As Jane purred on the floor of Harryâs shower, many blocks uptown from Harryâs apartment Jim was sitting on Janeâs bed waiting for Connie to finish her shower. He liked Connie. He loved looking at her. She seemed to feel the opposite about him. It puzzled him and worried him. Besides lusting after her, he also knew he needed to be around Jane a lot over the next two months. Being unwanted by Janeâs roommate wouldnât make for an environment of peace and comfort needed to be established for Jane to unwind and get fixed up.
He knew there was nothing he could do about it. Nothing was hidden from Connie. He looked into her intelligent and beautiful brown eyes, and he knew those eyes could look inside him and see him for who he truly was. From the first moment her eyes caught his, he knew he was naked before her. At least his soul. He would have loved to be actually naked beside her naked body.
When they both waved at Jane and Harry arriving in their canoe from their romantic paddling a few hours before, Jim realized the woman of his dreams was Connie, Janeâs roommate. He was pleased. He had noticed her while waiting for Jane and Harry to end their canoeing. Once he had sent the two new lovers off, he had searched for picnic supplies. It had taken him nearly an hour to get everything together and return, and was happy to see they were still canoeing. He sat on a bench and waited another half hour, the blanket and the bags of food surrounding him. He occupied himself people watching. The most pleasant subject turned out to be Connie.
Once he spotted her he couldnât look away. He didnât want to be rude, but she was so attractive. She had a cute body, no more than a couple inches over five feet. It was perfectly proportioned. Her pants were tight enough to reveal the curve of her thighs and the gentle taper of her legs. Her ass was round and firm, and he closed his eyes and imagined biting one of those firm cheeks. Her shirt was tailored to her torso so that he could see the roundness of her breasts which bounced high and proportionally large over her slightly plump and sexy tummy. And the way the waist curved from chest to hips was pure poetry.
But even with those astounding assets it was her face that blew him away. In many ways her body had reminded him, to the point of making him tingle and his cock to rise a bit, of Kathleen, the young woman who had taken away his virginity in high school. But while Kathleen was an incredibly cute blonde, Connie was raven black and her soft wavy hair framed an awesomely beautiful face. From her high smooth forehead to her deep brown eyes perfectly spaced and sized, to her slightly bobbed small nose, to her high cheekbones that dropped down to narrow cheeks, to her small bee-stung mouth, to her soft yet pronounced chin, everything about her face was proportioned to project beauty. He couldnât help marveling at her, and when she noticed his stare, she stared back. It was a challenge, not a seduction. âFuck off,â her face seemed to be saying. Finally realizing how rude he was being, he looked away.
She hadnât walked away. Once she was there she remained within eyesight. He couldnât help stealing glances, etching her face and body into his mind for some nasty future purpose. Inevitably, she would catch him.
Perhaps thatâs why when they realized who they were and why they were where they were, Jim seemed the only happy one.
âCould you help me with the bag or the blanket,â he said shyly with a smile. She on the other hand gave him a testy grimace. After a moment, she resigned herself to helping, taking the blanket and draping it over her lovely shoulder, the ends nearly touching the ground. She appreciated it when the tall Harry took over the transport of the blanket. She didnât appreciate it when Harry and Jane walked off swiftly. She was alone with Jim, walking beside him, seemingly stuck beside him. She actually didnât know he was named Jim untilâŠ
âHi, Iâm Jim. You must be Connie,â he said. He felt nervous as a schoolboy trying to talk to some idolized rock star. The nerd façade had taken over.
âGuilty as charged,â she said. Despite the terseness of her comment, he liked the mellifluous sound of her voice. A Southern accent but not deep south. Middle south perhaps.
âKentucky,â she said reading his mind. They had reached the blanket and sat opposite from Harry and Jane.
âIâm from Minnesota,â he said. He proceeded to pull the food and liquid from the bag.
âYeah, I figured. Same as Jane. Same kind of accent. You related?â she said as everyone took plates, utensils and cups and began eating. They were all hungry.
âNo. Weâre⊠sheâsâŠJane was my girlfriend.â
âEx-boyfriend,â she said and mulled it over as she chewed and drank and watched the two new lovers, Jane and Harry as they subtly moved towards each other. The sexual excitement of a new relationship was obvious. "Pretty weird.â
âYeah,â he said with a laugh. âYou could say that.â He and Connie continued watching the lovers as they closed in on each other.
âIâm heading over to Harryâs to listen to his music. Why donât you spend some time with Connie,â said Jane to Jim, and to Connie, âif thatâs okay?â Jim was more than glad to agree, but wasnât sure how Connie would react. It was a relief when she nodded along with him.
âWeird,â said Connie, shaking her head. âHow long were youâŠtogether.â
âA couple years, I guess. I havenât seen her for a couple years. It was in high school.â
âPuppy love.â
âI wouldnât say that. We were pretty mature for highschoolers. It was an intense relationship. Might have lasted if we hadnât needed to pursue different paths in two very different parts of the country. We were very much in love.â
Connie shook her head. âWeirder and weirder,â she said in wonder as they watched the couple touch. âDonât you want to grab her away from him?â
âCouldnât happen to a nicer guy,â said Jim.
âIs that a crack against Jane?â she said defensively. âSheâs not perfect, but sheâsâŠpretty great.â
âNo. I mean yes. She is great. I was serious. I wanted Harry and Jane to meet.â
âShit,â Connie said. They watched Harry begin massaging Janeâs shoulders.
âThatâs a good start,â Jim said to himself, but so Connie could hear. He looked over at her beautiful face for only the third time since they had introduced each other. He didnât want to piss her off more than he already had. She was looking at him. He was happy to see curiosity in her expression. âItâs all about massage,â he explained. âIâm here to give her massages and to hopefully train Harry to continue when I leave. He seems to enjoy massaging her, and she seems to enjoy him doing it.â
âThis is nuts. The more you tell me the weirder it gets.â
âItâs a long story, Connie.â They noticed the massages had become caresses. âUh oh, not the direction I hoped.â
âI believe itâs the direction they hoped. I knew youâd be jealous,â she said proudly.
âThatâs not it. You seem to be stuck with me awhile, and it is a long story,â he said as he got onto his feet. He reached down, and she paused before putting her petite hand into his big mitt. He wondered if there was any possibility she felt the thrill he felt from their first physical contact. Once she was standing beside him, she looked into his eyes. He could swear he saw the corner of her lips edging up towards a warm smile before she looked away. It was enough to thrill his heart and slightly engorge his cock. It would stay slightly engorged for the rest of the evening. He might have been embarrassed, but he wasnât. Superman lets it all hang out. He couldnât tell how the swelling was effecting her. The woman baffled him. At least she didnât seem scared, the one reaction which would make him feel regretful of his club, which, even though not at full magnificence, still revealed his physical attraction to her. As usual, he was transparent. She never told him to fuck off and leave her alone and walk away as she could have done. But she was serious, quiet, with rarely a smile to warm up their interaction.
They shopped at fancy boutiques, a couple of department stores and a bookstore. Along their travels, Jim monopolized the conversation. Partly it was because he was telling her all the details which preceded and caused his being there. After he told the basic story, he tried getting her to talk about herself, but she just asked more questions about him. Eventually he told her about Janeâs mother, and his love for her. He told her about their conversations, her seduction of him. He told her about his modeling. Everything except the voyeur episodes. He could tell her about that if, as he hoped, they got to know each other better. He did tell her about his menage a trois with Dr. Anderson.
âHow old is Mrs. Riemer?â she asked. He could tell he was shocking her. Never having told anyone else except Kristen didnât make it easier. Maybe he had to let it spill out after keeping it to himself and especially not letting Jane know for so long.
âShe had Jane when she was pretty young. Sheâs only forty.â
âForty! And youâre barely twenty! Sheâs doing great, but couldnât you do better?â
âNo,â he said with a laugh. âVictoria is a beautiful woman. Sheâs in incredible shape. Sheâs bright and energetic. We love each other. I couldnât do better.â He wanted to say he could do as good with Connie, but didnât.
At the bookstore, Jim was looking over the spines of the sci-fi section when Connie walked up to him and stood looking beautiful and determined, her hands on her hips.
âWhat do bookstores have besides books?â she asked.
âWell, um, paper andâŠâ
âMagazines! Fashion magazines! You in any?â she said, sounding skeptical. Maybe Jim had been pulling her leg with his weird stories. The modeling part would be a good test. She couldnât see Jim as a model what with his nerdy thick glasses covering his face. Jim paused, feigning concern. âNo?â she said, feeling satisfied.
âLetâs go see,â he said with a smile. With the couple books he had found in hand, he followed Connieâs sexy round butt to the magazine racks. He looked for the thickest fashion magazine he could find, Vogue, and paged through it.
âNo way. Vogue?â she said. It was taking him awhile paging through the many ads. He actually knew basically where the ad was, but he enjoyed her skepticism. He liked the way she challenged him. The excitement was making his club thicker in his pants. The suspense couldnât last forever, so he found the ad and showed it to her.
The ad was the best they had ever done. It was a breakthrough. A regional bias was pervasive in the fashion world. Everything Victoria had produced before had been for mid-western markets. The ads in Vogue were usually shot by photographers in major market cities like New York, Paris, London, Milan. But here was a Minneapolis production in the glossy pages of the worldâs most famous fashion magazine. Not only that, but the image itself was so effective, so seductive, and he knew he helped make it work. Despite his trepidation about modeling, he was proud of it.