Eliza rolled over and reached for the bedside table. "All right, damn it!" she muttered as she fumbled for the phone which was repeating the silly ringtone which had seemed so cute when she downloaded it, but was now getting on her last nerve. "Hello and this had better be important!" she growled when she finally pried the phone open and tucked it under her ear.
"Whassa matter, E? Somebody wake up on the wrong side of an empty bed?" chirped an irritatingly cheerful voice. "It's time to get your lovely ass out of the sack and into your shopping clothes, girlfriend. There are clothes to buy and credit cards to abuse. Get it in gear!"
"Damn, Jeanie, what time is it?" demanded Eliza, who was struggling to untangle herself from her covers as she spoke. "Are the stores even open yet?"
"Where has your head been, girl? It's almost noon, and time's a'wastin'! All the good stuff'll be gone by the time you haul your lovely carcass out of that romper room you call a bed," drawled Jeanie, who was Eliza's best friend and confidante, having known her since high school. "If you aren't out of bed by the time I get up there, I'm gonna drag your ass out myself!"
Despite her less than perfect outlook on life this early in the morning, Eliza couldn't help but grin at her friend's stubborn Georgia accent, which lingered on despite four years of college at an Ivy League school. "All right, all right. Don't get your knickers in a knot. I'm up." she said with a sigh. As she hung the phone up, she surveyed the room around her with a jaundiced eye. "This crap can wait until later," she decided, "if I get to it at all..."
It had been a long time since Eliza had cared about much of anything; her lack of anything resembling a normal social life had begun to wear her down to a point where housework, or anything resembling normalcy, was pretty much a non-occurrence. If only she had a reason to care...
She tried to remember the last time she had felt like sprucing up for anyone; her last sexual encounters, while exciting, had somehow fizzled out as her work schedule played havoc with her relationship with Kit, the older, but still attractive, building superintendent. They hadn't exactly fought, but had drifted apart as she was forced to cancel one 'date' after the other. Kit's parting words had stung her to the heart; "Call me when you need your plumbing fixed." Then he turned and walked away. She had been too proud to beg, and had been too angry to apologize; as a result, it had been several months since she had had an encounter of a sexual nature with anyone other than herself. She had grown quite weary of that, thank you...
As she was sadly remembering, the doorbell buzzed. "Damn, look at the time! Jeanie's gonna kill me!" she muttered, as she raced to the door to let her friend in before she started to pound at the door and yell.
"Well, I see that Martha Stewart moved out," was Jeanie's only comment as she entered the apartment.
"And it's so good to see you, too," was Eliza's curt reply. "You know that I don't care how the place looks, since nobody but me sees it anyway."
"And whose fault is that?" inquired Jeanie, archly. "Maybe you are in love with Rosie and her five brothers, but this is ridiculous!"
"Do I pry into your sex life?" countered Eliza, as she rummaged through her bureau for some fresh panties. "Not EVERY swingin' dick that passes by interests ME," she insisted. "Especially when all they're interested in is getting off and getting out. Besides, aren't you busy enough with your own life without taking care of mine?"
"Oh, but I LIKE taking care of you, darlin'; whatever would I do in the big city without the girl who knows all my secrets?" giggled Jeanie. "Even the ones we don't talk about," she added, taking a playful swat at Eliza's bare bottom as she walked past.
"Be careful what you start with me, girl," Eliza warned, still looking for something to wear.
"Oh, I'll be careful, all right," said Jeanie, as she reached out and grabbed Eliza's ass with both hands and gave it a big kiss. "I'm always careful!"
With that, Eliza whirled around and pushed Jeanie backwards. Jeanie stumbled over Eliza's wadded-up jeans on the floor, and fell backwards, knocking her head on the footboard of the big sleigh bed. "OW! SHIT!" she said as she fell to the floor, clutching the back of her head in both hands.
"Oh, God, I'm sorry, Jeanie!" Eliza cried, rushing to her friend and cradling her head against her chest as she kneeled beside her. "I didn't mean to do that!"
"Oooohhh," moaned Jeanie, as she lay limp in Eliza's arms. Eliza tried to feel around the back of her friend's head, with the result that her still-impressive breasts were virtually forced into Jeanie's face. "MMMMMM!" said Jeanie, as she opened her mouth to say something, only to have it filled with one of Eliza's boobs. Jeanie thought for only a split second, then took advantage of the opportunity to reconstruct one of the pastimes they had shared while in school together, so many years ago. She started to suckle softly at her friend's breast, amused that the taste was still as she remembered it; warm and slightly tart, with the remnants of her perfume still lingering from last night.
"What the hellβyou're not hurt!" said Eliza. As she tried to pull away, Jeanie held her close and said, "What are you afraid of, dearie; that we'll be interrupted? We have all day to go shopping: besides, you haven't gotten dressed yet, and it'd be a shame to waste such a beautiful opportunity!" With that, Jeanie reached up and drew Eliza's head down to her face to kiss her with a passion suddenly remembered after so long. "Oh. God, you're so sweet!" she murmured, as Eliza began to respond to her friend's passion.
Suddenly, all the pent-up frustration in Eliza's life swept through her, and she picked her friend up and placed her on the bed, pausing only long enough to sweep the tousled bedclothes aside. As she started to remove Jeanie's blouse, Jeanie stopped her and said, "I'll do this...little buttons," and began to unbutton a surprisingly large number of tiny buttons holding the blouse closed. As she did this, Eliza transferred her attention to Jeanie's blue jeans, which, as was usual with her friend, were nearly skin-tight, and required a bit of tugging to get over her hips and down her legs. Eliza then had to stop to remove Jeanie's sandals so she could pull the pants over her feet.
"God, how do you walk in these?" Eliza panted, as she finally got the jeans to come off. "Doesn't that chafe?"