Author's Note
First off, thanks for reading (and thanks even more for liking and favoriting). This is written as a sequel to the events of my previous story, and you might not get the full picture if you haven't read that first.
i am working on telling the story from Maria's point of view. it's been interesting to try to get inside her head as all this goes on.
Day 2:
The next morning I woke up to the heavenly smell of bacon and coffee. I peeled myself out of bed, waking Maria as I climbed over her to get to the bathroom. Of course, I had no toothbrush or clean clothes and - oh, shit, my clothes were all in the living room still! How could I sneak out and get them...? "Fool!" I thought to myself. "You've been naked with two of these people, or three if you count the dorm showers with Bill, and you watched Abby bouncing on your college buddy's huge schlong." So I padded nude to the living room and picked up what I could find - my clothes, Cathy's thong and blanket, and the sad remains of a mermaid's dress with a few forlorn sequins. When I got back to the bedroom, Maria was already dressed in jeans and a button-down flannel shirt, and I could hear the shower running as Cathy got cleaned up.
"Thank you Mike, that was considerate. Did anybody see you?"
"Bill and Abby are making breakfast in the kitchen. I don't think they saw me."
The shower stopped, and Cathy emerged with a towel around
her. She wasn't very tall, so the towel reached from her armpits almost to her knees. I handed her the blanket and the thong. She looked critically at the thong, sniffed it, and tossed it aside. "Maria, I'm gonna need some clothes."
"It's fine, I have plenty of clothes that should fit you, and no worries about the legs and sleeves being long enough. But there's no way any of my bras will fit those fantastic tits of yours."
"I guess I'll have to go commando, then." Cathy dropped the towel, giving us a daylight look at her beautiful curvy body. She accepted the sweat pants and t-shirt Maria handed to her and slipped into them, wearing nothing underneath. Then she looked at the armful of laundry I was holding in front of my junk. Quick as a praying mantis, she snatched my underwear away and flung it into the bathroom. "But if I have to go commando, everybody else does too."
I wasn't exactly disappointed at the prospect of Cathy's unconstrained chest swinging around in that T-shirt, nor about what was concealed in the sweat pants. Maria blushed but unbuttoned her shirt just enough to show an unbroken line of skin from neck to navel. Cathy nodded her approval and said, "Good start, but are you really going commando?" She reached over and tugged the top of Maria's pants outward, peeking down. "Not good enough, my friend. Get 'em off!" Maria turned bright pink, but disappeared into the bathroom.
I slid bareback into my jeans, put on last night's shirt, and went on down to the kitchen. My rumbling stomach was going to win this round over my dick's reviving interests.
Abby was setting the table for five and Bill was finishing the last batch of pancakes. "Jesus, Bill, what a night!"
He turned to me with a smile that was both proud and sheepish. "It got a little... more intense... than I had thought it might."
At that, Abby turned to look back over her shoulder and gave me a wink and a wicked grin. She leaned way over the table, pretending she had to stretch to adjust a fork or something, but deliberately hiking her shoulders up as she did so. The baggy T-shirt she wore slid up just enough that Bill and I could see that nothing was covering her backside. "You're a great guy, Mike. You're kind, a good friend to Bill, you're smart as hell, not too bad looking, and now I discover that you also seem to be good in the sack."
"I don't know about good in the sack", joked Cathy as she came in, "but he was damn good on the couch and on the living room floor." Maria, right behind her, blushed a little and giggled. "You're right about the couch though. Thanks for inviting him!"
Abby and Cathy had known each other since middle school, but moved in different social circles until going off to Adamson. Maria was some kind of not-exactly-relative of Bill, his stepbrother's cousin or something, and had already been living in this rental when Bill and Abby moved in, replacing a student couple who'd moved out in June after graduating and getting married.
"Yeah, thanks for inviting me. And Cathy, too."
"Actually it was partly Cathy's idea," said Bill. "She's been kind of at loose ends, socially, since college. Of course she knew I knew you, so Abby conspired with her to organize the party. My assignment was to find you, make sure you got here, and then to shut up and let things happen. Abby figures she owes Cathy something for introducing me to her." Bill and Abby had been involved for a couple years, but I had always figured they just met in class or at a party or something. I said so.
"No, I got to know Bill and I figured he might be right for Abby, so I set them up. I don't know how I got so lucky with their relationship when I had such dumb taste in men myself." Cathy's right - Bill & Abby were a great couple.
Maria had been sitting, looking at us thoughtfully as she got some of our back story. Suddenly, she stood up and walked over to the refrigerator. She pulled out the milk jug and sniffed it before pouring the last third of it down the sink. "This milk has gone bad. I have to go get some more." She padded barefoot to the front door, slipped on some sandals, and left.
Bill looked down at his milky coffee. "It wasn't bad ten minutes ago. What's gotten in to her?"
"It's not about what has gotten into her. Yet." Cathy smiled. "But I think it might be about what she wants - or doesn't - in that regard."
Well, that was a real WTF comment. Bill and I looked at each other and shrugged. But Abby, after looking puzzled for a few seconds, started to chuckle. "I get it. Milk isn't the only thing she's gonna buy."
We finished our pancakes and bacon, reminiscing and catching up. Cathy and I got up to clear the table. "Thanks for cooking, you two, it was great. We'll clean up, so you just hang out... or whatever," she said with a wink. I loaded the plates into the dishwasher, after wrapping the leftovers and putting them away in case Maria wanted more when she got back.