Down the Path Part 5

I force myself to walk down the corridor and to the elevators. When the door opens there is an older couple in the elevator and I get on and move to the other back corner. The man's wife is standing a little in front of him and I see him look over at me briefly. Then he looks again, giving me the once over. His stare makes me uncomfortable and makes me look down embarrassed. I wonder what he is thinking. Do I disgust him or does he wish he were alone with me in the elevator right now?

The elevator door opens and we get out. So many people around and I see some of them notice me as I try and see where the bar is. I notice the older men look the longest, even some of them with the wives. I see some of the wife's looks too and they leave no doubt what they think. I can't believe I'm doing this.

I finally see the bar and go up the walkway to enter bar area. It looks like bar is filled mainly with businessmen, maybe conventioneers. See several of them notice me but I just keep moving looking for Mr. M. Notice a couple lean over and say something and more heads turn to watch me. I can feel my face getting redder. I finally see you at the bar and move over to you.

'Hello Sir.'

'Hello Stevie, don't you look nice. Please sit down,' he says motioning to the bar stool next to him and I crawl up onto the stool. 'Are you nervous Stevie?

'Yes Sir, I'm very nervous.'

The bartender comes over. 'Tom, will you bring my new friend a Pink Lady.' The bartender brings back a creamy pink drink in a cocktail glass. 'Stevie just loves creamy drinks don't you?'

The bartender looks at me, a smirk on his face. 'Yes, thank you,' I tell him. He leaves.

'Mike told me this is your first outing as a fem gay man.'

'Yes Sir, this is so hard for me but I'm trying.' I keep thinking about how I need to be nice to this guy so he doesn't tell Mike about not me being shaved.

'You got a lot of attention when you walked in here Stevie, did you notice?'

'Yes Sir, I saw a lot of the men looking at me.'