Late Night Lingerie Model

I’ve been working as a bartender at this dive bar for almost five years now. It’s pretty much the same every night, people come in, get drunk, and talk about their problems. I listen to them and pour drinks, but it’s rare that anyone listens back to me. One night, a woman walked into my bar wearing some of the most provocative lingerie I’ve ever seen. She ordered a drink and we struck up a conversation. As we talked, she started opening up more and more about her struggles in life, telling me how hard it is to feel confident with all the pressures society puts on women like us. By the end of our night together, something shifted between us. We exchanged numbers and I realized that even though we both know this isn’t going anywhere serious, there’s a strange comfort in knowing someone else understands what it feels like to be overlooked. The idea of someone seeing past my bartender persona was intoxicating.