I left work and walked across the car park to the small massage therapist's room that was attached to the end of our building. After a stressful day at work, with customers and bosses yelling at me and demanding attention I felt drained, tired and tense. I popped my head around the door and saw Gail sitting at reception, a book of pencilled figures in her hands, glasses perched on her nose. She was in her early 40's, not unattractive for her age and slim, standing at about chin height. She had shoulder length blond her and a friendly and open face. A photo taken some years ago sat by her reception, of her, her husband and a young daughter and she was fairly attractive then. She owned and worked the small business herself. Age had taken away the striking, wolf whistle beauty, but left an honest, natural attractiveness. She looked up and smiled.
"Hi James, you look well and truly beat. Hard day?"
"Don't even ask. I just want to go home and forget it. I just came by to let you know I've closed everything else up. You're the last to go."
"No problems. Come hear a second. Let me do you a favour."
"Sure" I said. I sat down on her chair and she stood behind me and probed at my shoulder muscles with her fingers. As soon as she touched them the stress seemed to disappear. After thirty seconds she was done.
"Wow, that was awesome. How'd you do that?"
"It's easy. I hope it stays off your shoulders long enough for you to find some peace. Have a good night."
"Thanks, you too." I said and left.
But within days I was just as tense and I decided to employ her services again. I made an appointment with her after work, to get a neck and back massage. She gave me a cheap rate and left me feeling revitalised and refreshed. I began seeing her once a week, revelling in the way she revived me. Then a friend suggested I try a full body massage, said they were amazing. I felt a bit unsure about it but my friend explained that they were far from sexual, and were all about letting things soften and relax, "Not about getting things hard!", as she put it with a laugh. So, hesitantly, I decided to give it a shot.
"Okay, I'll be back in a few moments. Get undressed and make yourself comfortable." Gail said, and pressed play on a tiny, cheap black CD player in the corner.
Soft relaxing sounds of the beach drifted through the room as she slipped out and closed the door. I sat in a chair by the CD player and undid the laces in my polished black dress shoes and eased them off my feet. My socks came next, then I stood and pulled my blue polo top off and undid the button of my black pants and unzipped the fly. Stepping out of them I laid them over the chair and then pulled off my trunks and tossed them on top. It felt strange standing there naked in the small room, but it wasn't uncomfortable as the air was warm and the music relaxing and I was glad to be out of my work clothes. I grabbed the small white towel from the side table, folded in half as she'd told me and climbed up onto the massage table, twisting back to lay the towel over the cheeks of my arse and looking in the mirror directly behind me to make sure everything was covered. I saw I'd put it to high and that she would have been able to see quite a lot and, embarrassed at the thought, I adjusted it a lot lower. I then put my head face down into the hole in the table and closed my eyes.
Instantly I felt the stress begin to ebb from my mind, the music was having an amazing effect, but my muscles were still tense and I patiently waited for her to come back. I had begun to doze such was the power of the music when I heard a light rap on the door and a voice call out, "Are you all set in there Daniel?"
I snapped awake in an instant and called out in the affirmative. I was a little nervous at being virtually naked in the room with her, and hoped her attentions didn't cause anything to stir and embarrass myself. I'd never had a full body massage and had no idea of how they worked or what you were supposed to do. But I figured worrying was what had landed me on the table in the first place, that thinking too much was causing my stress so I thought I'd better just go with the flow.
She gently opened the door and closed it behind her. Efficiently she crossed to the table and took up a tube of some sort of oil. It was strong smelling, but not in an unpleasant way. I guessed it was some sort of specialist massage oil. She then squirted it into her hands and put the tube over my shoulders and added a little more. I felt a tingle as it slowly slid down my skin and followed my spine down to the base of my back, pooling slightly in the nook that was created by my back ending and the muscles of my arse rising.