I found a movie at a nearby mall to go to; that was going to be my big Friday night excitement. Maybe dinner at Bob Evans, this being Ohio, a state wh...re by law there had to be a Bob Evans every square mile.I was heading out the door when I saw Natalia chatting up a couple of other people. It hadn't even occurred to me that she might not be going back with Bryan. "You're still here?" I asked."Looks that way," she said. "What are you up to?" I was going to walk to the mall and catch a movie," I. It was the way her nose pointed at the book and how her pale bare shoulders shone in the sun. The tingling feeling in my gut doubled and redoubled as I though about going over there and striking up some meaningless conversation. I almost did but my legs were feeling weak so I decided to hope she would initiate. I took my shirt off and my pants so that I only had my swimming shorts on and I stretched out on the pebbles enduring a few moments of discomfort as the pebbles burned my back. I closed. Turning around I have to squint my eyes from the bright headlights burning into my clothes. I see a dark blue colored Ford Escape with a tinted windshield making it hard to identify it's driver. I feel my gut tense up and imaginary warning sighs flash in front of my eyes. "Ummm, no thank you. I'm almost there. Thank you though." I say, my voice shaking with nervousness as I turn around and begin to run towards the town lights in the distance. "Seriously, a girl like you could get hurt out here.. I really thought I would be safer with an older man. Damn, that came out wrong too."I interrupted her "I understand what you mean and I'm not taking it wrong." To make sure she knew I really wasn't upset, I added with a chuckle, "Woe is me; I'm headed for the rest home now."She smiled and it lit up her face. "I really did have a good evening talking with you and playing chess. I didn't feel any pressure to do something I might not have wanted to and you proved yourself, not that you needed to,.