Background:
Seven years ago three couples (Erika and Bill, Carrie and Tom, and Donna and I), all about the same age, met each other when all of us except my wife Donna were hired to teach at a small Midwestern college. The three wives all delivered daughters during the same 6-month period, so we often got together to let the girls (and the other kids) play. Then three years ago Bill began an indiscrete affair with a colleague in the English department. One spring afternoon as Bill was screwing her in Erika's own bed, the woman's screams of ecstacy woke Bill and Erika's daughter Annette from her nap, and Annette walked in and found her father with his "thing" in a strange, naked, moaning woman. Annette told her mother what she had seen, and Erika promptly divorced Bill.
Bill left town with his loud playmate, but we still included Erika and Annette in our gatherings with our daughters. Erika was from Denmark, and always looked very attractive but never provocative, even though she never wore any makeup not even lipstick. But I never imagined making a move on her since I was married and she was our friend.
Every summer the five of us joined a combination Swim/Tennis Club. Tom and I would play tennis, then swim laps to cool off. This helped keep me in really good shape for a 35-year-old, at 6-foot, 180 pounds, with a 32-inch waist. Carrie and Donna preferred to swim a few laps and lie around the pool, taking turns watching the children. Erika also watched the kids, but she really devoted herself to staying in shape by swimming laps.
Erika and I often shared a lap-lane when the pool was crowded, and I savored the underwater view of her body as we passed in the narrow lane. She had a really trim figure of which Carrie and Donna were envious, but they weren't working out like Erika was. Erika's swim suits were never revealing, and I finally realized she wore a modest one-piece "swimmer's" suit: it smoothed out her figure (rather than emphasizing it) but covered her demurely and allowed her to go all-out when she swam.
TENNIS ON A HOT JUNE DAY
This particular summer I was teaching summer school and couldn't leave town, but Donna had to help out with a small family problem, so she drove our two kids to visit her parents in the next state. They were going to be back in the middle of the next week, but since Donna had our car, I was on foot. That hot, sticky June Saturday, Tom and I agreed to play tennis at two. I spent the early afternoon in my office, working on classwork, and in my haste to walk the half mile to the club, I left the bag containing my swim suit, towel, and change of clothes in my office. I figured I would just walk home and shower after tennis instead of swimming laps.
The heat and humidity almost did us in. On every changeover we drank water and Gateraid. Just before we finished the second set, Erika, Carrie, and Tom & Carrie's children came and sat in the shade to watch us. Tom and I had played for about an hour with the score 1-set all, but we were too hot and sweaty to play another. I walked over to say hi to everyone and saw that Erika was dressed only in her skin- tight wet swim suit and sandals, with a damp towel draped over her shoulders.
Almost immediately, Tom and Carrie took their brood over to the pool for a swim, but Erika stayed behind to talk to me. Even over the smell of my own fresh sweat, Erika's natural scent was intoxicating up close. I was dripping sweat all over the court as I packed my tennis gear into a bag. I gulped down another quart of Gateraid. Erika didn't smell of chlorine, so she had obviously rinsed herself in the cold shower inside the dressing room. I assumed the cold water had made her nipples erect, for I could see them poking hard against the fabric of her swim suit.
THE FAVOR
"Where's Donna?" Erika asked.
I explained about the sudden out-of-town trip.
"I was looking forward to seeing you and Donna today." Erika said. "I wanted to invite you and the kids to have dinner tonight and also to ask you for a favor."
"What sort of favor?" I asked in the teasing, suggestive tone I often used around Erika.
Erika grinned. "I have a new light for my Florida room, but I don't know how to install it." Erika replied. "Donna said you were good with things like that, and I was hoping . . ."
"Sure, Erika," I said, "I'll be glad to do that. But I need to take a shower and I left my bag with my swimming trunks and towel at my office. I also don't have any clean clothes, so I'll have to go home. So maybe it should wait until tomorrow."
Erika wrinkled her brow for a moment, then said, "Putting up the light will be hot work. Why don't you do that, and then take a shower at my house? I'll wash and dry your clothes while you shower, and then I'll feed you. After supper I'll drive you home. With Donna out of town, you need someone to cook you a meal. We'll do each other a favor!" she declared.
I asked to see her new light. We walked over to her VW bug, and she showed me the box containing the light fixture on the back seat. I knew I could put it up, and I assumed that Annette was at home and would be there to chaperone us, so nobody Donna in particular! would think anything of my going home with Erika, even if she was wearing nothing but a swim suit with her nipples showing. Besides it was fun being turned on by Erika, and what could happen?
"Sure! Let's do it!" I said, not imagining the eventual consequences of this almost-innocent decision.
I strapped my sweat-dripping body into the passenger seat, and away we went. I noticed that Erika was breathing loudly through her nose, obviously relishing the aroma of my sweat. At least it was fresh! Well, I'd heard that some women like the smell of fresh sweat on men. About two blocks from her house, Erika asked me to scrunch down below the window level.
"I don't want my nosy neighbors to think I'm importing a man for the evening!" Erika said.
I laughed and did as she requested. She then covered me with her towel to further hide me from nosy eyes, and with my eyes shielded from her view I stared at her thin, muscular, and shapely body. Her nipples were still poking against her swim suit. Down boy, I said! This is Erika! Out-of-bounds! All too soon Erika opened the garage door with her remote, drove the bug in, then closed the garage door. It was about 3:30 when I uncovered, sat up, and got out of the car, still dripping sweat.
I used Erika's towel to dry my sweat off the car seat, and she took the towel from me carried it into the house. I picked up the box with the new light and followed Erika as she unlocked and opened the door from the garage to the house. I immediately noticed the house was completely still.
"Where's Annette?" I innocently inquired.
"This afternoon I sent her on the bus to camp for a week," said Erika. "She won't be back until next Saturday."
No chaperone not even a child! So much for appearances.
"Are you afraid to be alone with me?" she challenged in a deep, sexy, sultry tone.
When I didn't respond, she laughed, a wonderful sound coming from deep in her throat. She turned, still laughing, and went into the house.
I followed her, thinking that the situation had suddenly become very, very risky. I was glad I had been concealed as Erika drove into her garage. It would be extremely difficult to explain this evolving situation to Donna. I was determined to avoid doing anything suggestive or improper.
How could I now refuse to follow Erika into her house? But here I was, alone with a woman who was turning me on. At least I was so sweaty that nothing sexy was going to happen. I assumed Erika had an old robe of Bill's around for me to wear while she washed my clothes, so what the hell? We were all adults here, right? And I had been completely faithful to Donna since we were married.
INDOOR HEAT
I followed Erika as she led me through the dining room onto her Florida room really a small porch behind her house which, at some time in the past, had been fitted with windows all the way around. The trees and thick vegetation made it impossible to see into the room. It was also incredibly hot, and I immediately began to sweat again. I started to open the windows but Erika stopped me.
"I don't want my neighbors to hear your voice!" Erika whispered. "I'll change out of my suit and bring you back a step stool."