The whole thing was Andrew's fault. If he'd been home instead of rushing of to work for an emergency job it never would have happened. He got the call about six and was swearing something terrible as he got up showered and took off.
Me, I rolled over and went back to sleep. I wasn't working that Saturday and I didn't have to get up early. I did eventually get up, and it was nearly nine when I strolled down to the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee. I was shaping up to be a hot day and I was home alone, so I didn't bother to dress. After all, if you can't walk around your own house in the nude, where can you?
So I'm standing in the middle of the kitchen, starkers, having my morning coffee when the back door opened and Paul walked in.
"Hi, Suzy," he says as soon as he spots me. "Is Andy there? I told him I'd be here at nine and he told me to just come on in. . ."
His voice just seemed to fade away there at the end as it dawned on him what I was wearing, or not wearing in this case. The look on his face was so comical that I almost burst out laughing.
Almost. I was naked, which took a lot of humour out of the situation. Like an idiot I answered Paul's question.
"Andrew isn't here. He had to go to work."
I found my voice faltering then as I realised that I'd just told Paul that we were all alone and I was standing in front of me naked. He gave this little groan.
"I wish you hadn't told me that," he muttered.
I could practically feel his eyes on me. He started at my breasts and looked slowly downwards, fastening his gaze on my pussy and then moving his gaze all the way back up to my breasts. Then he repeated the scan. For some reason I was feeling grateful that I'd shaved the night before.
Then my phone rang. I automatically answered it and it was Andrew.
"Listen, sweet, I forgot to tell you that Paul will be around this morning," he started.
"He just arrived," I said. "Do you want to speak to him?"
He did and I passed the phone over to Paul. I then indicated that I was going to go and get dressed but the rotten sod took the phone in one hand and my arm in the other, indicating that I should wait a while.
I assume that Andrew was telling Paul about the emergency job he had to go to, which was why he wasn't home. Paul was real nice about it, saying these things happen. It was the way he finished up the conversation that worried me a little.
"No worries, mate," Paul said. "I'll just help myself to the things I want, if that's OK by you."
Paul handed the phone back to me and I said hi, and Andrew told me Paul had just come around to pick up a few things. He'd just grab them and go. Andrew was sorry he'd forgotten to warn me.