Six months ago my good friend Amy went through a messy divorce. She was having a really rough time at first, depressed and crying a lot. Jill, one of our close girlfriends, and I felt that Amy needed to get her out of her house, so we began organizing "girl's day out" dates. The three of us would get together, usually once a week, at one of the local malls and grab some lunch. We'd talk and vent and sometimes shop.
Amy's rough stretch didn't last very long though and as she came out of her funk, her whole attitude toward life changed. It was like she'd been un-caged. I've known Amy for many years and I've always thought of her as beautiful. Before the divorce though, like with so many of us thirty-something mothers, she'd let the demands of life and family take their toll on her, both physically and mentally. After the divorce she joined a gym, started eating better and after a while began dressing more stylishly. Looks aren't everything, but most of us know that when we look good we feel good. The slimmed-down and sexier Amy walked and talked with confidence. She laughed and smiled more easily; she seemed more alive. The change was remarkable and I have to admit that I was a little bit jealous.
The purpose and dynamic of our girl dates changed along with Amy. They became more about Jill and me experiencing the single life again through Amy and less about Amy needing a shoulder to cry on.
I remember the afternoon when Jill and I listened intently as Amy recounted, in lurid detail, her first post-divorce sexual encounter. The three of us had shared sexual secrets and fantasies before, but something about the rawness of that story affected me. It awakened something in me that I hadn't felt in years. I rushed home after that girl date and brought myself to orgasm three times with my vibrator. Later that night, when the kids were in bed, I practically raped my husband.
When Jill and I talked the following day she confessed that, like me, she'd been so excited by Amy's story that she'd masturbated when she got home. I know Amy knew what kind of effect she was having on us and I think she enjoyed it.
As the months progressed Amy's exploits became more and more outrageous. I looked forward to hearing each new tale, but some of them were truly unbelievable. Jill and I suspected that she was embellishing them just to get more of a reaction from us.
One afternoon while we were all at lunch, Jill scoffed and called "bull-shit" on one of Amy's more scandalous stories about a young latin bartender and what he'd done with a shot-glass. Amy's reaction to the rebuff was not what I expected. She seemed genuinely hurt that we might think she'd been exaggerating things.
"Do you guys really think I'm making this stuff up?" Amy asked.
Jill and I avoided eye contact with her. Neither of us wanted to hurt her feelings further, but neither of us could say with a straight face that we believed her either.
"You do think I'm lying." Amy said.
"Amy it's just that---"I began but Amy cut me off.
"I swear I've never made any of the stuff I've told you guys up." Amy's voice was imploring. "Things are different today than they were when we were in college. Or maybe I'm the one that's different, I don't know. All I know is that before, guys never responded to me the way they do now."
It was undeniable that Amy had become sexy in a way that she hadn't been before. Even still, some of her stories were just ridiculous; like she'd taken them straight from the pages of a trashy paperback.
"All I needed was a little confidence and to start putting myself out there. Once I'd done that, I realized that I really held all the power. And girls, it's not just me. You guys could do these things I'm telling you about just as easily. Listen, if an attractive woman shows a guy even a little attention, it's like he turns back into an adolescent. Men can't help themselves."
When she put it that way I began to doubt my doubts. Men were just grown-up boys after all and a lot of Amy's stories would have been right at home in a teenage boy's overactive imagination.
"I'll show you how easy it is." Amy said getting up from the table. Jill and I exchanged worried glances, but we got up and followed her out of the food court and through the mall.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"You'll see, just bare with me for a minute." Amy replied. She led us into the Nordstrom's where we casually strolled from department to department. When we got to the men's suit area Amy stopped and turned to us. "Okay, see that salesman over there?"
Jill and I both nodded. The salesman was a good looking kid, with dark hair, probably in his early twenties.
"I've never met him before, but I'll bet you both that I can get him to go down on me right here in the store." Amy said.