Summer Fling by J. S. Cooper

Author:J. S. Cooper [Cooper, J. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

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Confessions of an Online Dater

Chloe Harrison

Chapter 1 – The Undateables

Oh God, that cannot be him, I thought to myself as a stocky, short man, who appeared to be in his mid-thirties, walked towards the bar.

“Hi. Anna?” the man asked tentatively as he approached me, and a feeling of dread washed through me. It was him.

“Yes, you must be Bill then?” I asked. A tiny part of me still pitifully held on to the hope that he would look at me in confusion, and say no, I had confused him for someone else, and he wasn’t here to meet me on our first date. And of course, that’s not what he said.

“Yup, the one and only,” Bill said with a huge smile, and I saw a visible gap between his two top front teeth. Something inside me gave a shutter, and I felt myself lean slightly away from him.

I tried to smile, and knew it must have looked so fake to him. Yet, the funny thing was, he hadn’t seemed to notice.

“You look so nice. Your pictures do not do you justice,” he said in surprise. I cringed as I felt his eyes look me up and down.

I wish I could say the same about you, I thought to myself. In Bill’s online dating profile on TrueMatch.com, he looked cute—yes if you could believe it, cute! From his pictures, he looked like he had a respectable height for a man—say 5’11”—and he looked toned and at least 25 pounds lighter than what I was looking at now. And he had a gorgeous smile in all of his pictures, and whether it was the angle or the help of Photoshop (my money is on Photoshop), he did not have that sizable gap that I now couldn’t seem to take my eyes off of.

“I hope you’re not disappointed,” he said tentatively as he eyed me hopefully.

“Oh.” I was taken by surprise. “No, your pictures are fine.” I realized that my responses didn’t even make sense, but I didn’t know how to respond, and I knew I was a bad liar.

“Did you have a favorite?” he asked, apparently unfazed by my incoherent response.

“Favorite picture?”

He nodded expectantly.

“Well …” I paused. Could there be a favorite picture now that I know they were all fake? “Um, maybe the one with you smiling into the camera with a couple of guys? You looked like you were at a bar or something. It was a small picture.” It was also one of his better pictures, and the one that gave me a tinge of hope that he would be cute. It was one of the ones that caught my eye and made me excited for this date. Jeez, I even wore my nice panties tonight (you could never be too prepared).

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