I was home again. I had to wait two years to drive around my both loved and hated adopted hometown. There were so many things to do, places to go, old friends to see, memories to reclaim. A whole week flew by before I managed to see Linda.
I was sure that it'd be as if we'd never parted. I was looking forward to a quiet evening at her house, eating one of her wonderful dishes, drinking red wine, chatting with her and her boyfriend Ron. I couldn't wait to see his two kids and see if I could still recognise them.
And so it was. I was invited around, everyone glad to see each other again. She had lost so much weight I could hardly recognised her. It had never occurred to me asking that when she told me by email that she had been sick quite often the previous year. Then again, what I remembered -and matter the most- about her the most was her deliciously wicked sense of humour, our closeness โbefore she declared her love for me, and her drilling flirting with me.
Even before dinner was served, it was just like as if I had been there the week before. She was again flirting with me โ in fact, it was more than flirting. Right from the second she first saw me, she wouldn't stop saying how good I looked โand she really meant it. Ron patiently laughed and ignored his wife's blatant flirting with me. After all, he knew neither of us โespecially not me- would do anything beyond talking.
I had a fantastic time, and couldn't wait to come back again. We made sketchy plans for the weekend โmaybe we could all go walking and have a picnic somewhere.
On Friday Linda called me to say there had been a change of plans. They had forgotten that it was Ron's ex-wife's birthday, and that we would be taking the kids over around mid afternoon. They had agreed that Linda could meet me, have lunch or something.
So we did. The weather was just perfect: sunny, hot without being unbearable, not a cloud in sight. We decided to take a drive around, and then have lunch somewhere outdoors.
I left my hired car at her house, and right from the moment she saw me, the flirting started again. I usually refrained from flirting back, fearing that she'd still harbour feelings for me, but after a short while, I decided it was just harmless fun. Besides, the hot weather, the joy of being back and the light-headed mood were making me feel quite reckless.
As we sat down for lunch, the verbal flirting had become now physical. We laughed at the poor waiter, who kept watching us tease each other and laugh, ready to drop his tray anytime. The flirting never went beyond lewd smiles, slight touches of fingers way too high the thighs. In fact, it was all perfectly innocent fun.
Or so that is what I thought until I went to the toilet just before our coffees arrived. I was totally drenched, my sex so sensitive that the second I pulled my panties down, the mid-summer air felt cold against my skin. For a brief moment I thought of taking the matter into my own hands, but why spoil the fun? I freshened up a bit. Sometime during the short process, and before I could think whether I should or not, I took my panties off. I put my loose shorts back on, stuffed the panties in the pocket and walked back into the restaurant.
I felt I was gliding between the tables. Linda's eyes found me, and she smiled โhappy, admiringly. It was like old times โbefore we parted long before I left. The coffees arrived and we didn't stop talking or laughing for a minute, although I had become quite distracted with the heat, the tenderness of my sex. Any small movement made the rough cotton of the shorts brush lightly my thighs or the short curls higher up. It was as if sitting on a live wire.
Linda realised something was happening.
'What have you done?'
I grinned mischievously and said nothing.
'Come on, tell me?'
'No, I'll get in trouble...'
'I love trouble. Especially when you're it. Tell me'. The last two words came out as a hoarse whisper, a command.
'See for yourself. My short pocket'
She reached out, and when she took her hand out and saw my g-string, she gasped. For a second she stopped breathing, and I felt my heart pulsating right in the middle of my sex.
'You are evil'
I gave her my best mock-angelical smile and sat back on the chair.
For a minute or two, she kept the panties in her fist, and looked down. Then she raised her head towards the waiter and signed an invisible bill mid-air.
'We better go home now. I need a cold shower urgently. You may even have to drive' I laughed out loud, thinking I had finally outdone her.
Eventually she drove. The sun was already beginning to lose its grip, and the air came like a caress through the open windows.
I didn't want to go back to her house. Not to Ron, not to two screaming kids. Not like this. I realised I had gone too far, and that I'd have to return to my brother's house in an awfully frustrated state. But we still had a half an hour drive, and since the music was playing, I decided to have one last dance.
This time I didn't do anything. I simply sat back, my legs slightly parted โwith my left knee almost touching the gear stick. I wanted to see โneeded to see- if she'd dare to really touch me.