Bodacious Bettina by Caprishus, Caprishus@aol.com Getting what you want in the personals can hurt This story is based on actual people and an actual date they had. Some names have been changed, moments exaggerated or created, for your entertainment. Most of this story, however, is true. "Scorpio, late 30s, two cats, red hair, green eyes, seeks nice guy for fun and relationship..." I'm a cat person and fully believe women are at their sexiest from 35-50. I was also longing for female company as I rebounded from a divorce that had been my fault. So, this ad from the Dallas New Times Personals section, popular with many a single transplant, drew my eye. Besides, despite being a Gemini, I have many planets in Virgo and Scorpio. Scorps love me. My ex-wife was a Scorp. I left a message on the ad's voice mail box and went to fix a steak-and-fries dinner. The phone rang just as I wondered how a woman as big as Shannon Hall could do such a gymnastic fitness routine. "Matt here." A husky, sultry voice said, "This is Bettina. You answered my ad?" "Indeed. How are you?" "Fine." She took a breath and fired out "So, what do you want to know about me?" I made a bid for shallowness. "Well, give me your description. I'm 6-1, long arms and legs. Kind of built like Jerry Rice, the NFL wide receiver. I wear glasses." Bettina replied, "If you like skinny women, you won't like me. Don't expect to meet me and see a Barbie doll." Unsurprising, I thought. I knew very few slender Scorpios. "Actually," I said, "I like women who are big-boned. Not fat, but actually big-boned with big shoulders and good hips. Kind of a strong build" "Then you'd like me. I'm not fat, but I'm a big girl. I've always been kind of big. A long time ago, I dated a bodybuilder and lifted a lot. Now, with my job waitressing, I help out a lot with inventory. The heavy boxes help me keep up my strength. How much do you weigh?" "175." "Yeah, I could probably throw you across the room. I have a friend who lifts pretty heavy and I can outlift her on a lot of the machines in the gym." Not that it was impossible, but I would believe that when I saw her, which we agreed would be the next night just after happy hour. The bar was named Bernal's, a Tex-Mex version of a beer-and-pool joint. I told her I would be dressed down. I chose a t-shirt that was clean, but old and small enough to make my upper body look bigger. My jeans were tight on the butt. Considering that's the part of my body I get the most compliments on, it could be said I operate by the seat of my pants. Bettina hadn't told me how she would be dressed, but had said she had red hair and green eyes, a devastating weakness of mine. And there was little mistaking her when she walked in. Her red hair was a modernized Dorothy Hammill look, green eyes narrow, skin tanned more than usual for a red head, perhaps much South American influence in her ancestry. But it was her body that so held the attentions of the other pool players, two of whom gawked over their dates' shoulders. Her neck was medium length, but very thick. A print blouse was filled out by her immense shoulder breadth and globular breasts that defied nature's aging as they bounced and behaved. Her jeans had the painted on look over long, meaty legs, wide hips and a butt of such a grand semi-circle, a small man's hand probably couldn't grasp it at the corners of Glute and Hamstring. She moved with purpose, but not quickly. There was a weighty sensuality and sexuality to her, but also a muscular vibrancy. "Bettina!" I called. She returned my appreciative smile upon first sighting. A couple of drinks in and we were playing pool while she buckshotted me with questions and statements: What was a guy like me doing answering personal ads? (Why not?) How old are you? (29, yes, I know I look 22.) Where do you work? (Dallas Morning News) I was in the Morning News once, interviewed in a story about that Indecent Proposal question. I'm so happy you're normal and good looking. The last guy I met from the ad had an arm missing. (Just because he killed a doctor's wife doesn't mean he doesn't like to socialize with women.) She was trying so hard. I felt uncomfortable being the object of this much pent-up attention. Sensing this, she stepped quickly into my face, wrapped her arms around me and shook me as if the discomfort could be physically removed. "What's the matter?" she asked. I vaguely noticed how raggedly my body was jerked by her raw strength. "I might be too much woman for you," she teased. At this, I barked a laugh while wriggling out of her grip. Her face lost its smile briefly, then brightened as she bent over the pool table again. Her cleavage, visible from the rear booth across the room, drew a thumbs up to me from the aforementioned two guys there. Only guys give each other those "one time for me" signals. A waitress bumped her as she shot, prompting her to turn and yell, "Bitch! Watch where you're going! You fucked up my shot!" "I was just trying to get around that big butt of yours to get your empties," said the waitress, whose name tag said "Kim." "You should've waited!" Bettina yelled again. "You don't fuck up somebody's pool shot!" "Maybe if you didn't take up all the room in the world with your fat ass," murmured Kim as she grabbed the empties and walked away. "What was that! What was that?" Bettina yelled. "I'm on a date here, but I'll kick your ass if you talk any shit to me, bitch." We left soon after. At my car, I asked her where she wanted to go. She stepped forward, pressed me with her entire body to my Mustang and said, "My apartment." She kissed me, then. I pushed back to get her off of me -- when things go this quickly and easy, my STD Alert goes off because I'm sure it's not my overwhelming charms that are inspiring her in such a manner. I'm not the first one, I'm sure, to get passed through customs so quickly. Also, there was something...off about her. But as I pushed, she still kissed. I couldn't move her bulk away even a lip's worth while she wanted to grind against my body. She broke the kiss and said, "Let's go." Back in her apartment, she tossed her keys onto the dining area table, greeted her cats back in the bedroom. Small apartment, but functional. The living room was minimally furnished. She returned to me as I stood in the middle of the living room. She gently took off my glasses and placed them on the kitchen pass through. "Try to lift me up," she said as if the result were already a foregone conclusion. It probably was. Though I have wide shoulders and know how to use leverage, neither those shoulders nor my back possessed much muscle. We won't get into my long, skinny arms, lots of definition, but a mere dusting of mass. I tried hugging her around the waist from the front and lifting. Her toes barely left the ground. There was obviously a lot of weight in her upper body, but the problem was the drag from her mature hips, generously globular butt and big thighs that gave her a formidable center of gravity. I tried to hoist her over my right shoulder and was successful, but only enough to stagger a couple of steps then put her back down in exhaustion. Bettina smirked at me, "I told you I was too much woman for you and you laughed at me. I don't like being laughed at." With that, she stepped closer, bent slightly at the knees and grabbed my waist with a hand on each of what would be love handles in a few years. I felt myself being slowly elevated. I looked down at Bettina, whose smile was a facial shrug of ease. It also wasn't lost on me that she was going this with steady strength, instead of with one violent burst of power. When she had me at arms' length, my head was near the ceiling. In addition to a degree of awe that was getting greater the longer she held me up there -- just how strong were those broad shoulders and back? -- I hadn't felt this helpless since I was a little boy fighting an older cousin. My heart was beginning to flutter when the rest of me was sent fluttering as well. I bounced off the floor, aches fastening my side as I hit, then my head tagged the wall. Woozy as I was, I couldn't come to the logical conclusion from her current actions as well as her overreactions in the bar earlier: get out. Across the room, Bettina was pulling off her jeans, and I saw why they were so tight -- her long legs really were that thick. Shapely and smooth with muscular firmness they were and swept out to a powerful set of hips. Her womanhood was concealed by bikini panties, the same blazing red as her bra which was coming into view as she pulled off her print blouse. She threw it to the ground, then turned. Facing me was that big, booming butt, which I watched for only a second because Bettina was grabbing the old-fashioned, jutting doorway overhang and easily chinning herself. Her shoulders and back were the most massively muscled I had ever seen on a non-weight trained female. No wonder she had so effortlessly hoisted and thrown me. She dropped from the doorway, meaty arms pushed out to her sides by those pumped out lats. As she turned to me, she said, "See that? And I weigh 182 pounds." She shrugged those huge shoulders. "You were nothing." I struggled up. She ran toward me, prompting a low, defensive tackle attempt on my part. No Ronnie Lott I against those beefy legs -- one of those pumping thighs caught me on the upswing, bashing my nose in as my head snapped back and led the rest of me to the floor. Escape had ascended to top priority in my head. But by the time I had fully processed and reacted to my nose probably being broken, Bettina had yanked me up and whipped me over in a parabola to the -- "SLAM" -- floor. Thank goodness I had an erection so my manhood wasn't hurt. Bettina spotted that and cracked, "Boy, you really do like your women strong." Before I could scramble up, Bettina booted me in the stomach. I stopped rolling when her left hand grabbed my shoulder. She knelt down, big torso looming over me as she unleashed a hard punch to my sternum. I was winded badly, gasping in search of any slice of air. Bettina calmly stood astride me. Looking at those hips and butt, as well as the incredible breadth and density of her torso made me realize she was right: she was much too much woman for me. During sex, those hips could launch me off the bed or pound me into exhaustion at will. With her strength, weight and energy, a sexual encounter with her could ruin me so many different ways - - unnmatchable pleasure, broken bones, inferiority complex instilled. As I thought of this, I realized she was beginning to sit. "No!" I wanted to yell, but my just returning breath only came out as a squeak before my face was squashed by her large, round, firm buttocks. I was paralyzed with pain and being smothered. My head felt light. I needed air. This was insane. Surely she didn't intend to snuff me just for not capitulating to her attention or for doubting how overwhelming her femaleness was. Thankfully, she rose before I went out. "I could've killed you then," she said, sashaying around my helpless body. "Any breath could've been your last any time I wanted." She leaned down, her D-cups almost in my face. "But I thought it would be more fun to do this." She jerked me up by my left arm so that I fell into her sturdy torso. Her arms were around me again. I could feel the softness of her chest basketballs. I could luxuriate like that -- or, could've if she hadn't said, "I'm going to crush you." Suddenly, those tremendously powerful shoulder and back muscles were at work again. I tried to move, but realized what little room there was between her arms, chest and shoulders, was shrinking. "Remember I warned you I could throw you across the room?" she whispered. "Remember how I told you I was stronger than my friend who does lat pulls with 150? Feel it..." Bettina's breath began to get heavier. At least I'm making her work, I thought. Then, I realized it wasn't effort. There was an ecstatic look on her face, indicating some great joy. It was probably from demonstrating that she was all woman, a superior woman, a being of great physical and sexual power. My ribs began to snap and I screamed without sound. Just before I passed out, she whispered in my ear, "I could break every bone in your body. I could paralyze you for life. I want you to remember this so you know that every time you see me on the street, in the mall, at the game, your life is in my hands." She released me and I slumped to the floor. Merciful woman that she was, she took me into Parkland General and explained I had been mugged. I didn't dare dispute her story. I've lost her phone number. I'm not sure if I hope that she's lost mine.