Monday Elle called me, "What are you doing?"
"Working," I answered.
"Can you come to the school?"
"Sorry, not today... salesman coming to take me to lunch. Why, what's up?"
"Just wanted to talk, some stuff happening."
"Allen wanting to leave another stain on Angela's blotter?"
thinking that remark would illicit a laugh.
"That too," she replied... minus the laugh.
"Sounds serious," now getting serious myself, maybe Todd's sense of smell registering something odd?
With my date with Kim set for Thursday... I asked, "Want to go to lunch tomorrow?"
"You really can't make it today?"
"No... sorry. Gary is bringing his National Sales Manager, and Jerry flew into Boston this morning."
"Okay... I guess it can wait until..."
"Is it Todd," I asked?
"God no," she replied, "nothing like that. I'm just feeling a little confused... and maybe guilty."
"Then it can wait until tomorrow. Pick you up at 11:30?"
"See you then baby... I love you."
She hung up before I could reply.
That afternoon I made all the arrangement for my date with Kim, including a call to my friend Kat at "2Hot4U."
Couldn't wait for that encounter.
At the appointed time the next morning, I drove up to our meeting place, Elle sitting in her car... reading a math book.
"Hey," as I got out to greet her, "you okay?"
Big smile, as she got out and walked to my car, a kiss as I held the door for her.
Getting in myself, I looked at her... and again asked, "Are you okay?"
"Yes," as she settled down, "just seeing you makes me feel better."
It was another beautiful summer day, so I headed for a nice waterfront restaurant and then asked, "So what has you so upset?"
That was when I learned about Trey.
She told me everything, the conversation running into lunch, mostly with her telling the story, my only input questions about his parents and friends, what they might know about her indiscretions.
She felt confident that her secret was safe with him... and Kathy... and now me.
"So now that you two have consummated the affair," I asked, "where do you go from here?"
"Well, I don't know. His time here ends on Sunday and then he'll be gone for some amount of time... he can't say how long. When he comes back... I don't know what I'll do."
"But you will want to see him again... want to be with him again... right?"
Now she lowered her head, not in thought, but in how to phrase her response.
"Yes, I will definitely want to be with him again," her head now up and her voice strong.
"Okay... so what has you upset?"
She looked at me incredulously, "Are you serious? I just told you that I'll be waiting for a boy, who is my daughters age, to come home from a tour of duty in the Army, so I can have sex with him... and you want to know what has me upset! Jesus... is our relationship that meaningless to you?"
Looking at her... I had two choices. I could tell her that I was, "... devastated," by what she had done... or I could ask... "Is our relationship so meaningless to you that you could carry on with a boy... now young man, who is your daughters age, for five years and then tell me that you are planning on having sex with him... again, the next time he comes home on leave... and you expect me to be somehow upset by that infidelity? And, by the way, what about Allen?"
Tears started to well in her eyes and I thought she was going to start bawling and run out of the restaurant.
But she didn't...
She sat there looking at me... her eyes clearing and then she said, "Why can't I ever be right?"
"When did I ever tell you, you were wrong?"
We spent the next ten minutes discussing why she'd become upset over the liaisons with Trey and Allen... and she really had no answer.
"I guess maybe... and I'm telling you the truth, that the sex with Trey was everything I'd thought it would be... and more... while the sex with Allen was such a disappointment."
"Baby... you had a lot more invested in Trey than with Allen," I told her, "Allen was something you had to do... Trey is something that you've wanted to do."
Standing, she said, "Take me to the motel."
Why was I surprised that her pussy was, again, full of Allen's cum?
Wednesday, I went to see Kat.
With two women already in the store, she just smiled at me and asked, "You have to run?"
"Nah... sell something," I replied, walking to the counter and waiting for her to finish. That took another ten minutes, the girls into S&M, one trying on a skintight vinyl, "Catsuit," that took almost all those ten minutes to get her out of!
They didn't buy anything.
"So," as she picked up the clothing from the dressing room and was hanging it up, "what's this all about?"
"What," I exclaimed, "why does it have to be something out of the ordinary?"
That drew a laugh, more a "Haruuump...," then, "Because Elle's not with you and you haven't bought anything from me in years without her being here to expose herself. You're up to something."
Giving her a serious look... I said, "Not good! I've been careless and I've fallen into a routine. I'm going to have to start shopping in other stores... spread the wealth, so to speak."
Without offering a reply, she walked past me and into the small storeroom behind the check-out counter. She returned holding a dress on a hanger.
Walking past me in the other direction, she placed the hanger on a hook, covered it with a plastic garment bag and then rang it up on the register.
I handed her a hundred-dollar bill and told her to, "... keep the change."
Turning, I started to walk to the door... when she said, "That's why you won't shop anywhere else... I'm never wrong."
Stopping, I hung the dress on the edge of a display rack, walked back to her and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Then I said, "I've got a date with an eighteen-year-old tomorrow night... and she wants me to take her somewhere "adult." Pointing at the dress, "... and that is going to be the icing on the cake."
Smiling... she shook her head and said, "If I can get a rich investor... do you think we could go into the "Dating" business together. You come up with the scenarios and I'll supply the boys and girls."
Standing up to my full height... I smiled and said, "I'm too high profile."
She pulled me down to her level by the shoulders and gave me a nice kiss on the lips... before adding, "But it would be such a great business doing pleasure with you."
I turned, picked up the dress and as I walked towards the door, I stopped and said, "Since you put it that way... I'll see if I can do some recruiting tomorrow night."
The next day, I arrived at the restaurant twenty minutes early, not wanting Kim to worry about me being a no show. My wife had left that morning with her sister, so I was free for the weekend, the time that I would spend with Kim that day restricted only by her schedule.
Walking directly to the bar, I greeted Jeff... who, without asking, made me a drink and greeted me with his usual, neutral demeanor... only this time, his eyes were questioning.
Taking a sip of the drink, I looked around and found Kim working her section. Today's uniform was the same... well maybe slightly shorter, white short shorts with an electric blue tank top, same logo and lettering on the front... and the same invitation on the back.
Seeing me at the bar, she detoured on her way to the kitchen, gave me a kiss on the cheek and said, "I'll be back in a couple of minutes."
I just smiled!
I ordered aa second drink before I finished the first, needing to strengthen my resolve, while asking myself the same three questions I'd been fixated on for the past eight days... "What if Elle found out about this...? What if Kim found out about her mother and I...? Or worse... what if Todd, Elle's husband and Kim's father... found out about any or all of this?"
When Kim returned, her first question wasn't a question at all, more a demand, "You are taking me out today."
"Yes, this is the time you requested I arrive," my reply.
Now another question, this one... "And we're going somewhere adult... right?"
"If you brought the adult shoes," with a smile.
Giving me a smile, she turned to Jeff and said... her voice with a tinge of sarcasm... "I told them all he'd be here,"
I looked at her... a questioning look on my face.
"I'll tell you about it on the way."
With that she was gone.
Jeff explained that the other waitresses had told her, as they had the first time I'd told her I'd be returning... that I was just flirting with her. As she had when I'd had her in class, she'd trusted her instincts and promised all of them that I'd be at the bar at 4:00 on Thursday.
I was early!
She had me waiting an extra fifteen minutes for some reason... like mother like daughter. When she finally reappeared, she was wearing cut-off jeans and a plain white t-shirt, clothes that were very apropos for a girl her age.
Besides her pocketbook, she was carrying a white plastic bag, her "adult" shoes I was sure.
I drove and we talked, mostly about her pending enrollment at the State University, the advantages inherent in a student body that large appealing to her.
But I knew that already, her mother preferring to send her to a smaller private college, where she would, most likely, stand out.
I had no doubt that Kim would stand out, no matter what school she attended... both in and out of the classroom.