*** Authors Note: Part 2 obviously picks up where Part 1 left off. While I make the suggestion to read from the beginning, a couple of refresher notes:
Characters previously introduced:
Phil - Main protagonist. Wealthy 40-something white male who reshaped his entire life following a workplace accident. Has had a lifelong tendency to act rather impulsively, sometimes with mixed results.
Stacy - Phil's physical therapist and friend.
Paul - Phil's live-in personal assistant. A minor character at most.
Phil and Stacy, after weeks of working together to regain Phil's strength and mobility, had just had sex for the first time and agreed that occasional sex between them moving forward would be a mutually satisfactory proposition.
This second part features less actual sex than the first part (ie, none) but continues to build the relationships and scenarios (nudity and teasing) that will see the action pick up in subsequent releases. Keep your eyes open for more in the near future! I hope you enjoy.
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Stacy hadn't lied. Our afternoon workout was tough that day. She was really ramping up my weights and resistance training as my stability was really coming back. If I didn't know better it was like she was making it extra difficult just to prove a point that "work comes first." Though, if I can pat myself on the back, I got through with nothing more than a peep of discomfort.
I knew I was her last appointment that day when she did something I was not expecting
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"Hey, do you want to come over to my place for dinner?"
I had a smirk on my face when I answered a moment later.
"Dinner, huh? I thought that would be relegated to 'relationship' status couples."
"Quit it, jerk," she responded in mild embarrassment. "Yes or no?"
"Of course, just have to find a ride there."
I owned a car, a few of them to be exact. However most of them were in storage and the one I kept on site I had basically given to Paul.
"You find a way to get there and I will make sure you get home, okay?"
"Sounds good. I will bring some wine."
Stacy wrote down her address. She might as well have lived in Milwaukee, I had so little clue as to the geography of my new city. I really needed to get out more and apparently tonight was going to be the catalyst to get that going.
Stacy asked that I show up around 6:30. It worked out well because that is when I normally ate dinner with Paul but also because she said it gave her the time to get home and cleaned up before I got there. It also gave me time to do the same.
I had a talk with Paul, who explained to me that it really was not a big deal when I made last minute plans changes. As he tended to be cooking for only 1-3 people it wasn't as if he had a ton of effort into meal changes one way or the other. I reminded myself that he deserved a bonus with how great he was with his flexibility.
After checking out her address using online maps I decided that I was going to get my old bike out of storage and use it to get over to Stacy's house. She, unlike me, did live in a detached, single family home. It was well inland but, by bike, would still only take me about 20 minutes to get there. It was a beautiful night and seemed like a perfect way to appreciate my surroundings as opposed to a cab. So, strapping the bottle of Old Vine Zinfandel to my handlebars, I hit the road with high hopes for an enjoyable dinner.
As it turned out, Stacy lived on a nicer street than I expected. It was filled with quaint, very well maintained homes. I admit that I wouldn't have expected her to have made enough money to live here but was ashamed of myself for the thought process even beginning.
Pulling into her driveway I found she lived in one of the middle-of the road houses on the block, a picturesque standard Florida ranch. I felt a little like I was back in high school, tucking my bike around the corner of the house and out of view before making my way up to the front door.
Stacy had stressed at the end of PT2 that dinner was going to be extremely casual so I really shouldn't go overboard with what I was dressed in or what type of wine I was bringing. Taking it to heart I was wearing a very casual pair of shorts and a loose v-neck T. There is no way anyone would have accused me of being overdressed except for at a nudist resort.
Wait a minute...
Thankfully, Stacy opened the door a moment later fully clothed... at least she was fully clothed by the most loosely defined version of the words.
Her long-ish brown hair was still wet and down, different from the ponytail I normally saw her with. She was wearing what I would refer to as an extremely loose, extremely thin cut-off t-shirt that somehow both hung off her body aimlessly at the same time as accentuating her feminine breasts and stomach. She was also not wearing shorts or pants, instead just what appeared to be a large silk sari wrapped around her waist that was, because of the tie, cut so far up one of her legs was practically bare. It appeared she was not wearing anything else.
"Hey!"
She greeted me enthusiastically and pulled me in for a very quick, casual one-armed hug and kiss on the cheek.
"You obviously found the place. Any issues getting here? Did Paul drop you off or did you taxi it?"
"Neither. You are actually looking at the oldest kid on the block," I responded. "I rode my bike."
"Nice!"
Stacey kind of pulled me into the house and then closed the door behind me.
"Okay, so I still have some things to finish up. You can take a look around if you want or otherwise I figured we would sit out back."
She pointed me toward the back of the house where I saw a set of french doors that were opened up to a patio.
"Make yourself comfortable. Mi casa e su casa."
With that, she skirted away, back to the kitchen I suppose, leaving me in the joint entryway/living room.
It was a nice space. Clean, comfortable, airy. I looked around the room. Pretty typical. Not overly feminine, not overly anything. Just a normal, American space.
"Why don't you get that wine opened up?"
She called out to me from the kitchen and I followed her voice to where I found her working over a frying pan.
"Fish tacos," she said.
"I guess I shouldn't have brought red," I responded, holding up the bottle of wine.
"Nah, I never get hung up on that stuff. Besides, I like red better anyhow. Crack it open and pour."
Stacy handed me a wine key and I pulled the cork on the bottle. I brought it out to the back patio and, again, I found a nice, clean space that looked like it could have been in a Home Depot flier.
Making my way back to the kitchen, Stacy was finishing up. She directed me to grab a tray of fixin's: lettuce, tomato, peppers, onion, etc. She had a little bit of everything available. She herself had a tray of the lightly fried fish, a bowl of white rice and some sort of sauce.
"C'mon," she hurried me as she walked out into the back. "I'm still hungry from this morning."
Her acknowledgement of our earlier dalliance brought a smile to my face. It was somehow fresh in my mind and yet seemed so long ago.
She plopped us down and did the honors of pouring us each a glass of wine.
"Thanks for coming," she said, holding up her glass for cheers. "I have been meaning to have you over for what seems like now, I am glad it finally came together."
We chimed glasses and got down to eating the deliciously light meal she had prepared for us. So many people think you can't eat well when you are watching calorie counts and food intake. I counter those people are just not eating the right things.
Our conversation was open and organic. She opened up about how her burgeoning business was going. Which, as it turns out, was very well, but driving her a bit crazy with the schedule. I also opened up a bit about my past. I did not go into every single detail about my past relationships and wealth, but I did speak briefly about the fact that yes, I had been divorced and how I was "starting over."