It was 3:40 pm when Mrs. Julie Darlene Mason got out of the taxi at the Omaha, Nebraska Marriott hotel. It was a raw day in late March. A steady rain was falling as the bellman lifted her small suitcase and escorted her to the check-in desk. There, she identified herself and was given a key to her husband Gary's room.
Once in the room, Julie had the bellman put the case on the bed and gave him a generous tip. She slid into the plush chair and rubbed her face. It had been a more grueling trip from New Jersey than she'd expected. The 8 am flight had a connection in Chicago that had been delayed for several hours.
Julie was a high school biology teacher and had taken a personal day to enjoy this long weekend, mini-vacation with her husband. Gary had been working hard, and found out on Tuesday he would need to stay over the weekend for a Saturday meeting. He had called Julie and asked her to join him.
At first she hesitated, knowing she had her own job to attend to. An evening flight would have gotten her in late, and it just didn't seem worth it for a trip to Nebraska. Gary persisted, however, and told her she should take the day off. She said she'd think about it.
Gary called again on Wednesday and said he thought he could get off a little early on Friday, considering the Saturday meeting, and they could go out for a nice evening. Julie relented and she said she'd be in early Friday afternoon. She half expected Gary to be in the room when she arrived.
After stretching the stiffness of the trip away, Julie picked up the room phone and called Gary's cell phone. He answered and said he was running a little behind, but should be back by 5:30. He suggested she take a slow bath and meet him in the downstairs lounge then. She should be ready to go out.
Taking his advice, Julie indulged in a prolonged shower with plenty of hot water. As she toweled off, she brushed the steam off the bathroom mirror and looked at her reflection. At 46, she knew she still looked good enough to turn most heads. She was 5'6" and weighed 125 pounds. She kept trim by working out every day after school.
Julie's eyes were a very pale blue. Her hair had always been deep red, and for years she tried to tone it back. But with all the fashion models going red these days, she brought it out as brassy as she could, keeping it perfectly straight and shoulder length. Speaking of perfectly straight, she also had a great smile, white, white, perfect teeth and full lips she liked to highlight with lipstick that matched her hair.
Yes, Julie knew most of the boys in her biology class fantasized about her. So did most of the male faculty. She'd actually had affairs with two of her fellow teachers before she learned her lesson about not screwing where you work. Gary found out about the second one, the football coach, and she barely kept her marriage together. Given his poor reaction to what he did learn, she didn't have the courage to also mention her first affair.
Julie also never mentioned her student teacher of two years ago. Paul had spent the semester practicing what he'd learned in college on her classes. It was great experience for him and a nice break for her.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, Paul was simply drop-dead gorgeous: tall, slender, blue eyes, blond hair. Some of the female faculty would say some pretty crude things about what they'd like to do with him.
Julie and Paul had gotten along great and she often teased him about how the girls in class undoubtedly fantasized about him. He, on the other hand would ask her advice about how to handle things. He told her about some of the student parties he was invited to, and even showed her a couple of notes the girls had written him.
Julie was shocked, literally. A couple of juniors, very popular, cheerleaders had written what they'd do in explicit, clinical detail. Both, it seemed were very eager to give him a blowjob and perhaps continue on from there. Julie, of course, counseled him to resist these underage, "sirens", as she called them.
Once, about 3 weeks before the end of the semester, when she and Paul were in the teacher's lounge alone, and Paul was relating the latest suggestions of the coeds in class, Julie laughed, but pressed him further.
"How do those notes make you feel?"
"To be honest, some of them get me pretty hot."
"Calm down, big fella," Julie teased. She knew he was living in an apartment away from college during this semester and he had no access to the coeds on campus.
"Seriously, though, Paul, what do you do? I mean I know you're not old enough to go to any of the bars, yet." Julie knew because Paul told her he would 21 the Monday before his student teaching would end. He had asked her if she'd go with him to get his first drink when he was legal. To be a good sport, Julie had agreed.
"Well, I've got ole reliable here," Paul said with a laugh as he held up his hand. Julie groaned, but smiled.
"I really shouldn't be telling you this..." Paul's voice drifted off.
"What!" Julie was excited. What would this young hunk reveal? Illicit "contact" with one of the girls from class? She had often speculated that it might happen. Be difficult for him to avoid, really.
"Well, um, you know Mrs. Cohen?"
Of course Julie knew Shelly Cohen, taught Spanish and French, pushing 40, about 35 pounds overweight -- made for great tits, though -- bit of a horse face. A few years ago, she and Gary had met socially with Shelly and her husband, Stan for a short time. Mostly what killed it was Stan. He was boring, even for an accountant. Neither Julie nor Gary could stand him.
"Sure, I know Shelly." My god, thought Julie, not Shelly!
"Well, she's been sucking me off a couple of times a week."
"WHAT!!?? Jesus, you're telling me this now, when we have a class? To be continued, that's for sure!"
Except it wasn't continued. They never spoke of it again, not until that last night. Not that Julie didn't want to, but Paul never brought it up again, and Julie didn't feel comfortable pushing him on it. He probably felt embarrassed for bringing it up in the first place. It really gnawed at Julie though.
When observing from the back of the room, Julie's mind would sometimes wander.
Shelly's getting some of that,
Julie thought, torturing herself with the imaginings. Paul could get practically anyone he wanted. Why was he settling for Shelly? Julie knew the answer. Shelly had given it to her.
During the brief time when she and Gary were paling around with Shelly and Stan, the women formed a close friendship at school. They talked about lots of things, but one of the things that shocked Julie about Shelly was how openly her friend discussed sex.
Julie just never felt very comfortable talking about that aspect of her life. Not Shelly, though and she had plenty to say that shocked Julie (and eventually Gary as Julie related her conversations with Shelly at home).
Shelly had led, and was still leading a very active sex life, at least by Julie's standards. What amazed Julie most was how Shelly still carried on despite the fact that she was married.
"Well, Jules, I still get urges that can't be satisfied at home," Shelly said with a wink. Shelly was the only person ever to call her "Jules", but Julie never corrected her.
"Um, hello, what about Stan?"
"Um, hello, Jules, you've seen Stan, there are better specimens, you know." Stan was short, about 5'5", wiry frame, but balding. The only time Julie had seen him without his shirt, his hairy back disgusted her.
"So you just cheat?"
"Not cheat exactly. Stan knows I go out. He's not blind; he sees how I dress. He knows what's going on, we just don't discuss it. Before we got married, he caught me stepping out on him, once. We had a long discussion where I told him it was just physical. I loved Stan, but also enjoyed other, better looking guys.
"You know Jules, I've never been the best wrapped present at the birthday party, myself."
You don't say,
thought Julie, maliciously. "But I found out in high school you could attract better quality if the guy knew he could expect something for his troubles. I was always quite popular.
"The secret is letting the guy know you're willing. Very few guys will turn you down," Shelly concluded with a huge smile.
Early on, Julie had actually accompanied Shelly on a Thursday night out. Privately, she thought Shelly was, at best, exaggerating. Basically, she just wanted to see what really happened.
It started one day at school when Shelly told Julie she was going to check out a new place Thursday night and asked if Julie would like to go along. Julie hesitated, but knew Gary would be out of town that night and, unfortunately, so did Shelly.
"Come on," Shelly nagged, "it'll be fun, and you know Gary is out of town."
Unable to think of any really good excuse not to, Julie agreed to go.
Julie insisted on driving so she could control things. She didn't want to be at the mercy of Shelly should she want to leave. After all, she wasn't even sure what, exactly, Shelly was into. Could be some relatively harmless visits to male strip shows. Julie half hoped that's where Shelly would take her. She'd never had the nerve to go to one alone, but was curious.
It was just after 9:00 pm when Julie arrived to pick up Shelly. She went to the door where Stan greeted her. When Shelly emerged from the bedroom, Julie was totally surprised. Shelly was actually dressed quite well in dark slacks, white blouse, and a 3" heel.
The only questionable aspects of Shelly's attire were her blouse, and her lipstick. Shelly had remarkably large breasts, and the blouse and underlying bra played their size to Shelly's complete advantage. It was low cut, but stopped just short of being sluttishly so. Still, Shelly offered plenty of cleavage. The bra seemed to arrange things into perfect spheres. No doubt Shelly also wore an extreme corset of some kind as her figure formed a nice hourglass, albeit somewhat top heavy.