The Barn
Since they had parted it had been hard, establishing herself in a new finance role, working to convince the local banking firms as to why she had moved to a more remote place, away from the bustling city and the high-flyer finance prospects she once had. She pitched it close to the truth, a difficult relationship that had gone too far.
She had sought seclusion at first, her thoughts and psyche suited to the remote location deep in the mountains. Despite being new to the large town that she eventually chose, Ava had loved it from the outset. She especially relished the huge wooden lodge she had rented, with its picturesque setting and forested grounds. The views offered spectacular open vistas over the nearby lake and mountains.
Even though she was new to the area, her lithe grace and dark Latin looks meant Ava had no shortage of suitors from the outset. Whether she was drinking at the local bar, eating at the country club she'd joined, or at one of the glitzy finance dinners she eventually got invited to, Ava got admiring looks wherever she went.
But, for the first three months, Ava stayed studiously single. Her own way of dealing with the fact she had jilted Lorenzo at the altar.
She always knew that it would be her choice as to when the time was right to take a new lover, and it came out of the blue. Ava had few immediate neighbours but one was Josie, and the two of them became close friends ever since she had popped round to introduce herself, just a few days after Ava had moved in to the lodge.
When she opened the door Ava had taken in Josie's waist length glossy blonde hair, slim waist and rounded figure. But what caught her attention and everyone else's too, as she was to find out, was Josie's enormous natural breasts. Standing at Ava's door, a hot apple pie in her hands, Ava couldn't help stare at her massive rack. So much so that she blushed. Josie laughed. She'd seen it all before.
"Hey there, forget your eyes sampling my assets, sample this pie instead. I brought two spoons. I'm Josie by the way. And you are?"
That was Josie all over, direct, raunchy and fun. The two of them had got on like a house on fire from the get-go. Within a few months Ava was invited to private events and was moving in social circles that, without Josie, would have taken her years to establish.
Still waiting in the atrium at Lorenzo's office, Ava twirled a finger in her hair, curling it absently, remembering that fateful summer and the big barn dance Josie had invited her to, and why she had.
The party had been in a massive agricultural barn, part of an old out of the way estate reached via a half mile long drive, framed by poplar trees. Josie had been coy about the dance itself, what it was for or who was going, simply telling Ava to dress sexy and smart, despite it so far out and deep into the local countryside.
Ava had felt really nervous, this being the first time she'd been 'seen' out in the local society. She'd eventually opted for a little black dress, what she regarded as the failsafe outfit for any event.
Ava watched out of the lounge window as Josie had pulled up at her lodge in her big jeep, leaping out of the driver's seat, hair flying in the breeze. Her breasts were out on display, as usual, in a white summer dress adorned with rhinestones right across the cleavage.
Ava met her at the door wondering, as she always did around her, where all of Josie's confidence and chutzpah came from.
"Hey girl. How are you doing? What on earth is that you're wearing? Going to a funeral?"
Coming from anyone else Ava might have been offended, but Josie's easy smile and laugh that went along with any minor criticism softened the hardest heart. Ava glanced down, looking from her outfit across to Josie's. Hmm. She did perhaps look a bit dressy.
"No-one said anything about dress code. Is this too formal?"
"Hell yes! Look, we've got half an hour. Let's see what else you've got in that wardrobe of yours. Hope you're not going to disappoint me, miss frump of the year."
Ava had laughed, taking Josie up to the bedroom. So far no one else had been in here since she'd arrived, bar the moving in crew.
She opened the large closet wardrobe and stood back as Josie dived in like a cheetah hunting prey. She began tossing items out onto the large double bed Ava had spent a small fortune on. A bed that, over the last six months, Ava had ensured had seen no action.
"Not this. No. Hell no! A possibility. Hmm, I like this one."
The bed was soon covered with Ava's more revealing outfits, many of them unworn since she had been coupled with her ex, Lorenzo.
"Ok girl, strip. Let's see what we can do with what you've got."
Ava was taken aback. She'd never undressed in front of another woman before, not even in school or at the gym, where everyone had private changing cubicles.
"Come on, let's get a better look at all of you then," Josie said.
Ava unzipped her black dress, pulling each of the shoulder straps off slowly. Steeling herself, she let the dress slide to the bedroom floor. Underneath she had on her black camisole, bra and panties. Josie motioned a finger sideways.
Nervous, Ava figured, what the hell, and had pulled the camisole over her head with resignation.
She stood before Josie in her black balcony bra and slim panties. Josie put a finger on her pert lips, scanning Ava's body up and down.
"Now look Ava, I'm going to check you out properly now, Ok? Don't get embarrassed. Come on, let's get the bra off too. We can work with this, I think, and I know we can make you look the part."
Looking deeply into Ava's eyes, Josie startled her as she ran her hands behind Ava's slim back and expertly unhooked her black bra. Ava's breasts swung free, bobbing side to side a few times like a Newton's cradle. Her nipples began to harden in the cool air from the bedroom window Josie had an appreciate smile on her lips.
"Wow girl. These two are quality. Tonight's going to be fun!"
Ava blushed deeply from her neck to her navel as Josie looked her up and down, putting a smooth hand on her leg, checking her physique. Ava stayed stock still. She felt a tingle as Josie's hand briefly grazed her thigh, then goose bumps as the hand moved lightly across her naked breasts, catching a nipple briefly. Ava drew in a breath. She had never felt anything like this before. Her whole body was tense, expectant, ready for Josie's next touch.
Josie mistook Ava's breathy intake as an expression of a downer on her figure and looks.
"Hey, don't worry Ava. You've got a great body, firm and tight."
"No, it's not that. It's just... I've never had a woman touch me before," Ava said quietly, her breathing quickening rapidly.
Josie looked at Ava curiously, a smile of amusement on her face.
"Are you telling me you've never had experience of women?"
"Well, no... I mean, no I've not really thought about it."
"And you've never been intrigued? You must have gay friends?"
"Not really. Or at least I don't think I have. How would I know?"
Josie frowned, "Believe me, you'd definitely know. Clearly you city girls need some educating. I guess tonight's the start of that."
Ava looked bemused but before she could respond Josie knelt down and put her thumbs in the waistband of Ava's black panties.
"Don't worry, the locals are going to love you as long as you look the part. Let's get the rest of this poor city gear off too. Can't go for broke tonight if the underwear's not there."
Before she could move or reply Josie shucked Ava's panties down quickly over her hips. As the panties reached Ava's knees, Josie's face was briefly level with her vulva. Ava bit her lip, staring ahead.
The two of them stayed there for a few seconds, Josie looking in wonder at Ava's labia, Ava looking down at Josie's entranced face. It was Josie who broke the slightly awkward silence between them.
"Maybe I'm going to have to re-evaluate you as a rival rather than a party buddy, Ava. You've got it all going on, down there."
Ava was constantly amazed at Josie's direct tone, but took her quip as a compliment. She was still taking in that, for the first time in her life, a woman was staring at and admiring her delicate vagina.
Ava felt both a twinge of excitement and desire. Without a pause Josie stood up, placing her palms either side of Ava's face. Josie kissed her, gently at first then full on the lips. Ava responded in kind, but Josie pulled back, chuckling, patting Ava gently on the rear.
Ava stood there, mesmerised. Josie's lips had felt so different to any man's. Soft, yielding, with a sweet delicate taste on the tongue. She decided, there and then, that she wanted more of this. Maybe, after all, tonight was going to be good rather than nerve wracking.
"Have that one on me, love girl. Now enough of the fun. There's time for similar shenanigans later. Let's get you dressed for the ball. This event is maybe not what you quite think it is, I can tell you."
The next twenty minutes were spent with Josie making Ava try on combinations of her best underwear, stockings and sexy party dresses. Finally, Josie stood back, making Ava give her a twirl in front of the mirror. Ava wore a slim lilac top with a deep V, revealing her soft rounded breasts encased in a purple Fiacci bra. She had on a tight light orange skirt, black stockings and kitten heels, for dancing. Josie had insisted on matching butt-revealing purple knickers too.
Ava felt attractive, outgoing, yet slightly slutty, all at the same time. What she knew was, in this outfit and with Josie at her side at the party, she felt she had the confidence to take on the world.
Josie drove them the ten miles to the party. They parked up in a field away from the tall pines surrounding the barn, Josie said to stop the sap marking the shiny bodywork of the big black jeep.
