I awoke to find a beautiful but familiar stranger in my bed and I kept thinking to myself how did this happen, I mean we are best friends and have many a time shared a bed or a bath or simply just fell asleep holding each other after a girl's night in but never before anything like this?
She lay there sleeping, breathing deeply and the sheet exposed the curve of her shoulder blade and smoothly followed the contours of her spine and nestled in the small of her back. Her skin so even, delicate and silky to the touch...Aaah, I remember her bronze tanned skin and how it smelt...a seductive concoction of vanilla and cocoa butter.
I swept her long, curly black hair from her face and gazed fixedly at her long, black eyelashes, those almost perfect facial features and those luscious and full velvet pink lips which complimented the rosy hues of her cheeks. I smiled as I ran my fingers a few more times through her hair, combing the loose strands back as I covered her naked body with the sheet carefully not to wake her. I stood up, put my gown and slippers on and headed for the kitchen.
This is my every morning ritual; to stand in front of the coffee percolator shivering like some drug addict with serious withdrawal symptoms as filter coffee is one addiction I cannot live without as it get's me through the long, tiring days of working. Luckily, today is Sunday so I can relax sipping my coffee indulgently as if it were my last and page through the current newspaper to brush up on breaking news and the stock market.
Suddenly I find myself not concentrating really on the news or the statistics but instead I replay the night before's events over and over in my mind, grinning shamelessly as I can feel myself getting flushed over with a warm feeling. What happened last night you may ask, well, first let me tell you a bit about us, the "Terrible Twins" as we have been named by our colleagues and how we got that name is a story entirely on it's own.
My name is Amber and at the time of the experience I was 28 years old. I was a Contract Manager for a lucrative Transport company and was studying my profession further through the University of Johannesburg. I am 1.64 meters tall with light brown hair that flows down to my shoulder blades and I have blue eyes, sort of discerning eyes that are hard to lie to as they have been described. My personality has been described as bubbly, an extrovert, a dare-devil and an aura of self-confidence and always the life of the party. I have 34cm hips and a 36C bust. The one thing I am never seen without is my best friend Lisa; we are inseparable. We have been best friends for a good 10 years now.
Lisa has just turned 24 years old and works as an Insurance Administrator for the same company. She is 1.70 meters tall with black curly hair that wildly cascades in the small of her back and she has piercingly pale blue eyes, the kind of eyes that stare straight through you, the kind of eyes that you can't say no to when she's asking so nicely. Eventhough we are best friends, Lisa is pretty much slain to conjecture and rumours of how she spends her time being the "company village bicycle" as it has been put. Knowing her so well, I can honestly say that I think the women of the company are unfair to her as much of the conjecture and rumours she is tormented by are not true at all. Lisa does have a cocky and fun personality and she does like to flirt with the men but its all in the name of fun and personally, I think it's her way of boosting her self-confidence. Lisa has 36cm hips and a 36C bust. I know Lisa looks up to me as her role model and she is the only person I can share my darkest secrets and deepest thoughts without being subjected to ridicule or conjecture. Wherever I am, you will find Lisa.
Enough of that, now on to what happened last night...
It's Saturday the 22nd of October and its Lisa's 24th birthday today. As customary, I'm on my way to pick Lisa up for a girl's night out. It's a long drive as she lives an hour away from me but I keep my mind pre-occupied with some of my favorite music blaring from my Audi as I drive along. The country side along the way is fairly flat and dotted with new residences and upcoming businesses. I eventually pull up in her driveway and walk to the front door which is standing ajar for me to enter. I walk in announcing that I have arrived and am greeted by her Senegal Parrot; Oscar. I didn't fancy Oscar all that much not that I don't like birds but this bird has a split personality and just as quick as he is your friend, so quick is he launch a savage attack of persistent biting. Before I continue onwards into the rest of her house, I give Oscar the usual death-stare just to make sure that he understands that today is not the day to launch a savage attack on me. For once, it seemed to work as Oscar moved further along his perch and began whistling while focusing his attention in another direction.
I quickly scurry past before "Hannibal Lector" as I like to call him decides to change his mind. I walk down the short, narrow passage which leads to the spare bedrooms and main bedroom. To describe her house is somewhat difficult as she has just bought it and the only way I can describe it to award it some justice is that she has began to make it her own and started to decorate it to her personality type. As I enter the main bedroom, I'm not surprised to see that she is still not dressed as she flounders in her cupboard for something to wear. I sit on her bed patiently and start some small talk while she finishes off. I know why she's late as I denote the familiar smell of early morning sex with her fiancΓ©e who had already left for work. I often wonder why she is with him as they don't seem to fit together at all and she often complains that he does not attend to her needs as she would like him to and that he only wants to stay at home all the time and drink and braai. Her choice in men has not been the best choice as she often chooses a man who doesn't really appreciate her and she always ends up getting hurt.
Luckily, her fiancΓ©e knows that we are best friends and that she won't let anything get in the way of our friendship as it has been around much longer and has stood the test of every possible hump and bump that life could throw at it. Finally, she's ready and clutches for her bag as we head for the door. On the way, I have to face "Hannibal Lector" again as he tries to flay my elbow but this time my reactions are too fast and I escape unscathed. She locks up and we head for my house.