"What time is it?" asked Jon over the music blaring in the living room.
"It's 10:30." he heard someone answer from behind him.
"Oh shit!" Jon exclaimed. He hurried into the kitchen to grab a soda out of the fridge then he headed for the door. As he opened it, someone grabbed his shoulder from behind.
"And just where do you think you're going young man?" He turned to see that it was Jennifer, a friend of Carrie's. "What's the matter? Are you too good to party with us?" she asked as she stepped in front of him and closed the door.
"I have to go pick Carrie up from work. She gets off at 11:00 and I told her I'd pick her up so that she didn't have to worry about driving tonight." he explained. No sooner did he finish his sentence than there was someone knocking on the door.
Jennifer opened it, "Hi! How are you guys doing? I'm so glad you could make it. Here, give your coats to Jon and he'll take them upstairs." she said to her new guests. To Jon, she said, "Fine. You just take these upstairs to the bedroom where we're keeping everyone's stuff; second door on the right, and you can leave as long as you promise not to be gone long. We have something special planned for you for your birthday tonight. You got it?"
"Yeah, I got it. No. Wait a minute, I thought the coats were going in the first room on the right." he said.
"Well, we were but we ran out of room so we had to move down one door. Now go, go, go. You don't want to be late, do you?" She said and turned around to mingle again.
Jon went upstairs and checked the first room on the right. "Looks like plenty of room to me, but it's Jen's place." he said to himself. He turned and went to the second door and pushed it open. He turned his back to the room and turned on the light. When he turned around to look for a place to put the coats, he almost dropped them.
Carrie was lying on the bed. She was wearing a red and black negligee with little bow-tie closures down the front from cleavage to crotch. He turned around again, opened the door and dropped the coats in the hall then closed and locked the door before turning around again.
Carrie was playing with the top bow-tie as she asked, "Well, are you just going to stand there and look or are you going to come over here and open your birthday surprise?" She smiled as he crossed the room and sat down on the edge of the bed. She reached above her head and pressed play on the stereo. Slow, romantic music began to drift softly around the room.
"So you're my birthday surprise, huh,β he asked as he caressed her face and neck softly, just the way she'd told him she liked in one of their many conversations about sex.