Rye had almost reached his car when he realized that he didn't have his bag. Nor did he have his keys. 'Shit,' he thought 'I must have left it by that f'in tree.' Turning on his heel he hurried back down the path he had just climbed. As the path curved down he could see the place where he had been sitting barely five minutes ago. A woman was crouching on the grass, holding what he assumed was his bag.
'Hey', he called out, starting to run down the sloping ground. She looked up at his call, and stood up, her hand waving a goodbye as she pointed to his bag and moved down the slope to the path below. From her red hair and clothes Rye recognised her as the woman who had been sitting on the park bench about 25 or so feet from him earlier that afternoon and felt reassured, 'How nice is that?' he thought. 'She knew it was mine and was just taking care of it.' He breathed a sigh of relief. Everything seemed OK, and there were his car keys. He didn't even bother to check all the pockets in the bag. Slowly his breathing returned to normal. Not far off he could hear the sound of happy children playing on the swings, slides and carousels in the nearby playground at the end of the park, their shrieks of delight echoing in the air. Of the woman, the young couple or the dog that had brought to an abrupt end a delightful, if risky, matinee performance, there was no sign.
'Christ' he murmured, smiling at the memory, 'this could have been a fucking disaster!' On his way back to the car he made a call to let his wife know he would be late, saying his last interview had been difficult and how sorry he was. And he was sorry, because now he would hit all the traffic. But it wasn't because of a difficult interview.
As he drove home the events of the afternoon since leaving his office dominated his thoughts. His office lay below a municipal park, which, again, was below the public car park where on most days he parked his car. In the mornings when he arrived the park gates were still closed and he had no alternative but to take the longer walk down by road. In the afternoons he would climb the steps up to the park and walk across the steeply sloping grass. It cut a lot of time off the journey. He could, of course, have followed the tarmac path that wound around the central area of grass, trees and shrubs, but it was faster to cut across the middle.
So it was that at three thirty on a blazing hot August afternoon, Rye found himself climbing the steps that led from the pavement to the start of the park path. As he hurried along he could see a woman sitting on one of the park benches, her back towards him, and a little further on a couple lying on the grass in what seemed to him a passionate embrace. Just before reaching the bench he set off up the slope towards the car park, cutting diagonally across the grass. He glanced again at the couple and realized that they were doing a lot more than kissing. They were no more than thirty feet or so from him, out in the open, although there was a planting of shrubbery behind them. He stood for a moment watching the guys ass pumping up and down, the girls parted legs around his thighs, his arms supporting his weight as they fucked. Rye was stunned, he himself loved to have sex in the open air, loved it when his wife had agreed to go without her panties and play risky games. But this, in a public park, with children playing nearby, this was something else and he was entranced. He glanced around for a place where he could sit and be the voyeur and saw a tree just behind and slightly to his right. It was perfect.
He settled his back to the trunk, placing his bag over his rapidly rising erection. The girls' legs had risen and her summer skirt had fallen back exposing her thighs as her heels dug into her lovers bum, urging him deeper. Rye opened his trouser zip, his fingers slipping his cock out from its nesting place into the air, massaging the shaft. It was then he remembered the girl on the bench.
He looked over his left shoulder to find a pair of eyes looking straight at him. 'She's nice,' thought Rye as she waved at him across the gap that separated them. She was, he would have said, in her late thirties, petite, the swell of her breasts pushing out the white muslin shirt she was wearing over her Indian print skirt. Her face was so pretty, Elvin like, her hair a sun bleached red. 'Very nice! What is going on?'