(Author's note: all characters in this story are pretty clearly over 18.
While some chapters will stand alone, this one really depends on Chapter 1 to make sense.
Many thanks for Ravenna for her help in making this a better story and for her continued patience with a newbie.)
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A Tail of Joanie
I worried all night about Joanie, wondering if I'd done the right thing or not. Ok, I knew I'd done the wrong thing - sleeping with a married woman is pretty much always wrong. But I contented myself with thinking that my friend had needed me and that I'd done the best I could to help her.
Then I stopped thinking about it much at all, truth be told, as I had to catch an early flight to the Bay area on Tuesday for client meetings. I managed to focus on work, including a nice night out with the customer and some of the other team members Tuesday night. We had a couple of meetings Wednesday morning and then I headed for a 2 pm flight home. Flying from West to East Coast is brutal, since you lose three hours the moment you step on the plane. The best flight I could get took me through O'Hare and didn't land in NC until midnight, which meant not getting home until at least 1 am.
I'd at least had the foresight to beg off meetings on Thursday, so I was able to sleep late and wake up, if not refreshed, at least not exhausted. I was looking forward to my walk with Joanie, hoping she would show up and that I hadn't irrevocably damaged our relationship. Yes, I know it wasn't all on me - she was an adult woman capable of making her own decisions. But she was also in a vulnerable space and I was having to convince my self that I hadn't taken advantage of that.
I was up, caffeinated, fed and catching up on some reading around 11 when I heard the text notification on my phone. It was from Joanie.
"dont feel much like wlkng 2day. do need to see u. come by at 12?"
I replied that I would and then spent the next hour worrying about what she was going to say. Had she talked to her husband Mark? Had I messed things up for her? I gave up any thought of getting any more work done and just sat and fretted for the rest of the hour.
I left the house a few minutes early, thinking I'd take the long way around to clear my head and get a little fresh air. It had gotten a lot cooler over the week, really feeling like fall, and I had a sudden realization from the trail of candy wrappers across the sidewalk that I had somehow missed Halloween while in flight and it had become November without me really noticing.
I was halfway around the block when I heard the phone chime at me again. Joanie.
"just come on in doors unlckd"
That seemed odd but I was almost at her house and didn't have time to worry much about why. I crossed her front porch, past the fake spiderwebs and the slightly sagging jack-o-lantern and stood in front of the door long enough to take a couple of deep breaths. Willing my shoulders to relax, I opened the door and stepped into Joanie's living room, standing just inside for a couple of moments while my eyes adjusted to the darker interior. When it was obvious that she wasn't in the room, I called, "Joanie? Where are you?" Her reply came from the back of the house, from the first-floor master bedroom that she had emerged from a few days before.
I quickly crossed the room and stepped through the short hall into Joanie and Mark's bedroom. I might be able to tell you now how it was furnished or what the draperies looked like but at the time, I only had eyes for Joanie. She was lying back on their queen-sized bed, back propped up on a couple of pillows, wearing nothing but a smile. Her legs were slightly spread, relaxed, as she slowly caressed the insides of those delectable thighs and lightly brushed her fingertips across her sex.
I stood there in the doorway like a mannequin, mesmerized by the sight of my friend stretched out on her bed and ready for attention. Her blonde hair, which I usually saw pulled into a ponytail, was spread out over her pillows like a cloud. Her creamy white breasts stood out in contrast to her tanned shoulders and arms, brown from years of standing on the sidelines of soccer and lacrosse practice. Since Monday, she had trimmed her pubic hair into a thin landing strip, guiding my eyes to her perfect sex, those lower lips already damp from her slow strokes.
"Are you going to just stare or are you going to join me?" She jolted me from my reverie and I slowly, almost reverently, walked towards the bed. I'm sure she expected me to tear off my clothes and hop onto the bed, but I was not going to rush this. I already knew that I was likely never going to have this chance again with her, regardless of what happened when her husband got home, and I was determined that we were both going to enjoy it to the fullest.
I knelt at the foot of their platform bed and leaned to my left so that I could kiss the sole of her right foot. I heard a sharp intake of breath as my tongue slipped out and I firmly licked up her instep. I switched back to kisses and slowly made my way up her calf before stopping toslowly lick what I could reach of the back of her knee. She had spread her legs wider to accommodate me, exposing more of the inside of her thighs and I covered her right with kisses and nibbles, until I reached the top. Her fingers were now softly moving over her mons with occasional dips down to tweak her clit and I could smell her arousal as I kissed and lightly licked the very top of her thigh, just below the cleft separating her leg from her sex.