Eileen was pretty happy with the housewarming party. About thirty-five of the forty people she and Jared had invited arrived and they more than filled the house that they had moved into a month earlier. The crowd was a testament to the friends that the two had made since moving to Parkman a month prior. Since Jared received his promotion and moved to this branch, life had become pretty fantastic. There was hardly anything that could make their idyllic existence any better than tonight had indicated it had become.
In the other room came a roar of laughter from the remaining partiers. Jared was entertaining two couples that stayed behind after the bulk of folks left around 1 a.m. One was Garret and Summer, who Eileen and Jared knew from Jared's assignment at the branch in Raleigh. They had moved to Parkman a year earlier in a promotion that moved Garret up the chain the same way it had promoted Jared. Garret and Summer were each in their mid-thirties, the same age as Eileen and Jared. Eileen remembered parties they had back in Raleigh when both Jared and Garret were new to the company. Garret and Summer would open up their pool on Fridays and invite over a ton of friends. Eileen and Jared always seemed to be the ones that stayed the latest. The two couples had loved each other's company back in Raleigh and were more than thrilled to hear that they'd be reunited in Parkman. Tonight was the first time they'd been able to all get together since the move.
The other couple was their new neighbors Stan and Tera. Stan and Tera had instantly become friends by offering to help move in some items that Eileen and Jared had moved via U-Haul to their new home. The gesture was rewarded with some wine and beers that Eileen and Jared readily shared after the moving of boxes and furniture. Stan and Tera were, Eileen noted often, the perfect couple. Both were highly educated professionals that lived an active, healthy lifestyle that gave them perfect figures. Eileen would have been totally disgusted looking at the two were they not so darned nice. Tera was a gorgeous redhead whose hair bordered an innocent-looking creamy white face. Her frame revealed a penchant for staying in shape yet she was not so striated that it took away from her beautiful curves. Stan was built like a "brick shithouse" or at least that's how Jared described him. His 6 foot frame and cut body told his history of playing tight end in college and said that he maintained a rigorous fitness schedule. Eileen more than appreciated the younger man's attributes. She had used his image as motivation more than once for a mid-day rendezvous with her toy "ramrod" which she played with when bored in the afternoons.
Eileen put away the last of the glasses in the dishwasher and threw a lingering beer bottle in their recycling bin. She washed her hands and then went out to rejoin what sounded like a lively conversation. She walked into their large den (the "man room" Jared liked to call it) and was hardly surprised to find Garret in a corner chair in a deep sleep. Jared was in the middle of recounting to our new neighbors a Raleigh story at the expense of Summer, who was blushing.
"...and Summer comes out of the water and her top is floating in the pool!" Jared practically yelled barely concealing the roar of Garret's snoring. Summer was sheepishly smiling, got up and walked over to Eileen and wrapped her arms around her neck. She blinked her tired eyes and leaned into her friend's ear saying, "Your husband sure can still tell a story." Eileen couldn't help but smile recognizing Summer's slightly slurred speech. "I gotta get Garret home girlfriend," she went on.
Eileen responded, "That's silly. You guys need to just stay here. Have a drink with me. It's been way too long and we didn't really get a chance to talk earlier."
Summer hugged Eileen and kissed her on the cheek. The action shocked Eileen a little. Summer was Eileen's closest friend, but they had never exchanged more than a hug. She was taken aback when Summer pressed her braless chest, covered only by the thin cotton of her sundress against her chest. "I've really missed you too. Let me get another glass of wine and we'll sit together and talk like old times," Summer said.
Eileen explained away Summer's actions as drunken flirtation. "She always was a big flirt once you got a few drinks into her," Eileen reasoned to herself.
As Summer sauntered off into the kitchen, Eileen directed her attention to the loud conversation occurring in front of her. Jared had a short glass full of Jack and coke and Eileen wondered when his grand gestures would cause him to spill it. The younger Stan sat and listened intently with a smile. He was drinking a clear drink in a taller glassβprobably the rum and Seven-up he was drinking earlier. It was then that Eileen noticed the lovely Tera was gone.
"Where's Tera Stan?" she inquired.
"Oh, she's long gone. Took off to get some sleep when you went to clean up," Stan responded.
"Speaking of clean up, I'm gonna go wash up too. Gotta go piss something fierce!" the drunken Jared just about yelled as he stumbled upstairs towards their large master bedroom.
Stan and Eileen exchanged uncomfortable small talk, mostly about the party and its attendees and how happy the two couples were to know each other and to be neighbors. Right as the conversation began to lull, in returned Summer with a couple of glasses of wine. Eileen took Summer's entrance as an opportunity to run upstairs, use the bathroom, and check on Jared.
Eileen entered the room and was hardly shocked to see Jared sprawled out on the bed asleep. She smirked and then went to the bathroom to relieve herself. Afterward, she looked into the mirror and saw that she was still dressed for guests. Knowing that she was going downstairs to hang out with Summer, she decided to dress more comfortably. Eileen watched her reflection as she unbuttoned her blouse, pulled it off, and threw it in the hamper. She took a split-second to consider whether to remove her bra, but didn't give it a second thought when she decided that Stan would be gone by the time she went downstairs. She removed it and took a second to examine her breasts. She prided herself on keeping her figure. She lifted her C cup breasts and watched them jiggle when she released them. She then zipped her tight pants down and shimmied out of them, slightly pulling her pink lace thong down on the right side. She straightened them out and walked into the room and retrieved a t-shirt from her dresser and put it on. She took a second to giggle at her husband who was now snoring loudly.
Eileen was a little confused when she didn't hear any voices as she was coming down the stairs. The silence was broken though from Summer's laugh coming from the finished basement. Summer must have been watching television on the new big screen television. As Eileen started going down the second set of stairs, she stopped in her tracks when she heard Stan's voice.
"I'm not that young! I know that song. I had an older sister who I borrowed music from," he said, Eileen assumed, to Summer.
"Well put it on the stereo. I love that song," Summer responded.
The music initially came out pretty loud, but after a second Stan turned it down to an acceptable level. Eileen recognized the song from her high school days. She thought about how she used to make out to it in the back of her boyfriend's car, long before she met Jared in college. She began to imagine... "I better get down there," she reminded herself. She paused though when she considered that she was only wearing her lace thong panties under her t-shirt. She wondered for a second whether it was appropriate for her to show up dressed like that, but figured in the dimmer light of the basement and considering the relative length of t-shirt and thickness of it, she was safe. "I mean, it's 2:00 in the morning. Stan's probably heading home soon anyway," she reasoned.
Eileen got to the bottom of the stairs and saw her two guests standing a foot apart from each other next to the bar that Jared had installed. They both pulled a little apart as Eileen entered the room.
Summer was now closer to her than Stan. Summer turned so that her back was to him and her eyes got big as if to send a signal to Eileen and then said, "Man, we've been waiting for you. Don't you love this song?" she asked a bit uncomfortably.
"Uh, yeah," Eileen responded. "What the hell is she up to?" Eileen thought.
"Dance with me girlfriend," Summer said as she playfully grabbed Eileen and twirled her around making Eileen a bit self-conscious about the t-shirt she was wearing. Eileen felt an instantaneous warmth in her core as Summer pulled her against her body. The two women were about the same height so they were momentarily eye to eye. Eileen instantly felt the hard nipples of Summer's fuller breasts pressing out on the sun dress that covered them. Eileen couldn't help but notice hers harden as well as their breasts came together.