Dylan
She was a tall, cool glass of water and I thought I'd love to have her slake my thirst - nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
"Hi" she whispered breathily in my direction. "And who might you be, handsome?"
Well she'd already answered her own question but I decided to play along.
"I'm Jack. Jack Gouda, pleased to meet you Miss…?"
"Oh, I'm Dylan. Dylan Thinman."
"How interesting. Named after Dylan Thomas? McDermott? O'Brien? Farrow?"
"No, silly, Bob she moaned. "My parents were hippies. I'm just glad they didn't name me Sunflower or Moonbeam, Microbus or Weed," she giggled.
Wow, good looking and a sense of humour.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pry."
"Don't think twice, it's all right."
"So what's the ballad of Ms Thinman, Dylan? Where's a girl like you from?
"The north country."
"And you're here all on your own? No husband or boyfriend?"
"Hey, the times they are a changing'"
"Say those are nice riding boots you've got there."
"Thanks, they're boots of spanish leather."
" Uh-oh, we won't get much riding in today. It's starting to rain."
"Then we'd better find ourselves some shelter from the storm."
"You bet because it looks like a hard rain's gonna fall."
Damn, I thought, now she's got me doing it.
The longer we talked I came to realize she reminded me of a former girlfriend. A serious girlfriend. With whom I'd had a deep and meaningful relationship. I was starting to have visions of Johanna.
Well one thing led to another. We found ourselves some cover in the barn with all the tired horses and as we started to kiss she whispered "tonight I'll be staying here with you" lustily into my ear.
"Lay lady lay" I said to myself.
"Lay lady lay" I said to myself.
And then she added, "You may have thought me to be the shy and reserved type but that ain't me, babe."
And that was the day Dylan became my rainy day woman.
Coincidentally, I ruled her out as a suspect. She didn't have a horse tattoo on her chest. I checked.
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Comments
And checked thoroughly, I'm assuming. Great line, Dufus and great job on today's prompt!