Secrets
"Please, honey!" Nick said to Gina. "I will have to present my proposal tomorrow at 9 am!"
She stopped her advances and nodded. "I understand! I'm sorry!"
"Don't say that!" he kissed her lips gently. "Next time!" he said briefly and continued working on his PowerPoint slides.
She went to their bedroom and tried to sleep. It was 11 pm at night. As much as she was disappointed, she also understood his situation. He was advancing in his career and took more and more responsibility. His salary was good and they both needed it to pay the mortgage, school fee and other daily expenses, not to mention to fulfil their saving target and realize their plan to go to Europe for holiday next year. The holiday trip would surely not be cheap.
Morning came. She opened her eyes and looked at the clock next to their bed. It was 7 am and he was nowhere to be seen. As always, he left home early to go to work. She washed her face, brushed her teeth and prepared the school bag for Hannah.
Nick and Gina were in their early 30s. He worked as an engineering consultant while she was a housewife. Their daughter, Hannah, was 3 years old and she was enrolled in an elite neighbourhood child care. Life as a housewife was good initially, but it soon turned out to be boring as hell. They lived in a 3-bedroom condominium in River Valley, a somehow elite central area of Singapore. Both met in their mid 20s through common friends and got married after 2 years of dating. People admired them as an ideal lovely couple. He was smart, 1.8 m tall, handsome and fit with the right amount of muscles. She was 1.75 m tall, pretty and slender with a pair of B-cup boobs, porcelain white smooth skin and long black hair.
After changing job last year, Nick's world was suddenly all about work. She tried to handle all of the house chores, not to mention taking care of Hannah. After accompanying Hannah to be picked up by the school bus in the lobby, she would either swim or go to the gym in their condominium complex.
Today was not different. The school bus just left and she walked home slowly. Her iPhone beeped and she saw Nick's message.
"Honey! I was just informed that I would need to go to Kuala Lumpur in the afternoon with my boss and two other colleagues. Our automation system in a factory there stopped abruptly last night. We'll probably be back on Friday!"
Nick had some clothes and a suitcase prepared in his office in case of emergency. His new job sometimes required him to travel on a very short notice.
"It's alright, honey! Don't forget to eat on time and please sleep early!" she replied his message.
She sighed and continued walking. She was disappointed, but there was nothing that she could do. Today was Monday and she would spend the next few days doing the same things over and over again. She sometimes felt like a single mother.
Once she arrived at home, she changed to her blue bikini, wore her white bath robe and went downstairs with swimming goggle in her hand. Three more people were already in the swimming pool. She saw one black guy with sun glasses resting on the chair next to the pool. He was big with muscles all over his body. White towel covered his stomach and thighs and what looked like a novel was on his lap. It was the first time she saw him there. She guessed that he was a new resident. She put her bath robe, condominium access card and key on a chair and entered the pool.
Swimming was a good way for her to let go of the steam which had been boiling inside even if it was just a temporary relief. Nick had not touched her in at least 6 months. So, she tried to swim regularly as a way to keep her head cool. After finishing 4 laps, she went to the open-air jacuzzi. The condominium developer named it "jacuzzi", but it was actually just a small pool with several water jets. The water itself was not warm. She turned on the water jet and lay down with her back facing one water jet. Its force massaged her back and it helped her bones and muscles to feel more relaxed. It was 9.30 am and the sky was clear and blue. She looked up and started to day dream when someone suddenly entered the water. She opened her eyes and saw the black guy about 8 meters away on her left side.
"Sorry to disturb you!" he said. "I haven't tried the water jet before. I hope it is fine for me to join you here."
"Please!" she replied with a forced smile and went back to her day dream looking at the sky.
"Wanna talk about it?" he asked.
"Excuse me?"
"Something's bothering you, isn't it?
"Not a big deal," she replied. "I'm just tired today."
"Disappointed about him?" he asked with a soft masculine tone.
"Him?"
"Your husband!"
"You've been stalking me?" she asked, feeling a bit uneasy.
"I don't need to," he replied while looking at her left hand.
She followed his eyes and arrived at the diamond ring on her left hand. "Silly! Of course!" she thought.
"I'm Jackson! You are?"
"Just call me Gina!" she said in a cold tone. She didn't like this guy very much. He was too intrusive and she only wanted to be alone now.
"You're not the only one!" he said. "Life sucks sometimes!"
Her eyes started to get wet.
"You're right!" she said with a mellow tone. "Life sucks sometimes!"
" I'm sorry! I don't mean to...," he said.
"It's fine! I'm okay," she replied. "Are you new here? I don't think I ever saw you before."
"Yes, I just moved here last week. Next week, I will start my appointment as a science teacher in that school!" he pointed to the nearby international school just across the road. "I will need to go there three days in a week for classroom teaching. For the remaining two days, I can stay at home, prepare some teaching materials and grade students' assignments."
"I see," she replied, not much interested to entertain him.
"You have a beautiful daughter!" he said trying to say something positive. "I saw you and her a few days ago in the lobby."
"Oh, really? I don't think I remember ever seeing you there."
"Well, you seemed to be absorbed by your own thought."
"Yeah, many things recently," she replied. "Anyway, you relocated here with your family?" she asked curiously.
"No, they are still in Pittsburgh. They'll come here probably next year! We'll see," he said. "Well, if you don't mind! I just made some apple pie this morning. Please come and try some! At least, it will hopefully make you feel better."
"Thanks for the invitation!" she said. "I'll think about it!"
After 30 minutes, he came out of the water. The silhouette of his cock was visible through his zebra-patterned swim trunks. She noticed it, but she pretended that she didn't see it.
"I live in tower A, level 18, unit 101. Please come if you want to!" he said to her. "I'll go up first!"
"Sure!" she replied in a rather polite, but cold manner. She was not dumb. She knew that this guy was flirting with her and she didn't appreciate it. She stayed in the water for about 40 more minutes before deciding to get out of the water and go home. She saw his black swimming goggle on the bench where he put his stuffs some time ago. She didn't have his number, so she decided to bring it home first and she would then return it to him later.
After shower, she took his goggle and walked to tower A. She wore her green yoga tank top, dark-grey shorts and black slippers. In merely 2 minutes, she arrived in front of his door. She rang the bell.
"Hi, Gina! Glad that you come here! Please come in!"
"Actually, I think you dropped your goggles and I just wanna return them!"