This is a stand alone story. However, the main character is from It is Always the Quiet on Part 1 and 2. Many thanks to Tigersman for editing.
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One evening in November 1980, two months after the beach trip and one week after Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter in the presidential election, Becky asked Steven about their plans to go see his parents in a couple weeks for Thanksgiving. Steven said that they needed to have a talk.
"This is very difficult for me, but I think we should break up."
Becky was stunned, "Why?"
"I think we are in different places in our lives. You were very sheltered growing up and are still coming out of your shell. I think you have more life to live before you get married. I am ready to settle down."
Becky had noticed over the last few weeks that Steven had become withdrawn but thought this was just because he was stressed about work.
"Is this because of what happened at the beach?"
"Partially. I saw a new side to you that weekend."
"You were participating and having fun as well. Besides you said that you guys used to do the same things when you were college."
"I am a guy, of course I was not going to turn down the opportunity to have sex with a bunch of people. However, I didn't have relationships with those people after college either."
Becky was very upset. She had blossomed in her early twenties from being extremely thin and shy to having just enough curves to turn heads. She was still more inexperienced than most woman her age, but she discovered that she had a strong sex drive. Despite being 27, Steven was her first serious boyfriend and she was caught by surprise by his decision to break up with her. She also realized how chauvinistic Steven's attitude was and she was very angry and disappointed in him. However, Becky also was smart enough to know that she was not going change his mind and she had too much pride to try.
She left Steven's apartment and went to her own apartment. Becky had been spending several days a week at Steven's apartment and they had spoken about moving in together. She was lucky that she kept her own apartment.
Becky still worked at the same large computer company as Steven and still saw him regularly. He was his usual nice self and she eventually grew to not be able to stand him. She also vowed never to date a guy from work again.
The holidays were tough. Most of her friends in New York were couples, friends she made with Steven. She did not have any close girlfriends in New York. Becky was an only child. He parents lived in Iowa and never left the state. They were very conservative and religious. .Becky loved them but could not confide in them and got bored if she spent much time with them.
Becky considered calling Kim but thought that Kim might know a little too much about what happened at the beach and did not want to deal with that. She spent Thanksgiving alone in New York. She helped out in a food kitchen and went to the office for several hours before going home. It was a very lonely time for her.
A couple weeks after Thanksgiving she got a Christmas card in the mail. She opened it to find that it was a Polaroid picture of a naked Kyle proudly showing off his hairless penis. There was a note that said that he hoped she was doing OK and that Steven is a dickhead and would regret breaking with her. You are hot and you're always horny like a guy. That is a dream combination. Becky was not even sure how Kyle got her address but it was the first time she smiled in weeks.
In February of the next year, Becky changed jobs. She needed a fresh start and to get away from Steven so she took a new position which involved a lot of worldwide travel. Becky worked on setting up mainframe operating systems for companies. At the time it was largely a male dominated field. Instead of having a social life, Becky worked even longer hours. She was quickly identified as an up and comer and was given high profile and challenging assignments. Becky maintained her professional but distant relationship with co-workers and clients at work and was known as either Rebecca or Ms. Dwyer. Becky always had long strawberry blonde hair, but she got it cut short so that she resembled Princess Diana.
Becky worked on a team that would go to the client's location to set up the mainframe which typically took several weeks. Since the team traveled so much, they spent a lot of time together outside of work and became good friends with the exception of Becky. There was Frank, a sarcastic Brit, Evan an arrogant, handsome prick whose father got him the job and Teddy who mostly seemed to be concerned with being one of the guys. Becky was well respected by her team at work and was the team leader but she knew that the other team members considered her a private loner. They called her The Ice Queen when they thought she could not hear. She thought of her teammates as The Three Stooges.
Until the mainframe system was fully functioning and the client was able to handle their part in running it, the work was very stressful in order to complete the project by the deadline. If the work was done by the deadline they may have a couple of days of downtime before traveling to another project. They typically were off for about one week a month.
In theory traveling should provide a lot of opportunity for a single and unattached person like Becky to have a fun and an interesting sex life. However, Becky had not been in a sociable mood since the break up with Steven. The only sex she had in the first six months since she broke up with Steven were a couple of one night stands. Both were with handsome guys she met in the hotel bar after long days when she decided to unwind. The first guy was named Hank, who was from Dallas and she met him in Cincinnati. He sold medical supplies. The second guy was Arnold from Seattle who she met in Barcelona. Becky never did find out what he did for a living. Becky did not have a connection with either guy. They were all lonely and bored and she found the entire experience unsatisfying. She decided that masturbating alone was more enjoyable and less depressing.
In the fall they had a project in Rotterdam, Holland for a large petrol company. Typically the most difficult part was training the client so that they would be able to function when Becky's team was no longer around. However, this company had a recent college graduate name Maarten Smit who impressed Becky by picking things up quickly. This helped to make the project go smoothly which resulted in the team having a weekend off in Rotterdam. Becky had given Maarten high praise in the post project meeting with the client's IT Manager, Henrik De Witt. The Three Stooges were off to Amsterdam to no doubt get wild and crazy, leaving Becky on her own.
Becky had read about the saunas in the Netherlands and was interested in going. After completing some paperwork and getting breakfast, she went to a small public sauna around noon that was away from the hotel. Becky chose this sauna on the recommendation of the concierge at the hotel when she asked for a sauna that locals went to rather than tourists. The sauna was clean and bright and was pretty crowded on a Saturday morning with a good number of people around Becky's age. She was instructed that bathing suits were not allowed.
While the sauna may not be a sexual thing, she still enjoyed looking at the naked bodies. Becky noted that virtually all the men were uncircumcised. Becky liked the casual nudity that was so different that in America and was thinking about pleasuring herself when she got back to privacy of her room at the hotel.
Becky had been relaxing in the sauna for about an hour when she heard a familiar voice in a Dutch accent talk to her.
"Hello Ms. Rebecca, it is good to see you. Do you mind if I sit with you?"
It was Maarten, who must be in his early twenties although he looked younger. He was average height but slender with short, dirty blond hair. At the office, Becky's impression of Maarten was that he was a computer nerd that was solely focused on work and was shy and awkward despite speaking fluent English. Becky immediately got a towel and wrapped it around her. She was uncomfortable being naked in front of someone who was a work client. Maarten on the other hand was much more relaxed around Becky in the sauna than he was on the job. Becky couldn't help noticing that Maarten had an impressively sized flaccid, uncircumcised penis. She was a little uncomfortable having Maarten sit by her given their lack of clothes, but did not want to be rude.
"Hi Maarten. Sure, I did not expect to run into anyone I knew here."
"I try to come here every Saturday. They do not have anything like this in the States. No? "
