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It was my day off and I felt like going for a hike. I loaded a backpack with granola and bologna sandwiches. I drove to a trail's entrance where there were other cars and other people going on hikes. I walked into the shaded wood and the people from the parking lot vanished. I was truly alone, or so I felt. When I reached my favorite lookout spot, I sat down to have a snack and take in the view and think.

"Beautiful spot, isn't it? I just stumbled on it today," she said.

I looked up to see a beautiful woman dressed in khaki shorts and a tube top. She had a nice tan, sun-bleached red hair that hung softly past her shoulders, and her eyes were scary blue. I mean her eyes actually scared me, they were so bright and piercing.

"I come here all the time," I said.

"Really? Why didn't you tell me about it sooner?"

"I'm sorry, but do I know you?"

"No. You don't know me. I am Joslin."

"I am pleased to meet you. My name is Freddy." I offered my hand. Instead of shaking my hand, Joslin grabbed it with a surprisingly firm grip. She turned it over and ran her finger across my palm very slowly. She squinted at my hand with her scary eyes, then she let go and acted as if nothing had happened.

"Nice to meet you," she said.

I was trying to think of something to say when she turned her back and walked down the hill, disappearing behind a bundle of trees. Watching her walk away, the only thought in my mind was that she had the most beautiful body I had ever seen. I looked out into the clear sky, but I was not impressed. The clear sky had nothing on the eyes of the woman who had come and gone so quickly.

After I had my fill of nature, I hiked back down the mountain side and returned to civilization. I got into my car, but before I could turn on the ignition I heard a knock on the passenger window. I turned to see those scary eyes once again. I rolled down the window.

"You are going to take me to dinner tonight," she said very matter-of-factly. She threw a piece of paper into the passenger seat. "Pick me up at this address at six thirty." Then she walked away. She went off to a corner of the parking lot that I could not see. Baffled, I drove home to get ready for dinner.

All I remember about what I chose to wear to dinner is that it was mostly white in color. By coincidence, she also decided to wear white. She came out of her front door the moment I pulled up to her house. She had a white, silk dress on that ran the full length of her lovely body and had a slit along the left calf muscle. She

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