I've had a secret since my bestie and I were nineteen.
There was this guy we both knew, and I'll call him Max in this tale.
My name is Jennifer, and Hera is the bestie in question.
Max worked at a local movie theater that her and I went to fairly often. It's a pretty old building, kind of oddly constructed.
Most theaters these days seem to have projection rooms that are only accessible from outside, but for some reason this one had them inside.
It's a local place. I think it might've closed down during the pandemic actually, I'm not sure.
We definitely weren't the only girls who paid attention to Max. He was pretty hot.
He was a little taller than average, stocky, had dark, curly hair and a handsome face.
We would give him all kinds of looks when he took our tickets, watch his fingers as he tore the stubs off, and then he would come into the theater to do one of his "checks" while we were sitting near the back.
He would go into that old-style projection booth a couple rows above us and often wouldn't emerge until halfway through the show.
Hera and I would speculate, because, of course, he didn't need to change the reels once the film was playing, not since the world went digital some years before.
Our speculations got wildly out of hand, or so we thought.
My friend Hera was a complete troublemaker, so I wasn't totally surprised when, one Friday, she climbed over two rows of seats in the dark, ran to the booth and opened the door.
I heard her squeal, then heard Max say "close it!" sternly, but not angrily, heard the door shut, and heard giggles as she hopped back into her seat beside me, laughing.
She had this look in her eyes and kept covering her mouth with her slender fingers.
Max left the theater a few minutes later, glancing up at us once before he left our view.
I thought Hera was just being a weirdo, until after the credits rolled.
"He was jackin' it," she whisper-screamed.
My response was halfway between a shush, and an uncontrolled giggle of disbelief.
"Dude, he has such a big dick," she went on as I kept trying to shush her.
We talked about Max a lot that summer.
We kept going to the theater of course, so we saw him there nearly every week.
We'd make eye contact, he'd take our tickets and the giggles would start the moment we were out of audible range.
I wasn't sure if he was just embarrassed or if he heard Hera make one of her jokes, but he didn't visit the projection booth again after that.
He'd come in, do his little patrol, and then leave.
Then, one weekend, we were watching something really stupid.
I don't remember what it was called, but Hera was bored, I was bored and when I'm bored I sometimes get tangled up in her shenanigans.
Since we knew Max wouldn't be going into the booth we let our curiosity guide us.
We climbed over the seats together and when Hera opened that door, revealing the small, emptyish room with its one chair and big window looking down at the theater, I was a little disappointed.
Hera started digging through stuff on the table, probably hoping to get some worthwhile entertainment out of this misadventure.
I was about to tell her to knock it off when, looking out the window, I saw him.
"Oh my god, here he comes!" I hissed.
We both backed against the wall, as if it would conceal us any better, and watched him, with our hands over our mouths, as he walked up the stairs toward the back row.
He peered down the rows of seats, and I wondered, worried really, that he might notice us not in our seats.
He came up and stood right in front of the projection booth window.
Hera and I stood there, looking at the back of his head.
It seemed like he couldn't see us, maybe something to do with the lighting.
Then I looked at her, and she had this expression that I'll never forget as she unbuttoned her jeans and dipped her fingers down the front of her pants.
"Hera, what are you doing?!" I hissed as she leaned against the table, reaching between her legs and blushing as I watched her move her hand.
"I caught him doing it," she sighed, thrusting her hips as she fingered herself, her dark bush pressed between her hand and her pale pubic area.
I'd never seen her do anything like this, and I was shocked by it... and also... immensely turned on.
"What's he going to do if he sees?" she said with a grin, riding her fingers.
"Okay, well, if you're doing it, so am I," I said, my hand trembling as I unbuttoned myself, pulled open the front of my pants and reached down into my underwear, feeling immediately embarrassed as my soft fingers cradled my sex.
I stared at Max, who was just a couple feet in front of us as my fingertip stroked along my groove.
I wasn't expecting to enjoy it quite as much as I did. I felt my slit getting wetter and wetter and I felt ashamed of what I was doing but I got so moist that I couldn't help but push a finger inside myself, then two.
I let out an inaudible gasp as my vagina clamped around my digits and I realized that my clitoris was fully erect between them.
Max looked down at the theater patrons, possibly contemplating entering the projection room.
The thought of him catching us made my heart race and my pussy throb.
"Do you think he'll do it?" Hera gasped. I could tell her cheeks were turning red even in the dim light as she pulled up her shirt, exposing her small perky tits as if she was flashing him.
It was like she wanted him to see us.
"I don't know, I'm scared," I laughed, my voice trembling and my heart thumping as I lifted my shirt, getting goosebumps as Hera glanced at my big breasts with my wide areolas and puffy pink nipples.
She'd never seen my boobs before and I was embarrassed but it felt good to see her gaze at them.
There was a flood of moisture over my fingers as I rubbed along my crease and I reached into myself, stroking the roof of my vagina and clenching around my slippery digits while Hera and I looked at each other and then at Max, and then back at each other.
I watched her lips open wider and close a little, and watched her half naked hips jerk as she masturbated, her nipples growing erect atop her quivering boobs.
I couldn't believe this was happening. I was watching my best friend get herself off, right in front of me.
I listened to the sound of her breaths as she worked on herself, hips swaying slightly, her fingers curling against the table and the muscles of her arm tensing as she stroked inside her jeans.
I thrust my wet cunt over my slick fingers, letting their tips pierce the soft squeeze inside me, moistening the seat of my panties with my arousal while my clit throbbed and my wrist rubbed against my hairy pubic mound.
Max turned and walked past the window, toward the side with the door and I felt a moment of panic wherein I looked at Hera, writhing and pumping her hand between her thighs, my own fingers buried deep in my sex, my knees trembling.
I was so afraid that he was going to walk in that I barely noticed as Hera straightened and pushed her pants down, exposing her butt and upper thighs and then leaning over the table while she masturbated.
I looked at her briefly, seeing her breasts quiver and her mouth twitch as she rubbed quicker and quicker.
"Oh my god Jen, oh my... ahhh, ohh... I'm about to nut!" she squealed, driving her sex against her hand, letting out shuddering gasps that I'd never heard her make before.
When I realized I was watching my best friend have an orgasm I felt my pussy pinch my stroking fingers hard, felt my clit pulse and my juices swell around them and soak my inner thighs.
I fell into a crouch, clutching my cunt, working my fingertips through the gripping tight muscles inside my vagina and letting myself go.
I came, messily, through my trembling hand, thinking Max was going to hear Hera and find us both in the middle of this lewd act.
I bit my lip and shivered as my climax hit me in waves, my slick flower riding against my palm as I drove two fingers into the throbbing squeeze, my labia parting against my slippery knuckle.
"Ohhh... shit," I squeaked, flooding my pants, knowing that my cum was likely dripping off the crotch of my jeans as thrills of pleasure traveled up my spine from my spasmodically thrusting pussy.
"Ffffuck..." Hera sighed, her body quaking, her fingers just visible behind the curve of her bare ass as she leaned forward and stroked her gash.
She looked down at me, her lips parting in a silent cry as ecstasy pulsed through her.
We both gasped in sync with one another, and I could smell our orgasms while I gripped the edge of the table, squirting through my curled digits and laughing at the mess I was making.
I sat back as the throb of pleasure started to ebb, and I saw the cleft of Hera's sex part around her slender, glistening fingers, her press-on nails disappearing into the fold of her vagina and reappearing as she drew them out.
She turned toward me and pulled up her pants but the mental image of her, bent over, fingertips sliding into her wet crevice stayed lodged in my memory.