So I rescued the hard drive from my jizz-soaked laptop, and bought a new computer to put it in. For a few weeks I was a good boy; I stayed away from Literotica, away from my saucy stories and Libby's saucy pictures, taking the time to write a new novel and fire it off to my editor. A man's gotta eat, after all.
With that task out of the way, I couldn't stop myself any longer - I went back to check out Libby's thread, justifying it as a reward for all my hard work. She had not been active for quite a while, with the last dozen or so pages filled with other people's posts, all lamenting Libby's sudden and unexplained disappearance from the boards. I felt a little bad for them: her departure was my fault, I had pushed her too far and she had shut up shop, thereby punishing everybody for my indiscretion. 'I'm such a silly prick,' I chastised myself.
Desire got the better of me, and I let myself look through some of her first series of pictures, ostensibly for the sake of reminiscing. It got me riled up, though - it had been so long since I had seen her photos, and going over the half-forgotten images of her slow, tantalising stripteases had me in a wanking frenzy yet again. If there was anyone hotter on the boards than our Libby, I didn't want to see her - I was already at enough risk of hairy palms, blindness and terminal friction-burn.
I went back to her thread the next day, and the next day, and the day after that - each day checking another strip-teasing series, and making myself come again, and again, and again. The day following I folded completely to temptation, and reviewed the X-rated series she had sent me privately showing her and Glen getting down and dirty; on getting to that last shot, with Libby staring back over her shoulder as she bared her come-filled cunt and spunk-spattered arse to the camera, I was so badly worked up that I treated myself to a very rare probing finger, seeking out my G-spot as I wanked myself to distraction. (It is up there to be found, ladies and gentlemen... and how I do holler when I find it.)
Having managed to keep my essence off my computer this time, I sent Libby a quick, sad little PM: "Missing you," was all I wrote. I didn't expect her to reply, or to even read it - throughout my revisits to Literotica that week, she had never come online.
But reply she did - she must have been checking in every now and again, probably also to reminisce on the fun we had over her pics. "Miss you too. How are you?" she wrote in reply, the following day.
And so we got back in touch. We were both hesitant and stand-offish at first, but we warmed up again soon enough. We maintained a respectful decorum though, not talking about how far we had gone last time, and not dwelling on any matters of her pictures, or of me looking at her pictures, or what I might have been getting up to while I was looking at said pictures...
As a few weeks went by, she told me at one stage that she had put up a new series, but she left it at that, not asking me to look at them; "Good for you :-)" I replied, and we said nothing more on it. Though I definitely went and looked at them. Like I could possibly help myself... I'm sure she knew I would look at them, and I'm sure she knew I knew that she knew - and that was enough for both of us, knowing it but not saying it.
Well, I had thought it was enough, but Libby proved me wrong. "I'm getting bored with this photography business," she PMed me one day.
"Yeah?" I replied. "I guess it would eventually become a bit mundane, after a while."
"I'm just doing the same sort of thing, pulling the same poses and doing the same routine, again and again," she complained. "It's like going through the motions, it doesn't thrill me like it used to."
We both knew why, but we weren't going to comment on it. "Oh well," I wrote. "All good things must come to an end - clichΓ© but true," added the writer in me.
"Oh no, I'm not finished yet," she averred. "I want to take it to a new level."
I blinked. "Take what? To what level?"
"The whole 'exhibitionist' thing," she elaborated. "It's boring, just posing for the auto-timer in my bedroom and sticking the pics up on the boards for a bunch of people I don't know and will never meet. I want to take it to the people - show my beautiful body to them face to face," she declared, immodest as ever.
I had to laugh. "And how will you go about that, exactly?" I asked of her. "You planning a 'Lady Godiver' - gonna ride naked on horseback through the town?"
"Lol," she assured me. "No, not exactly..."
"Well go on," I urged. "Don't leave me dangling, Libs - spill the beans? Who you gonna flash, and where?"
"Well..." she began. "I thought about places ladies can get their tits out without getting in trouble, and all I could think of was 'strip club'. And I'm not that desperate to get naked in public - that's a bit too sleazy for a woman of my class and distinction."
"Fair enough," I allowed, with a grin.
"But then the other night, Glen decided to go down to the pub for Topless Tuesday -" which is where the local pub gets a couple of topless waitresses in to take drinks orders, tend the cigarette machine, and generally stand around and chat with the grinning, all-male clientele and pretend like they haven't even got their guns out at all "- and I thought 'now there's an idea...'"
My eyes went wide with amused surprise. "Are you gonna offer your services for Topless Tuesday?" I asked.
"Well, not here, not right in town where I know people. I do have a reputation to uphold, after all." I laughed at that - only our Libby could or would say such a thing. "But there has to be 'titty nights' at other pubs in other towns. Don't you think?"
"Well, yeah, of course," I told her. "I happen to know they have 'ladies night' on Thursdays at the Berriga pub, up in the mountains, about an hour away."
"Well that's perfect!" Libby reckoned. "I won't know anybody up there. I'll be safe to get my tits out and shake 'em all around! I'll have to give them a call, and arrange an 'interview'."
"Aw, now let's think for a minute, Libs," I urged her, suddenly concerned - she seemed deadly serious. "Country pubs can get pretty rough after happy hour. I don't know how safe you'll be on your own, in a strange town with no-one to help you out if there's trouble."
"Well then," she typed, "I guess you'll just have to come along and look after me!"
I groaned - I walked right into that, didn't I? "Libby..." was all I wrote.
"Oh come on Tom - it'll be fun!" she cajoled. "And I'm sure those country folk will prove to be a perfect bunch of gentlemen."
"Yeah, but Libby: you and I..." I wrote, thinking on how far temptation took us last time.
"We'll be good, Tom, neither of us will misbehave - I promise," she assured me. "Besides, I'm going to do this whether you'll come along to 'protect' me or not. So: are you in?"
And that is how, two days later, Libby and I came to be standing in the Berriga pub at two in the afternoon. It was empty, with lunch done and the afternoon only young, so we were free to chat with the publican - who we were surprised to learn was a grizzled woman, aged roughly sixty. She had a touch of banjo-strumming genealogy about her, with all her teeth gone and no dentures, and she was spitting into pint glasses and giving them a wipe as Libby put her case.
"So," said the publican, "you're asking if you can get your tits out on Thursday night?"
"Well..." said Libby. "I'm offering my services, yes."
The old lady squinted at us. "I don't usually do it this way," she told us. "The girls usually come down from an agency in the city - they charge a hunnert'n'twenty an hour. They don't usually wander in off the road for an interview."
"Well," said Libby. "If you'll give me a chance -"
"Save your breath, darlin'," the lady told her, kindly. "The agency's been overstretched lately, and yesterday they gave me a call tellin' me they couldn't spare any girls this week. I was gunna have to cancel Tits-Out Thursday! Brings in a lot of money, those girls," she added, with a wink for the wise.
"So... you'll give Libby a go?" I asked her.
"May as well," she shrugged. "You can have eighty bucks an hour, cash in hand - I'm sure the girls would be lucky to get anything like that after the agency's commission. The night usually goes six-til-nine. Just get here in time to get yourself ready and all, and you can stay on as long as you're feeling adventurous. The boys are all regulars and they know to behave themselves, they're out on their arse if they get too rowdy. Sounds good to you?" she asked of Libby.
Libby blinked. "Yeah," she said. "Yeah!" she repeated. "Okay, great! You didn't need... um... an 'audition' from me?" she added, hesitantly.
"I'll be right, thanks sweetheart," the old lady winked, with a grin for the both of us. "But if it'll cheer up your man-friend, you go and knock yourself out."
As the publican turned and left, Libby turned to regard me with a grin.
"I can probably wait til Thursday night," I informed her, wanting to keep things on the safe side.
"You sure?" she asked, cheekily.
"I'm sure," I confirmed.
Thursday night came around all too soon, and I bade farewell to the wife and kids: "Gonna take the Porsche for a spin," I told them. "Might be gone a while."