The gathering at Alan's was supposed to be a pool party, but the clouds had been threatening all through the sultry August afternoon and few had taken a swim. By the time the barbecue was ready, it looked like it really would rain at any moment, so everyone crowded inside with their food. By the time I got mine there was hardly any place to sit, and I was grateful when Anne, who had already finished eating, waved me over to take her place on a low ottoman that had been pushed aside so it was near the end of the couch. That is how I found myself sitting next to Stacey for the first time in several years.
Stacey and I had overlapped in high school and had even been in the same class twice. But although she was only a few months older than me, she was one class year ahead, which as far as I was concerned put her out of reach. Not that I hadn't noticed her. It wasn't that her breasts were so very large, though the way she filled out a shirt was satisfying enough; but she had been an early developer, and she was stunningly pretty. Almost everything about her seemed delicate, but her deep brown eyes were very large and her look created a warmth that stimulated a strong but hopeless desire in me.
Maybe it was because I thought she was out of my league that I felt so free to fantasize about her. I remember I used to start by thinking of how her ponytail looked. That would help me visualize her face, and then I'd try to imagine what the rest of her would look like. I'd try to imagine her taking off her shirt and jeans. Even by that time I'd be swelling up, but of course I would go on to think of her taking her bra off, and then her panties. I'd wonder if a nice girl like Stacey would ever touch herself, and if so whether she would be in a chair when she did it, or in bed. Would she just finger lightly around her opening, or would she stick a finger right up inside? I'd try to imagine her the one way and then the other. After a few minutes of this, I'd be in a state of glorious lust, and then I'd have to imagine her getting off or, better yet, her welcoming me into her room, putting her hand around my shaft, and guiding it to where I had just imagined her fingers.
As I sat down next to Stacey at the party, however, I wasn't thinking of any of that. In the first place, I had to fit myself into a very small space without spilling my plate. Stacey had one leg crossed over the other and the result was that her foot was extending past the end of the couch, so that I had to hold my plate to one side to avoid it. Then, when I was finally settled, there were friends from high school to catch up on, and conversation about what she was doing and what I was doing. Of course, I have to admit that part of me was noticing how good she looked. All she had on above the waist was a bikini top. Below, there were shorts over the bottom of her bikini, and leather sandals on her feet. That was all. For sure, I'd never seen so much of her before, and as I got more comfortable in our conversation I couldn't help looking at her bare tummy and her cleavage.
After Stacey finished eating she passed her plate out to someone collecting them. That left her lap bare, and I just about had to look at her legs every time I moved my eyes from her to my food. Maybe it was the yoga exercises she'd been telling me about, but her thighs didn't look quite so delicate. They were a little rounder than the rest of her, but at the same time there was a muscular firmness to them, and the thought of touching them to see what they would feel like kept intruding on me. A lightening of her tan just where her shorts ended did nothing to help me stop thinking about how good she might feel, and what I would encounter if I could slip my hand up between her leg and her shorts.
When I first sat down, all I could smell was the barbecue sauce. But after I had finished, and also passed my plate along, I realized that my increasing appreciation of Stacey was partly due to her wonderful girl smell. For a while I thought Stacey must be wearing some new perfume, though it was certainly unlike any I'd smelled before. But afterward, when we eventually got up, I couldn't smell her any more. That is when I realized that it must have been her foot that I had been smelling. I felt kind of funny about being turned on by that, but I couldn't deny that she had smelled very sexy and that I'd gladly sit at her feet any time I might get the chance.
Despite our having talked so easily, I still instinctively felt that Stacey was out of reach for me, so I never called her. I didn't run into her again for the better part of a year; but when we both showed up at another party at the beginning of the following summer, she greeted me like an old friend. This time, having been behind her in high school didn't seem to matter any more and toward the end of the party we were slow dancing so close that she must have felt my tumescence against her. She had given a ride to a girlfriend and had to take her home, but I called her the next afternoon and from then on we were inseparable. This lovely creature actually liked me and seemed to be pleased to be seen with me. The curve of her neck was mine to brush with my lips, the buttons on her shirt were mine to unfasten, and her thighs were soon mine to open and caress. In a week we were lovers and in the days after that our tongues learned the outlines of each others' privates and became skilled in the rhythms of preparing for lovemaking.
As we became more and more intimate, our flirting and foreplay became more and more extended. Stacey liked backrubs, and I'd lay her down on the bed and give her one. She didn't mind if my hands strayed to her cheeks, and the back of her upper thighs. I'd tease her by running my hand down the outside of her leg, and then back up on the tender skin of the inside. Then I'd do some more on her back, and then tease her all over again. I'd lie along side her and rub against her body while I kissed the back of her neck. After a few times of this treatment, she'd roll over and give me a look that would have gotten me hard all by itself. She'd take me in hand, spread her legs and guide me at last into her glistening pussy.
It wasn't until July that Stacey told me she would like to try tantric sex. When she saw the look on my face, she burst out laughing and when she regained control of herself she said she didn't mean that we're going just going to tease and not come at all, but if we could hold off for a long time, it was supposed to be really good when we finally did it. She ended up with a come hither look that would have melted a stone and said "Won't you try it with me?" Of course, I agreed.
It was almost dinnertime when we had this conversation, and it was almost time to go get the carry out we'd ordered. Stacey sent me out with a long kiss, a squeeze on my thigh, and a knowing smile. When I got back, she had poured us drinks and dimmed the lights. She'd put the drinks and some plates on the coffee table and when she sat down on the couch, she cuddled right into me.