CHAPTER 36 - Sex with the gynecologist part 4

**VALENTINA**

Even though Aurora doesn't want to admit it, she is right when she says I need to go out more and have fun, I can even accept it since I won't be holding a candle to the couple.

“Just a few drinks, okay?", I sigh accepting the invitation and listening to Aurora's excited murmur that intertwines the hands with her boyfriend before heading to the exit of the place.

Still not knowing how to behave around Arthur, I just walk beside him keeping silent, according to the couple the bar is located in an area close to town, so we decided that everyone would go in their cars.

Even though I am not in the habit of going out drinking, I kind of like the place when we settle down at a table at the back of the bar which is quite busy tonight.

We order a whole round at our table while Arthur starts a funny conversation about how he and Roberto met when they were teenagers. I must admit that I am enjoying spending this time with my friends as I am having a great time together with Aurora who can't stand the laughter anymore.

“What about you? How did you meet, girls?", I hear Arthur's voice before I swallow all the liquid from my tequila shot and feel the bitter taste burn in my throat as I swallow.

“We hated each other in the beginning, we couldn't stand to be close to each other...", I comment, smiling as I remember the time.

“Really?", Roberto asks frowning before looking at Aurora who continues from where I left off.

“Really, we met in the first year of college, Valentina hated me a lot."

“Of course, because you were the kind of girl who attracted everyone's attention and was very popular, I was just the shy girl who no one ever noticed.", I explain with a sigh.

“Believe me, if I had been enrolled in this college back then I would have noticed you, Valentina."

Under the table I keep tapping my feet on the floor still feeling his eyes on me, I look to my friend's face for help, but the situation worsens because I find her looking at me and Arthur with a malicious expression on her face.

“She looks beautiful now, back then Valentina had a face full of pimples, wore a big and hideous pair of glasses, and we can't forget those braces.", I smile faintly and kick Aurora in the leg asking her to shut up immediately.

“Well, I can't judge because I was the same when I started my studies, but Aurora is right, I didn't know you then, but you look spectacular now."

“Thank you!", I say, trying not to look nervous as I order another round of tequila and vodka.

Before I set foot in this bar I promised myself that I wouldn't overdo it on the booze, but I need the alcohol when Arthur's compliments and glances in my direction intensify.

I don't know how many shots and shorts I've had, but I feel light and a little dizzy when I swallow the clear liquid from the last round, feel my body warm and by then I've lost all shame and my dignity.

“So Arthur, why did you become a gynecologist, I believe you have seen all kinds of female intimacies...", I laugh to myself feeling extremely drunk.

“The truth is that my mother died of cancer of the uterus, the disease and the tumor were silent, all this could have been avoided if my mother had taken better care of herself, then after her death, I started to want to help other women not to go through what my mother went through."

“Sorry, I'm sorry!"

“It's okay, you had no way of knowing..."

“Your medical schedule must be very full and very busy...", I murmur to myself realizing that he eventually heard me.

I lift my head to find all my friends looking at me with frowns, I grab a napkin and wrinkle it as I hurry to explain:

“You are a good professional, but it's just that you are very handsome and women should get a lot out of a consultation with you, right?"

He shakes his head, smiling and leaning back in his chair while still staring at me.

“Do you think I'm handsome, Valentina?"

“Of course, and who wouldn't?", I giggle again, realizing how ridiculous I look right now.

Only at this moment, I realize that we all end up drinking, but that only I seem out of my depth, even though it is not at all safe to drive home drunk at this time of day.

I was so moved by Arthur's presence that I completely forgot that I couldn't drink anything alcoholic.

I look at Aurora and Roberto noting that the couple doesn't seem out of control at all, I don't think either of them is drunk because I was the one who ordered and drank more rounds and shots.

“I need to go home, I've been here too long...", I grab my bag and start to get up, but everything around me seems to spin, and when I lose my balance, Arthur is faster and holds me in time.

“You are drunk and in no condition to drive, Valentina...", he says still holding my elbow.

“You've all been drinking too..."

“I was inconsequential to drink, but I have control over alcohol, you seem to be the drunkest one here."

“We can give her a ride, but first I have to get something from Roberto's house.", I see that Aurora also gets up with her boyfriend.

“I don't want to disturb the rest of your evening...", I murmur, leaning on the table.

“I can take her, I promise I'll take good care of her...", I turn around smiling at Arthur controlling my mouth before I say something wrong that I'll regret later.

“Are you sure? Take good care of her, okay?", I hear my friend's threatening tone and it makes me let out a loud laugh.

“He's a gynecologist, he knows perfectly well how to take care of women, Aurora!", I joke, hearing Arthur's laughter this time.

After each of us has paid our share of the final bar tab, we all make our way to where the cars are parked, I was worried about leaving my car, but Arthur managed to convince the owner of the bar to leave the vehicle in the private parking lot until the next morning.

After taking care of storing my car in the other parking lot I wait for Arthur to come back sitting in the passenger seat of his car, my dear beloved car can't keep up with this machine he calls a car.

“Can we go?", I am snapped out of my thoughts when I hear the driver's door being opened by Arthur who settles behind the wheel.

“Sure and thanks for the ride, Arthur.", I thank him as he nods his head before starting the car and pulling out of the parking space.

“I'm sorry about your mother, I shouldn't have touched you on that subject...", I apologize again, leaning my head against the car seat.

“It's okay, Valentina."

“I shouldn't drink alcohol because I have a very low resistance to drinks and when I'm drunk I start talking a lot of nonsense."

He lets out a hearty laugh, gripping the steering wheel of the car as he continues laughing, my curious eyes fix on the bulging veins in Arthur's hands that stand out as he stretches his fingers.

“Did you find my hands beautiful too, Valentina?", I raise my head to find Arthur looking at me out of the corner of his eye, and at that moment I am embarrassed that I have been caught in the act of watching him too much.

“Every part of your body is so beautiful, wait, I didn't mean it like that...", I murmur, hiding my face with my hands.

But as I jump up from my seat in the car when I feel one of his hands land on my bare short dress leg, I rush to remove my hands from my eyes to look at the fingers that lightly squeeze my skin.

And for a minute I wonder what a hand like this could do when it touches a woman, Arthur is so manly he must take a woman to the heavens with just simple, sure touches.

“Are you cold? You're shivering a lot, Valentina,”he says before closing half of the window panes.

The night is indeed getting colder and colder, but it is not for this particular reason that I am shivering sitting on this bench, and with the windows closed my body is getting warmer and warmer and this is driving me crazy.

No doubt this is a consequence of the lack of sex in my life, I can't remember how long I have been without a man in my life and my body is starting to beg for male touch and attention.

What's worse is that this crazy desire is manifesting itself around the doctor because I'm attracted to the handsome man who is so close to me now.

“It's not because of the cold...", I dare say feeling his eyes on me as I continue to stare at the roads.

“Is it because of me that you are like this?", Arthur asks in a tone I don't know, but which moves me deeply.

I clutch my purse in my lap trying not to show any expression as his fingers advance over my warm skin, I gasp moving against the seat still with his hands that land on the beginning of my thighs now.