They sat quietly for a while, and Renee started feeling almost sleepy. Then Ray's phone beeped, and he picked it up to have a conversation with the towing company. He uh-huhed and yeahed for a while, then said, "Do it." He snapped the phone shut.
He mentioned something about an ignition switch or relay or something, and asked Renee if it was okay, and said her car would be ready tomorrow afternoon. She just nodded and didn't really listen. She didn't want to think about it.
She tipped her head back, feeling relaxed and nice, and looked at him under heavy eyelids. She said, "Did you tell your wife?"
Ray sat silent for a minute, then made a weird smile and said, "No. I didn't." He continued, "I haven't."
She asked, "Why not?"
He hesitated, then laughed a little, maybe laughing at himself, "I'm not really sure. I think maybe it's not her business."
Renee felt a small stab of anger; she wanted to be more important than that, than to be someone Ray didn't talk about. It felt weird. She thought a little, and let her mind wander while Ray looked at her. Her small anger faded. Then her thoughts came together.
Renee knew what she wanted, right there. She said, "Can you take me home? Do we have time?"
Ray looked around, and said, "Sure. We've only been here a half hour, we've got all that time to go. No problem." He laughed, a low, friendly laugh, and mimicked his daughter's voice: "No prob."
Renee said, "One second, I'll be right back." She got up and headed for the bathroom again. When she got inside, she hiked up her skirt and pulled off her panties. Wrapping them up, she tucked them into an inner pocket in her coat. She knew she was going to freeze her ass off for a minute or two, but it would be worth it. She considered, then decided to go ahead with the rest of it, and reaching behind her, she unhooked her bra and pulled it out of one sleeve. It was luckily a thin, filmy thing, and she managed to fold it well enough to slip it in a front pocket so it didn't peek out. She buttoned her coat up and walked out.
When she got out, Ray was gone. She saw his drink was there; so he was around. The chirpy, happy girl yelled from the counter.
"Ray'll be right back in! He went out to warm up the car!"
A second later, Ray came back in. "Hey, let's wait a minute or two for the car to warm up." He sat down. Renee hesitated, then sat down too, kind of awkwardly, and very aware of not having panties on. She looked at Ray and smiled, and he smiled back, clueless.
Renee felt sexy and hot, and more than a little naughty and evil. She managed to forget about the state of her shirt, and her bad day, and she felt warm, toasty, and naked. It was good. She had to say it.
"This is good."
Ray nodded.
She watched him, feeling very, very naked and aware of herself, and started thinking about what she was going to do, and couldn't help herself from getting fidgety and almost itchy. She could feel herself getting wet. It felt different than anything she'd ever done before. She felt dirty and cool and special, all together.
Renee didn't have anything with her for birth control, and she'd gone off the pill, but she had a couple of morning-afters at home for emergencies. She intended to use one of them today, for Ray.
Ray said, "That ought to do it," and got up, holding out a hand to her. She stood up and took his hand, folding her legs carefully as she got up. They walked to the door together.
Renee was wondering if he could see she wasn't wearing panties through her skirt when the chirpy girl yelled out.
"Bye you two!"
Ray half turned and waved casually without saying anything. At the car he did the same thing as before, holding the door and helping her in. When he got in Renee tucked her skirt carefully. She didn't want to tip him off too soon.
They pulled out of the lot, a plain lot in a kind of mall-ish thing along a former county road, and Renee knew where she was, and where they were going. After a few minutes, when she knew they were getting close to a small, private forest preserve, she raised a finger and pointed.
"Pull in at the sign."
Ray turned. "What?"
She raised her eyebrows and said, "Pull in. Let's go park."
Ray hesitated, looked at her, looked at her again, and at the last second, did what she said and pulled into the preserve. She scanned the lot, taking her time, and pointed again, at a small parking place off in a little pulloff.
"Over there."
Ray did it.
When the car was fully stopped, and they were sitting still, Ray turned to Renee and was about to say something when she cut in.
Shimmying in a good humored way she said, "Chicky-chicky wow wow."
Ray burst out laughing, head back, and Renee laughed with him. When she unbuttoned her coat, and could see she wasn't wearing a bra, he stopped laughing and stared at her. She undid a few buttons on her ash stained blouse, showing off, and shoved up, patting her seat. Ray looked down, and she knew he could see she didn't have anything on under the skirt.
Ray leaned over and kissed her on the mouth.
