I smiled as I came awake slowly. There were arms wrapped about me and legs tangled with mine. It had been sometime since I woke up like that; not since several months before the divorce over a year ago. My smile broadened at the warm, soreness between my legs as I stretched a bit. My company protested and drew me back into his burly arms. I shook my head ironically against the soft cotton of my pillow as I gave into his protestations.
***
My little adventure had begun in an odd enough fashion. I was looking through Gregslist for a bit of weekend work, because my usual work as a teaching assistant had been slow of late. I was about one-hundred dollars short of the rent and needed something to make up the difference. What I discovered was a tad shocking, but intriguing. It was an advertisement for someone to pass out flyers for a new dating service specializing in naturalists...better known as nudists.
It was for that weekend; all day Saturday and Sunday morning. It paid one-hundred and fifty dollars. I would have a bit of lunch money left over. The ad said that nudity was not required, but that the person would need to be comfortable with it as the event was taking place at a local hotel, which had been reserved for an annual naturalist convention. Since I had once worked as an exotic dancer, I possessed more than the required 'comfort.' I hit the respond button on the ad and included a picture as required.
I thought that would be it. I mean I was passable enough, but at forty-five and after two adult children I was not the typical model type that usually worked trade shows. So I was surprised when I got a call the next night. It was amazing easy; nothing more than a phone interview and I had the gig. I slept easier that night; no longer worrying about how I would pay the rent on my small beach adjacent studio apartment.
But by Saturday morning, I was wondering what I had gotten myself into. As I took the local shuttle bus to the hotel, I kept berating myself. I could have found something more 'normal.' But I was committed and I needed the money...desperately. So I arrived almost fifteen minutes early and checked in; easily locating the man that had hired me.
He was nude...naked. He was also about a decade younger than I was; although he sported a 'pot belly' and more grey hair than I had. He was friendly; explaining the details of his new project. At the end, he politely reminded me that clothing was optional. I could take a break and 'get more comfortable' in the restrooms anytime. I blushed as I replied that I doubted my naked body would improve his sales very much, but he just laughed and replied, 'probably more than you think.'
The first couple of hours went fine. I handed out over two hundred of the flyers and got enough propositions and compliments from participants to inflate my ego a bit. After twenty years of marriage and what I know recognised as an emotionally abusive relationship, I could really use the boast. Then HE walked up.
He was about my age, but he had definitely done a better job of maintaining his body. All of which he was proudly displaying at that moment. It was not like I was some shrinking violet that had only seen my ex-husbeast naked. Before we married when I was dancing, I had lots of men; a number higher than I would want to actually put in writing.
There was just something magnet and charismatic about this guy. Yes, his body would have done a much younger man proud. Yes, the soft lines around his mouth and eyes added more than they detracted. Yes, his wavy, short, grey hair looked soft enough and tempting enough to run your fingers through. Yes, his deep smooth voice sent shivers up my spine and made my cunt drip as it had not in a very, very long time. But it was more than that. It was something more: an air of peace, contentment and grace that set him apart. With or without clothes.
When I started to stammer through my little speech that after a couple of hours had become almost natural, his warm, large hands reached out and encased mine as they trembled with the diminishing stack of flyers. His cool voice wrapped about me as his smile warmed me. 'Is that how I get a date with you?' My laugh was husky and nervous as I said I was not registered. He took a flyer, but said that he would just figure out how to get what he wanted another way then. I tried not to be obvious as my eyes followed his too tight buns when he walked away.
Over the next few hours, I tried to focus upon my work with some success. I gave out all the original bundle of brochures and three more; over four hundred in total. The man that had hired me was more than pleased at the end of the day. He smiled a bit too interested as he asked if I would be back the next day. It was a stupid question as far as I was concerned since I would not receive my cash payment until the end of the day, but I assured him I would.
I was more than a little tired by the time I stepped into the dimming early summer twilight. I drew my sweater about me as the breeze off the Pacific Ocean was chilling still. I headed almost blindly towards the bus stop a couple of blocks away. But the smell of fresh, rich pasta and sauce drifted from the nearby Italian restaurant slowed my pace. Eating out was a luxury that I rarely allowed myself since the divorce, but I reminded myself of that extra fifty dollars.
I was still debating the issue outside the red awnings of the restaurant when that deep voice washed over me once more. I jumped from being startled out of my reverie and his hand reached out to steady me; resting in the small of my back until the flesh there tingled. 'Just what I need: a dinner partner,' he smiled.
I could say I was reluctant to dine with a virtual stranger, especially one with a tiny fetish for walking around butt naked as my mama would have called it. Noticing that he was as striking clothed as he was in jeans and a button up shirt, I thought that a butt like his deserved to be naked. The jeans did not do it justice. The truth was I jumped at the opportunity.
Dinner was a delight; the first I had enjoyed since the divorce. I had been on dates, of course. Just not any ones that was this good. So I was more than a tad disappointed when he brushed a polite kiss across my lips and insisted on paying for a taxi home, since he had kept me out so late that it was now completely dark.