I'm a student at DU. I'm gonna be a 6-year grad, because of the teaching certificate, and I changed my major in my junior year. Since my sophomore year, I've worked in an office on campus (won't say where so as not to embarrass Karen too much). For the past two years, I've worked during the summer, too, to save up for the big post-graduation move.
I've gotten to know Karen pretty well, she's the only one who has been in this office as long as I have. We're fairly close. We started hanging out together at a few after-parties, like after gallery openings or poetry readings. Then, we took a water aerobics class together, and we work out together in the campus gym once or twice a week. She's my height, about 5'4", but instead of my stringy brown hair, her hair is really curly sandy-blond.
Karen is 38, more than ten years older than me, divorced, and has two kids: a boy and a girl. Her kids spend the summers with their father in San Diego. During the summer, it's her and me, alone in the office, shuffling papers. We had been working alone for over two weeks, just her and me, and it afforded us the opportunity to talk about everything, I mean everything.
It was barely into June, but it was already roasting in the office. We usually took lunch at noon, but being Friday, she said we should just take the afternoon off. We locked up the office, went to the cafeteria, had the salad bar, then went for a light workout. Being summer, hardly anyone else was there, and we did a lower body treadmill/stair master workout; just enough to get really sweaty.
I commented that my apartment complex has a pool, and asked if she wanted to come over, but she scoffed and said that she had a pool in her back yard. My eyebrows shot up.
"Can I come?" I asked, hopefully. "I'll run home and get my suit."
"Um, yeah, that's a good idea. I'll tell you what, while you're doing that, I'll stop and get margarita mix and meet you there."
She gave me the address and we went our separate ways. Half an hour later, I was pulling up to her house. I have a new bug convertible, so the wind had dried my workout-wet hair by the time I pulled up her drive.
I was astonished at her house. It was three stories, and as I later learned, sixteen rooms, if you include the basement. Hell, it was practically a mansion. She got the place in the divorce, and he responded by buying a bigger house in San Diego, trying to one-up her in the divorce.
She opened the door before I could ring, and greeted me with a frozen strawberry margarita in hand. I was wearing my bikini, a huge t-shirt over that, and my beach terry-cloth robe over that. She was also in a t-shirt, and apparently, nothing else. We sat in her kitchen for a few minutes and downed out first round of margaritas. I said that we should get to the pool. As she re-filled the glasses, she explained:
"Look, Tina, I've got to tell you. I've lived in this house for fifteen years. I have an 8 foot privacy fence all around the back yard. What I'm trying to say is that I haven't owned a swimming suit for years. I swim nude. I hope it doesn't bother you. You're free to join me, but I only swim naked."
"Great," I said, surprised, but kind of pleased that I wouldn't have to worry about tan lines.
She grabbed the rest of the pitcher, I grabbed the towels from the table, and followed her out the back door. There was, indeed, an 8 ft. wooden fence around the yard, covered by shrubs and vines. It sort of looked like a miniature version of medieval French or Italian gardens.
She wasn't kidding. As soon as we hit the back yard, her t-shirt came off and I was following this tight little butt out to the pool. Her legs and ass were so tight from the stair master that I couldn't help but stare, all the way till she reached the edge and dove in.
I took my robe and shirt off, throwing them across a lounge chair, then untied my bikini, feeling suddenly self-conscious at having clothes on. I dove in after her, and swam after her across the pool. We used the diving board and went round in circles, diving and climbing out, like we were kids.
The only thing was, I wasn't used to being naked for this long (when I wasn't sleeping), and I certainly wasn't used to walking around naked with someone else. I couldn't help but take a few healthy looks, and I notices her taking a few looks at me, too. You just can't help but look at someone who's naked, right?
After awhile, we stopped diving and just floated around the pool. She has these floating armchairs, and we sat around, half-submerged, finishing the pitcher of margaritas. We were lounging back, eyes closed, talking about all sorts of things.
We started talking about what celebrity we'd sleep with, then I asked her who in the office she's sleep with. She didn't answer at first.
"I, uh, I'd have to think about that," she said. "Actually, I did have sex in the office, once, but with my ex, while we were still together. We did it over lunch, right there in that big, leather chair." I asked for details.
"Well, he came to get me for lunch, but I said that I was too busy. He said that I deserved at least a little break, so he crawled under my desk, lifted my skirt, slid down my panties, and went down on me right there. I came wile a wildcat. Then he just stood up, kissed me and left. He was great about that. That's what I miss most about him: he loved to eat pussy, and he would do it all the time."
I opened one eye and saw her drawing little circles around her nipples with her fingertips. I picked up my margarita and started rubbing the cold glass against my own nipples. I waited to see if she was going to say any more.