I would like to thank 'freaknut' for her help in writing this entire story. She gave me direction where I had none, and inspiration where I needed it.
Chapter 5
I was pulled over again Sunday afternoon on my way back from Blockbuster. I gripped the wheel of my sports car angrily. I had been driving no more than five mph over! My friends warned me about this when I decided to buy a sports car.
I sat in the car, trying to calm down, as the officer came to the window and tapped on the glass. I rolled it down and found myself looking into the sunglasses of Officer Katherine Mills. My anger turned into nervousness, and suddenly I felt like I was doing something wrong.
She looked very different than she had last night. She looked professional, hard as nails. Especially with those dark shades. "Hey, Simon. I'm not going to give you a ticket," she explained. "But we need to talk. For real this time. There's a diner I like up here, want to get some coffee?"
I didn't. I didn't want anything to do with this woman anymore. She had taken my calm and loving married life and flipped it on its head. But there was something about the authority of the uniform that made me nod my head. "Sure. You lead the way." There was something about Kat that I couldn't deny.
The diner was small and narrow. The vinyl booths that lined the large windows were green, the tables were covered in speckled Formica, and a juke box played oldies against the wall. We sat in the back, as far away from anyone else as we could.
Kat pushed her sunglasses up onto her head, using them as a headband to hold the loose pieces of blonde hair at bay. She really was a beautiful woman, and I hated thinking about it.
"Okay, look... I'm going to be completely honest here," she began. "I'm... attracted to you. I like you."
I flinched at her words. "But I'm married. You're married," I objected.
Her smile was wistful, distant. "Yes, you're right. And I love Jamie. I love him so much. And from the way I see you look at Adrienne, I can tell you love her very much." She took a sip of her coffee. "I actually got to talking with her last night, and I really like her, too."
"I'm sorry," I said, confused, "I don't know what you want..."
She thought a moment, then said, "When I pulled you over, a couple weeks ago, I hadn't had sex for far too long. I didn't plan what happened. It just did. I... I think you'll agree with this." I nodded. "And when I learned that you were my new neighbor, I was confused and a little afraid. I thought that I'd never see you again. It was supposed to be an intense experience that I could always look back on with a guilty smile. Not something that I needed to deal with. But there you were."
She took another sip of coffee. Her lips were pink and full. I waited for her to continue.
"I went through a variety of emotions over the next couple days. I was angry with myself for doing something so stupid. I was upset that you were so close. But I was also very excited. The danger was getting me... aroused. I thought about... the two of us, getting together again while our spouses were in the next room. I fantasized about you. I couldn't get you out of my thoughts."
Briefly, I thought about my own actions: crouching in the darkness behind her house, spying on her as she fucked her husband. I blushed. She was embarrassing me. I was embarrassing myself. But I let her continue.
"When you came to the party, I was already a little drunk. We needed to talk, but I shouldn't have taken you up to that room alone. All I could think about was jumping you. In the closet..." She trailed off, her face flushed. She rolled her beautiful, hazel eyes, finding mine once again. "I was drunk and horny. It was like fortune was offering me a chance to fulfill my fantasy, and I took it." She sighed. "But it shouldn't have happened. And it won't happen again. I like you, Simon, and I'm attracted to you, but I know that you don't want to do this. You don't want to hurt Adrienne, and I respect that. She's a wonderful woman."
"Okay," I said at last. "So what now?" I couldn't come out and tell her that I didn't want to see her anymore, but I wanted to. I was too attracted to her to be her friend anymore. We had crossed a line, and there was no going back.
She shrugged, showing a bit of uncertainty. "I guess we just pretend like it never happened?" She saw my incredulous look and gave me a helpless one of her own. "I know, it's impossible. So let's just keep it our secret."
I was still a little dubious and it must have showed. "Look, Simon, I'm not asking for you to be my friend." She took a deep breath. "With Jamie's travel schedule, he only spends about half his time in this area. In fact, he's leaving in a couple weeks for two more months! I try to throw myself into my work, but you saw how successful that was..."
I did see. Vividly. Black lacy bra tucked like a shelf under her soft, big breasts. The pink line of her swollen sex lips. I blinked, tried to dispel the thoughts from my mind. "What I did was actually very dangerous. You know? It could be worse than this." She shrugged. "Maybe having a couple friends will help me deal with his absence." Glancing at me shyly, she added, "Or at least one good friend."
So the ball was in my court. She gazed at me with her soft hazel eyes. If I thought she was capable, I would have thought she was pleading with me. I wanted to tell her that she was too different from my wife, but I couldn't. Not to those eyes. Not to this blonde.
I nodded. "I can't promise anything. But... friends. Just friends," I repeated. "And no more talk about... things."
"Oh, absolutely."
We settled the bill. I hadn't touched my coffee. My stomach couldn't handle it.
She slipped her sunglasses on and smiled for the first time since I'd seen her. "Good thing we had this talk, because I'm going shopping with Adrienne when I get off later today."
Kat smiled wider at my stunned expression, turned on a shiny heel, and walked to her police cruiser.
I think that if Kat had stayed out of my life from that day on, I could have gotten over what I had done, and I could have forgotten about the sexy blonde. But instead, I saw her more and more over the passing weeks. Like she said, she came over for a shopping trip with Adrienne. Both women looked incredibly sexy in their hip hugging jeans and tight tops. I was fortunate to know them, but cursed to have slept with both of them.
The following week, I found myself volunteering to go to the grocery store at night, hoping to get another show through the windows of the Mills home. No luck there, but my heart still pounded at the possibility.