My thanks to Aries77 for editorial assistance without which this story would not have gotten published.
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Ann was sitting in her car across the street and down a few houses from her own house when she saw headlights coming down the street towards her. She wondered if this would be him. The car slowed as it drew closer, as if looking for an unfamiliar address. It kept coming and Ann's pulse quickened. Finally, the car stopped directly in front of her house, the house she shared with her husband of less than 2 years.
It was amazing to Ann that she was at this point after only 18 months of marriage. But she had married young; they were both 18 at the time of the wedding. And, contrary to popular opinion, they did not "have" to get married. She did love her husband, Greg, but he worked full-time and went to school 5 nights a week. Weekends were spent studying and/or working overtime to generate additional money. Something had to suffer and that something was Ann and, more specifically, their sex life. Ann was increasingly lonely and resorted to self-pleasure to fill the void which was exacerbated at the moment by the fact that he left this morning to go out of town for several days without them having sex before leaving.
After a moment sitting in front of her house, the car pulled into the driveway and Ann's pulse quickened even more. She watched as a man emerged from the car and started towards the front door. Her pulse was at a break-neck pace as he reached the front door and rang the bell. He rang again when there was no answer and knocked a moment later.
Ann thought to herself, "it's now or never," and, with her heart nearly beating out of her chest, opened the car door and walked to her house. Every step brought her closer and closer to that imaginary line in the sand. The distance to the house was short in physical length, but seemed to take forever and at several points her legs almost buckled on her and she started to turn around. Nonetheless, she kept on until she finally reached her driveway. Halfway up the drive, Ann found the courage to speak and blurted out, "Are you looking for someone."
The stranger turned and Ann immediately was struck by how handsome he was. He smiled and replied, "Yes, I'm Mark and I'm looking for Ann."
Crossing that line in the sand, Ann was somewhat surprised to hear, "what a coincidence, I'm Ann," come out of her mouth.
Mark's eyes took in Ann as she approached the porch and was pleased with what he saw. She was a mere 5' 2", shoulder length strawberry blond hair and a delightfully curvy body. They had met a week or so before through her job - she was the customer service phone agent that helped him with his issue. He was smitten by her voice and flirted with her during the initial call. Ann was coy, but his flirting did spark something in her. She couldn't do much on the call because all calls were monitored and she would've been in jeopardy of discipline if she acted anything but professional. However, she did have full access to his phone number from the database and stealthily jotted it down.
Ann couldn't get Mark out of her mind for the rest of her shift and rushed home when it ended. It was a school night for Greg and she was alone. After wrestling for some time, Ann nervously picked up the phone and called the number in Mark's file. She was conflicted listening to the phone ring, hoping on the one hand that he would answer, but afraid he would on the other hand. She was just about to hang up when the phone clicked and she heard the familiar voice say "hello."
She hadn't planned what to say and almost hung up the phone again, but somehow managed to stammer, "Hi, this is Ann."
Mark was surprised to hear her voice, but recovered quickly and simply said, "I was hoping I'd talk to you again."
Ann made some silly pretext about this being some kind of follow-up call from his earlier issue, but Mark realized from the background noise she wasn't at work. He used that to his advantage and they ended up talking for almost 2 hours most of which was a mutual flirt session. The call ended just before Greg was due to get home from school.
Ann was so aroused after the call with Mark that she couldn't wait for Greg to get home. Unfortunately, as was too often the case, Greg came in and immediately went to bed since he had to be at work extra early in the morning. Ann was left to her own devices and masturbated herself to sleep thinking about Mark.
Ann and Mark talked off and on over the next week, including this morning after Greg left to go out of town. She did not have any intention of actually meeting, but the loneliness was especially difficult this morning and she found herself inviting Mark over that evening and here they were.
Ann brushed past Mark, opened the front door and stepped into the house without saying anything more to Mark. He remained standing on the porch until she finally said, "Are you coming in or going to stay out there on the porch and give the neighbors cause to gossip?"