My wife Heidi had been friends with Natalie since their freshman year in college, long before I knew either of them. Well, maybe friends is too warm of a term, "frenemies" seems more fitting. Don't get me wrong, they definitely cared about each other, but their relationship was fiercely competitive.
They roomed together in the dorms as freshmen and were attached at the hip from that moment on. Their similar interests and career aspirations made for plenty of common ground as well as plenty of things to compete over. From the stories I have heard from both of them, it seemed that nothing was exempt from becoming a contest. From beating each other's times on the collegiate track team, to test scores, to the prestige of the law school they were able to be accepted into, and even the men they dated.
Unlike how men normally compete, Natalie and Heidi's competiveness was not immediately obvious to the untrained eye. In almost everything they did, they would try to get the upper hand but if questioned, both of them would deny that. It was a frustraiting and endearing fact about them that took me quite a while to pick up on.
Natalie and Heidi entered my life when they came to work at the law firm I was already working at. I was a senior associate, so I was assigned to Heidi and Natalie as a mentor for their first few years. They were both very driven individuals so mentoring them was easy. Their aptitude and drive helped them to rise up the ranks quickly and in just a few short years, they were both senior associates working right beside me as peers.
Their ambition was immediately apparent to me, but I also didn't fail to notice their beauty. Both Natalie and Heidi could have been models instead of lawyers if they wanted to. They had kept up the intensity of their workouts after being collegiate athletes and it showed. Their fitness however, was where their physical similarities ended. In some ways, you could say they were visual opposites. Heidi is a tall thin blonde with smaller breasts, a more angular face, and piercing blue gray eyes. She has a smaller but very shapely ass forged from a rigorous routine of running and weight training. Conversly, Natalie is a shorter, curvy brunette with dark skin and dark eyes. Heidi has frequently considered getting a boob job and I have no doubt it is a fueled by her love and jealousy of Natalie's incredible rack.
Personality wise, they are also different. Though they are both motivated career women, Heidi tends to be a bit more aggressive and forthright while Natalie tended to be more submissive and sly. Occasionally, Heidi will boss Natalie around and to an onlooker it would seem like she wore the pants, but Natalie has a way of steering her friend's head that Heidi often misses.
Though I was attracted to both of them, Heidi definitely won my heart. I always found her straightforward and confident demeanor very inspiring and even attractive. Though I had certainly oggled her Instagram and checked her out discreetly in person when I was feeling bold, I never even thought about approaching her as a potential romantic partner. It seemed too risky to jeopordize a great work relationship with an advance like that. The only reason our relationship ever switched from professional to romantic was all thanks to her.
At our firm's new year party, Heidi was acting especially affectionate towards me. I was talking to Natalie when Heidi abruptly entered the conversation by wrapping her arm around me and placed her hand on my chest like we were a couple. I thought Heidi was just joking around but it seemed to annoy Natalie so after a few minutes she left to talk to someone else.
Heidi stayed close to me for rest of the night. We ended up sitting down together and got locked into an intense conversation about a case she was working involving a class action lawsuit on some rogue sex toys. I had talked to her about the case before and we were always careful to talk about it in a strictly professional way but that night Heidi was being very informal in her discussion of it.
She joked about how all of the people signing the class action were horny housewives frustraited they needed to go back to relying on their husbands dicks. She even told me a story about how she purchased one and tryed it on herself to see how bad it was. She went into a lot more detail about that part than I expected and considering that I had long oogled her from afar, picturing her trying a sex toy gave me a series of thought I would need to explore later.
It was starting to get late so I announced that I was going to turn in. She requested that I walk her to her car before I left so we navigated through our office's parking garage to her car. Once we arrived, I opened her door for her, waved goodnight and turned to walk away. After a few steps she hollered, "Nate..."
I whipped around quizzically. Without another word, she stepped forward, wrapped her hand around my tie, pulled me close to her face and gave me an open mouth kiss. When our lips unhooked, I stared back at her bewhildered but delighted. She stared at me, straight in my eyes with her intense steely gaze. She dropped her chin and said in a nearly a low raspy whisper, " I don't fuck around Nate. I like you. When I see you next week, you can ask me out to dinner if you are interested in me too and my answer will be yes."
She abruptly pulled me in for a second, but shorter kiss. Then, without another word, she plopped into her car, backed out and drove away. I watched her drive away and slid my hands into my pockets.
After she turned the corner I looked up at the ceiling and chuckled to myself. I had dated a number of women, but I had never met someone like Heidi before. I knew I would be a fool not to ask her to dinner and see where things go, so I committed to ask her out and see where things headed.
After our first date, our relationship blossomed quickly, faster than any other relationship I had had thus far. There were no secrets with Heidi, so I felt like I got to know her on a level I didn't know anyone else in a relatively short period of time.
On our third date, we consummate our growing interest in each other with a romp in the hay. Sex with Heidi is about like what you would imagine. She doesn't play games or try to shelter your ego if you are not getting the job done. If she liked something, she would make it painfully obvious by rewarding the behavior with a series of unmistakable moans. If she didn't like it, she would end it abruptly and move to a new position or activity to try.
There was no guessing with Heidi and I loved that. I also felt like her honesty helped our sex life reach heights I never had with any other woman I dated. I wouldn't describe her as sexually creative, but the intensity of our love making was always high.
The one thing that always surprised me, is that she would generally expect me to lead out in most cases. I figured that a confident woman like that who knew what she wanted would want to lead out occassionally, but for the most part that wasn't the case.
Dating Heidi was really easy, but one peculiar thing was how often she wanted to include Natalie on our dates. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Natalie's company, but to me it always seemed like Natalie was, understandably, uncomfortable always being with us as a third wheel. It was almost like Heidi was trying to rub our relationship in Natalie's face and I watched Heidi and Natalie start to drift apart because of it.
