Only Once

                     TWELVE

   Dedra had elected a solid White Racerback Loose Plain Maxie Dress, a pair of Navy Blue Red Bottom Heels and a matching handbag. I watched her as she walked a few paces in front of me while we were being escorted to our reserved table.
   My Manhood almost betrayed me as I watched the erratic movements of Dedra's ass in this loose-fitting fabric she was draped in. I looked away trying to get my hormones in check.

  "Here we are." The waitress conveyed when we reached the table.

   Being the perfect gentleman that my mother raised me to be I pulled out the chair for Dedra and waited until she lowered her sexy frame down into it then I pushed it and her underneath the table then claimed my own seat.

  "Aww, that was so sweet." Allowed our hopeless romantic waitress. "You just don't see our men doing things like that anymore."

  "Don't I know it." Dedra Banks agreed.

   And I just smiled and shook my head, ever so slightly. The waitress, Roslyn, which her nametag told me, placed menus down in front of Dedra and I.

  She said, "I'll give you guys a few minutes to look over your menus." Roslyn asked, "What can I get you two love-birds to drink while you decide?"

  "Umm, just... bring us a bottle of your best wine." Ordered Dedra.

  "Okay, coming right up." Roslyn chimed and what seemed like reluctance to me sauntered off.

  When Roslyn returned she poured the both of us glasses of Red Wine from an all-black bottle then asked what we had decided on eating. I decided on their Ragu Alla Bolognese and for my date, I chose the Spaghetti Alla Puttanesca. These may have been bad choices for the color of clothing that we both wore but they were delicious.

   "A woman will love you until she doesn't," I remember my mother telling me at the dinner table one afternoon when I came home from school with my broken heart in my hand. "No matter what you say or do for that woman won't mean shit, boy. When the thrill is gone it's gone forever, so man-the-fuck-up and move on."

   That memory jumped into my mind when I saw Trinity Sweet walked into the restaurant. I was thinking that this just might cause me to relinquish another lover before I was ready to let go.