They had been partying since about 6:30 with a group of friends. It was one of the spontaneous margarita parties that spiced up the long, cold nights of winter in a summer resort town. The tourists were long gone and the year-rounders had the place to themselves. Although they all knew they needed the tourists to survive, they loved the peace and quiet of their little town in the cold months.
Fran's husband Dave was on the volunteer fire department and about halfway through the evening he had gotten a call and had to leave. Several friends offered to drive her home and told her to stay, so she did. The hosts and a few others of the group were good cooks and there was plenty of food while the drinks flowed freely. They all got a bit tipsy and laughed at each other's bad jokes.
One of Fran and Dave's good friends, Paul, was there without his wife. Gina was visiting her parents for the week but there was no reason for him not to socialize without her. Fran had had a serious crush on Paul for the first year or so that she'd known him but had never acted on it. The town was too small and the two couples spent way too much time together for it to be at all safe, and Fran didn't really want to cheat on her husband anyway. The two of them had fun flirting and it was a nice fantasy, but that was as far as it had gone. The crush had eventually subsided, although the flirting had not. Dave had spent a good chunk of the evening before he had had to leave chatting with Paul but Fran had been busy with others in the group most of the evening.
Finally, the party wound down and people began drifting off. Paul went to get his coat and Fran nearly ran into him coming out of the bathroom.
"Can you give me a lift home?" she asked.
"Sure, I was just leaving." Paul answered.
"Great, I'll get my coat."
They met up at the door and said goodnight to their hosts and the last couple of guests and headed out into the frigid night.
"Brrrr. Jesus it's cold," said Fran, pulling her wool hat down over her chestnut hair.
"I just had the heater fixed in the truck" said Paul "it'll warm up quickly."
They climbed into his pickup and he got the engine started. The driveway was blocked by another guests' car, so they had to wait a few minutes before they could leave. The cab of the truck was just warming up to a comfortable temperature as the last guests left the house and headed towards the car.
"Sorry!" they said, waving as they got in. Paul waved back. In another minute they were headed down the dark roads towards Fran's house.
"When does Gina get back?" Fran asked.
"The day after tomorrow." Paul replied.
"You must miss her." Fran said.
"Mostly at night. I'm too busy during the day, we hardly see each other anyway."
"I know what you mean. Dave and I hardly see each other either."
Paul pulled up Fran's driveway. The house was dark and Dave's car wasn't in its spot, so he clearly wasn't home yet.
"I hate coming home to an empty house" she said. "Do you want to come in for a while and keep me company until Dave gets home? We've got some new movies on DVD."
"Sure." Paul answered. "I don't like being in an empty house much, either."
They made their way from the truck up the short path to the back door, their way lit by the nearly full moon glinting off the snow, weaving a pattern of shadows through the naked trees. Fran dug in her pocket for her keys and opened the door into the warm kitchen.
"You can leave your boots over there" she said, indicating a black rubber boot tray in a corner near the door and bending to unlace her own boots. "That feels better." Smiling, she slipped them off and wiggled her toes within their wool socks. She shed her coat, scarf and gloves and stepped over to the scanner on the kitchen counter. It crackled to life and almost immediately they caught a conversation between two firefighters from their town. They listened for a minute to the cross-talk, then Fran turned the unit off in disgust. "Sounds like it's going to be a long, cold night for those guys." She said. "Why don't you go into the living room and pick out a movie, I'll grab a bottle of wine and be right in. The new stuff is on top of the bookshelf."
When she joined him a few minutes later he had two movies in hand and was reading the backs of the jewel boxes. "What do you think?" he asked, flashing the two titles at her.
"Let's watch 'The Hunger'" Fran suggested, smiling. "I haven't seen that one in a long time. I think you'll like it."
"I've never heard of it, but it's got an interesting cast. I never knew Susan Sarandon did a movie with Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie." Paul removed the disk and placed it in the machine. They settled onto the couch, which, since neither of them was tall, was large enough for them to both stretch their legs out on opposite ends with only a little overlap. Fran poured them each a glass of merlot while Paul fiddled with the remotes. She watched him over the rim of her glass as she took the first sip. With his curly dark hair and trim body she still found him attractive, but it was the fact that he flirted so openly and easily that had drawn her into the crush the year before. She still thought of him sexually occasionally, but for the most part he was Dave's buddy and her girlfriend's husband, nothing more.
They were halfway through their second glasses of wine when Fran's favorite part of the movie began. It was an extraordinarily well filmed erotic scene between the two female leads and it always left Fran hot. She stole a glance over at Paul on the opposite end of the large couch. His eyes were riveted on the screen and his mouth was open. He was breathing a little more heavily than normal, but so was she. She cast her eyes down his lean body. His flannel shirt was open at the top, exposing the hair on his chest. Her eyes roved lower. There was a noticeable bulge growing in his jeans as the two women made love on the screen.
Paul's right hand went to his waistband, dove beneath it and adjusted his stiffening cock to a more comfortable position. Suddenly remembering he was not alone, he looked over at Fran. She met his eyes, smiled and licked her full lips. He immediately thought of where he would like to see those lips right now and felt his cock twitch uncomfortably beneath the layers of fabric. In a low voice he said "You didn't tell me I was going to need a cold shower after seeing this movie."
Fran was reacting to the movie and his arousal before he had spoken, but his words caused her to go from just damp to soaking wet. She felt her inner lips pulse, begging for stimulation. "It's getting awfully warm in here, don't you think?" she asked. "I'm going to take off my sweater." She pulled the bulky garment over her head exposing a tight white tee shirt and, momentarily, a large expanse of bare tummy. As she discarded the sweater and pulled down her tee, she saw Paul's eyes caress the soft mounds of her breasts and she felt her nipples stiffen. The tee offered just enough support that she hadn't bothered with a bra and as her nipples jutted into the thin fabric that fact became quite obvious to Paul. She heard him suck in his breath.
She has beautiful, full breasts, Paul thought. He'd noticed them before along with her unusually blue eyes and curvy figure, when they'd first met, but really hadn't thought about her in that way for quite a while. His cock grew even stiffer within its cloth prison. "You're not helping with my little problem here" he said, half teasing. She grinned in response. "Hey, your hair's all sticking out from the static electricity. Come here and I'll smooth it for you."