Sex with a Ghost 1&2

Judith got to the library some minutes to 9 AM that Monday morning. This time very sure she was smoking hot and sexy. After collecting the same novel, she walked confidently back to the same desk with more eyes on her.

Tony wasn't yet in the library, so she began reading the book while patiently waiting for him. She had dreamt of this day for the past three nights and thought of nothing else but to her great disappointment, he never showed up.

Angry and feeling foolish, she left for her hostel to meet her roommate cooking. Immediately Maryjane saw the anguish written all over her face, she knew everything wasn't right.

"What did he do to you?" Maryjane asked.

"Nothing"

"What did he say?"

"Nothing"

"Then why are you like a recent widow?"

"He didn't show up!" she replied already boiling with fresh anger.

"Oh, I didn't see that coming. That must hurt" sympathy evident on her face.

"I feel really stupid and angry"

"Why? You basically did nothing…" Maryjane asked with raised eyebrows.

"You are still asking me why? Doesn't it look embarrassing to you?"

"My dear, people have done more than looking pretty, sitting quietly in a library waiting on someone for the sake of love"

"Janey you are just unbelievable. How do you even know this is love?"

"That Friday you came back, I saw a sparkle in your eyes and genuine happiness within that I haven't seen, since we become roomies"

"My dear am telling you. It must be love or something very close to it"

Judith woke up the next morning feeling optimistic. Maryjane had succeeded in convincing her, saying something very important must have prevented him from keeping to their appointment. She is going to give him another opportunity today. She got out of bed; her roommate selected another gown, made her hair before she left for the library.

In the library, she collected the same novel, slowly walking to her spot, praying in her heart she finds him there but she didn't. She sat down trying hard to focus on the book in front of her but her gaze kept shifting to the promise carved on the desk.

"Why will he write such a thing there if he knew he wasn't going to show up? He has no excuse if he doesn't show up today. What could be more important than keeping an appointment to a lady you claim drives you crazy?" she was still pondering when suddenly she heard male approaching footsteps.

"That must be him. No one comes down to this part of the library" she concluded. Quickly she took a peep at the approaching individual and to her disappointment; it was just another library user, an elderly one for that matter. She left the library four hours later, promising herself never to return.

She got back to her hostel, met her roommate, they had a very similar conversation to the one of the previous day, she ate and went straight to bed. She woke up the next morning not really feeling optimistic. Maryjane tried convincing her but she didn't buy it. Contrary to her roomie, this young man chose not to show up on two different occasions simply because he had lost interest in her. It wasn't the first time that was happening. But notwithstanding, she is going to visit the library because she needs to read that book and nothing else.

Judith got to the library some minutes past 10 AM, took out the same book and headed straight behind and to her greatest surprise, Tony was seated there in his full glory. Their eyes met, her heart dropped, an alluring smile cut across his face turning it from handsome to divine.

"See who decided to show up?" he said with the smile not disappearing.

Her heart did a quick little flip, which she completely ignored. She skewered him with a don't-mess-with-me-look. Her frown intensified. Her lips folded on themselves.

"Are you serious right now?" she asked.

The smile on his lips quickly died away, he struggled to ask

"You appear not happy to see me?"

"Should I be happy to see you?" she asked with raised eyebrows.

"I thought we had a connection. I got home that Friday and could think of nothing but you…"

To shut him up, she removed his note covering the engraved appointment on the desk and pointed at it wearing a weird seriousness that surprised and confused dear Tony.

"What?"

"This," she said with a smile still not present on her face.

"Am confused… oh, wait you thought I wrote this?" he said almost giggling.

Now Judith was overwhelmed and lost at sea.

"You didn't write it?"

"Is that why you're angry at me?" he giggled and continued "That so sweet, someone has missed me" he whispered.

"I didn't miss you, and you haven't answered my question?"

"Why am I finding it hard to believe? Well to answer your question, I didn't write that…"

He kept talking but the words soon didn't get to Judith for she was lost in thought, wondering "Oh shit! Is that how cheap she has become? How easy she has fallen for this stranger? How badly she wants to see his handsome face again and have his hands graze her body? That her mind tricked her into believing he wrote that. What is happening to her? What kind of love is this?"

To these questions, she couldn't provide any answer, and then slowly she returned to what dear Tony was saying.

"Leaving on Friday without any of your contacts was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. At home, I couldn't get my mind off you. You infiltrated my dreams and waking thoughts. I was here Monday, and yesterday afternoon hoping to see you again but that's by the way"

"At least the feeling is mutual," she said to herself before taking his notebook, wrote her phone number on it, stood up, told him goodbye and left wearing an evil smile; mission accomplished. All the while, Tony stared astonished not uttering a word. That was the beginning of their love story.