When I finally awoke the next day, the sun was getting low in the sky and darkness was starting to creep in. Brittany was gone, I found a note from her on the night stand.
"That was a great night, baby. Call me soon! XOXO Brittany" She had left an imprint of her lips under her name in red lipstick. I was certainly going to call her again, but I don't know how soon it was going to be – it was going to take me some time to recover from a night like that.
I struggled out of bed and into the shower. My body was sore all over from the sexual Olympics of the night before and the muscles of my cock hurt from all the times that I had cum. Hot water streamed over my body and I stood under its spray for a long time, beginning to feel human again.
I hopped out of the shower and toweled off, splashed some aftershave on my face and walked naked to my closet. The clock on the wall told me it was just after eight, leaving me enough time to get dinner together before Karen was to arrive. Dress for the evening was ultra casual and I slipped into a pair of old jeans and a t-shirt, perfect for the occasion.
In the kitchen I started working on dinner, a simple chicken dish that wasn't exactly a test of my culinary skills. I poured myself a Scotch, a nice dollop of ten year old Glenmorangie and lit a cigar. As dinner simmered I went out on the back porch to watch the day give way to night and breath in some fresh air.
Sitting there I started to think about the last time I had seen Karen. It had been just a month of so before her wedding and it hadn't been a happy meeting. I had met her husband Jason the week before at a golf outing and disliked him immediately. He was a squirrelly fucker who looked like Al from 'Home Improvement' and drank way too much. When he drank he started running his mouth and he had been asked to leave the golf course midway through the post outing dinner. When I saw Karen I had told her my thoughts on her soon to be husband and they didn't go over too well. Needless to say, I didn't wait by my mailbox for an invitation!
Then last week when I was out at the mall I had run into her. Her grandmother had passed away after a prolonged illness and she had come back to town, alone, for the funeral. She told me that she was staying in town for the next two weeks and wanted to get together and catch up – it had been almost four years since we had last spoken. We exchanged numbers and I promised to call, which I had done immediately after LeAnne told me she was going out of town. Sure, Karen and I had been good friends, but there was also a six month period when we were in college that we had spent humping each others' brains out.
Inside the house the doorbell rang and I went to answer it.
"Mike!" Karen said, spreading her arms to give me a big hug. We embraced warmly and she seemed genuinely happy to see me. "This house is perfect for you, out in the middle of nowhere with no one to bother you. I always pictured you in a place like this."
"Yeah, I really like it. It was the first place the realtor took me and I told her to cancel all the other appointments – this place was exactly what I wanted. But don't stand out there admiring the front porch, come inside. Dinner is almost ready."
Karen entered the house and slipped off her sandals. I led the way though the downstairs, giving her the mini tour as she padded barefoot down the hall behind me.
"Mmm, smells good," she commented as we entered the kitchen. "What's for dinner?"
I removed the lid from the pan and gave the dish one final stir, tasted it and added a final dash of salt. "Ah, just a simple chicken dish. Call it, 'bachelors special.' What would you like to drink? I've got just about anything, including some good wine."
She picked wine and I served our dinner. We went out to the back porch and sat at the table, enjoying the cool evening air as we ate. Conversation flowed easily; we had always been terrific friends. We filled in the last four years – my work, her work, my moves, her moves, everything. When we had finished our meal, we went back inside and settled in the living room, settling onto opposite ends of an overstuffed leather couch.
Karen was drinking wine and I was working my way through my third Scotch when the subject turned to her marriage. I hadn't wanted to broach it since the last time conversation had ended badly but she brought it up and so I figured it was fair game.
"You were right about Jason," she said, not looking at me, instead staring intently into her wine glass. "The guy is a total asshole."
"I'm sorry to hear that. I had always hoped that I was wrong about him, that he had simply been having a bad day at the golf course. I hoped that he would make you happy."
She laughed, still gazing at the liquid in her glass. "Well, I didn't see that side of him for quite a while, then all the sudden... well, that's about all I see now. He started working for this environmental company, started traveling a lot and it seemed like the more he was gone the more he resented having to come home. It was like he didn't want to come home because then he would have to be a husband. Does that make sense?"