It wasn\u2019t my fault.\u00a0 I know that it is petty, but it\u2019s true\u2013it wasn\u2019t my fault.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
He was an\u00a0awkwardly\u00a0splendid man.\u00a0\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t call him shy, there may have been hesitation in him but not shyness.\u00a0 He was tall and broad-shouldered.\u00a0 He looked very proud of his Harley-Davidson motorcycle.\u00a0 I for one dislike motorcycles, in my mind motorcycles are dangers. I had no temptation to ask for \u201ca ride.\u201d\u00a0 However, I admired how he straddled the machine and I had wild ideas regarding him in a physical sense. Ideas which pretty young things run to the confessional regarding; \u00a0I don’t confess.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Yes, I looked at him.\u00a0 Yes, I stopped to look at him.\u00a0 No, I didn\u2019t tell him to go away and yes; he knew how to shake hands with a woman in a way that was open and honest.\u00a0 Irresistible.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Did he work at being open and honest? \u00a0Well, with me, I hope he had to work at it.\u00a0 I hope he wanted to take my hand, pull me forward and wrap those big, fine, powerful arms around me and kiss me until my knees went weak.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It still wasn\u2019t my fault.\u00a0 I did not play coy; I looked him in the eye and did my best to just keep walking whenever he happened past me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
I think men demand too much; I understand their\u00a0need, and I understand the chase, but enough is enough.\u00a0 A pity I didn\u2019t walk away. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Heaven above help me. Those narrow hips, those soft denim shirts and clean smell. \u00a0The tight t-shirts were a turnoff.\u00a0 Total vanity.\u00a0 Total.\u00a0 When I saw the tight t-shirt, I could turn off the heart palpitations, and he didn\u2019t get it.\u00a0 He could sense it too\u2013and I could sense his confusion.\u00a0 The \u201cwhat,\u201d expression on a man is like a salient mark on a treasure map.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201cTurn right at Mount Everest, you can\u2019t miss it.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s the \u201cwhat,\u201d expression on a man.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 Don\u2019t you like it?\u00a0 Do you know how I\u2019ve worked for these arms, this chest, and hey, I\u2019m not a youthful man! \u00a0On and on the \u201cwhat,\u201d expressions go.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
So you can see, it wasn\u2019t my fault.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0wasn\u2019t out to distract him.\u00a0\u00a0I wasn’t out to gain his attention.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0found him attractive, sure, but I didn\u2019t flash my eyes at him and beg him to chase me down.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m just not that kind of\u2026 person.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Do you know a spider won\u2019t eat its prey unless said prey is alive?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
That\u2019s how spider webs work, you know.\u00a0 Invisibility and then trapped.\u00a0 Spider webs work because so much of life doesn\u2019t believe in death; especially their own.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
He’s strong, he still twitches now and then, but it won\u2019t be long until I must ignore another one and build yet another web.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So you can see, it wasn\u2019t my fault. I wasn\u2019t out to distract him. I wasn’t out to gain his attention. I found him attractive, sure, but I didn\u2019t flash my eyes at him and beg him to chase me down. I\u2019m just not that kind of\u2026 person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[14,41,24],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-story","category-flash-fiction","tag-horror","tag-huntress","tag-vss"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}