Guys My Age (Part 2)

Out on the sidewalk, the fresh clean fall air flows past Violet. She looks up at Nick with adoring eyes, hands behind her back, one leg crossed over the other. "Could she look any prettier than she does right now?" He asks himself. She then asks, "Where to?" As she pus her index fingers together, thumbs up. Which answers Nick's question, with a resounding, yes.

"There's a T-Mobile a few blocks from here." He suggests. She takes his hand as he begins to walk. It surprises him, but a welcome surprise. What surprises him even more is that it feels so good to be touching her again. He wants to stop and kiss her.

They head west on South Street, as they cross past 3rd Street, Nick gives out a "Nuk, Nuk!"

She lets go of his hand and stops, "Oh, a wise guy, ay!" Violet says as she snaps her fingers into a slap on her other fist, which she then raises over the back of her head and drops it on Nick's head. He smiles, leans in and kisses her.

They giggle about their appreciation of each other's sense of humor as they continue their trek and cross the street. They pass the crystal shop, the rest of the human traffic around them makes it so they must walk single file. He is a step or two behind her.

Violet uses the glass of the shop as a mirror to look around. She sees Nick's reflection and smiles at how cute he looks trying to keep up with her.

Nick, just behind her, seeing her smile in the reflection, looks into the window of the store, as they pass, wondering which piece made her smile.

***

A few blocks down, but before they pass the condom store, Violet jokes, "We should get Rainbow condoms if we're going to be doing more of this together?" Nick's mind over rides his body, he walks right inside the store, leaving Violet to follow if she chose, which she does.

Nick heads straight to the counter and asks the manager about what is available. There were only about 40 of the red ones left, but each other color of the rainbow, she had a box of 144 of them. Nick bought it all. When they are done being bagged up and he signs for them with his Four Suits credit card, he then turns to Violet, and asks, "Will this be enough for us?" The manager's mouth opens slightly, and Violet giggles, taking one of the bags. "We'll see..." she gives as a response. This drops the manager's jaw the rest of the way open.

***

When they finally make it to the phone store, everything went as fast as it could. Nick made sure to pay for everything to take care of Violet's communication issues. Including a thick case to protect it. She would have to start paying for the monthly fees next month on her own, but she now had a brand new iPhone 11. She sends him a "Thank you" as the first text from her new phone.

Once done, he knew he didn't have any more business reasons to keep her in his presence. Nick feels too weird about asking her out, so he just walks her back to her car. On the way, she mentions how cold it's getting. Her white dress was well past Memorial Day fashion standards and while the sun was warm earlier, it isn't now. He hears her complaint and can see she is obviously chilly, with a quick glance at her breasts.

Nick stops walking and places the two bags of condoms on the ground. He wore blue jeans and a black t-shirt under his gray hoodie, which he removes and gives to Violet. She thanks him with a blush and a quick kiss on the cheek. It looks surprisingly good on her, to him it is intensely endearing, as it was so large that it almost covers her whole dress.

He picks up the bags again and follows her back the rest of the way to her car. Having parked right behind her, he puts them in the trunk of his Bentley, while she heads to her vehicle.

They wave goodbye, awkwardly. "Let me know you get home safe?" Nick requests, out of genuine concern for her. Violet nods, gets in her car, and drives away.

***

"Home safe" pops up on his text, about a half hour later. He smiles, sends back a smiley face, and goes back to the business he was attending to at the time.