Embracing Each Moment

Chapter One: Beginnings...

Emily signed as she slipped into a skin tight little black dress that showed a good amount of skin, but not in a way that presented her with a huge neon arrow pointing her way reading slut and a nice pair of red high heels. Her hair was long with loose curls that reached the small of her back. Because she rarely placed chemicals into her hair, she only needed a small amount of mousse to prevent it from frizzing. Thanks to humidity, her hair would poof up as if she stuck her finger in a freaking input. With her natural brown curls, she placed her hair in a quick up-do to better show off her tattoos from the v-cut in the back of her dress. She gave her reflection a small smile as she stared at the art work on her back. She had vines with thorns in a “v” shape across her shoulders dipping to above half way of her spine where a dragon’s head was centered and a few roses scattered along the vines as the dragon’s body intertwined with the vines tracing her spine all the way to in-between her back dimples. She loved all of her creations. She had taken the time to be creative in drawing her experiences through symbols and looking for the perfect tattoo artist to permanently place it on her skin. It was all worth it though. They came out perfect. Her roommates didn’t understand her growing need for skin art though. Within the past five months, she had managed to have most of her back tattooed, her right arm tattooed, and half an arm sleeve on her left arm, down. She wasn’t even down yet. To say her friends were surprised by how determined she was to have a significant amount of tattoos done within six months would be an understatement. They would shake their heads and look at her as though she were a freak. She didn’t blame them, but she also grew to no longer care what they though of her. Or so she kept telling herself…

  

    She frowned at herself. 

How her thoughts had traveled to that direction, she didm’t bother trying to figure it out. She was going to have a great night, stupid thoughts aside. 

  With a sudden smile on her face, she walked to her full length mirror to see the product of what a little effort put into her appearance would result in. With her make-up being the first thing she had done, her face actually looked nice. She added some eye shadow, eye liner, and mascara to bring out the blue in her eyes. She had placed red lipstick to match her heels, and the color made her lips look nice and plump. She admitted to herself that she had toned legs from her runs in the morning, hips inherited from her mother’s side, and breasts from her father’s side. She had the full hour-glass shape and the dress accentuated her curves to the fullest. She was really bringing in the big guns tonight, and she didn’t even know why. She sighed. 

   Here we go again…You can do this Summers! 

   She shook her head, knowing she had to kick herself out of her own little self-pity party. She lazily looked herself up and down with satisfaction before heading out the door to her next date with her favorite frap boys, deciding to make the most of her free night.

   She walked down the stairs of her dorm and then straight to the bar where most of the college students went when they didn't want to do anything too extravagant or were not in the mood to party hard. Surprisingly, her boys were the ones who decided they wanted to go to Uncle’s Pub bar tonight. She didn’t care. It gave her the opportunity to not think about anything and just enjoy the simple sensation of skin and alcohol. 

    Once she walked through the doors, she instantly spotted them. It wasn’t an easy task to not see them. In this bar, there was literally a nice little bar where a bartender would serve and entertain lonely students who just needed a drink to relax.       The bar, itself, was made of a sleek dark mahogany wood that if you glanced down you could almost see your own reflection. The stools were of the same dark wood matching the bar. 

  Behind the bar, there were shelves on shelves of alcohol and other beverages. Hanging from the roof were television sets that played either music videos or some type of sport game, depending on the season. It was football season. On the left of the door was where the restaurant side of the bar was located. The restaurant is where booths and tables filled with groups of people just conversed or studied. On the right side of the room, there were pool tables; dart boards hanging on the wall; air hockey tables, and ping pong tables. The bar also had a patio outside in the back where people lounged next to a fire pit. It was a pretty decent place with a lot of activity going on and her boys were the loudest group of guys at the place. Given how packed the place was, that’s saying something. 

    They were huddled in a section of the bar straight across from her flirting with the pretty blonde bartender, who happened to be her only true friend- Maddison. She smirked and chuckled to herself. If only they knew the truth about her friend, they wouldn't be trying so hard with the flirting to get free drinks by passing fake smiles her way. 

    In any case, she held her head up and walked straight to them with confidence. Her hips naturally swayed bringing in attention from many other guys in the place. Out of the five in the group, her favorite and another close friend- Adam, looked her way first.

His wonderful smile grew wide, and his beautiful brown eyes glowed a light in them that made her falter her step for a moment and made her smile feel almost strained. 

   She internally shook herself and quickly placed it in the back of her head. She no longer cared about things like that, she reminded herself and attempted to continue to walk casually as though she hadn’t noticed. 

     Slowly, one by one, the rest of the guys seemed to have felt her presence that they stopped talking to Maddison and looked her way. Travis and Troy, the sexy twins, quickly had growing smiles and started cat-calling at her making her smile grow with sincerity.  

“What was that beautiful? You’re man isn’t treating you right? Oh, don’t worry. I’ll gladly give it to you the way he should…” Troy began with a devilish smirk on his face that spoke of promises themed for the bedroom. Oh how she knew he would fulfill those needs too. She internally shook in pleasure from just the thought of that.

  “You look tense, babe. I’ll gladly rub you up and down with my hands ……among with other things."  Travis grinned dangerously at her. She grinned so hard, her cheeks began to hurt a little. Isaac and Stephen joined in at egging her on by whistling and bringing in more attention to them then they already had. 

She felt her cheeks get hot, and she smiled mischievously ready to play their game. When she slowed down her pace and winked for dramatic effect, they hollered while laughing. She blew them a kiss next as she strutted toward them trying hard not to laugh.

This is why she decided to get out tonight, and she knew the fun was only beginning.