Hello there, it's me again, Sammy Jo, here to tell you about another big night out. And wow, do I have a story to tell!
Last time we spoke I left you en route to a hot date. As you may or may not remember, it was a Friday and the date was going to be the sequel to the hottest night of sex I'd ever had. Okay, so it was a sequel delayed by over seven years but believe me, the wait only added to my anticipation.
Jeepers creepers, was I up for it!
Before I set off I examined myself in a full-length mirror. Not too shabby for thirty-six, I decided. In fact I was looking good in my short, revealing cobalt blue dress and with my long blonde hair swept mostly over my left shoulder.
'I would,' I assured my reflection, 'and she definitely will.'
I chuckled as I set off on the short walk downhill into town. I had the seven year itch for Heather all right; the itch and the already-damp knickers to prove it.
Up until that morning I'd only ever thought of Heather as "Hev". We'd met by chance in a bar and one thing had quickly led to another. Did I say "quickly"? Go on then, I'll admit it. We'd gone to my place and got on with the fucking without even bothering with introductions.
Oh, what it had been to be twenty-eight, footloose and fancy-free!
It was hard to keep the smile off my face as my heels clacked on the pavement. Hev had fucked me into blissful oblivion that other time, back in the dismal August of 2008. Then she'd vanished while I was sleeping it off, leaving only her cum stains behind her. Well, she'd left a note on the kitchen table, signed in her nickname and putting me on a promise, but giving no contact details at all.
Seven years or more, I mused. Seven years with her knowing where to find me but me clueless about her.
I suppose I should have felt resentful but I didn't. In her note Hev had promised me sex "if I ever bump into you again". It had taken a long time for that happy coincidence to occur but hey, this was here and now. We were about to happen again, and imminently; that was all that mattered.
Now I must confess, along with the chuckling and grinning I was nervous. I already knew that Hev was a demon when it came to sex. When I just said she'd fucked me into oblivion I wasn't joking. And knowing tonight was "my turn" wasn't altogether reassuring. It was hard to imagine her lying back submissively while I had my fun.
Still, so what if history repeated itself? I'd recover in a week or two. It'd be worth it.
Sex-nerves aside, I was also cautious about Hev's position at work. I was the new girl in Lending at WYB; she was a main board director and still climbing. God only knew what she'd been back in 2008; I didn't. While she was setting up this second session she'd said something about bankers being busy saving the world back then . . . and she'd said it as if she'd been directly involved.
What am I getting into? I wondered. Then, grinning again, Sod it, what do I care!
Our 2016 trysting place was Bingley's Suburban Bar . . . the very place we'd had our first chance meeting. We'd agreed on nine o'clock but I was conscious of my careers teacher's advice. "Never be later than ten minutes early" she'd once told me. She was, of course, talking about arriving for a job interview. I reckoned it applied equally well to my date so I made sure I got there before quarter to.
'Good evening,' one of the doormen said to me in greeting.
'Knock 'em dead,' said the other, opening to door and ushering me past.
Glad I didn't look too much like trouble I smiled at them and went inside.
*****
The bar was already crowded. Even so, I spotted Hev straightaway. She was at the bar, chatting to a barman and sipping white wine.
'Sexy Sammy Jo,' she said as I joined her, surprising me with a kiss. I'd been expecting a kiss of the air variety at best, but didn't complain. Instead I returned it in spades.
'You're looking great,' she said, holding me at arm's length and studying me.
I laughed at that. Hev was always going to be more of a vision than anyone at her side. She's tall (taller than me, and I'm five foot ten in heels), a youthful thirty-five and, along with the face of a fallen angel, she has a mane of black hair that falls halfway down her back. I'll tell you more about her body shorty but trust me: the girl is utterly, absolutely stacked.
'What's that you're drinking?' I asked.
'Pinot; it's too warm for Shiraz.'
I nodded and ordered two large glasses. It was only May but the weather was exceptionally fine. It had brought out short dresses and low necklines right, left and centre. Not that I intended to complain about that. And I certainly wasn't averse to my date's attire. She was in a short brown leather skirt, a skimpy white blouse and very little else.
Wow, I thought, dimly aware my knickers were getting wetter by the second.
Hev swigged down the last of her current glass while I paid the barman. Then she took my hand and led me away from the bar, stopping when we reached one of the pillars supporting a sort of gallery seating area. She didn't know it, but this was where she'd been standing when I first laid my baby blue peepers on her.
She started to say something but the music suddenly went from background to loud. Nine must have been that night's witching hour. Polite conversation was no longer a possibility.
'I can't hear you,' I yelled back at her.
She pointed to my glass and made drinking up gestures before setting an example. I followed suit and gulped the best part of a third of a bottle of dry white down in one.
Then we were holding hands again and on our way outside.
'I said you would,' said the second doorman.
'Don't do anything I wouldn't,' added the other.
'That narrows it down,' Hev retorted, 'not!'
We weaved through knots of smokers then stopped and kissed on the cobbles.
(Yes folks, a lot of the side streets in my sleepy home town are still cobbled. They can't do much for car suspension systems, but they do add to the ambiance. And you can definitely hear vehicles approaching over them, making them safe to snog on, as well as somehow romantic.)
I did wonder if Hev would want to further that second, prolonged kiss but instead she led me back to Main Street and took a left.
'I know somewhere much quieter,' she said. 'And they do Landlord.'
'You and your beer,' I replied. Then, as we arrived outside the Kings Head: 'You don't mean in there?'
'Course I do. Why shouldn't we?'
I shrugged. I could have said because the place was infamous, but I didn't.
'Phones off first,' Hev said, pointing to a sign that had been there forever, saying NO MOBILES.
The pub was quite busy inside but Hev had been right: it was much quieter than the Suburban.
'Two pints please,' she said to a barmaid, tapping the Landlord pump as she spoke.
The barmaid was a skinny young thing but her right arm belonged on a bodybuilder. Or rather it would do if she stayed a year or two longer in the trade. I smiled as I watched her pull the beer pump handle with the greatest of ease.
'Where's Andy?' Hev asked her.
'He's down The Potting Shed, watching rugby.'
'What's wrong with the screen out in the smoking area?'