Thursday, March 27  

Attract

Vic does not think of herself as being particularly attractive. She's not upsetting to look at or anything, but when she calculates the relative weight of her physical characteristics, the sum does not (except on very good, over-exagerrated ego days) usually come out to anything sturdier than “okay looking”.

attract: verb 1. to pull to or draw toward oneself or itself 2. to draw by appeal to natural or excited interest, emotion, or aesthetic sense.

Still, Vic tends to attract people. People are inclined sometimes (though not at others, which is what prevents Vic from reevaluating her conclusions at the mirror) to stop what they’re doing and make passes at her. They have also, men mostly, made what Vic considers silly messes of themselves trying to please her once shess decided to accept a pass.

Take, for example, the tow-truck driver who arrives on her step this morning after she calls roadside assistance. Because she's an idiot driver who only comprehends the use of vehicles and has little interest in their inner science, Vic often leaves her lights on. Her car, this morning, is unresponsive.

Vic sighs her self-disgusted sigh and uses her mobile to telephone for help. The help that arrives is a tall, sexy package with some kind of Baltic accent. She can't help noticing. Ahem.

After he boosts her car, she makes a joke about how she should have taken auto-shop in highschool. She accidentally touches his arm while she laughs, forgetting how that makes people sometimes attracted to her when they wouldn't have been before.

If there's anything Vic knows about attraction, it's that we're (as humans, now) momentarily attracted to anyone who exhibits interest. It's some predetermined instinct that pushes us toward viable procreative options, presumably.

Anyway, she forgets that for a second, touches Baltic's arm and before she knows it, he is asking her out for coffee.

She says no, of course. After entertainingly briefly a dirty flash of him licking the inside of her thigh while she rests her foot on the steering wheel.

But she feels awfully attractive today because of it. Even though her face in the mirror says the same as usual.