Note: this is a true story about a one-nighter I had during the relationship I had in my other true story, 'Green Eye Burn'.
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This is the story of an experience I had about 25 years ago. I've never told anyone about this because it would have caused a lot of problems for various people if those various people ever found out. The names are changed, and the dialogue is paraphrased, but I remember most of this like it was yesterday so it is fairly accurate to the way things happened.
My name is Rob, and as I write this I am 53 years old. In 1983 I was twenty-six years old with blond hair, blue eyes, and as a distant runner had a slim build: six feet, 165 pounds. I married a girl named Jill. She was an attractive, outgoing twenty-five year old: 5'7", 125 pounds, brown hair, big brown eyes and small but perky tits. She was a knockout and she knew it. The marriage was a mistake from the start and it was one of those situations where everyone knew it but me. It started going downhill after a year or so, and after about two years I found out she was screwing some guy at her office and that was pretty much the end of it.
She moved out of the house and I was always grateful for that because I would have been the type to stick it out as long as I could have and things could have gotten much more complicated. At the time we had no kids and our only asset to fight over was the house which was decided I would keep and pay her for her share. It would be a rather smooth divorce.
Once she left and the word got out about our separation friends started calling to see how I was doing and offer support. I got calls from my old friends, several of our mutual friends, and even two of Jill's childhood friends. Just about everyone who called agreed on one thing: Jill was an idiot.
A couple weeks after she left me, Jill's mother called me. Sandy was in her fifties at the time, perhaps fifty-three or fifty-four. She had been divorced from Jill's father for years and was remarried to a man named Rick, who I also got along well with. She was attractive like her daughter, blonde, about the same height and slim, perhaps ten pounds heavier than Jill with the same brown eyes. Her boobs were only a little bigger than Jill's, but still looked pretty firm. She had a body that she'd definitely taken care of. We had always gotten along fine, in fact I'd only met her once when she told Jill that it was okay to marry me, and from the beginning Sandy insisted I call her by her first name. Jill and I would visit her mother's house on holidays and go with Sandy to her condo at the beach. We could always talk easily, our relationship always warm, proper and respectful.
The phone call was pretty much like the others I'd received from everyone else: How are you feeling, how is your family, are you alright, etc. She told me how sorry she was, and talked about Jill, how she doesn't know what she's doing, how she is confused, blah blah, blah. We talked about ten minutes, I thanked her for calling and we hung up.
A month or so later she called me again. It started the same way as the previous call, asking how I was doing, how is the family, things like that. Then she changed the direction of conversation and caught me a little by surprise.
"Have you been seeing anyone," she asked.
I hesitated briefly and replied, "Oh, not really." I had actually been seeing two different women since right after Jill left, but my lawyer had told me that if I started seeing anyone to be discreet until the divorce was settled.
"Oh come on, Rob, you can tell me. I know your marriage is definitely over. I'm not telling anyone, especially not Jill, I feel terrible she left you in the first place. I just care about you and I want to see you move on, you deserve better. So tell me are you seeing anyone?"
"Well, yeah, I am." I trusted her.
"Okay, good. Now what's her name?"
"Actually I've been seeing a couple different women," I replied.
"Ooh, now we're getting somewhere," Sandy said. I chuckled at this, loosening up a little. "So what are their names and how did you meet?"
"Well one is named Denise, I met her through work. The other is Geri, and I met her through the baseball league. I coached her son on the all star team."
Sandy sounded surprised. "You coached teen-agers, she must be somewhat older than you."
"Yeah, she is. Well, they both are."
"Really? How old are they?"
"Denise is 36, Geri is 41."
"Wow Rob, I didn't know you liked that older pussy!" Sandy said. This surprised me...I had never heard her talk like that. This loosened me up some more.
I laughed and said, "Well, they're not complaining about having that younger dick!"
We both laughed. She responded, "That must keep you busy on the weekends juggling both of them."
"Oh not really, just depends. They have kids to keep them busy," I said. "Much of the time our plans are just kind of spur of the moment."
There was an awkward silence for a few beats before Sandy continued. "Rob, let me ask you a question. Do you have plans this Saturday night?"
"Not yet," I replied.
"Listen. I'm going down to the condo at the beach this weekend. I'm going down Friday night to check on the place and I'm staying to attend a condo association meeting on Monday night. Why don't you drive down on Saturday afternoon, I'll take you out to dinner and we can talk. I'd love to catch up and hear all about your business and all of these women you are seeing."
I started to mumble something and she cut me off.
"Don't worry; no one else will be there, just me. You know I wouldn't pull anything like that. It's just that after all that's happened it would be nice to see you again instead of everything ending on a sour note. What do you say?"
"What time were you thinking?"
"Why don't you come down late afternoon, three or four o'clock. We can have a couple drinks, chat and then walk across the street for dinner." She was referring to a favorite seafood house about a block from her condo.
"Well, okay, figure on me getting there around four. But you don't have to pay for dinner."
"I invited you, so I'm paying. I'm looking forward to it. So I'll see you around four?"
I agreed that four o'clock was good. We said our goodbyes, and I hung up shaking my head. It struck me that now that her daughter and I were divorcing, she wouldn't be my mother-in-law much longer. And the conversation we'd just finished had moved past mother-in-law/son-in-law territory.
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On Saturday I had to leave at around two-thirty to get to the condo by four o'clock. Sandy lived in the city about three hours from the beach and my house was about midpoint between the two. I showered, put on some jeans and a light blue shirt with running shoes all over it that she'd given me the previous Christmas.
Traffic was light. It was late fall so beach traffic was minimal. I arrived at Sandy's condo right at four o'clock. Her building was the type where the parking was on ground level under the building and the units started on the second floor. Being off-season there were only a few cars. I pulled in next to her blue Volvo.
I walked up two flights of stairs and over to her door. I hesitated and took a breath. I felt like through that door would be another dimension. I could feel on the phone earlier in the week that Sandy and I had reached a new level of communication. I felt from her a sincerity and trust that I never had with her daughter. It was a good feeling, but still awkward. I didn't know what to expect. I knocked on her door.