An Evening with Consequences

An Evening with Consequences

Part I

The night that changed everything was March 18, 2006. I just had finished my shift at a local hotel. As I entered my car, my friend and co-worker, Juan Carlos, called me and asked if I was interested in going to Agave Azul. I was a bit tired from work and told him that I was going to retire for the night. Juan was persistent and was not going to take "no" for an answer. I finally agreed and told him that I would meet up with him at around midnight.

When I got to Agave Azul, Juan was there with two drinks, one for me, and the other for all the beauties at Agave. We talked about life, work, and future since those were practically our favorite subjects to talk about at work, especially in a place that made you want to consider working elsewhere. Juan and I sat back in our chairs and enjoyed the night. After a couple of minutes into the early morning, Juan went to the restroom. I sat there admiring the view of the crowd and the women in it. I enjoy going to clubs, especially Agave to escape the monotonous and sometimes dull world. I looked at my watch and was wondering what the heck had happened to Juan Carlos. He sure was in the bathroom for a while, unless he got kidnapped from a woman. I looked around but no sign of Juan Carlos. Where did he go? I sat in my chair and told Rogelio, my favorite waiter, to give me another Jack and Coke. It was going to be one of those nights in which something interesting was about to happen...

A girl by the name of Lucilena walked in to the club. She was a girl that I met two weeks ago at the same location. We hit it off in the beginning, and we weren't sure where we were going as far as we were concerned. Nonetheless, she made things interesting. She was about thirteen years older than me. I was twenty-four, and she was thirty-seven. It was hot! I would sometimes go to her place before work and "hang out." I could tell that nothing was going to happen because neither one of us took each other serious to even consider dating. It was just a fling, nothing more and nothing less. Anyway, she saw me and gave me a hug and a kiss. She definitely was surprised to see me, especially on a weeknight. Lucilena asked "What are you doing here?" I replied, "I came here with my friend, Juan Carlos, and it seems that I've lost him." She laughed and assured me that I would have her company for the rest of the night. Meanwhile, her friends came in like a scene from the HBO series, Entourage. Lucilena was distracted by her friends and left me alone at the bar.

Meanwhile, a girl from afar was staring at me across the bar from where I was sitting. I wasn't sure if she was smiling at me. So I smiled back. She returned the favor. Anyways, I began to feel a slight rush of energy from my heart. It was exciting because it almost felt like we were the only two people at the bar. I told her to come over where I was sitting. She came with her friend and distanced herself from her only to obey at my command. She sat next to me and said, "Hello. My name is Ivonne. What is yours?" My heart was pounding more and more, and felt like at any given moment it was going to explode! She was drop dead gorgeous. She reminded me of the lead singer from the Pussycat Dolls. I think her name is Nicole Scherzinger. Anyway, I simply replied, "Mario." There was something hypnotic about her presence that made me develop an insatiable appetite for lust. We talked for a while, until one of Lucilena's friends saw that I had company. We immediately rushed into the restroom hallway where Ivonne grabbed my face and started to make out with me. She couldn't resist herself as she started to smile. In the meantime, the truth about Ivonne and I didn't sit too well for Lucilena as you can imagine! She confronted us both and started to curse left and right and pretty much exhausted her energy on us. Let's just say that she gave us her piece of mind. She grabbed both our heads and gave us a huge head butt to each other that hurt for a while. Who can blame her? I suppose I acted like a jerk. Lucilena was under the impression that we were both dating. I didn't know what we were. She constantly gave me mixed signals and was starting to wonder if I was her rebound considering those long conversations we had about her and some fiancé she had. They recently broke up. It didn't really matter at the end of the night. All I knew was that I wanted to go home with Ivonne...

It was around two in the morning and Agave closed for the night. I still wondered what had happened to my buddy, Juan. He never came out. I'm pretty sure he had the same fate as I had. Ivonne asked me, "What do we do now?" I replied, "I have no idea. The night is young!" She decided that we should go to her cousin's house and continue to drink and talk. She left with me in my car that I had just recently purchased two months ago. I was excited! Along the ride, we pretty much made out like crazy. We couldn't keep our hands off each other. There was definitely some sexual tension going on. The feeling felt as if I had known her from another life and we had just barely reunited after all these years! We finally arrived at her cousin's house. She had some bourbon in the house and we decided to drink the night away! Her cousin retired for the night. It was Ivonne and I and we had the whole house to ourselves... We went outside and started to talk about how she had three children! All of them were girls. I asked for age and she replied, "twenty-six." She was only two years older than me. I didn't mind. The children on the other hand were another problem. I had never been involved with a girl who had excess baggage. The conversation took another spin when Ivonne mentioned that the girls all had different fathers. One might assume that this might be a perfect time to exit and say, "Goodbye!" I didn't. I was whisked away from her gorgeous body and knew that something was about to erupt! After all the talking about getting to know one another, a long moment of silence occurred. We gazed at each other's eyes and began to read each other for a moment. We acted like a couple of lions in the jungle waiting to see who was going to make the first move. After a couple of seconds of mind reading, we ripped each other's clothes off and started to kiss each other like crazy. We had sex on the hood of my car, and then changed the scene into the bedroom. The tension became out of control that I didn't come prepared with protection. She said that it didn't matter and that she had an operation in which she tied her tubes to prevent pregnancy. To my bewildered mind, I didn't care. My inner conscience shouted, "What about any sexual diseases, you idiot!" I didn't care. I didn't think in that moment. Our bodies were in heat and nothing or no one was going to take that away from each other. In that split second when her tender breasts were upon my chest, we stared at each other and knew that it was fate. We ravaged each other like a pack of wolves scrambling for meat! We owned that night! We exhausted each other until there was nothing else to give anymore...

It was about eight in the morning and I had to leave for work. We both stood there lying next to each other, smiling. I told her that I had to leave. She looked at me like a girl who had lost a friend. She didn't want for me to leave, and neither did I. She asked for my number, and I gave it to her. When it came to me asking for hers, well let's just say the games had just begun! She didn't give me her phone number. I asked, "Why?" She smiled and gave me a kiss on the cheek and told me, "I will call you. Soon... I became befuddled with her response. I had no idea what she was up to. We went our separate ways. As I left her drive way, I stopped and told her, "I hope this isn't the end. I really want to see you again! What happened last night was beyond amazing! She responded, "I also enjoyed the night and believe me, this is not the end, but only the beginning...

As I went to work, I couldn't get this girl off my mind. I couldn't even concentrate at work. Luckily, it was my turn to do the PBX shift in which you pretty much spend the whole afternoon answering and transferring phone calls to guests and employees. My co-worker, Juan Carlos, showed up, hung over. I asked him, "What the hell happened to you?" He grinned and replied, "Let's just say I got kidnapped by a girl who I just met last night!" I said, "Wow, way to go, playa!" I also mentioned to him my wild night of fun. I told Juan Carlos how this girl got a hold on me which is something that no girl had ever done before. She was a girl filled with many mysteries and I wanted to unsolve them one by one. I told him how Ivonne never gave me her number. He said, "Damn, that's bad!" My heart dropped and asked why? He said, "If a girl doesn't give you her phone number but gets yours, you are pretty much at her mercy. Did you have sex?" I said, "Yes!" Juan said, "If the sex was good, she will call! If it wasn't, she won't call you back ever again!"

I became even more confused and frustrated. I began to believe everything that Juan Carlos was telling me. I asked, "When do you think she will call me?" Probably in a couple of days," said Juan Carlos. I don't think I can wait that long. Meanwhile, a couple of hours had passed as I sat in the back room, bored out of my mind. I couldn't focus at all. I cannot believe this girl out of no where has attached herself to my emotions like a plague. It was five o' clock and my shift had ended. As I left the hotel with a sad and droopy face, Juan Carlos shouted, "Cheer up Mario. If she doesn't call, forget her. We will go out again this weekend, and find out what other trouble we can get ourselves into. OK?" I said, "Sounds good buddy!" I drove off when all of a sudden my phone begins to vibrate. It was a number I had never seen before. I answered, "Hello." I heard a female voice from the other end that replied, "Hi, Mario. It's Ivonne." My heart immediately dropped and couldn't believe she would call so soon. She told me that she wanted to see me again and that she couldn't stop thinking about me. I told her the same thing. We arranged to meet again for a date later on this week. Afterwards, she gave me her number. We both began to laugh and for the first time, I felt that things were going to get better. I just bought a new car. I went back to college to finish my degree, and now it seems that I might have a girlfriend! What could possibly go wrong?

TO BE CONTINUED...