It was hot, and I mean toasting! The weather channel was calling for a low of only seventy eight overnight with the humidity nearly the same. It was a horrible, awful, shitty time for the air conditioning to crap out. Normally I would fix just about anything myself, but in this case there wasn't much I could do with a toasted compressor.
After a long talk with a good contractor, I elected to update the system to a new heat pump instead of the old electric furnace. Unfortunately that meant that the air handler portion in the attic had to be replaced as well as the outside unit, and I can't really blame the contractor for this, he would only work in that space between five and ten in the morning.
Bottom line? I had been out of AC for three days, and he estimated almost a week yet until the new unit would be here and installed. Part of me wished that my wife was home, instead of off at military training for the next three weeks. She could at least suffer with me.
I had told one of the faculty I teach with at the university how crappy it was without the AC and how lucky he was to be heading off on a cruise with his wife to Alaska the next day. Much to my surprise he invited me to stay at his house while he was gone. "Enjoy the pool and the Jacuzzi!" He said with a slap on my back. "My wife and I certainly aren't going to need it."
"I really can't put you out like that." I said in a feeble protest.
"Come on. You've been over so much you know your way around. I'm sure Jan would insist as well!" He said with a grin.
"Ok. As long as I can find a way to pay you back."
"Tell you what, you were going to check the house and take in the mail and such anyway, why don't you go ahead and mow the lawn for me while we're gone and we'll call it even." He said.
"Ok. If you insist."
We're leaving in late tonight anyway. Why don't you pack your bag and come by for dinner. We can relax a bit after dinner."
"Ok. I'll see you around six then."
"Great!" Dean said with a smile. "I'll let Jan know."
I walked out of Dean's office feeling like I might actually survive the next few days.
It was just past six when I pulled into the drive of their house. Two large incomes make a big difference. Where I have a seventeen hundred square foot ranch home secluded back in the woods, Dean and Jan have a three thousand plus square foot two story home on a large wooded lot in an extremely upscale neighborhood. Their house is tucked back in the wooded lot so that you can only really see one neighbor, with trees on the other three sides, and a six foot privacy fence on the only open side. My wife and I had been coming over and playing cards and hanging out for a couple years now, and I had to admit to being a bit jealous of the space, and the built in Jacuzzi, and the huge pool. But then when your wife makes nearly six figures and you make three quarters of that with no kids to chew it up...
I walked up to the front door and knocked, and Jan came to open it, looking as stunning as always in a pair of micro shorts and a crop top. Jan was maybe five seven or eight, with a slender build and a very pale complexion to go with her auburn hair. I'd seen her in very skimpy bikini's on many occasions, and her freckles extended well down her chest. I'd often wondered just how much of her easily C cup tits had freckles. Every part I had seen surely had. "Hey Mike!" she said coming out and giving me one of her huge full body hugs that she only gave me when my wife wasn't around.
"Hey Jan." I replied, returning the hug with one arm while my other held onto my duffel bag, and hoped that she didn't feel the hardon growing in my pants.
"Dean told me about your air. I'm glad he was able to talk you into staying here till it's fixed. Would have been more fun if we were home though." She said with a chuckle as she pulled away, running a finger down the front of my already bulging pants. "Looks like my little hug got your motor running."
"Um... Yeah. Just like it always does." I said with a bit of a blush.
"You are so cute when you blush like that." She said with a giggle. "Come on in. Dean is almost done grilling."
"Thanks." I answered as she led me into the house.
"So... You're going to stay for a few days till they get your new stuff put in?" She asked as she went to work setting the table.
"Yeah. They said a few days to a week, depending on the weather."
"Well, you'll have plenty of room. Nancy is gone the whole time isn't she?"
"Yeah. She's still in Virginia for another two weeks."
"Oh. Well, you can use the guest room if you want, but you'll probably be a lot more comfortable in the master bedroom. It has TV and everything."
"You sure you want me sleeping in your bed?"
"Ohhhh I'd love to get you sleeping in my bed, but you just won't say yes!" she said with a sly grin. I was never quite sure if she was kidding or serious when she made comments like that, and she only made them when my wife wasn't in earshot, making me wonder all the more.
"I think the guest room will be fine."
"Oh no. I insist. Please use my bed. It's really a lot more comfy." She said as she put the last of the silverware on the table.
"I don't suppose it's going to do any good to argue."
"If you do I'll just lock the guest room door so you have to use my bed. Come on, give a girl a thrill!" she said with one of her common school girl giggles.
"Ok. If you really insist!" I said.
"Good. Now that that's settled, why don't you take Dean a fresh beer!" she said handing me a pair of cold bottles of beer.
"You know I don't drink." I said holding one back out for her.
"are you going to be a spoil sport? Drink it! I know you have one on special occasions, just call this a special occasion."
