Author's Note:
I love Country Music. I know for many you are hanging your head and saying 'why Red... why?' I really like George Straight's song
She Let Herself Go
and I started a series with that title, but the woman in that story is different from this character. The character in
She Let Herself Go
is just as special to me, but as I looked back and reflected on the words to this song I realized I wanted to create another
She Let Herself Go
with a different woman in mind.
So I hope you enjoy
Dazzled by December
. Her adventures will follow the path of George's Straight's song. . .where Alissa in She Let Herself Go follows a path of fantasies that she and her lover had played out on the phone and now play out when they spend the Summer together. I hope you give both a look see and I know you'll see the difference and perhaps you'll see similarities, but not in their excursions... each is unique in that regard. Please enjoy these short stories of December and leave a comment if you wish. ~ Thanks ~ Red.
Fall had come fast and with it the changing of the leaves and the bustling of the city. December stared down from the high rise suite that now served as her apartment. Two years had flown by since she'd divorced the highschool sweetheart. The town jock and the head cheerleader had ended a marriage that was destined to failure from the beginning.
December pushed her fingers through her short hair, having cut several inches off just hours before. A sigh escaped her and she worked the tension in her right shoulder with hard kneads of her left hand.
"You need a massage," the voice of her new best friend Rachel called out to her as she stepped into the large sitting room.
December turned and smiled. "Yeah, I know."
Rachel set down a glass of ice tea and then took her seat. "When can you take another vacation?" she asked.
"Anytime really, just got to make a few phone calls. It's been a year since the trip to Hawaii," December said and walked over to the sofa, opposite of her friend, and co-worker. "It's been a couple of fantastic years, since the divorce."
"How is Matt?" Rachel asked. She lifted her glass and took a long draw on her tea.
"He's great. Remarried and is expecting his first baby," December answered with a genuine smile.
"Are you jealous?" Rachel enquired.
December chuckled. "No. I'm happy for him. He's a great guy. Our marriage wasn't awful, it just wasn't right." She drank her tea and kicked off her shoes, massaging her feet with the toes of the other. "A massage would be great. Who do you recommend? I've lived in the Big Apple now for four months and I should start indulging myself."
Rachel smiled. "Let's go wild. Skip the city and we'll head out to a private spa that my mother-in-law has taken me too several times. We'll spend a week being pampered. Lord knows I could use it."
December watched her friend pat her swelling stomach. "I bet you could. Let me make a few phone calls and we'll head out on Monday, sound good?"
Rachel beamed. "Great. I can't do the hot tub or the sauna, but by God I can lay there and have someone rubbing my tired, swollen feet!"
"Yes, you can," December chuckled and winked. The two friends chatted about the upcoming vacation. By the time December was alone in her apartment and snuggled deep under the warm blankets, her body was a hum of excitement. It was going to be great, she told herself as she imagined the pampering her body was expecting. The simple escape from the worries of management were going to melt away from her shoulders for a while and she was looking forward to it.
The week moved quickly for December; she was surprised by how fast things seem to fall into place for her. Her life was full of friends now; her family supported her decision to move to New York, taking the job with one of the leading design firms in the Nation, and now she sat beside her new best friend, drinking sparkling water in a champagne flute, while the limo driver took them to a fantastic week long getaway.
When they arrived at the Resort, they were shown to their rooms, a connecting door permitted the privacy that December and Rachel both wished. Rachel admitted her husband would be coming later on that evening, because he really didn't want to be away from her during the last few weeks of her pregnancy. December wholeheartedly agreed and found herself thankful for the private room. Naughty fantasies often led her to explore her sexual release and she had packed all her sex toys in her suitcase. The idea of using them with Rachel in the room was out of the question. She'd only been with one woman and the experience was wonderful, but not her cup of tea to indulge in all the time, plus Rachel was very much in love with her husband and the thought of seeking pleasure from another, whether it be man or woman, was something Rachel said she'd never contemplated before.
A knock on the door brought December back to the moment and she hurried to the door that opened into the brightly lit hall. "Hello," she said to the small woman in front of her. The girl smiled back, offered her a pack and explained that there were several activities at the resort that she'd been preregistered for, thanks to Rachel. December took the papers and thumbed through them; she thanked the girl and then headed over to Rachel's room.
When her friend opened the door December stepped in. "Hey there, how are you feeling?" she asked.
"Not bad, just tired. Is that the pamphlet with the things I signed you up for?" Rachel asked.
"You admit to it," December laughed and sat down in a chair that Rachel offered to her.