It was an odd Sunday morning, two days after Christmas.
Pushing the covers aside well past ten a.m., Jamie quickly realized how chilly it was in her bedroom.
She pulled the covers back tight to her body. Still, the fact had planted in her head just how cold the house had become in the night's descent into unusually low temperatures.
She got herself up, wrapped her nightgown-clad body with a warm robe, and slowly went down to the kitchen.
Heater on first, next set coffee maker, then light candles. Lots of candles. Grey day.
As she waited for the coffee to brew, she was overcome with a notion.
"It's December 27. I will be a single woman again in four short days."
As she mixed her coffee with sugar and cream, she couldn't help but reflect on the year gone by.
Seemed to her like a lifetime ago she signed the paper acknowledging her commitment to him.
It was a mere matter of months ago. Still, in four days that union would be coming to a welcome end.
One thing everyone could quote Jamie as saying would be, "a piece of paper ruins everything."
More than once in her life now, she was living proof of that clichΓ©.
She sank into the sofa, staring at the unlit Christmas tree, deluged with thoughts and feelings.
Jamie had been looking forward to December 31 for at least two months, and now it was almost here.
As of December 31, she would no longer have any reason to be connected to him, which, to her, was closure.
Physically, she was removed from him 6 months ago. December 31st would mark the end of them in all ways.
As soon as the relaxation from thoughts like those filled her, they were replaced by others.
The next one to hit her was that December 31st was a landmark date in their relationship.
It was the night he got hooked on her. A night she should have let stand alone. Ahh, hindsight.
She had been feeling no pain, and very proud of her body, just weeks after major surgery.
Vivid pictures exist in her memory of 12/31/06: the denim shirt she wore over a black bra and panties, the strip show and dance she did for him, using his body often as a prop, the puddle left on the top of the khaki shorts he wore when she removed herself from his lap where the two of them had been swapping spit for hours.
They didn't fuck each others' brains out that night. He wanted desperately to give her a cum.
She had well learned how to say "no."
The question today still remains: then why couldn't she have said no to him the first time he asked her out?
Jamie got up from the sofa and poured herself a second cup of coffee.
She made sure she was wrapped warmly, and took her coffee out to her screened porch.
It was very chilly out there, but the crisp air felt good on her face.
She was still deeply consumed with thoughts and emotions, though.
Bouncing through a range would be more accurate.
Where the next memory came from almost knocked her off her feet.
A man's voice saying, with complete conviction, "I can honestly say that I have never fucked with a married woman unless I was the man married to her. But! It has always been a fantasy of mine."
She kept hearing it, over and over, and as if this man was saying it in real-time, in her ear.
She felt a sudden puckering pop in her pussy. It, too, seemed to be having "a moment."
Some things you just don't forget. So why had she forgotten Will had said this to her before?
Probably because it just now took on a whole new, erotic meaning to her, driving her wild.