It took forever for winter to finally give way to spring, and even though the wind has been ferocious, the temperatures have been warm enough for me to lace up my running shoes and get out for a few miles on my lunch breaks each day. Since working from home, I've been getting some good training in, but I sprained my ankle today. Normally, I would simply blurb about this in my training log and get on with my recovery, but the circumstances are so wild that I need to write it all down in this longer form to capture every detail for later. This, therefore, is the full story of today's unlikely ankle sprain and why I am glad it happened.
I set off from the front porch and made it to the end of my street and around the corner when I saw a parcel delivery truck stopped few hundred meters away at the top of the hill. I don't normally see this truck on my lunch run, but I supposed the route or driver changed. These jobs have turned over a lot since pandemic lockdown, so I didn't think much of it other than to watch carefully for cars coming in either direction as I approached. It was indeed a new delivery driver who started to step down from the open driver's side sliding door and into the street, and I started a gentle swerve into the street to give her plenty of space. In the next couple of seconds, so many things happened that it will take me a moment to transcribe them all...
The first thing I noticed was that she was tall - not quite two meters, I'd say. Her uniform shorts were cuffed to shorten them, which elongated her legs as they balanced her on the ground. I didn't know if she heard my footfalls as she was leaning into the truck, so I slowed my pace slightly so as not to startle. The wind gusted as she fully emerged from the truck with a stack of boxes in her arms, however, and wisps of loose brown long hair caught the wind from under her cap and obscured her vision. She turned to carry the boxes directly across my path, so I started to pull up and let her pass. The small package on top of the stack teetered and she shuffled to balance everything underneath it, but directly toward me as I tried to slam the brakes on my stride. My shoes ground noisly against the pavement just as her hair cleared her vision. Once she saw me, we both grunted a form of the word "oops." I shifted onto my right foot to clear her path as the boxes in her arms began to tumble, and she moved in the same direction. My right foot slipped as I tried to plant it and move back to my left just as the small, lightweight box on the top of the stack fell to the ground. My left foot caught the corner of the box, which crumpled.
I felt a pop or a snap and an instant later, the other boxes and the delivery driver were collapsed on top of me in the middle of the street. The next moment, I felt a dull but intense pain in my left ankle.
"I'm so sorry," I groaned.
"Holy shit, no I'm sorry," The delivery driver exclaimed as she lifted herself up. "I didn't see you there!" Her voice was a dulcid soprano.
"Are you okay?" We asked each other in unison. She paused for an answer longer than I did.
"Yeah, I," I began, moving the boxes aside and lifting myself up on my arms. I looked at my ankle, and noticed that it was road rashed and starting to swell and bruise. "No, actually, I think I..."
"Holy shit, your ankle!" She exclaimed as she knelt down and tossed the crumpled box aside.
I looked up and down the road to make sure no cars were coming from either direction. When I turned back toward her, I had a view directly down the lapels of her uniform as she knelt over my ankle.
"Can you move it?" she asked, looking up at me. The wind swirled between us and tossed her hair past her brown eyes full of concern.
I shook my head. My ankle was stiff and thrumming painfully.
"Hold on a sec." She stood up and moved the boxes out the street to the side of the delivery truck. "Can you stand up without putting any weight on it? Here, I'll help you."
I sat up and put my right foot beneath me as she stooped to put her shoulder under my left arm. As she lifted us up, I carefully bent my left knee to lift my ankle up and back. When my right leg was fully extended and bearing weight, I felt my left side continue to lift up. She was definitely very tall, and I'm only just shy enough of average height to have been self-aware of it a handful of times over the years.
"Easy, easy," she said, "Let's hop you over to the truck." She led me - carried me, mostly - to the open driver's side sliding door where she sat me down.
I carefully lifted my left foot up to unlace my shoe, and it looked as though I had a bulbous, purpling softball where my ankle was supposed to be.
"I have a first aid kit with an ace bandage," she said, wincing at the sight of my ankle, "and maybe an ice pack. I'll check." The wind gusted as she walked around to the passenger side of the truck and returned with the first aid kit. She knelt down, opening it and pulling out the roll of ace bandage. I reached for it. "No, no," she said, "let me."
I nodded and leant back slightly, inadvertently staring back down the front of her uniform as she unrolled the bandage. Her modest breasts jiggled as she struggled to drape the loose end over my ankle to gently begin the wrap, but the wind blew the loose end every which way.
"Fuck it," she grunted after a few moments, "let's get out of this wind." I felt lame and a little guilty sitting there helplessly as she fussed over my ankle, but I was also dumbstruck with fascination at this woman, her incredible body, and the transfixing energy she exuded.
She grabbed the boxes from the street, tossed them over my head into the back of the truck, then squeezed past me. I turned my head to follow her, awkwardly trying to shift my body around to pull myself up, but I felt her lift up from my arms. "Just get your ankle," she said, crouching, "I've got the rest of you. We'll sit you on this box."
I settled on top of the box and leaned backward slightly, taking care to leave my left ankle dangling while propping myself against the inside of the truck with my right leg. She leaned over me to pull the door closed, and I got the closest view yet of her chest. The last tendrils of wind swirled in through the door as it closed, and I was overcome with the aroma of coconut mixed with something gently floral just as my eyes adjusted from the bright daylight to the ambient light coming into the back of the truck through the windshield. She pushed and pulled the door to make sure it had latched all the way closed, and once again her breasts jiggled directly in my face. I was momentarily unaware of any pain, but when the throbbing, dull stiffness in my ankle returned, I was suddenly aware that in my reclined position and with an intoxicating femininity before me, my dick had begun to awaken. I realized that in my running shorts, there would be no chance of concealing it.
As she returned to crouch in front of me, she took off her cap, set it on the floor to kneel on, and tied her hair back with the hair band on her wrist. "I'm so sorry about this," she reiterated, "does it hurt?"
"Not too badly, actually," I said with a touch of bravado, "and no need to apologize. It was just a freak accident."
"Yeah," she assented as she prepared the ace bandage, "are you a long way into your run?"
"Not even a kilometer," I replied, "so not far to hop back." I forced a laugh, realizing that I might avoid her seeing my rising boner with some small talk, levity, and a quick escape as soon as the wrap was on.