We'd been on smile and swing terms for a few months, our daughters were the same age, his about two, mine a month or so younger, I had never seen him with a wife or girlfriend, or boyfriend come to that. And my so called husband had left me (though luckily not us, not completely) so long ago I'd forgotten what it was like to be in a relationship. We went to our local park at the same time, most weeks, most Friday mornings. This is the thing with kids sometimes, they make your friends for you. Our two got on, in the way they do at that age, with anyone, the nearest.
So one Friday I invited Jim back to mine, with the intention of letting our two toddlers play and get to know each other. So. A play-date of some description. We had been chatting for a few weeks, idly, whilst watching our children play. Life, going on whilst we were busy doing other things. Were we flirting? He made me laugh, he seemed to laugh at things I said. Had I seen him looking at me once or twice? His gaze lingering a fraction of a second longer than it would if there was no attraction? Had he caught me? Looking at him, when I didn't need to be, looking at his face, not young anymore, but possibly better for it.
He was handsome, there was no denying that, no denying I hadn't noticed. Masculine, strong. Brown-blonde hair, thick on his arms I noticed. Why did I notice? Did this matter? He was usually clean shaved. On the one occasion he wasn't I liked the look of him more, that he usually made the effort, when he didn't, or hadn't the time, or forgot, his thick overnight beard gave him an appealingly casual look.
I suppose it was the sort of park where people might get to know each other, I lived in Ventura at the time, which was a friendly enough little town, even though I guess I wasn't the friendliest. Never rude I hoped, but I was aware I kept people at a distance. Even so the other women who used the park all noticed Jim when he was there. I saw them looking, I overheard one or two comments, mostly about how good he was with Kelly (women notice this, complimenting dads on something they absolutely take for granted with moms), once or twice about what a nice ass he had.
They tried to talk to him, he seemed as hesitant about this as I was. He wasn't rude, just, a little, reluctant, it seemed.
I didn't join in. Mostly as I didn't join in, also as my sex drive had gone into reverse since Corrina was born, part of the reason my husband left, only part I tell myself, surely not the only, he couldn't have been that big an asshole could he? Still though, I thought about it so infrequently, I had forgotten I wasn't even thinking about it. Even when Sadie and Cotton, my bare-all neighbours offered me an unexpected glimpse of themselves.
Then, I don't know what changed, but when I did have a moment, god, the shock was enough for me to be so grateful, to my own body, for not giving up on me, for still allowing me such simple pleasures.
I had showered, after putting Corrina down for a nap. Showered, dried, and walked naked into my bedroom. Naked. That was all, that was enough. I could sense the hard wood underneath my feet, then the thick pile rug. I passed a window. I suddenly felt naked, not just undressed. I went back and stood still in front of the window, it was at the far end of my landing, overlooking mostly my own garden, part of next door's. It also reached from the floor up to the ceiling. I realised I was imagining someone else looking at me, I was being seen, looked at, naked. For the first time in what felt like years I felt that delicious flutter of arousal within my bare body. I stood, almost unsure what it was, sweet, nervous, trembling. My mouth opened.
Was anyone there? Would I move if I did see anyone? My neighbours? There were no other houses within looking distance, but I imagined someone seeing, being able to, walking past their own window and noticing me at mine, seeing a naked woman standing there, just standing, looking out, enjoying the morning sunshine, but naked, tall, still pretty slim from running, from tennis when she could get a game, from swimming when she could get to the ocean. Would he think I looked good? For my age? For a young mother of one? Would she? Would he watch, look at my bare breasts, my stiff nipples, my thick brown nest of pubic hair? I turned for him, for her, I bent down to scratch my knee, I offered my bare ass to them, letting my legs slip apart, letting them look at the dark mound of my sex.
What was I doing? What was I feeling? I pushed my ass out, up, I imagined a man looking, by accident, staring at a strange woman's naked pussy, her long thick lips, looking at my now damp cunt. I stood and turned back. And imagined his cock, in his trousers, hard.
I walked, I forced myself to walk to my bedroom, to stand in front of a long mirror. I looked at myself nude. I saw my nipples had risen to two long stiff points. I looked down to my long forgotten forest of pubic hair. Oh god. I looked between my legs, to the warm furry dune of my pussy. I was aroused, oh god, suddenly, from nowhere, I could feel dampness in my vagina.
I stayed where I was, standing, looking, I pushed my feet apart and touched my pussy, I touched my soft damp pussy, god it had been a long time, it felt so good, after all this time, after the months of functionality, the trauma of childbirth, I was suddenly more than just my biological parts, more than the sum of them. The skin of my sex was so thick and warm and already slippery wet. I dipped the tip of my forefinger inside myself, gasping at this moment of self-penetration, enjoying the clasp of my pussy around my finger, drawing the release of moisture up to my awoken clitoris. It was like the first time I explored my body, I wanted to savour it, to enjoy each field of discovery.
And then my mind opened up to me, and showed me who I was thinking of, who I had had watching me. Jim was there. I was imagining him, still dressed, me kneeling in front of him and undoing his trousers, reaching and releasing. I thought of Jim's cock, I was suddenly reaching into his pants and finding it, hot, hard, touching it, feeling him, tasting him, fuck, my body was delighting in its own capability for pleasure, I had Jim undress for me, in front of me, his shirt, his trousers, his underwear stretched by his bulging penis, leaping out, growing, big, small, I didn't care, hard, becoming superbly erect, my orgasm, so long waiting, detonated inside me as I thought of dropping naked in front of Jim, this man I hardly knew, exposing his stiff cock and taking him inside my mouth, sucking his sweet swollen dick, letting the heat of him warm my mouth, feeling his thickness stretch my lips wide apart, pushing me back, was I too timid for control? Even in a fantasy? Pushing me, ripping my clothes off quickly, exposing my ass, oh, oh I was there, looking, turning, looking at my own smooth butt, bending as best I could, rubbing myself harder as I thought of Jim pulling the full cheeks of my ass apart and pushing his cock hard inside my cunt, I said the word, I heard myself speaking. My voice seemed to fill the room, echo through the otherwise silent house, words that I hadn't used for so long, that I might never have before, not quite, the suddenness, that I was saying this, willing to.
"Oh Jim, fuck me, push your cock inside me, push your cock hard inside my wet hot cunt, fuck me, fuck me hard, oh god, fuck my wet little cunt."
I came and fell back onto my bed. I lay naked, on top of the duvet, a small window was open, a cool summer breeze was drifting over my bare body. Was this a one-off? The first step towards some sort of erotic recovery?
Weeks passed, months might have. I went to the park most days when I didn't have to work, when I usually had to drop Corrina off at Teri's (my best friend from college. Who invited me up here when my marriage fell to pieces, to stay with her a while. I stayed. Then stayed some more).
Weeks and months, and Jim and I spoke a little more, with or without the others there. I sensed him relaxing with me. We got closer, physically, we stood closer, I starting studying him, his hands, his slim waist, his face. His ass.
And I showered, when Corrina was asleep, and I remained nude, in the mornings, lingering at the window, at night, knowing I would be easily seen. I didn't bother dressing, this was a first, I sometimes cooked and ate naked. Knowing, feeling the gentle swell or pleasure rise and fall within me for hours at a time, giving in, touching myself, knowing who it was I was waiting to think about, knowing who I wanted to imagine being with me, undressing, stripping, spreading my legs and pushing his stiff dick inside my aching pussy.
I am sure I wasn't thinking of this, or anything else, when I asked if Jim wanted to come with Kelly back to mine so the girls could have something to eat. He agreed though. With a pleasing smile. He followed in his car. He pulled up next to me at red light and looked in. When he winked I felt my stomach take a tumble.
Corrina and Kelly got on well, quickly, mucking about with this and that. They all stayed for lunch, then Jim said he should go so he could put Kelly down for a nap. I suggested he do that here, upstairs, and we could have something to eat. I wasn't really thinking of anything, but, if I am honest, I think my body was making decisions for me, without bothering to let me know.
We put our kids down, and I prepared a quick salad, some thick crusty bread, I don't normally drink at lunchtime, but I offered a glass of cold white wine. Jim said yes.