The Devious Temptress

At age 18 Anne became a beautiful young woman who had fallen in love more than once already. The first time was at age 13 when she came across a phenomenon called Johnny Depp in a romantic chic-flick called “Chocolate”. The second time was at age 16 when she googled a place called Italy or what she called “wonderland”.

The third time was at Shadya’s house. The two were hiding in Shadya’s room, smoking and watching “Friends”, when suddenly the most amazing thing walks in the room.  Hussam, Shadya’s younger brother, was young awkward and hot for his age, and as he walked towards them he said to his sister with a rough voice and a shy approach:”here is the DVD you wanted…” Anne remembers that day as if it was yesterday, the day when her most profound love story took place, the moment when she found her better half, the DVD that started the never ending love story between Anne and the greatest band on earth: Led Zeppelin!

Even though Anne’s love stories didn’t include tangible men, she never felt the need to a fill a void, she never felt like she was incomplete or that she was missing a better half to become whole. Having said that, Anne felt a strong attraction towards someone in her senior year. He was tall, not so dark, but extremely handsome. She and Shadya would chase him around the school yard, whereas Anne and Tarek would exchange eye contact and occasional smiles when his girlfriend wasn’t around. He had a rough, deep, and manly voice and six packs that gave Anne six additional reasons for additional attraction.

On a day ahead of the Christmas vacation, Anne and Shadya finally found a reason to talk to the “The Jagal” (a Lebanese expression for Hunk), Tarek. Thinking that Christmas was a joyous holiday, the two decided to spread joy across the school, and so they did. They both circled around happy and gloomy schoolmates wishing them a Merry Christmas, in a very loud and extreme way, until they reached the ultimate commando.

As they came near Tarek, Shadya pushed Anne towards him and coughed out loud. There it was, the most awkward 30 seconds in Anne’s life. She stood there silently with wide eyes, red cheeks, and a smile larger than Texas, until Tarek Said: “Hey…”. Anne wanted to jump up and down until she landed on her knees yelling “Thank You Lord”, she even imagined rain pouring on her face; but instead she replied: “Hi, hey, Hello, Marhaba (the Lebanese Hi)!”

Tarek laughed, and said:”oh, I love you so much, I think you’re so funny, I have always wanted to talk to you… you’re so cute you remind me of my younger sister”.

Anne then drew a long face and started seeing stars in the sunny sky, for the conversation played in her head was different than the actual one, whereas according to her Tarek said: “I love you so much, bla bla bla bla bla …you are so cute…bla bla bla …marry me!”.

When she finally came back to reality Anne was standing alone outside school, she felt an annoying constant poke and a deep sound, which turned out to be Shadya calling her an idiot for behaving like a total bimbo!

That day, Anne went home with a level of confidence than the Empire State building, she thought to herself that she could actually have Tarek if she wanted to, and was determined to the mission. On prom night Anne felt the need to reveal the devious temptress inside of her. Since it was her first night out, she thought it was the perfect night to do everything for the first time, and so she did. Hair down, 6 inch heels, sexy make up…and a first kiss!

PS: The characters and events of this blog are totally fictional but could be inspired by true events. In this blog I will write about the adventures of Anne’s (the virgin-hooker) dating life while she is struggling between traditions and desires. 

Tune in for the next adventure…

 

Suzanne El Wattar