'll come pick you up. Sound good?" he asked her slightly.

"Sure...I love that. I gotta go though. Tomorrow here?" Anne Maria spoke like she was in quite a rush.

"Yep, don't be late..." Lightning said right back with a smile as she responsibly paid for her drink and left.

She soon got into her Ford Focus as Anne Maria soon laid a pretty sigh. She can't quite believe what she got herself in to. But she was pretty much happy about it.

"I can't believe I'm going out...with Lightning. This is actually happening. And...I'm...really happy about it..." Anne Maria happily thought as she drove off to her quiet apartment in the Jersey hills.

This is awesome so far!

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