Author's Note: This story continues the exploits of Beth and Brett. Reading the first chapter is recommended, but not required to enjoy this submission. It is my sincere hope that the reader finds this stimulating and satisfying. Please leave comments -- good or bad -- if you feel this tale is deserving of doing so.
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Summer wore on. The daylight, once extending well into the evening, was beginning to come noticeably sooner with each passing week. A chill crept its way into the September air. A singular event stood out in my mind as the defining moment of the season. Beth Clark had not become my lover; no, it was something else entirely. Something much more difficult to put my finger on.
Countless times I had played that evening over in my head. I couldn't erase from my mind the hungry, sinful look in her eye as she instructed me to do something so nasty and profane. And then she followed it by doing something even more shocking and obscene.
After our indefinable encounter, I didn't see much of her. Either embarrassment or intimidation kept me away. I'm not one to run from an uncomfortable situation or allow others to daunt me, but that night at Beth's place was so unexpected, and so electrifying, that I didn't want to ruin our little secret by confronting her about it.
She must have felt the same, because things became awkward between us. Once so friendly and outgoing, she became withdrawn around me. Or maybe I just perceived it that way. Her greetings were cold when I would come around to help her out around the house. She always made up an excuse to leave or busied herself with mundane tasks in another part of her home. She allowed me to spend some quality playtime with her two little girls, which was a huge relief. At least she didn't think I was so much of a creep that I couldn't be a good role model. It would break my heart to have those little ones think poorly of me.
To temper our mutual discomfiture, Beth would leave me an occasional tease. The underwear on the bedroom floor, of course - like last time - where I could see them, was a regular enticement. Pink, black, gold -- she left a variety of kinds and colors. But she got creative too. On one of my Wednesday visits she asked me to unclog the drain in the master suite bathroom. As I walked in to do so, I noticed she had conspicuously left her nightstand drawer open. Out of curiosity, I peeked in to see an understated silver vibrator inside. It was obvious that she wanted me to see it, as it lay there in plain sight on her stack of magazines next to her fingernail polish remover. One would think that something so private would be kept hidden. With my curiosity getting the better of me, I picked it out of the drawer. I inspected the eight-inch piece of reflective plastic. I twisted the black knob at the bottom and it sprang to life. Startled, I nearly dropped the humming device. I turned it off and placed it back where it belonged.
Another time she left a single wrapped condom at the foot of the bed, its blue wrapper lying in contrast to the white bedspread. On one of my visits on a steamy August day, I walked outside to find her sunbathing face down in a lounge chair with the strings of her two-piece top undone. Feigning embarrassment, she had clutched the bikini to her chest and scurried inside. But she knew exactly what time I came over on Wednesday and the display of immodesty was undoubtedly a charade.
Despite these hints, she remained coy. Never following up like she had earlier in the summer. After what she'd been through, I was happy to let her go at her own pace. She'd been burned recently. Who was I to rush things? After all, it was my son of a bitch friend who left her.
So I waited. I had time to be patient. I continued to date other women. As far as I knew, Beth was seeing other men. If she was playing hard to get, that was fine with me. But I didn't know Beth as one to play games. She was just being demure. It was kind of sexy to have to wait. The built up anticipation was palpable. But anticipation of what, exactly?
Before, I saw Beth as a friend, but now, after she'd expressed a sexual side of herself I'd not seen before...now it was something else entirely. I lusted after her. It was like night and day. I longed to touch her, to kiss her, to make love to her. I wanted to take her in my arms and protect her. I was experiencing all kinds of unexpected feelings. She was in my head.
Finally, toward the end of September, when I'd nearly abandoned all hope of more physical contact with Beth, she broke the ice.
I'd come in from finishing trimming her yard, covered in grass clippings and smelling like lawn mower exhaust. She was sitting at the kitchen table, balancing her checkbook. She had her brown hair up in a clip and it fell messily across her forehead. She had a pair of reading glasses perched on the end of her nose and a pencil clinched in her teeth. Taking it out of her mouth, she looked up at me.
"Well, I'm all done," I reported, leaning against the counter with a styrofoam cup of coffee. I wiped the sweat off my brow with the sleeve of my cotton box-woven shirt. "And after today you probably won't need me to cut the lawn anymore this season, I can't see it growing much more after the weather turns. It's getting chilly already."
She turned from her work and brushed a strand of hair out of her forehead. Her face fell and she frowned with a pout. "Okay," she resigned. "I can't begin to tell you how much I've appreciated you coming around this summer." The twinkle returned to her eye as she continued. "But I was hoping you'd do me one more favor."
She rose to her feet and walked across the kitchen toward me - her bare feet softly sounding on the hardwood floor.
She sauntered over to me and stood on her tip-toes to speak into my ear. She leaned into me and I could feel the soft mounds of her breasts against my chest through her thin white tee. Her lavender perfume tickled my nostrils and her hair brushed against my cheek.
"Be here tonight at eleven," she whispered. Then she leaned in further and took my earlobe between her lips. As she sucked it into her mouth, I felt her tongue swirl around, teasing and flipping it. Then she lightly placed an open hand on my crotch and gave it an ever-so-slight squeeze - just enough to let me know it was there. She rocked back on her heels, letting go of both my earlobe in her mouth and my growing cock in her hand.
She looked up and her eyes met mine. As she gave me a playful grin, spun around and walked away, I could swear she put a little extra sway in her hips as she crossed the kitchen floor and sat back down at the table. She resumed the work on her calculator.
I closed my jaw and pretended to play cool, stammering a goodbye and casually leaving through the garage. But my pounding heart would have betrayed me had she been able to detect the thumping sledgehammer it had become.
I hated leaving in such an aroused state. Had I kept my wits about me (and had the girls not been boisterously playing in their bedroom), I would have ravaged her right there in the kitchen . I would have ripped her clothes off and forcefully violated her against the oak cabinetry. Normally, I didn't play the submission game. I like to be in charge and I felt oddly vulnerable to be flummoxed by the confident vixen she had become. Especially when I knew her to be so mild-mannered and reserved most of the time. The sensation was confusing yet liberating and exciting. She made me feel helpless to my own emotions and responses.
I could barely concentrate on the road on my short ride home. I needed to clear my head. Or clutter it. I honestly didn't know what the fuck I needed. So once I got home, I fixed myself a generous pour of bourbon and dozed on the patio chair.
I awoke around sunset. The crickets had begun their nightly chorus. Fireflies flashed and glowed in the backyard. All around it had turned into a perfect early autumn evening.
I brushed and flossed, showered and shaved, paying extra attention to parts that may or may be not be used later in the evening. If it was going to come down to using them, I wanted to leave Beth a good, clean impression. My nerves were jittery with anticipation, so I downed another shot or two of whiskey to balance them out. I tidied the house and killed time before it was time to go over. Minutes seemed like hours. Hours like days. Finally, the clock inched its way to the time to leave.