Taste of Love - By Stephanie Nicole Page 0,5

her best friends. She greeted him by lifting her arms for a hug. He stepped right up to her, accepted his hug and planted a kiss on her forehead.

"Hey Mary. I was hoping to convince you to come out with me this fine evening." He gave her his puppy dog eyes.

"I will never understand why you call her Mary," Austin said.

"Because he's a Mary himself," Madison joked.

"Ah, are you jealous that I have a nickname for her and not you? I'd be happy to come up with a pet name for you too." Chase wagged his eyebrows seductively, looking the young man up and down with exaggerated attention.

"Uh, no! Thanks anyway," Austin said, cringing.

"Hmm, your loss," he teased. "So Mary, what's the verdict? Are you coming out with me tonight?"

"Honey, you came out a long time ago," Madison laughed.

"Yeah, yeah. You are so funny." Chase pulled up a stool.

"Chase, you know it's Thursday, and on Thursdays I always go to the all night Laundromat after work to do my laundry," she said, reminding him of her routine.

"Oh, you're so boring. My routine this, my schedule that." He looked over at Austin. "I'm willing to bet she even plans out her sex life."

Austin blushed. Madison rolled her eyes. "What sex life?"

Chase snorted at that. "Watch out, Mary. We're going to corrupt the young man." He wiggled his eyebrows again, and Austin gave him a smirk.

"But back to the subject at hand," Chase said with a grand sweep of his hand. "Come on. Are you completely out of black shirts or black pants?"

"Well, no," she answered honestly.

"What about black socks? Bras? Those cute little thong underwear?"

"No, no, and no," she replied, knowing that her excuse of needing to do laundry was failing. "But if I don't do it tonight, it's going to throw off my whole schedule."

"Good lord woman, forget the damn schedule for once and let loose," Chase begged.

"You know, I think we could all use a night out after the incident we had tonight," Austin tried. "I'll go if you go."

"Hear that? The young man will go. We might be able to corrupt him yet."

Austin grinned.

Madison looked at her two friends and their hopeful faces. "Fine, I'll just have to do my laundry when I get home, so I am not staying out too late."

"Sure..." Chase pacified, and winked at Austin.

Austin winked right back.

Cameron scrolled through the phone book built into his cell phone. He highlighted the number for his buddy Matt and hit send. After a few quick rings, the man answered.

"Dude, I am in serious need of a drink and a quick lay, not necessarily in that order. You up for a night out?" Cameron asked.

"You know it, man. Count me in," Matt told him. Cameron knew Matt was the one he could always count on to be up for a good time. They made arrangements to meet at a popular bar half an hour later.

Cameron hurried to change his clothes, picking out a long sleeved dark grey polo and a vintage Rolling Stones t-shirt to put over it. He grabbed his favorite faded jeans, then his black Doc Martens. In just a few minutes, he was ready to roll.

Matt found Cameron sitting at the bar, nursing his second beer. "Started without me, I see."

"Dude, I told you I was seriously in need. My mother set me up on the worst blind date of my life," he said with a shake of his head.

"Man, you let your mother set you up on a blind date?" Matt laughed. "You were asking for whatever it was you happened to get!"

"Dude, I had no choice! You know how my mother is. It was one of her friend's nieces that just moved to town, so I was elected to take her out," Cameron said. "This woman was a real piece of work. I should have known from the moment I saw her that it was not a good idea. She completely humiliated me in a restaurant full of people. I just want to forget the whole night ever happened."

"Oh man, someone humiliated you? Did she know who you are?" Matt tried to hold back a laugh.

"Yeah, she knew, but she didn't do it on purpose. She's just that way, the poor thing. I just want to forget about it. I don't want to talk about it, I don't want to think about it," Cameron told him. He signaled to the bartender and two more beers were brought over. "Come on; let's get