Jamie walked down the busy street, it was just after 5pm and all of London's office workers were fighting to get home. He weaved between those hurrying to get the next train, even though he wasn't in a rush he couldn't help but get swept up in the hustle and bustle of the city.
Jamie turned the corner into a side street and slowed his pace, unconsciously relaxing now that he was off a busy main road. He pulled out his phone and opened the group chat. Diane had messaged to say that she had already reached the restaurant, Natasha, Marie and Emily were all between 5 and 10 minutes away. As he pushed open the door of the restaurant Jamie immediately saw Diane at the table waving to him, surrounded by 4 empty chairs. He walked over as she rose from her seat and came towards him and he gave her a hug.
"How are you?" she squealed, Diane was in her early 40s and had thought of Jamie as her younger brother ever since the two of them had worked together at Porter & Son, a small import/export business. Though neither of them had worked there for a while, they still met regularly with a few other ex-colleagues every couple of months to catch up.
"I'm doing well, how are you?" Jamie replied with a smile.
"I am very good, Tish got into her first-choice secondary school, I'm so proud," Diane beamed with pride. "But enough about me, what about you? Do you have a girlfriend yet?" Diane smiled fiendishly, pulsing her eyebrows up and down.
"Oh, so straight to this question this time, interesting. And no, I don't at the moment," sensing the need to distract her Jamie quickly added "but the renovations at my place are done."
"Ooh let me see, do you have pictures?"
"I sure do, I took them last night because I knew you would ask today", Jamie pulled out his phone and opened the gallery showing Diane the pictures of the various rooms of the house. He had been so lucky to be able to buy a place at all in London at the time the house was a mess and he had barely been able to afford the mortgage but after getting promoted a couple of times and some renovations the place was looking great. Diane flicked through all the pictures asking for details on various things and getting the details of the contractor.
"It doesn't look like the same place at all!" Diane exclaimed.
"I know," replied Jamie.
Diane tutted "What are you going to do in 3 bedrooms all by yourself though?"
Jamie paused for a second bracing himself for the reaction to his response "Well I'm actually going to put one of the bedrooms up on Airbnb..."
"What?!" Diane interrupted, "a stranger staying with you? That's crazy!" However, Jamie's protestations that it would all be fine were cut short by the arrival of another one of his ex-colleagues, Natasha, she greeted him with a hug, her breasts pushing into his chest slightly as he wrapped his arms around her athletic figure. No sooner had they all greeted each other and sat down did Marie and Emily arrive together, and greetings and hugs were exchanged again.
Jamie enjoyed the sight of seeing Natasha, Emily and Marie again, all women in his age bracket he had been able to see daily and each of them attractive in their own way. Marie was quite tall and slim, but with a gorgeous plump ass that showed in the jeans she had on, and as usual her long black hair and outfit were styled flawlessly. She had been single at the company and the two of them worked in the same department and had been close, but it was obvious from conversations that she came from a very conservative family and was a virgin until her parents arranged for her to be married off to their friends' son. They had been really good friends and Jamie had even been at the wedding, but a couple of months after getting married she had blocked Jamie on all her accounts, the others didn't even know. He knew it was because she thought that good married girls don't talk to other men, as ridiculous as that sounded in the 21st century.
Emily was Marie's bestie although even she didn't know how much Marie had spoken to Jamie over the past few years, in comparison to Marie she was petite and blonde and where Marie's ass was large and curvy, Emily's was small and pert. "Small but perfectly formed," she would say when the girls complimented her, she also had firm C-cup breasts that looked huge on her small frame. As if he needed reminding, Jamie could see the middle buttons on her blouse straining. Emily had always had a boyfriend when she worked at Porter & Son and then gotten engaged, Jamie knew Diane would be quizzing her on wedding details at some point that evening.
Finally, there was Natasha, she had an athletic figure, her C-cups were paired with a nice round ass that she kept tight with squats at the gym. The other advantage of going to the gym? Her toned stomach, with a belly button piercing that had a small Swarovski crystal nestled in her navel. At least it had been 4 years ago after the Porter & Son Christmas party where both 21 and at their first work Christmas party they had ended up going home together, but that was ancient history that no one knew, and Jamie had to pull himself back into the room instead of lingering on pleasant memories as the conversation moved on.
"So, Marie how is married life? It's been 6 months, now right?" enquired Diane.
"It's good," replied Marie, somewhat hesitantly.