As with the last story, this is not a part of the chronological story of Heather, but is a part of the story. I miss her a lot.
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I was sitting in a traffic jam on I95. I was on my way home to work. I had gotten off at 3:30 and it was only 9 miles home, but today it was taking forever. It was the weekend, and it was a gorgeous summer day. Most of the traffic was from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and they were coming to our little hamlet of a town whose only real resource was water. Situated right on one of the main tributaries to the Chesapeake Bay, North east is a quaint little boating town.
One street, divided into two one-way extensions going through town, with one red light in the town limits, makes up our little trail to the boat yards. Maybe seven of them. So, warm weather brings a constant congestion to an otherwise almost deserted town.
Sitting in this traffic, barely moving and resenting the interlopers for delaying me so, I was stone cold bored.
Suddenly, my phone alerted me to an incoming text. The number was a voice from the past. Heather and I had been broken up for several months. There had been no communication whatsoever, and the last I had heard, her and Jay had moved in together.
I had finally moved on with my life. My wife had taken me back and we were beginning to establish a trust. I was now 51 and my wife was 49. She had been pretty when we had married, and very thin with big tits, but time and three children had robbed her of that. She still had a pretty face, but was several pounds overweight.
She was a church girl. Church on Sunday morning and night, Church Wednesday night, Bible school in the summer, Christmas Cantata, Easter play, and bi-monthly singing events filled her time. When we had met, I had been in church as well, but twenty years in church left me feeling controlled and repressed.
I had moved out after an affair had started with Heather, 24 years my younger, a few years before. But, that had been over for months.
My wife and I had not had sex in the months of our reconciliation. I knew it would be bland and unadventurous, so I wasn't interested. But, the text from Heather sent a spark up my spine.
"So, what's up?" she asked.
I tried to think of the proper reply. What could she want? Was she still with Jay?
"Not much. On my way home from work. What about you?"
"I'm bored."
"And you remembered how witty I can be texting?" I remembered how easily she was bored, and how she became more and more willing to do anything to occupy herself. We had spent many nights sexting before and after we started dating simply because she was bored.
"Sure" she replied.
"Sorry I missed your bday" I said. Her birthday had been about two weeks before, and since we hadn't spoken in months I deemed it inappropriate to contact her for that.
"It's OK."
"So, what have you been doing with yourself?" I asked.
"College. And on the road a lot with Jay."
Damn, I thought. It was for the best, but I couldn't help resenting the asshole.
"What ya taking?" I was curious. I had continually told her how intelligent she was and pushing her to start college while we dated. She had been a hostess at an Italian restaurant while we were dating, and I knew she could do better.
"Accounting" she said.
She had always been good with numbers.