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John's Story
I never knew what hit me. I mean, I've had encounters of the sexual kind before, but this was, well. . .
I had better back up a bit. I'm John Thonth, a 42 year old math teacher at a pretty well known college. That's being modest: I'm chair of the math department and I'm really good at teaching and research, but this story will show you I'm lousy at personal relationships.
Some women have called me a professional bachelor, others have called me worse than that. I may not be married, but I like going through the motions. The more experienced men reading this story will appreciate that some ladies are much better at those particular motions than others. This story is about one of those ladies...
I dated Jayne M six or seven years ago. Jayne is a professor in the biology department here, and she was probably one of the most attractive women I ever knew. She was a sophisticated classy lady, one any man would be proud to have on his arm. You wouldn't think it when you looked at her, but there was a big bonus -- she was as exciting and adventurous as you could imagine in the bedroom. She claimed I was only her fourth (or was it fifth?) lover, and that included her ex husband. One of them had to have been an inspiring teacher of sexual techniques, and Jayne was a good student
I thought about Jayne often. Sometimes those memories kept me warm at night when I was in bed by myself. Hell, sometimes I thought about her when whoever I was having sex with isn't very exciting.
What happened between her and me, why weren't we still together, you might ask. Well, that's easy. The only thing we had in common was sex. She liked chamber music, I wanted country. She liked old classic movies, I watched the newest films. Long dresses and fine restaurants worked for her, blue jeans and local bars were better for me. We figured out we didn't have a future together and agreed we'd just be dates and sex partners of convenience.
It wasn't much later when we stopped seeing each other β no hard feelings β and a year after that she married a guy who I guess was a much better match for her than I was. I wished her well, and meant it. Still, when I'd see her on campus I'd remember the hot times we had and wished it was possible to go back to them, at least for a while.
It's not that I saw her on campus much. I didn't go there often during the summer. Hell, if you know anything about faculty workloads, you'll know I didn't go on campus much period -- tenure is a wonderful thing.
My grad students did know I was on call for them, and everyone knew I spent Tuesday afternoons in my on campus office unless that interfered with a tee time or some other afternoon delight.
On the Tuesday before the 4th of July this year I meandered over to campus and began going through the stack of papers in my in box when I saw Jayne walking by. She waved and I asked her to join me for a cup of coffee. It turns out, she said, she was looking for the chairman of the physics department. He had a small "this is my office for thinking, everyone keep out" place in the math building. Jayne said she was working on a joint biology/physics grant. He wasn't around, so we chatted about old times and flirted a little bit. Things were fine in her life, she said, although she did say her husband was away a lot.
Hmm.
"Is he away now?" It turned out he was. "Well, is there any reason we shouldn't have a dinner together, or at least a drink to celebrate old times?"
She thought about that for a minute or two, then agreed a salad and some wine the next night would be a nice way to spend the evening.
"My place or yours?" I asked with a big smile to prove I wasn't serious.
We agreed a TGI Fridays a dozen miles away would be a good place to meet. It wasn't popular with people either of us knew, and Friday's salad selections would work for both of us. It was an informal enough place so that our meeting couldn't be classified as a 'date'. We both knew it would be different if we had gone to one of the better restaurants right in town. People might have noticed and tongues would have wagged.
I looked forward to that quasi date: Jayne was fun to be with and we had some catching up to do.
We met around 9 the next night. It was an odd evening, there was a tension in the air, probably because she was a married woman now. That didn't make a lot of sense though, she knew I never dated, much less bedded, married women (why get shot by a husband when there was so much legal opportunity around?)
Besides, this wasn't a real date after all, it was just two people who were alone enjoying each other's company. I did some pro-forma flirting: that's almost a reflex for me. She gave as well as she took, making it even more fun. Like I said, she was really great in bed, and playing flirting games would give me something to think about when I went home and wrapped my fist around my cock.
She asked about how I was doing and I was honest enough with her. Yes, I was seeing someone she didn't know pretty regularly, but Joyce β that was my date's name β wasn't ever going to be a life partner. Yes, I still lived in the same house, but now my bed was king sized, not queen. "A bigger playground?" she wanted to know, and she was right. I didn't tell her about the scarves under the bed that could be tied to its corners or the video cameras I installed sometime after she and I had broken up. Hey, when I'm alone I'd rather be the star in the porno films I watch!
It was natural to ask about where she lived, too. "Oh, we have a place over in the Pines." I knew The Pines. It was a gated community with large houses on large lots, and there was a private golf course there, too.
"Wow, your husband does pretty well, doesn't he?"
"We do pretty well," she corrected me, "but you're right, he makes three times what I do."
"And he's often away," I added.