..Waiting on The 3rd Chanced Meeting

I met her in Piney Point Maryland, Seamanship School when I worked for Norwegian Cruise Lines. I went outside to smoke a cigarette, but didn't have a match. Walked up to her and introduced myself. She was from New York City, I knew the area. She knew my cousin. Pulled out her cell phone and called him and put me on the phone with him.

The training we went through at this school was for all positions on a cruise ship. I was an Assistant Cook and she was a Cabin Stewardess. The rules were...well basically, you weren't allowed to get shit faced drunk. You could sleep in any room and with anyone you wanted to. The rooms were male, male, female, female. But if the occupants didn't mind you sleeping over, no biggie. We talk a couple of times and she always hanged out in my room with me and my roommates. One of my roommates got about 3 half gallons of liquor in the mail one day, the party was on.

She got so drunk that I helped her back to her room and we became really good friends after that. She thanked me for not taking advantage of her, even though she wanted to get with me, but not like in the state she was. We left Piney Point for Hawaii, both being assigned to a different ship and I never saw her again...not until...

5 years later I'm working in Queens, in a Supermarket, behind the counter as a Deli Clerk and she walks in. Looking like something out of the pages of a clamor magazine. The only issue after she screamed and was happy to see me was that she was with her boyfriend. We caught up with what we were doing, and she had to leave. We exchanged numbers, and every so often she would walk by my house when I was living in Queens. She made it her thing to do that she told me cause she really liked something about me, but she didn't know what it was.

A little while ago she reached out to me through Facebook. She is lonely, tired of dealing with men who have no jobs and are living off of her. She wants to get together next week, and see what happens between us on a different level.