Pete was a sales rep for a company that leased office printers and photo copiers. He had a company car and there was a lot of travel involved. It meant that he spent a great deal of time alone and the occasional night away from home.
He told himself that he was ready for a sexual adventure but only managed to watch a load of porn on his phone and laptop in the basic hotel rooms which were all his company would permit him to use.
He had once been a fit guy and a keen rugby player but too many years of boozing and a sedentary life style had taken their toll. He carried too much weight and although the company insisted he wear a suit and a tie he always managed to look disheveled and apologetic. He found his schedule of appointments dull and tiring. Recently his sales figures had started to drop putting his annual bonus in grave doubt.
As is the case with many men his mind refused to acknowledge any consequences to the lifestyle he lived and he fondly imagined himself as crisp, debonair and a bit of a wild dog who only needed the right opportunity to have the women begging for his attention. Of course these same women would also be young, fit, and ready to serve his deepest desires. "Gagging for it" was the phrase he liked to muse over in his mind whenever he had some private time alone to flog his dick.
I am worried that reading this you may already dislike him. Perhaps if your sympathy is rapidly disappearing I can rekindle it by saying that he was not a bad bloke. He would not consciously hurt anybody or any thing. He liked animals and sometimes gave to charity if a box was rattled under his nose. He was just fundamentally lazy, believing success would one day fall into his lap (including the girl). He could not see that an affair or even a 'fling' required some proactive effort on his part.
On one of his regular routes he would stop off at a small roadside cafe for a typical 'trucker's' fry up meal and a mug of tea. It was a popular place serving generous portions of food, and a selection of sticky, sugar frosted cakes also available, on display behind a glass panel on the counter top.
It meant that the two women who ran the cafe were always 'rushed off their feet' as Elsie the waitress who served the tables would say when Pete asked her how she was. He never quite knew how to follow up this initial attempt at conversation.
She was young; probably in her mid twenties with big eyes and a sulky mouth. She sucked on her biro as she waited for his order. It was not meant to be suggestive and certainly not to please him as her eyes were already wandering towards the door where the next group of men were arriving with a lot of backslapping banter and loud laughter.
Pete hesitated with his finger on the menu and she leaned in towards him, tilting her head to see what he indicated. She had a slight figure and Pete caught the faint smell of a perfume and saw grains of blusher on her cheek.
"OK," she said, "The ham and two eggs with a mug of tea," and was gone.
He watched her after that as she moved among the tables swiftly and efficiently with her pen and pad, carrying dishes, or seizing a moment to wipe a table top or sort out the ketchup, salt and pepper in their wire baskets. She was slim with a white pinafore and a short black skirt that hugged her arse. Her long legs were pale and bare and she had black trainers on her feet with no socks Pete found this particularly attractive. He told himself that he would like to take her in hand and show her a good time.
Her fellow worker was far less visible as she worked behind the counter and in the kitchen at the back of the cafe. She was a large strong personality, who knew her customers well and joked with them in confident familiar terms. She would stand hand on hips, square onto the men opposite, presenting them with her large bust and bright eyes.
'Why haven't I seen you this week? She would call out to one of them, "Thought you'd forgotten me." Then wagging a playful finger shrill above the hubbub, "Not found another woman have yer?". This followed by a loud rattling laugh that more than matched anything the men could muster in reply.
Her hair was a dirty blond, hidden under the regulation net and she wore a nondescript dress with some sort of faded floral pattern. This was protected by an apron which was tied tight to show off the generous curves of her bosom and tummy. She worked hard, producing dishes at speed which she plonked down on the counter, calling out the table numbers for Elsie to deliver. Over time Pete learned that her name was Bella and that she had owned and worked the cafe for a decade and more.
Elsie brought him his food and moved immediately to attend to the newcomers, and Pete paused to look. She always moved swiftly, dipping and turning around the tables, notepad out, stopping only to take the next order.
Did she know that he watched her? Pete fancied that she did... Certainly it seemed that when she paused at a table, she did so with her back to him so he could appreciate her sexy arse. She had a habit of standing with her weight on one foot and then shifting it to the other so that her pretty rear end was always pirouetting and tilting. 'Putting it on display for him the minx,' he thought, then she was forever smoothing down her skirt over her cheeks with a free hand so that her buttocks never remained still.
Except that they were ..... when she did that thing again, bending suddenly to check an item on the menu at a table just opposite where Pete was sitting. A perfect pose - bent over with her bare legs slightly apart and the hemline of her skirt pulled tight. Pete paused in the act of eating to savour the sight. He imagined trailing the fingers of one hand up the inside of her leg, letting the back of his hand drift over her inner thigh to appreciate its delicate shape, then cupping the gusset of her panties hard against his palm. His fork loaded with ham remained still while his tongue slipped out over his lower lip. Would she remain still for him, or tilt her hips in appreciation?
Or maybe... SLAP him hard he guessed, and looked up to see Bella watching him, her arms folded on the counter. She held his gaze, impassive; appearing slightly meditative. She opened her mouth very wide and shut it once as though in mock amazement. He could not read her expression and had to let his eyes drop, scratching the plate noisily as he chased the last mouthful with his fork. How much had she seen in his face he wondered and grew hot at the thought.
After that he was away for a week on a longer run that took him further north. When he called at the cafe again it was at the end of a long tiring day during which he had not found time to eat. He felt starved and looked forward to his usual meal and another sight of Elsie. Although he told himself he would have to try and not be so 'bleeding obvious' about it this time.
It was late afternoon and the cafe was quiet with only one other customer enjoying a cigarette at the end of his meal. Pete was disappointed to see no sign of Elsie. Perhaps she had been let off home early as there were no customers left to be served. Bella greeted him at the counter and said that the kitchen was now closed, and didnt he know that they shut at five on a Wednesday. Relenting, she then told him to sit down and said that she would bring him some tea and make him a sandwich.
'As a special favour," she said, "For my favourite man,' and held his eyes again. Pete felt awkward. He did not do banter well.
He went to sit down and Bella was busy 'shutting up shop.' She hoisted in a bench, table and sunshade from outside the front door grunting with exertion and yelled a goodbye to the last man as he left.
"Another day over," she said, and flipped the door sign over to 'Closed Even for Gail's Best Homemade Ice Cream,' hinting at a glorious promise the next day could offer to any disappointed punters. She took off her apron and hung it on a hook behind the door. She was wearing her cotton dress that was pulled tight over her breasts and big tummy. Pete noticed them both moving slightly from her recent efforts. She then pulled off the hairnet and stuffed it in a pocket, running her fingers swiftly through her hair to recover its shape. It was longer than Pete expected and made her face seem softer. She glanced over and smiled when she saw him watching.