Rick and Melissa had been dating seriously for a couple of months, having met through one of the new online friendship sites. Rick had been looking to meet new people as he was new to Boise Idaho, and found that most of the people in his office were significantly older, or were less than appealing when it came to personalities. The town itself was significantly smaller than Baltimore, where he had grown up, but it still had the city feel that he had grown accustom to.
Having just graduated from college, Rick had moved to start his new job as an Aeronautics Engineer. At 24, Rick was an average looking man. He was taller than most, standing at 6'3, and was a healthy 220lbs. His build wasn't athletic, skinny, or fat, he was just your average Joe walking. He kept his dark brown hair very short, and had crystal clear blue-grey eyes.
After a couple of months of sheer boredom, Rick went online to find more like-minded people to hang out with. He had been online for about a week when Melissa had replied to him. Providing further evidence to the old adage "It's a small world", Melissa worked in his office on the business side in the accounting department. They decided to get together for coffee, and their friendship quickly progressed to more from there.
Melissa was an average woman as well, though a bit stockier... She was an impressive 5'9, with very long brown hair and brown eyes. Weighing 180lbs, she was far from petite, but also far from overweight. The best part about her size was her curvy figure. Melissa carried herself well, with a round yet firm rear and a set of very healthy, natural 38D breasts.
One night Melissa had suggested that he join her to meet up with a group of her friends. Rick had figured out rather quickly that Melissa was a girl of routine, and that she had certain activities that she performed at certain times. The weekly outing with friends was one such routine. Every week she would gather with a group of friends from school, and eat out and have a couple of drinks. To this point, Rick had not been invited, and was content with it as he didn't want to encroach on her freedoms. A bit surprised at having been invited, Rick accepted the invitation, happy with the thought that Melissa was growing even more comfortable with him.
They left that evening for Landry's, a local pub-type eatery. As they arrived, Rick was greeted by the group, 8 people in all. No one stood out as unique in the group, and as such, Rick hit it off with everyone quite nicely.
About 45 minutes into the meal, another person joined the group. She introduced herself to Rick as Abbey. Almost speechless, Rick muttered something that he hoped came out as his name. No one seemed to notice his inability to speak properly but he still felt like a blundering fool. In Rick's eyes, Abbey was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. She was a very plain girl, with a "western" look to her. She was shorter, standing 5'5 tall, and had the most amazing long dirty-blonde hair he had seen. Her eyes were a deep rich brown, and her skin was a pale but healthy white with sporadic freckles. She wore a button-down cowgirl-type shirt that hung perfectly off of her 34B breasts, with the bottom of her shirt tucked in to her pair of faded blue jeans that fit very tightly, showing off her hips and perfect behind. Rick figured that she couldn't have weighed more than 110lbs. Thinking that any of his friends from Baltimore would think him crazy for felling as he did for Abbey, he chuckled at the irony in that it took him moving across the country just to catch a glimpse of the sexiest, most pure and gorgeous woman on the planet.
The rest of the evening Rick was completely detached from himself. Still able to make conversation, everyone was completely oblivious to his new-found state of awe and lust. He snuck a look at Abbey every chance he could do so discreetly, and for some reason that he couldn't justify, his mind told him that she was doing the same.
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Time flew on from that moment... As Rick sat on the couch in the apartment he had called home for the past 5 years, he recalled that evening and many others as he waited for the next TV program to come on. Rick had become a part of the group of friends he met that night, and hung out with them religiously. 1 year after that night, he and Melissa had married. It seemed at around the same time that Abbey had all but disappeared not only from the group, but from Idaho altogether. He had heard that she went off to Europe to study abroad, and left no contact information. He thought of all the fun they had together, how close they had become, and how it became apparent to the two of them (and luckily no one else) that they were completely smitten with each other, and wanted to be with each other as much as they needed air to breathe. However, Rick was a very moral person. While he enjoyed anything taboo, lustful or sexual just as much as the next person (and probably a lot more), his morals told him that it wouldn't be right to pursue a relationship with Abbey, either in secret, or leaving Melissa for her.
The second year into their marriage, it became clear that Melissa didn't have the same moralities. Melissa was on a business trip up to Washington, which involved conferences and socializing with counterparts. One night, she had decided that it would be prudent to join a group of people in the use of a recreational drug, a first for her, and in turn lost all her inhibition.
Rick had always had one rule when it came to relationships... If you cheat, it's over. He took this approach for two reasons: 1) "if you need to cheat, then it's not working" and 2) "if I am not going to indulge, then you can't either", with the second stinging his heart because of Abbey.
Even though this had been a credo that Rick had lived by, he wasn't comfortable with giving up on Melissa. He gave her a choice, him or the drugs & sex, and she chose him. Two months later she did the same thing twice in two weeks, which had effectively ended their relationship.
Time had passed quickly. Rick was single, and was ok being single for the time being. His work was treating him very well, having been promoted twice since his divorce. He had taken to flying like a fish to water, and his favorite pastime was taking the group on trips to Vegas, camping, or wherever the mood struck them to go. His only regret was that he had no way of touching base with Abbey, and was unable to share in any part of her life.
Pulled out of his revere by the TV show starting, Rick settled in for a nice night of doing absolutely nothing. It was September, and there was a massive rain storm coming down. While the storm itself was formidable, almost frightening, Rick was at peace, as he had always been mesmerized by storms. He found them to have a deep sensual aura about them, and found them to always set the mood for an evening of romance. That being said, an evening of TV would suffice just as well. Work had been excruciatingly busy, and this was the first evening he had had to himself in what seemed like months.
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Rick must have nodded off as a massive crash of thunder startled him to full alert. It took him a second to realize that the power was out, and that it was starting to get dark out. Frustrated that he had to move, he pulled himself out of the couch to go get candles before it was too dark to find them.
He was almost all of the way inside a floor-level cabinet when he heard knocking. Not expecting anyone to come by, he reasoned that it was probably a tree branch blowing into the shutters, or a noise from the next apartment over. His reasoning changed when it happened again, with a very rapid pattern. He lit a candle and went across the apartment to the front door and opened it to find a drenched Abbey standing in the rain.
Completely dumbfounded, Rick stood there with his jaw open for what seemed like an eternity. After 4 years of absolutely no contact, Abbey stood in the doorway of Rick's apartment. She was trembling, most likely from the cold and rain, but given the hidden, but unmistakable smile, Rick suspected that (or probably wished) that it might be from excitement.
After composing himself, Rick was the first to speak. "Abbey, I wouldn't have guessed it would be you in 100 years. Come in, please, you must be soaked to the bone."
Abbey stepped through the doorway and before saying a word, embraced Rick in the biggest hug he had ever received. "It's great to see you Rick... It's been way too long." Abbey beamed through her angelic smile.