"Hi honey, I'm home!" I yell from the front door.
I hear the backdoor open and then footsteps across the kitchen floor. Apparently you have been in the backyard for as you come into view I see you carrying your garden gloves and that little shovel you use in your prized flower bed.
You stop in your tracks when you see someone is with me.
"Oh, Donnie! I didn't know you brought company home!" You say as you lay the gloves and tool down on the table, and then brush back your bangs, trying to straighten your shoulder length auburn hair.
"Sorry Dear, you remember Carl, from last summer's company picnic?" I turn and acknowledge the young man behind me.
"Hi Mary Ann, it's been awhile. How ya doing?" Carl says as he takes the couple steps toward you and smiles.
"Carl was the one taking all the pictures." I add.
"Yes, I remember. We had two of your pictures of us blown up and printed in fact." You nod to the far wall of the living room.
Carl looks back and sees them framed side by side. "I am honored." He looks back at you still smiling.
I walk up to you and wrap my arms around you and peck you on the cheek. "I offered to give Carl a lift home from work since his car is in the shop. Since it was so close to dinner time I figured since our house is on the way we would just stop by and get a bite to eat here. Hope you don't mind."
You look at Carl and see a bag slung over his shoulder. You realize it's his camera bag. You look back at his face and that handsome smile is still looking back at you.
"So are you planning on taking some more pictures of us tonight, Carl?" You say and nod at the gray bag at his side.
"Uh, oh this." Carl loses the smile for a second and stutters.
"Oh, yea, no that." I chime in. "No Carl was going to uh, he had some shots of the office spring fling afternoon we had a couple of weeks ago he wanted to show me. He can show both of us."
"Yeah, I do. I mean yes, I've got a couple of good shots of your husband here playing on the miniature golf course we had set up." Carl says as he tucks his camera bag to his side.
"Do you mind, dear? I know its last minute." I almost plead.
"No, not at all." You reply still looking at Carl and not at me. "We still have beer in the fridge from the get together last weekend and I can whip up something to eat."
"What do you think, Carl?"
"Fine with me, Don. I'm sure anything your beautiful wife here makes would be better than anything I could get for take out on the way home," he says, still smiling at you.
"Oh good. I'll be right back then you two." You practically do a pirouette before you promptly heading out of the room.
"Wow! That was quick." Carl whispers after you are out of sight.
"Yea, but you were quicker. Miniature golf? Where did that come from?" I chide.
"I know you love to play golf so it was the first thing that came to mind after your little fib of an intro. Where did 'office spring fling' come from?" He smiles and jabs me in the arm.
"Okay, okay, I just don't want to jump into this too quickly and scare her off. Let's settle in with a beer or two and whatever she is fixing for dinner then we can take her on with the proposition after that."
"You're the boss or rather the customer." Carl says and sits his camera bag down on the same little side table where you sat your garden gloves and little spade.
No sooner than we take a seat than you come walking back out with a couple of beers.
"Here you go. A couple of cool ones to get started with while you wait."
I look up and am stopped cold at the sight of you. You didn't just go to the kitchen. You do have a beer bottle in each hand but you also have another surprise. You changed from your outdoor working clothes into a lightweight sundress. It's the one you know I love so much. Maybe because I love how it buttons all the way down the front. I also notice the even more obvious as you walk a little further. You've left the three top buttons undone. You are displaying a very generous amount of cleavage for someone's benefit.
You walk over to Carl and hand him a bottle and then come back over to me to give me one, but before you do you lean in a little further and peck me on the cheek. I happen to look over Carl as you bend down and see his eyes glued to your backside. A huge grin is on his face.
"I'll be just a few minutes and I'll call you dinner." You say as you walk back around the couch to the kitchen. "I'm making some sandwiches, salad fixings and if you'd prefer I can cut up some fruit too."
"Sounds good to me, dear."
"Aren't you having one?" Carl asks as he holds up his brown bottle toward you.
"I've already started. Left it in the kitchen." You smile at Carl and then look at me and wink. Then you turn on one foot and I smile at your backside as it sashays back into the kitchen.
Then I turn to Carl and catch him looking your way again, down low also.
"Sorry Donnie," he smiles knowing I caught him. He shrugs his shoulders. "Hard not to notice. That dress she has on shows off her sexy body very well."
"Cheers, Mr. Roving Eye." I hold up and tip my beer bottle to him.