I was for many years an inveterate skirt chaser. Looking back, I think I enjoyed the chase more than the fuck that inevitably came as a result. More often then not, I 'got lucky' when I wasn't really looking very hard. All too often, trolling around looking to get laid ended in disappointment.
As my divorce was getting finalized, I would often have my kids and they loved to play with the children of one of my wife's friends, a recently divorced young professional named Melody. Melody was in her late 20's or early 30's and was a Morgan Fairchild type blond with a smile that could light up a room, fantastic legs and a butt made in heaven. She was a runner and in fantastic condition. I once gave her a ride home during a downpour as she was out on her daily run, and her drenched running shorts and tee shirt created an instant reaction between my legs.
Her husband had left her for a girl that worked for him, and I never thought he had made a very good trade. On the other hand, trying to understand other couples and their relationships is a lost cause. I had first seen her at a kid's birthday party, and often saw her running in her nylon running shorts and tight tee in our quiet neighborhood. I actually danced with her at a New Years' eve party and shared a light kiss at midnight. We were mildly flirtatious but she was my wife's friend and we were a close knit and gossip ridden neighborhood.
I'm sure she sided with my wife over the divorce but unlike many of the neighborhood wives, she was never rude to me, but certainly a little detached. Toward the end of my married life, she was dating and would often stop by to chat with my wife, sometimes with that freshly fucked look and smell. After the divorce, my wife and I both moved; my ex moved about 100 miles away and I moved to a small house barely a mile from the old neighborhood.
Melody wasn't enjoying the dating scene. She looked better than ever, had always been a head turner, and attracted doctors and such looking for a trophy wife---which she began to realize was not what she wanted. More and more she came to understand that being a trophy was at the core of the demise of her first marriage. When my kids were with me, they would often spend time at her house and vice versa. There were never any sparks, but as time passed, we became more cordial as my divorce faded into the background.
We were on the same kid schedule in terms of which parents has the kids this when. I always felt that had we not lived in the same neighborhood and had I not been married to a, 'friend' something would have happened; there was always an underlying, smoldering attraction that had never gone past that New Years' Eve kiss. A divorced woman living in a young family neighborhood begins to become less intimate with the wives in that neighborhood, particularly when she is several levels hotter than the others and all the young husbands are stealing looks at her finely sculpted young body. It began very innocently.
I went over to pick up my kids who were showering and cleaning up after an afternoon in Melody's pool. She was doing some paperwork at the kitchen table when I arrived. I knocked on the screen door and she shouted for me to come in, I had called a few minutes earlier, and she told me the kids would be ready to go shortly. She was wearing those hot clinging running shorts and the tight tee she so often wore and I couldn't help stealing a glance at those long, smooth, well tanned legs. Women always know when you are checking them out; I'd learned that over and over, but couldn't help myself.
She smiled broadly, the old Melody smile; she offered me a beer. We moved to the family room. I sat on an overstuffed chair and she plopped down on the sofa, all legs and smooth, feminine, well sculpted muscles. No bra, I quickly noted and she was still young enough not to really need one. Tousled, sun bleached blond hair, wide set piercing blue eyes, that Julia Roberts smile; with not a hint of makeup, bare feet and that tight runner's body, she was the vision of stunning young womanhood.
"Divorce sucks, doesn't it?" She laughed.
"It's a real bitch." I replied.
"Everyone in the neighborhood always thought you and Pam were the perfect couple. As other marriages started to fall apart, no one could imagine yours would." She said.
"It really didn't happen overnight, never does, but you know that." I responded.
"Dating again really sucks." She said.
"I couldn't agree more; there seems to be a lot more nutty singles out there than I remember." We could hear the kids giggling and moving toward the front of the house.
"Let's get together some night for dinner or a drink and compare notes." I said, in a manner that I hoped didn't sound like I was hitting on her or asking for a date.
"Let's do that." She responded, almost seriously. "I don't go anywhere during the week; work has me pretty exhausted by the time I get home. "Remember Sadies? They have a great Saturday breakfast and a killer bloody Mary. How about breakfast next Saturday?"
Breakfast. Okay. I had been thinking about dinner and a little close dancing, but breakfast was certainly a place to start.
"We're both early risers, as I remember, mind picking me up around 7:30?" She said.
I agreed. My kids came out and we headed off to do what divorced fathers and their kids do on those weekends. They would be going back to their mother that evening.
Sadie's was a very casual beachy kind of place just a few miles down the road. It was just breakfast. There was not a chance in hell that we were going to just jump in the sack. I was absolutely not going to get in this tight young blonde's pants...but I thought about the delights in those hot little pants all week.
I picked Melody up for breakfast a little before 7:30 the following Saturday. She had already been out on her morning run, had just showered and had let her hair air dry, but having astounding hair, it always looked as if she had worked for hours to get that look. She was wearing a short---very shortβkhaki skirt, no hose, sandals and a tee, no bra, as usual. No jewelry, no makeup, air dried hair, no perfume, just fresh scrubbed and gorgeous.
At breakfast it was incredibly relaxed. She shared some funny anecdotes about some of the bozos she had been dating, I did the same. She kidded me about one particular bimbo she had seen me with at another local beach restaurant, I chided her about a doctor, who I happened to know, who had taken her to some charity event.
"So, do you have big plans this weekend?" She asked.
"Our breakfast together was the high point." I quietly replied.
She blushed a little, something I'd never seen her do. "Same here." She softly responded. "Do you want to go for a drive before we both get so blitzed on these bloodies that we have to call a taxi?"
"Where to?" I asked.
"Let's just take the coast highway and see were we end up." She responded
I had recently bought a rag top, not a sports car, really, just one of those sporty mid sized convertibles that come back into fashion every few years. I paid the bill and we headed south. It was a gorgeous spring day, warm but not to hot. The road we chose ran through a series of beach towns, then opened up into a more pristine setting, but never losing sight of the water. We stopped once at a beach known for great shelling and collected some samples. We removed our shoes and walked in the surf. We talked a lot, mostly about the future and what we wanted to do with the rest of our lives. She had a great job and clearly was looking for a man to spend the rest of her life with who was not part of corporate America but wouldn't be threatened by her six figure earning power.
A school teacher, she thought. She had once been one. A guy with lots of time and a love for kids. Maybe another kid or two. Someone who wasn't blown away by her trophy looks. Someone who would just love and understand her and bring her back to earth when she came home from the corporate battle grounds. She knew that wasn't me, hell I was deeply immersed in that corporate shit, hated it much of the time, but was addicted to the dollars.
I told her that I didn't see more kids, but I wasn't totally against it. I also said I wasn't ready for marriage again at that moment. We were both intense, hard chargers and laughed that while that might be great in the bedroom, we both needed a partner that would bring us back down to earth on a daily basis.
Neither of us was sizing the other up as a potential life partner, we knew that. As we became more open, the conversation turned to sex. I suggested that I was sick of women using sex as a tool, or mistaking it for love or romance, tired of dating divorced or single women attempting to use their pussies to bag a husband.
She replied that she found it irritatingly amusing that men she had dated wanted to put her on a pedestal, were almost tentative when it came to fucking, as if her body and pussy were some sort of holy temple.
"It's like they're afraid I'll break. I'm just looking for a guy who very regularly throws me on the bed and fucks me lustily, but then doesn't get caught up in this trophy shit in public. I feel as if I'm being displayed as the latest scientific achievement. I want to be respected and loved, not treated like a prize game fish." She chuckled. "Don't be in awe of me, but don't try to treat me like crap, either. Love me, love my kids, treat me as an equal and fuck my brains out on a regular basis."