Sara sat alone in the small restaurant/bar of her hotel trying to concentrate on the book she had been reading while waiting for her meal to be served. She was still upset over her friend not keeping his promise. He had made her visit unbearable and rather than argue with him another day she had left and gotten herself a room till her flight out Sunday night. Alone, in a strange city, not knowing how she was going to occupy herself for the next three days.
She had picked up some tourist fliers in the hotel lobby that morning and had spent the early part of the day visiting a quilt shop, and various other shops nearby.
Sara knew that Jack still had feelings for her but they had discussed that many times in the last couple of years. She had thought they had agreed that all she could ever be to him was his friend. When he invited her down to Dallas for the holiday she made sure that he understood she was only coming as his friend and he had promised her that he would not try to get her to take up a more intimate relationship with him again.
Five years ago their friendship was an intimate one for a short time. They had been friends who enjoyed each others company, enjoyed the same kinds of music and best of all Jack was a fantastic cook. Sara's talents did not lie in the cooking area. She was lucky if she could fry an egg without breaking the yolk.
They had met five years ago while he was staying in Ohio for a year on a teacher exchange program he participated in. He used to come into the store where she worked everyday to buy his cigars and wines he enjoyed. They had, over time became friends, getting on a first name basis and talking more and more when he came in the store. They had known each other a couple of months when he invited her out for dinner and a movie.
Over the next few weeks they went out often to see a movie and a couple of times to a concert when they got tickets. She was pleasantly surprised to find out that he was also a lover of classic rock as she was. They had gotten tickets to an ACDC concert and had the best times of their lives that night.
Jack was 52 and she 49, both were divorced, he for 15 years and she for 7. She had asked him how come he had never settled down with anyone after being divorced for so long. He told her that he had dated a few times over the years but just never found anyone he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.
Sara felt the same way, she too had dated a few times since her divorce. The three relationships she had had during that seven years had all ended for various reasons but within all three relationships the biggest reason was because of a lack of intimacy.
Sara was very oversexed, she wanted intimacy in her life daily, not on a weekly basis. Nor was she happy with a wham, bamm, thank you mamm type either. She could never be happy nor settle for anything less then a very sexual relationship with her partner.
When she and Jack had first become intimate, she was terribly let down. It had been so long for Jack that he just could not maintain an erection. She never said anything to him, telling him it was ok and that she would bet once he was used to being intimate again things would change. She did not want to hurt his feelings in anyway as she really did care for him as a friend.
The next few weeks, nothing changed. After the second time they had become intimate Sara knew that Jack would never be the kind of lover she needed. Not even with help from the magic blue pill could he ever be the man she needed. In the back of her mind Sara had a feeling that his ineptitude in that department is the reason his wife left him.
She finally told him that she wanted to be his friend but that she could only think of him as a friend and not a lover. At first he was hurt and wouldn't talk to her. For almost three weeks he never came into the store after she had told him they could only be friends. Then one night he came in and asked her to forgive him for being such an asshole and would she come to dinner as his friend.
For the next few months until his year was up they shared many meals and just acted like good friends. There were a few times when Sara knew he was hoping he could change her mind but she stopped any ideas he had on that quickly. When he went back home to Dallas they kept in touch by phone and in letters.
He had called and invited her to spend Christmas vacation with him. She could tell he was really depressed and needed someone to spend some time with over the holiday. She needed to get away as well, feeling that same little bit of depression as he was not having anyone to spend the holiday's with either.
She had to lie to her boss to get the time off telling him that it was a personal family emergency in order to get the time off. Jack called the travel agent near her to arrange for her ticket and she was set to leave two days before Christmas. She had bought him a couple of small gifts, some cigars and six bottles of his favorite wines.
She was going to spend ten days with him coming home two days after New years. The first week went great, they caught up on what had been going on in their lives, she got a tour of the school where he taught and met some of his coworkers. They attended a holiday gathering the teachers had every year the last night of school before the holiday, meeting many of his friends.
The trouble began two days before New Year's. He had taken her site seeing, she saw where Kennedy was shot, stood on the Grassy Knoll and that night he had taken her to a fancy restaurant instead of cooking in. Sara was not a wine drinker at all, she had never tasted any wine that she liked but he had ordered her a sweet wine that she enjoyed very much.
When they returned to his home they sat around watching TV for a bit then Sara excused herself telling him she was going to turn in. She had only been in bed about 30 minutes when he came into her room. She could tell immediately why he was there. He tried to convince her to let him make love to her just once before she returned home. She argued with him for almost an hour brushing off all his advances, until he finally stormed out of her room.
Sara laid awake for two hours making sure Jack had finally fallen asleep and was going to leave her alone. She quickly and quietly packed her things then slipped out the back door and left. She found a hotel and got herself a room, then she fell into a troubled sleep. She called Jack early the next morning telling him she was sorry but she had decided to go home early and hoped that they could still remain friends.
She put the book down giving up trying to read it right now, she would try again later when she was back in her room. She had just put the book back in her purse when a man came to her table and introduced himself.
"Please excuse us for being forward and intruding, but my wife and I would like to invite you to share your meal with us. I'm Pete Thompson and this is my wife Kate," he told her introducing themselves to her.
Sara shook his hand and told them her name politely refusing their kind offer.
"Please join us Sara, we would enjoy your company and there is no reason why you should sit here alone eating when you could be making some new friends," he told her smiling. "Besides, you would be doing me a favor as I have to leave shortly for a business meeting, you and Kate could keep each other company while your eating."
Sara finally accepted and moved over to their table, she could use some friendly company and it would get her mind off of being upset with Jack for ruining their friendship.
"So what brings you to Texas Sara," Kate asked her.
"I'm on vacation," she didn't lie to them she just omitted to tell them she was there to visit a friend. Just in case they asked she didn't want to try to explain why she wasn't staying with her friend.
"Pete had business so I tagged along rather than sit home alone over the holiday's," Kate explained.
Over dinner they talked about where they were from, kids, pets, hobbies and so on. As soon as Pete was finished with his meal he excused himself to head to his meeting. He told Sara it had been a pleasure to meet her and thanked her for keeping his wife company while he was gone.
Sara guessed Pete to be around 6' 3 or more, he had striking gray eyes, his hair was gray and he was in good shape as well. He was a nice looking man and she guessed them both to be around her age in their early 50's.
Kate was about Sara's height so she had to be around 5'6 or so. Her hair was dark brown, cut short, framing her round face. Sara guessed Kate was a little heavier than she as she was built broader while Sara was rounder in body size. Really the only difference between the two women were their clothes. Sara's straight off the rack at K-Mart and Kate's were designer clothes probably made especially for her.
