This story follows on from "Home Early on a Wednesday". It may be helpful to read that one first to gain a little more understanding of the characters. Feedback is always appreciated.
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A month or so after our mid-week adventure, another Wednesday. This time, I don't make it home early, in fact, this time I'm running late.
By the time I get home, she is already dressed to go out, impatient and anxious. My job is to stay home tonight and mind our already-sleeping son. She is going out with some friends.
She told me about it weeks ago. It's a Christmas party of sorts, a bunch of friends she meets regularly are getting together for a small party, drinks and finger-food. It will be mostly other women her age, or older, and perhaps the odd husband or two. I can tell she's been looking forward to it, something that breaks the routine.
I'm happy for her to go, and she did ask if I wanted to go with her. The reality is that I won't know anyone very well, and she'll have a much better time on her own, amongst her friends. And since we don't have to try to make babysitting arrangements, the whole evening will be a lot less stressful.
I plan to stay at home, catch up on a little work, perhaps watch some television, if I can find anything worth watching.
She looks good as she leaves, wearing a short red skirt and loose fitting black blouse. She has put on make up for the occasion, the right shades to suit her tanned skin. I tell her how good she looks and she smiles.
"I won't be too late," she says. "I'll probably have a few drinks." This doesn't worry me, she's getting a lift and she rarely drinks much anyway. In fact, it has been a source of good-natured dispute over the years, that I have only seen her really drunk once. I have often hoped she would drink a little more now and then, to lower her inhibitions and relax her. She just doesn't enjoy drinking enough, she says.
The evening for me passes completely uneventfully. As I expected there is nothing on television and at eleven I decide to go to bed. I'm a little surprised that she isn't home yet, but I imagine she won't be long. I leave a living room light on for her, turn out the bedroom light and am quickly asleep.
Some minutes, or hours, later a noise wakens me. It takes a few moments for my eyes to adjust and I read the clock. Just after midnight. I hear the distant thud of a car door, fumble of a key in a lock, heels on the wooden floor.
During the next few minutes, I drift between sleep and wakefulness several times, hearing her in the kitchen briefly, the bathroom, the door of our son's room, the flush of the toilet. I fall back to sleep.
I wake up again and hear her softly calling my name from the bedroom doorway. I shake my head to clear the sleep away, concerned, trying to analyse what might be wrong.
"What's up?" I stage whisper, into the darkness.
"Nothing. Just follow me." She pads quietly down the hallway expecting me to follow. For a moment I debate whether to put on shorts and a shirt. I only have boxers on and I'm unsure what I might be required to do.
She isn't in the living room, nor the kitchen and for a moment I'm confused. Then I see that the front door is open. I'm sure she wouldn't have left it open accidentally so she must be outside somewhere.
It's a warm night, despite the fact that it is only early summer. There is a gentle breeze fluttering through the palm fronds high above me but the sky is clear with a half-moon rising. I step into the paved courtyard and see her.
She is dressed in almost nothing, a tiny, lacy, black G-string and matching bra, an underwear set she very seldom wears. For some reason though, what surprises me even more is her smile. She is smiling happily at me. I never expected to see her outside after midnight, in very brief underwear. But I could never have dreamed of her smiling about it.
She is standing in the middle of the moon-lit courtyard and I walk slowly to her, intrigued and uncertain. She holds out her arms to me and we hug. I quickly sense that she is drunk, quite drunk, I can feel her unsteadiness and see the pleasant detachment in her eyes.
"We've never done it out here," she says softly, attempting to speak without slurring, and failing. "Let's do it now."
It takes me a few moments to realise what she means. I'm surprised, to say the least. I look into her eyes, trying to read her mood and judgment.
"What if someone sees or hears?" I whisper, as I feel my cock begin to harden at her suggestion. The sound of my voice seems loud in the midnight stillness, even though I know it's not.
"We'll be quiet. And if they see, well, they'll get quite a show," she says. She leans and kisses my naked chest. "But no one's going to see," she adds, as much for her own reassurance as mine.
"Are you sure?" I offer, hoping that she is. "You've had a lot to drink."
"Well, you always say that I should," she counters. Then, to end the discussion, she grabs my boxers, pulls them down and sinks to her knees in front of me. It stops any thought of caution in my mind.
She takes my cock in her hand, stroking slowly, then her mouth, running her tongue around the head. It feels incredible, not just the sensation of her mouth, but the sensation of the breeze, the night air, the moonlight, the danger.