Jennifer and her husband Chris were in a bind. They were a young couple, she was 22 and he had recently turned 23. He had been in the military since he graduated high school. They had just gotten the news that his unit would be shipped out. She needed a place to stay while he was serving his country. So they began to search local papers for a reasonably priced room with someone who was already established.
They were in luck. A single woman in her mid 30’s was looking for someone to move in to her spare bedroom in her apartment. The place was a steal at what she was charging, being that it was in a high-rise downtown. Jennifer called the number listed in the ad, and arranged to meet with Janice at a local café.
She was a bit surprised by Janice’s appearance, guessing her to be around her mid 20’s rather than well into her 30’s. Jennifer found herself attracted to this woman; even though she was married to a man, she had entertained fantasies of women before. She tried to put those thoughts aside and focus on the task.
They hit it off well, and Jennifer moved in with Janice the next week. Chris and she had put most of their furniture into storage, so it was an easy move. The place was astounding! It was huge, had several bathrooms and three bedrooms. One of the rooms Janice used as a home office, and there was extra space for Jennifer’s computer.
For the time being Jennifer was not working, but she was taking a few classes online. Janice was a successful real estate agent working for a company that dealt with large estates, which sometimes required her to work odd hours for the eccentricities of rich business people. Jennifer quickly grew accustomed to seeing her roomy at odd hours.
Though she missed her husband, Jennifer found herself fantasizing about her roommate more often as the days passed. Hearing Janice’s heels click against the tiled floor sent shivers racing through her. Seeing her in sleek black stockings and short skirts often sent Jennifer to her bedroom to relieve the tension as soon as the door clicked shut.
One evening when Janice got off work, the two decided to rent a few movies and get a bottle of wine for each of them to celebrate one of the realtors’ recent successes. She had just closed a major deal, and was ready to kick back and relax. Janice headed straight for the shower after she got home, and Jennifer headed to the store. She returned home to find Janice on the couch with her hair in a towel and wearing nothing but her robe. “I’ll go get comfy, do you want to start a movie?” asked Jennifer.
“Sure, you go ahead. I’ll uncork the wine too,” Janice replied.
After a few glasses each, they started to get comfortable, and were acting as if they were old friends. The women started discussing the finer points of the steamy romance they had picked to watch first. Giggling like schoolgirls, they started to make fun of how unreal sex in the movies was. Jennifer found herself wondering again, what it would be like to caress Janice as though they were in a movie.
Janice noticed that Jennifer seemed a bit distracted. She had noticed that over the past couple of weeks Jennifer would stare at her sometimes, as though she were interested, then quickly it would pass. Janice wondered if there was anything more too that, or if she was just missing her husband.