This series takes place after the events of 'Sarah's Lingerie Fashion Show'. While reading the other tale first may help introduce the characters and provide some context for previous events, this was intended as a (mostly true) standalone story.
I am Sarah's husband Brian, but during this series, I'm treating the narrator and Brian as two separate people.
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In the aftermath of trying on lingerie in front of her brother's neighbor Jacko, Sarah feared that some awkwardness would creep into their previously easy-going flirty friendship. After spending years teasing him, he had ultimately seen her completely naked. Her main question was 'now what?'
She needn't have worried.
The first time they saw each other again was almost 2 months later when Sarah was dropping off her sister-in-law Joy after a shopping trip and Jacko just happened to be there working on some sort of scheme with her brother Pete.
"Hey Jacko, how've you been?" she inquired.
"Better now that you're here." he replied. "Been out shopping have you?"
"Ya," Joy jumped in, "mostly summer clothes for when this snow finally leaves."
The two women took turns taking articles of clothing from the shopping bags and holding them up. Eventually Sarah held up a swimsuit.
"I think we should have a fashion show." Jacko suggested with a wink.
Sarah raised an eyebrow while Joy replied with a single word, "Perv."
They continued to alternate holding up pieces of clothing, with Sarah purposely avoiding one item. At last, she reached the bottom of the bag and held up a knee length knitted vest.
Jacko attempted to speak, but his throat went dry as memories came flooding back of the final piece of lingerie Sarah had modeled, a vest that left her exposed from the waist down. He eventually croaked out "I sure do love a woman in a vest."
It was the reaction Sarah had been looking for, but she still blushed at the compliment.
"Do you want me to try it on, just for you?" she asked in a sultry voice.
The vest was a clothing accessory. It's mesh-like weave was meant to conceal nothing. He wasn't sure how she would try this on in her brother's house, but he wasn't going to pass up this chance over logistics. He made eye contact and slowly nodded.
Sarah had a mischievous smile on as she put it on over her clothes. She was even wearing a spring jacket under it. "How's this Vest-Boy?"
"Not quite what I was expecting." he replied with a chuckle, "But I do have a very vivid imagination."
The true meaning of the flirty banter was lost on Joy and Pete, since the four people involved in the lingerie showing had stayed true to their words and hadn't shared details of the encounter, except with Sarah's husband Brian.
When Sarah arrived home later that afternoon, she mentioned to Brian about running into Jacko.
"So how did that go?" he asked, aware that she had been worried about some initial awkwardness.
"Actually, it went pretty smoothly." she replied. "He was his normal flirty self, and I was too. It was almost as if the lingerie hadn't affected anything."
"Almost?" Brian probed.
"I've always enjoyed flirting with Jacko, but it was always just teasing. I could talk the talk without going further." she explained, "With the lingerie I finally had to either put up or shut up."
She paused as she searched for the proper words. "Now I'm not sure I can put the genie back in the bottle. Instead of making flirting awkward, it's like I unlocked a new level of flirting."
"Que sera Sarah?" he asked, using a code they had between them.
"Exactly." she confirmed. "I'm not going to flash him every time we meet, but I won't go out of my way to avoid situations where that's a possible outcome."
They saw Jacko a couple of times over the next month with nothing unusual happening. Then came Joy and Pete's first party of the spring.
Brian's work is especially hectic between April and July, working 7 days a week with lots of OT. That's why he decided not to attend the party. His plan was to drop Sarah off, relax in front of the TV, maybe catch some sleep, and Sarah could call when she was ready for a pick up.
She had already chosen a pair of low-rise jeans that looked great on her. Since it was still early spring and the evening would surely turn cool Sarah was trying on sweaters but had gone through several without finding the combination of warm and flattering.
"Can I make a suggestion?" he offered.
"Certainly."
"Your pink zip up hoodie." Brian proposed. "You can put up the hood when it cools down. And if you plan on any flirting, the zipper allows you to control the amount of cleavage."
She tried it on, studying herself in the mirror as she adjusted the zipper. "Good call. Now to pick out a bra."
"I don't know if that's necessary." he replied, "It looks fantastic like that."
Sarah looked back at the mirror and turned side-to-side as she considered his suggestion. "I suppose it depends on my goal for tonight. My blue bra would push the cleavage up and out...great for teasing, but it'd get in the way if I tried a flash." After another moment studying the mirror she made her decision, "Screw it. Que sera Sarah."
Afterwards he dove Sarah to her brother's house. There were 30 or 40 people, most standing around the backyard talking while Sarah settled in with a few people sitting around the bonfire.
After half an hour Jacko and Roy came over to talk. Roy was a dump truck driver who lived in the house on the opposite side of Jacko's. Despite weighing 400 pounds and owning a belly that hangs lower than his testicles, the guy oozes confidence. This being early spring he was wearing a shirt, something that would become rare once summer arrives.
The 'official story' was that Georgina, the widow who owned the house gave him free room-and-board in return for Roy being a sort of live in handyman.
Since no one had ever witnessed him doing anything other than motor around the neighborhood on her ride-on lawnmower, most people on the block speculated that 'live-in handyman' was code for 'Georgina hasn't told her adult children about their relationship.'
Sarah on the other hand, just thought Roy was a freeloader who was exploiting a lady's loneliness. Since she also had a couple of creepy encounters with him, she tried to avoid him as much as possible.
Roy took the empty seat beside Sarah. "Tell me the shower story." he demanded.
The shower story was a well-known tale amongst this group. It was about the time Jacko accidentally saw Sarah naked from behind in the shower room at the indoor pool. Roy had been living next door long enough that she was mildly surprised that he hadn't heard it by now.
"You should ask Jacko," she said, partially turning in her seat, "he tells it better than I do."
Jacko stood behind her chair and leaned over her shoulder to talk. He was afforded an unobstructed view down her cleavage, but since one of the goals of the evening was to flirt with him, she decided not to acknowledge it, at least not right away.
"I already told him the story." Jacko chimed in, "He thinks I'm bullshitting."
Roy's chair didn't have armrests, so he had started to share Sarah's. With her partially turned her right breast came close to the arm rest and she felt Roy's hand brush across the side of her boob. The contact was brief and subtle, and she wasn't even sure who had caused it. She almost apologized for bumping his hand but realized that she had likely given the old bugger a thrill, so she pretended not to notice as she started telling her story.
"I forgot my towel and asked to borrow his. I expected him to place the towel just inside the door but when I finished my shower, I turned to find him standing there holding it."
"Holding...it?" Roy asked, while making the jerking-off motion.
"No, the towel you jackass." she replied with a laugh and an eye roll.
In reality Jacko had only seen her from behind, but after promising to keep the willful exhibitionism of the lingerie show a secret, they had agreed that he could change details of the accidental nudity of the shower encounter so he could brag about his full-frontal view.
She took a quick peek at Jacko and saw him give her a subtle smile and a nod, indicating that she had correctly guessed which version he had told Roy.