Urban Melissa's Christmas Bash

For her First Annual Christmas Party, Urban Melissa selected a brand spanking new wine bar in a neighborhood that's still a few years away from gentrification. It was a good call---the wine bar didn't look like the polished upscale versions popping up all over the city, but like a storefront tavern that serves wine and food with a DJ spinning late '70s early '80s groove music. Remember how good Michael Jackson sounded on Off The Wall? Who cares if the wine selection was pretty small or if they were still getting the kinks out ahead of their grand opening---this was an authentic Joint and I plan to come back in the near future.

I arrived with Marla. Urban Mellissa and her boyfriend greeted us with party favors and Guatemala came in the door.

"Guatemala," I said, "don't embarrass me tonight with your bullshit."

"Oh, are you on a date David?"

"Guatemala, this is Marla."

"Oh! Marla! We like you!" Guatemala gave Marla a big hug.

The room filled up and we found ourselves sitting next to a couple of college-aged girls. One was a bit on the heavy side, the other was a thinner girl with a delicate look and an intelligent face. The heavier one was in school, and the thin one introduced herself as a comedian.

"The only problem," she said, "is that I'm not funny. Someday I'd like to be funny."

She completely captured my attention by saying that.

I would not disrespect Marla by flirting with another girl when I'm on a date with her, so I was careful to pay equal attention to everyone. The comedian explained that a lot of her material comes from growing up Jewish, and I mentioned that American comedy is Jewish comedy going back to vaudeville and we talked about Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen and I wondered what this girl would be like in bed. She was not conventionally pretty but charisma, offbeat humor and intelligence trump conventional good looks any day of the week.

I talked with the other girl about movies and was pleased that she was film literate and we talked about the Coen brothers' new film. Marla is not a film buff, so I steered the topic in another direction and we ordered another bottle of wine and the DJ started spinning and we all got up to dance and then there was more wine and more wine and the owner sent us some complimentary champagne and the room was spinning along with the music.

Urban Melissa came up to Marla and said,

"You are the coolest girl David has ever dated."

Guatemala came up and offered,

"We like you a lot better than those boring white girls David usually dates. Stay with her, David. Let her coolness rub off on you!"

Marla was having a blast, and I enjoyed watching her work the owner of the place. She's very connected with the local club scene, and I was understanding why. Still, my eyes kept drifting to the comedian. If I were alone, I totally would have hit on her. Consequently, I avoided talking to her for the rest of the night.

Marla and I left for a nightcap at Nick's, which we really didn't need, and headed to my place. We had morning sex just as the alarm was going off and when we were finished Marla said,

"You fell asleep while you were going down on me last night."

Shit. Again.

She told me that the heavier of the two girls, the college student, was interested in me last night. Apparently, the girl had asked Marla if she and I were dating. Marla said we were and the girl's response was,

"Oh. Ok."

I don't know that that signifies interest, but if Marla thinks it does then there's no harm in that. It was a great party---Marla had a blast, I had a blast, everyone enjoyed himself, but I found myself wondering if I'd see the Comedian again and what the circumstances would be.