I'd been seeing Maureen on a roughly monthly basis when my consulting job brought me to a city near where she lived. Maureen was in her early forties, medium height and slim with curly red hair, freckles, and a big smile. More significantly, she was married. Her husband had gotten sexually bored with her starting several years earlier. Was he cheating? Or did his libido simply disappear? Maureen didn't know and, as time passed, she didn't care. That's when she and I met.
In the beginning Maureen would come to my hotel and spend a couple of hours in bed with me. After about a year of that, she suggested that we meet instead at a condo that was owned by one of her single girlfriends. The condo was closer to where she lived than was my regular hotel, which was both more convenient for her and entailed less risk of her being seen walking into a hotel.
Maureen and I smoothly transitioned to a new rendezvous pattern. When I arrived at the condo at the designated time in the midafternoon, Maureen would have arrived a few minutes earlier to remake the bed with sheets that she'd brought from home. We'd enjoy our together time in bed, then I'd help her remake the bed with the original sheets, and she'd shoo me away to my job and take the soiled sheets home to wash.
Then one day our usual pattern changed. When I knocked on the condo door, it wasn't Maureen who answered. I was immediately taken aback, alarmed even. Had I come to the wrong door? I glanced at the number above the doorbell. No, it was the right door. The woman tilted her head to the side and gave me a bemused smile.
"Uhhh," was all I could manage to utter.
"Jon? I'm Liz. Maureen's friend. This is my condo. Please come in." Liz opened the door wider and stepped aside, and I stepped inside
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Liz shut the door and turned to me, "Maureen told me she'd be late, and she asked me to stay here and greet you." She held out her hand, and I gave it a polite shake. Liz was shorter than Maureen and was borderline plump, with shoulder length curly black hair, dark eyes, medium size breasts, and womanly hips. And she, too, had a big, welcoming smile.
"It's good to meet you," I said. Liz gave my hand a final gentle squeeze. I cleared my throat with a bit of nervousness. "I want to thank you for your kindness and generosity in letting Maureen -- well, and me -- use your home. I realize it's been kind of an invasion of your personal space." Especially fucking in your bed, I thought to myself.
Liz smiled. "I've been happy to do it. She's my best friend." Liz's eyes studied my face. "She's told me all about you."
"Oh?" I felt my ears turning red.
"Oh yes. In quite glowing details." She smiled again. I imagine my ears were growing redder. "I'm sorry, I didn't intend to make you uncomfortable," she apologized.
"I'm only a little uncomfortable," I chuckled.
A cellphone rang, and Liz turned to walk to the small table beside the nearby living room couch where the cellphone was laying. She answered it with a cheerful "Hello!", listened a moment, then motioned to me to approach. "Here," she said as she handed me the cellphone, "It's Maureen."
Indeed it was. "Jon," she began, "I'm sorry. I won't be able to make it there today."
"Is everything okay?"
"Everything is okay. Something came up. Besides, I wanted you and Liz to meet."
"She seems very nice," I assured Maureen.
"You should stay awhile." Maureen paused. "If you'd like. I'd like the two of you to get to know each other."
I began to wonder if there was more to Maureen's words than their surface meaning. "Okay. But. I don't want to impose on Liz."
"Oh I don't think you are," Maureen continued. "She's told me that she's heard so much about you that she wants to get to know you. Personally." She paused, then added, "She's my closest friend, Jon. I'll be happy with whatever the two of you decide to do."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, of course. I've given you high marks, sweetie. I'm sure you won't disappoint her. Think of it as a favor to me, okay?"
"Okay. I'm sorry you can't get here today."
"So am I. But that doesn't mean you can't have some fun. Bye bye!" And then Maureen disconnected the call.
I handed the cellphone back to Liz, and she returned it to the table. "So," she said, "Would you like to stay awhile?"
"Yes. Though I don't want to keep you from whatever you were planning to do this afternoon."
Liz smiled. "Quite honestly, this is what I was planning to do this afternoon." That sentence hung in the air for a few seconds, then she added, "Can I get you anything? Water? Juice? I still have a half pot of coffee in the kitchen."
"No, but thank you. Please get some yourself if you want."
"Let's sit and chat. Shall we?" Liz nodded toward the couch, and we sat down. For the next half hour our conversation bounced from topic to topic. Our respective jobs. What we thought about where we lived. Our hobbies. Movies. Music. Eventually we got around to the subject of dating. "So John, do you have a girlfriend back home?"
"I'm divorced. I have an ex-wife in Seattle. There's someone I see occasionally in Portland, but it's not serious. How about you?"
"There's no one at the moment. Not for awhile, if truth be told. I guess I'm not looking for a serious steady relationship right now. And I'm not particularly interested in one night stands. Do you know what I mean?"
"Yes, I think so. I'm in about the same state of mind."
"After my divorce a few years ago, I was dating a lot. But it just got old." Liz paused, like she was choosing her words carefully. "You and Maureen seem to have found a happy middle ground. Good sex. Great sex, if you listen to her. But not clingy. And you both continue to have your own lives when you're not together."
"Yes, that's true."
"So I'm wondering... What would you think... about continuing this conversation in the bedroom?" Her eyes stayed glued to mine.
"And this is all fine with Maureen?"
"This is Maureen's idea, actually." Liz bit down on her lower lip and reached a hand to my chest. "Come with me," she said quietly, then turned to walk toward the bedroom. "Come along," she told me over her shoulder, "You know the way." I did. I followed her.
Liz stopped at the end of the bed and turned to face me. "First, let me set my ground rules. Is that okay?"
"Of course." I wondered where this was going.
"I like the idea of casual sex, but there are some things I don't like. I'm not a fan of anal. Or anything involving pain. Or bondage. I enjoy kissing. Oral. Especially receiving it." She laughed.
"I agree with all of that," I replied.
"And I love fucking. And watching your face while we fuck."
I chuckled. "That, too."
"I hope that's not too blunt. I'm multi-orgasmic. And I have an IUD, so I'm not concerned with pregnancy. Maureen vouches for your health. You don't use condoms with her. Is that right?"
I nodded. "I'm certainly also good with all that. I've had a vasectomy, and I've never had an STD. I don't sleep around. I generally use condoms unless I feel comfortable and safe with the woman."
"Well then," Liz replied, "I'm safe, too. If you're okay with no condoms, then I certainly am, too." She looked down at the floor, seemingly a bit embarrassed. "I actually like... feeling a man... come inside me." She looked back up at my face and smiled.
"I greatly enjoy that, too."
We stood there for a moment, staring at each other's face, then Liz continued, "So we could either waste a few minutes undressing each other, or we can just undress ourselves and get into bed."
And that's what we did. We watched each other disrobe. I unbuttoned my shirt and she her blouse, and those ended up on the floor beside us. I unzipped my pants and lowered them, and Liz unsnapped something at the back of her skirt and that fell, too. My underwear joined my pants on the floor, and Liz's frilly white bra and skimpy white panties followed.
There we were, facing each other, stark naked. My erection was almost at full mast as I gazed at Liz's face and breasts, which were nicely firm with large, pink nipples, and her neatly trimmed black pubic hair. Yes, I'm a fan of pubic hair.