I love these final moments – 2

“Been a long time Jim,” she said after meeting my wife. “You haven’t changed all that much,” she told me.

“Neither have you,” I replied back. Aside from putting on a few extra pounds, which we all had, and now wearing her long hair cut short, far shorter than I would have imagined her ever wearing it, she really hadn’t.

“Well thanks, but you’re just being kind,” she said, taking her seat. “Your wife’s beautiful,” she then added once again smiling towards Maria.

“Jim’s always had good taste in women,” Maria responded back winking at her. The awkwardness of the moment in seeing her again quickly passed. Before long we were enjoying our dinner together and catching up on old times. It was then that I noticed she wasn’t wearing a wedding ring, though I didn’t ask her about it until she brought it up herself, explaining that she had actually gotten divorced two years ago. What I didn’t know until that moment, was the fact she had married Jake, one of the guys who had actually spied on the two of us in the shower room.

“Sorry to hear that,” I told her, though I was smiling secretly to myself that she’d eventually dumped the guy. By now, we were all feeling comfortable around one another, though the free-flowing booze had certainly helped.

“I don’t know how much Jim has told you about us,” she wondered, as my wife answered her.

“Jim and I don’t have, or keep any secrets from one another,” Maria told her. “In fact, we very often share things with one another in the heat of the moment…if you know what I mean,” she surprised me by explaining to her. “So I’m very much aware of everything between the two of you, and don’t mind saying…I’m jealous of you. Wish I had the ability to do that myself, do you still?” Maria then asked, shocking me by asking it that she did, and seeing poor Rose’s face suddenly turn crimson at the question. Though thankfully, she laughed at that, out loud.

“To be perfectly honest with you both…it has been a while. But yes, as Jim and you obviously both know, I can yes.”

I excused myself to step outside for a smoke, giving the two of them a chance to talk freely for one. It seemed like Rose was glad for the companionship, and it gave me a chance to collect myself after seeing her again for the first time in years. It wasn’t as though I had any feelings for her, beyond hoping we could at least bury the past.

But I did hope that perhaps at some point we could sit down and have lunch together, and then let bygones be bygones. When I returned, the girls were missing, though Cheryl and Mike who’d been sitting with us at the table informed me the girls had headed off to the restroom and would be back shortly.

They returned a few minutes later, laughing and holding hands like they’d been friends for years. “Rose took me on a tour of the girl’s locker room,” she stated as they retook their seats. “I had to see the infamous place for myself,” she then teased Rose, who once again sat there blushing as she said that. But her comment and tour had opened up the door, which I prepared to step through myself, though Rose beat me to it before I could.

“I’m sorry about what happened,” she told me. “I didn’t learn the truth until several years later,” she added. “I should have known better…but, I was young at the time…”

“As we all were,” I interjected.

Rose nodded her head and continued. “You know the really ironic thing was, even after I had learned the truth about what had really happened, I still forgave Jake for his role in it, determined to make my marriage work. The fact that I could actually climax, just by having my boobs played with,” she now whispered quietly to us both, “suddenly became less exciting to him than it had been in the beginning.

After a time, Jake actually came to resent the fact that I could, and up until then did. After a while, he refused to even touch them, figuring that I wasn’t normal, or at least normal enough for him anyway. Unfortunately of course, that led to resentment on both sides, and I refused to climax any other way until he relented, and showed me some attention in that area, which he refused to do. That however eventually led to our divorce two years ago. And as they say, the rest is history.”