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Mike, 35 years old, 5' 11", 175 lbs, brown hair, blue eyes, Anne's husband.
Anne, 34 years old, 5' 4", 105 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes, Mike's wife.
Jenny, 34 years old, 5'4", 105 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes, Anne's former college roommate.
My wife and I went out to dinner and some drinks one Friday evening. It had been a long week of work for both of us and we needed to get out of the house. We had just finished dinner and decided to have a couple of drinks in the bar before we went home. It was a fairly quiet, relaxed place, so we found a small booth and ordered.
We had been sitting there for a few minutes when I saw my wife look up with wide eyes. She was staring at someone. I turned to look and the only person I saw in her line of sight was a woman about the same age as us. She was dressed in a white blouse, jeans, and a casual black jacket. I turned back to Anne and she had moved back out of sight of that section of the bar.
"What's wrong?"
"I think I know that woman."
I turned at looked at the woman again and then back at my wife.
"From where?"
"I think that's my former roommate from college."
I was intrigued since she never talked about school. "Really? You want to invite her over?"
She looked at me strangely. "Not sure she wants to see me. I just dropped off the face of the earth when I graduated. She may not be happy to see me."
She made it sound like they parted on bad terms, but it had been over 10 years. "Honey, it's been over ten years. I think you two might be able to at least talk."
She looked at me skeptically and then leaned out to see if the woman was still there. I turned as well and we both happened to look as she turned her head in our direction. She stared at us, a little shock registering on her face, and then smiled and started walking our way.
"Anne?" She said it like she was not sure it was her former roommate, but Anne hadn't changed that much.
"Jenny. It's good to see you." Anne stood and the two hugged a little tentatively. I guess they might be able to get along after all. When they stepped back Anne pointed to our booth. "Do you want to join us?"
"Sure." Jenny slid into the booth on Anne's side of the table and Anne introduced her to me.
"Jenny, this is my husband, Mike." We shook hands.
Jenny turned to Anne. "Nice. Married and settled. Kids?"
"No, we don't have kids. What about you? How are you? What are you doing here?"
They then talked about all those things that I guess women discuss when they haven't seen each other in a long time. I was not included in the conversation as they faced each other and talked so that I couldn't hear; I stared at the TV in the background running all the sports scores across the bottom.
Finally, Anne brought me back to the conversation. "Mike." She touched my arm to make sure she had my attention. I admit that it was easy to get wrapped up in ESPN. "Jenny is moving here and is staying in the hotel across the street. She doesn't have a place to live yet, but is looking. I told her that we have a guest room and she was welcome to it. It would save her some money and we could catch up on the last ten years. We don't have anything else going on, do we?"
I smiled. Sounded like it was a done deal. "No, that's fine. She's pretty easy on the eyes, so I don't have a problem with it." I winked at them.
My wife laughed and turned to Jenny. "Don't mind him. He's a big flirt, but harmless."
I chuckled. "Thanks... I think."
We coordinated when to pick her up at her hotel and then left the bar together. We went straight to her hotel since she decided to leave it tonight and not worry about the fact that she had already paid for it. We all went back to our house and I plopped in front of the TV to watch sports while they caught up on the last 10 years while sitting in the kitchen over wine. We finally went to bed around midnight.
"So that wasn't so bad, was it Anne?"
She turned and smiled. "It was really nice to see her again."
"You realize that you've never told me anything about college and your roommates. Why?"
She glanced away and I could see she was uncomfortable. "Nothing interesting there, that's all. Same as any college student, just tried to work my way thru college and get the degree so I could get on with my real life."
I knew there was more there. Was she really wild in college and embarrassed about it? Did she just want to keep it from me? I wasn't sure. "Honey." I took her by the arms and turned her to me. "If there's anything you ever want to talk about, you can tell me. Anything, okay?"
She looked me right in the eyes. "I know. I love you."
"I love you, too, okay? I always will. Nothing you can say will change that."
She hugged me hard. "I know." She didn't say anything else. She just let me go and went into the bathroom to finish getting ready for bed.
Over the next couple of weeks, I found out that Jenny had not graduated. She had finished about 10 credits shy of what she needed and never went back to finish it. I tried to ask her why, but she talked around it. She was not going to tell me that. I guess it was too personal.
One Thursday, I arrived home from work a little earlier than expected and walked into the kitchen, entering from the garage. My wife Anne was sitting at the table in her robe with wet hair. Jenny was standing at the stove, cooking something while wearing what appeared to be nothing but a long t-shirt. I stopped and stared for a second.
My wife looked up at me and then followed my gaze to Jenny as I came in, but didn't say anything about it. "Hey, hon, how was your day?"
"Fine." I looked over at her. "You just take a shower?" I put my laptop bag on the floor.
"Yeah, I wanted a hot shower when I got home." I looked up to see her and Jenny exchanging a look that I couldn't quite place. Something odd was going on. There was definitely tension in the room.
"Okay." I hesitated for a second. "I'll go change clothes. Can I talk to you for a second upstairs, Anne?" I headed for the stairs.
"Sure." She followed me and we went up to the master bedroom.
As soon as she closed the door for me to change I had to ask the question. "What's going on?"
"What do you mean?"
She looked like a little kid who had been caught stealing a candy bar. Now I was really confused. "Don't be coy. I come home and you've been in the shower, Jenny is wearing only a t-shirt, and the tension in the room was palpable. I barely know her and I've never seen her dressed like that. What's really going on?"
I couldn't put my finger on anything particular, I just had a bad feeling and a shiver ran up my spine. I just didn't know how and what to ask. We had never had secrets from each other that I was aware of and I thought our marriage was probably more stable than most. I had always heard from others about the minor problems their marriages had, and ours were more miniscule than that. "C'mon. Something's going on here. I can feel the tension and could see the look you two exchanged."
She looked at me and I could see her relax a little. "You could always read me too well." Suddenly her normal smile was back. I couldn't tell what she was thinking, but her answer and the way she said it relaxed me, too. "Well, Jenny found a job and a place to live. It's not in a bad part of town, but not in a very good part either. She doesn't make much money and I'm worried about her. I told her what I thought, but she wouldn't listen so we had a little spat. I wanted her to keep looking and told her she could stay here, but she wouldn't hear of it. I took a shower to cool off and relax."
"You want me to discuss this with her or leave it alone?"
"Just leave it alone. She's made up her mind. She's already signed the lease and is moving in this weekend."
"Does she need any help?"
"A little. It's furnished, so she just needs to do some shopping for some new linens and a few other things. I'll help her with that and then we can all help her put the place together, okay?"
I realized that I was breathing a little hard. The idea of secrets between me and her had been bothering me more than I realized. I started changing clothes for dinner. Anne just sat there and watched.
Once I was dressed, Anne came up to me and gave me a big hug. "I love you, honey, you know that, right?"
I looked down at her small, cute face. "Yes, of course I know that. I love you, too." I reached down and put both my hands on her ass, feeling that she had nothing on under the robe. I started slowly pulling it up as I kneaded her ass. "Maybe we have time to play a little before dinner is ready?"
She laughed and started pushing on my chest. "Not a chance, big boy. It will be ready in 10 minutes. Now quit molesting me."
"Is it possible to molest your wife? I don't think so." I teased her as I continued to play with her ass.
She giggled and went up on her toes to give me a quick kiss. "I know you. You want to make me go nuts and get loud so Jenny will hear us." I grinned at her and she poked me. "You are a bad, bad man."
"That's why you love me."
She giggled. "No, I love you in spite of that!" But she didn't leave. Instead she put her hand on my rapidly swelling manhood and squeezed. "I think you are very bad – and I want you to be a bad boy, just a very good bad boy." She dropped her robe.