Okay, I've been reading literotica for over two and a half years now, and up until today, I've only been a spectator.
But I've had some stories rolling around in my head for the longest time, so I thought I might venture to put one up and see how it is received. If y'all like it, I'll see if I can get more out of my head and onto the site. If not, I'll be happy enough to go back to spectating.
By the way, as a way of warning: If you are one of those readers who don't have the patience for a well-developed plot, and who hate it when stories don't get to the sex soon enough, let me tell you right now you are going to be sorely disappointed. This story is full of characterization, and buildup, and were it not so I probably would not have written it, let alone submitted it. So, forewarned is forearmed...therefore...without further ado...here goes...
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"A Ton of Bricks."
I'd heard the expression before, but I'd never, until that day, really understood what it meant, never really felt the weight of a ton of bricks on me until that day. I suppose I should have seen it coming. Looking back, there were all of those signs which, at the time, I just put down to bumps in the road of an otherwise ideal marriage, but now I see as danger signs that I missed on the way to that crashing collision. Sitting there, in the public park restroom, I cried. Silently, so as not to be heard, I thought, but I cried a river...
Let me go back to earlier that day. It was the first day of August, and it promised to be as scorcher. My wife Wendy and I (I'm Jack) had come to the company picnic as we had done for so many years before, except this time was the first time since she had been named the VP of Marketing for the company. I arrived at the park with her, proud to be associated with this new executive, and ready to have a nice time chatting with our mutual friends, eating barbecued ribs, and frolicking in the summer sun. I was a little concerned that she had decided to dress in such a revealing manner, but then she had, over the course of the last few months, begun to dress a little more daring each day, sometimes bordering on "slutty." The fact that there didn't seem to be a corresponding increase in passion in our own bedroom didn't really click with me until a little later on, though, so I just chalked it up to maybe this was her little mid-life crisis going on. So the too-small bikini-top and the ass-revealing short shorts were her uniform for the day, while I stuck with the baggy Bermudas and the Havana shirt.
Upon arrival, I started to catch up with some of her colleagues that I hadn't seen in a while, like Bert from the warehouse, who used to live on our street, and Charlie, the number one sales guy who I would go fishing with on occasion, and of course, Wendy's best friend and Assistant VP Donna, who was looking refreshingly casual in her light sundress and floppy straw hat, also wearing a light wrist-brace from a fall she'd taken a few days earlier. There was something in the way Donna looked at me that day that made me feel a little sad, but I wasn't quite sure what to make of it, and chalked it up to the fact that she was in a little pain from her wrist injury.
We ate, we had a few beers, the kids who came played the usual three-legged races and water-balloon toss. It wasn't until about two hours into the proceedings that I noticed that I hadn't seen Wendy in a while. I looked around and noticed that she had joined a group of her Marketing colleagues in an impromptu softball game against the Sales department. I noticed that she was up to bat, but appeared to be having trouble, and Greg, one of the young men on her marketing staff, was standing behind her, his arms around her, showing her how to hold the bat. Nothing blatantly suggestive to my eyes, she's just bonding with her staff, I thought. Meantime, the chili dog, the plate of ribs, and the three cups of beer had started to take their toll, so I headed off to the park restroom to take care of nature's call.
As I stepped toward the entrance to the Men's side of the park restroom, I noticed Donna and Lisa, a gal from Accounting, also walking towards the Women's side of the restroom, but they didn't see me. I suppose that if they had, I might not have heard what I heard in the next few moments, but I did, and I can't change it now.
I walked into the stall, closed the door (as much as it could be closed for a public park restroom stall door), and did my best to wipe off the seat with a piece of toilet paper, and started to do my business. Now, if you've ever been in one of these public park restrooms, you know that the wall that separates the men's side from the women's side usually doesn't go all the way to the ceiling. In this case, there was a gap of about a foot and a half between the top of the dividing wall and the ceiling that was covered only by a ventilation grate. In other words, it was of such a construction that if anyone was talking in the other restroom, it would be rather easy to hear whatever was said, even if they were whispering. To make a long story short, I overheard the following conversation between Donna and Lisa:
Lisa: "It's absolutely shameless the way she's flirting with those young...BOYS...out there when Jack is right there, probably thinking nothing but the best of her...It's almost like she's advertising or something..."
Donna: "Lisa, I think she IS...in fact, I KNOW she is..."