Lynn is a friend of mine from way back. We went to school together, and that's well over thirty years ago. In that time we have been mutual confidantes, shoulders to cry on, helpmates, and even, in our experimental youth, occasional lovers, although of course that stopped when we each got married. Since then we had seen each other through everything that life had thrown at us, including my divorce and Lynn's widowhood, and we are still there for each other, anytime, any reason, no questions asked. Just the way friends should be.
This story starts when Lynn came to help me check the delivery of a new kitchen ready for the fitters to come the following week. It was a lovely warm summer's afternoon and we sat side by side on the garden seat that edges the back lawn of my isolated moorland cottage, just relaxing and waiting for the delivery to arrive.
'You do a good job with this garden, Ann.' She told me suddenly.
'That's 'cos out here there's little else to do.' I shrugged morosely. 'I don't even have a neighbour to gossip with.'
'Oh, I can see you're in a good mood today.'
'Sorry.' I forced a smile. 'I'm just feeling a bit down. I mean, I'm only fifty-one, but all I've got is this bloody garden, and that doesn't keep you warm at night, if you know what I mean?'
'Well, I'm the same.'
Our lack of a sex life was something that we both complained about from time to time, although neither of us seemed inclined to do anything about it. In all probability it was the way we had each lost our first partners that had made us so unwilling to risk a repeat.
'You need a fuck buddy, that's what you need.' Lynn told me with a smile.
'I just need a fuck, Lynn.' I retorted. 'Maybe the kitchen fitters will sort me out next week.'
Lynn smiled, knowing there was no real intention behind the comment. That was me all over, I'd say things like that, but do nothing about it.
'Maybe.' She nodded, going along with the fiction. 'Or maybe the delivery men will oblige us both before then.'
'And pigs might fly.'
'Well, I tell you what then, Ann. If they're both hunks I'll take care of one to give you a chance with the other.'
'If I thought you meant that I'm in just the mood to take you up on it.' I was pretty sure she didn't mean it any more than I did. Or did I? I really was sick of going without.
'Careful what you say, because if they're fit I'm horny enough to start something.'
'If they're fit.' I snorted. 'Now there's a get out clause if ever I heard one. In any case what's the betting one will be a spotty little git and the other one will be a week from retirement?'
'I do like optimism.' Lynn chided. 'Pity you haven't got any.'
We sank into silence for a while.
'Well, I guess we'll soon know what they're like.' I waved a hand at the truck just pulling up outside. 'Come on, let's go count the boxes and find out.'
The man who climbed from the driver's seat was exactly what I might have dreamed of. He was mid twenties by the look of him, just over six feet tall and built like the proverbial barn door. He clearly worked out - a lot. The only problem was that he was on his own. Just my luck.
'Just you?' Lynn asked the obvious.
'Yeah, my mate's gone off sick today.' He answered as he opened the tail gate.
'Must make it hard work.' She was very openly eying up his muscles.
'It would.' He told her with a smile. 'But they've given me an easy run today; in fact you're my last drop.'
'You'll have time for a beer afterwards then?
She couldn't have been any more obvious if she'd tried - but that didn't alter the fact that he was on his own. He paused for a minute as if weighing up what she meant. 'Go on then, thanks. But it can only be the one 'cos I've still got to drive back.'
I ticked off the items on the invoice as he brought them in while Lynn liberated three bottles of lager from the fridge and took them outside. At least she hadn't taken them into the bedroom, and I wouldn't have put that past her.
He seemed to take hardly any time at all to get everything unloaded, and when it was done he wasn't even out of breath. I began to think that if he was interested in a couple of older woman, then he might be able to handle both of us.
'Come on.' I told him, awake to the possibilities now. 'You've earned your beer.'
Lynn was already seated at one end of the garden seat and he unhesitatingly sat beside her, leaving me to sit the other side of him, not that I minded. I wondered if he really might be up for what Lynn had in mind - and what I was beginning to get interested in.
'What's your name?' Lynn asked him, handing him a beer.
He took a long pull and nodded his thanks, then paused again. I think he was still unsure which way things were going. 'I'm Paul.'
'Hi Paul.' Lynn saluted him with her bottle. 'I'm Lynn and that's Ann.'
'Are you sisters?' He asked.
We've been mistaken for sisters before, mainly because we're both blonde, although Lynn is a shade or two lighter than me, and because we're both rather small in stature.
'No, sorry.' Lynn giggled. 'Just friends.'
'It's nice here.' He said, looking around as he relaxed back, one arm going across the back of the bench behind Lynn.
She looked across at me and smiled. He'd clearly worked out which way things were headed.
'Yes.' She told him. 'And very private. There's nobody within a mile or so to see anything that goes on.'
I cringed at the transparency of her remark. I mentally shook my head, feeling sure she'd put him off by being too up front. But I was wrong. He took another long pull at his beer before answering, but he certainly hadn't been deterred.
'So you could strip off and have an orgy here and nobody would know?' Now he was being equally obvious, that was interesting.
'The chance would be a fine thing.' Lynn told him. 'I'd settle for a kiss, let alone an orgy.'
'Oh, I bet that can be arranged.' He told her, his hand dropping across her shoulders as he turned towards her.
'Don't forget Ann's sitting right beside you.' She reminded him. I was glad she'd said that, I was beginning to feel a bit left out.
'I hadn't forgotten. How could I forget when such beauty is doubled?' I had to give Paul top marks for inventing pure corn on the spur of the moment. He sat forward, took a last drink of his beer and placed the bottle beneath the seat before leaning back again, but this time with an arm around each of us, hugging us both closer.
I think it was to make up for ignoring me before, but it was me he kissed first. He pulled me towards him so that my hand instinctively landed on his six pack stomach as his mouth was pressed fiercely against mine and his tongue probed between my lips. I felt myself melt. If I hadn't been feeling horny before then that kiss would have been enough to get me going all by itself. I was happily surprised that he wanted to kiss a woman twice his age at all, let alone do it so passionately.
Perhaps I should have felt a bit jealous when he turned to Lynn and kissed her in the same way. After all, it was my house, and it was my delivery that had brought him here. But it was Lynn who had flirted with him in the first place, so if it wasn't for her I wouldn't have got that first kiss at all. She's never been short of nerve, and she wasn't short this time either. As I watched them kiss I noticed that her hand, which had also landed on his stomach when he had pulled her close, was slowly moving southwards, past his sweatshirt and over the elasticised waistband of his jogging bottoms until she was openly fondling his front. I watched with my mouth open. No wonder her kiss was lasting so much longer than mine had. When they finally parted she looked across at me with a smile on her face, silently indicating with her eyes what she was up to, as if I hadn't noticed.
'And what are you doing?' He asked, the tone of his voice showing that, whatever it was, he definitely didn't object. He was making no effort to prevent her either, although with both his arms draped around our shoulders that wouldn't have been too easy.