Stacy had had a rough week. All she wanted was to enjoy a drink at her favorite bar and let the stress of everything melt away, even if only for a few hours. As if to add to the mountain of troubles this week, she arrived at the door of her neighborhood watering hole only to find a "Closed For Family Vacation" sign.
Shit. She had forgotten when Sal, the owner, had excitedly told her last weekend about taking the weekend to give him and his employees a break so he and his wife could get away to somewhere tropical.
"You're fucking kidding me." Stacy turned to see where the voice had come from, only to see a pretty brunette. She was wearing a light jacket over a button down blouse and pencil skirt with heels.
"Yeah, I forgot about it being Sal's vacation, too," Stacy replied. The two women looked at each other awkwardly for a minute, trying to figure out if they had seen the other around before.
"There's that new place a couple blocks over, if you want to walk with me. I don't know about you, but I definitely need a drink after my day, and a little extra walking isn't going to keep me from it."
"Let's go. I'm Stacy, by the way," she held out her hand to shake as they started walking down the street together.
"Tara, nice to meet you. I haven't seen you around here before."
"I haven't seen you, either."
"I normally come out on weeknights. Usually I work weekends, but I just started an office job. No more working on weekends. Until I get bored of it, at least."
The two women chatted the couple blocks to the other neighborhood bar. They found out that they were close in age, that their apartment buildings were on the same block, and that they were both single.
They sat down together at the bar and continued chatting amiably. They each found they were enjoying the other's company immensely. In fact, they hadn't realized how many drinks they had had, or how much time had passed until Stacy stood to go to the ladies room.
"Whoa," she giggled, unsteady on her feet, "I'm a little tipsy already!"
Tara giggled at her new friend. "Go ahead, Stace. I'll watch your drink."
When Stacy returned to her seat, it was to find that a guy had decided to try and chat up Tara. He was sitting in the empty seat on Tara's other side, and Stacy only heard the last part of the conversation.
"Look, I'm flattered, really, but you're really not my type," Tara told the man.
"Oh, then what is your type?" he replied, his pride obviously hurt by the blunt rejection.
"I am," Stacy boldly chimed in before Tara had a chance to, "And we were just leaving. Have a good night!" They turned away from the man and pulled their tab from the cup in front of them. Each paid half and they stumbled, giggling and holding each other up, out the front door.
"That was so awesome, Stacy! He was so annoying! As soon as your back was turned, he came up to me and was trying to get me to talk to him! Oh! Look! A taxi! I don't want to walk in these again," Tara pointed at her heels, "Let's hop in!"
They slid in and gave the driver the address to their block. They sat in the backseat, leaning against each other and still giggling. In their rush out, the two had only grabbed their jackets from the back of their stools. Stacy had only been wearing a tank top underneath hers, and felt the strap falling down her shoulder. Before she could make a move to fix it, Tara noticed.
"Look at your bra! So pretty and lacy! Can I see the whole thing?" Before waiting for a response, Tara moved both of Stacy's straps down to her elbows, brushing the skin of her arms and making Stacy's skin tingle all the way down, exposing the lacy, nude bra. There was only lace, no padding, and even in the dark taxi, the outline of her nipples were visible.
The taxi driver discreetly moved his rearview mirror to give himself a better view of the backseat and 'accidentally' forgot to make a turn in order to see where this was going.
"Sure!" Stacy laughed, her arms constrained to her sides by the straps. For some reason, she made no move to cover herself, "Of course you can see it!"
Tara gasped in realization of what she had done. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I just...I thought...I...Oh! Here! I'll show you mine!" Tara began unbuttoning her blouse. Stacy almost stopped her with assurances that it was okay, but the alcohol had her feeling fuzzy, her arms were still tingling, and she could feel her nipples hardening and a wetness growing between her legs.