The Older

The Beginning Stages

When Stephen met Fate for the first time, she was working as a bartender downtown at a fancy resteraunt called "Landry's"in late December of the year 1981.

He had just come in from an out of town flight on a job he had taken up in Dallas, Tx and was coming home. He had just happened to stop in to buy himself a drink or two, when he noticed the lovely smiling face of Fate. She was beautiful to him even then, with her long blonde hair all tied up in a messy bun, in her solid black tank top and ripped jeans.

" What can I get you to drink sir?" She asked him as he sat patiently at the bar waiting to be waited on.

"Um, I would like a rum and coke, thanks." He said.

"Is that all?" She replied.

" Well I wouldn't mind your number and a date night out along with that?" He said jokingly but with a charming and serious look on his face, that made Fate giggle for a minute.

"Are you serious?" She said. " I can't tell by the look on your face and the sound of your voice I can't be too sure if you are. Besides do I really look that easy to you? It's not like I haven't heard that line in her used before?"  He was quite handsome and she thought to herself, what is a good looking guy like that doing her all by himself anyways? Surely he must have a wife at home. They usually do around here.

" I am serious if you are."  He said charmingly, then added, " you are beautiful and I am not so bad looking I think together we would make a good impression on people to say the least."

"Oh really? You think so huh?" She laughed.

"Well I was actually Just kidding. I am the one that's hard to get so, maybe you will have a better luck at getting me to take you out the next time I come in." He replied.

"What?" She said somewhat baffled. " Hmmm. Well here is your rum and coke, thanks anyways."

Fate went home that night alone and dateless and so did Stephen but that wouldn't be the last time he would see her. Nope. Once a week every Friday night he began to stop in at her work and bother her, as she would put it, until finally he decided it was time to ask her out for real.

She felt as if he was a bit mysterious for her, and although she was a bit hesitant she accepted his "real" offer and they made plans to go out on the upcoming Saturday.

When Saturday arrived, she was super excited. She didn't know where he would be taking her so she dressed up in a short country plaid dress she had hanging in her closet with her cute red boots and she decided to go ahead and curl her hair also. This way she was dressed to impress but not too overboard and her outfit pretty much fit any kind of occasion.

" So where are you taking me?" She wondered and asked as he escorted her to the passenger side of his solid black Dodge Ram Truck.

" You will see." He smiles back, "don't worry" He also added "you look great."

As they drove down to Galveston past the seaside she  figured he must be taking her to eat or something down near the surf side, but they ended up pulling into the driveway of a big green colored, three story beach house instead.

" We are here." He smiled.

"Um, is this where you live? You are not trying to seduce me are you?" She giggled but then gave him her super serious look.

" No, darling, and No." he replied. " This is my Fathers beach house and he said I could borrow it for the weekend, and If you would have just been patient you would have seen once inside, I cooked us up some Salmon, and thought it would be nice to maybe take you along the sea side on the four wheeler after and we can go looking for seashells." He laughed. " Then I planned on going ahead and taking you home."" But if you wanna be seduced..."