Author retains all rights, no reproduction or other use without permission. The names have been changed because there's just a little too much truth to this one.
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We met at a workshop on collaboration, a three day affair at a resort near Lake Tahoe and it wasn't all business, but the play was fairly limited and innocent. She was married and although I found her to be incredibly attractive, well, that was that. She was young, in her late twenties, tall, maybe 5'9", a pierced nose, never my favorite but was kind of sexy on her. Hispanic with perfect olive toned skin and long legs, she had a smile that lit up the room and her eyes belied a spark that said I'm not as well behaved as I seem.
Of course, that was that for a time and we returned back to campus and to our jobs. Sure we saw each other once in awhile and said hi, always accompanied by a really nice hug and a little light flirting. We were completing a new building on campus that my office was going into and I was excited to find out she would be moving to the same building. Made me think that it would at least up the frequency of those hellos and hugs, and it did. We would run into each other once a week or so and I have to admit it made those days a lot better at work.
Unfortunately we hit a point where we hadn't seen each other in almost four weeks and as I was walking across campus on a Friday afternoon I heard my name. It was Crystal yelling hello from across campus and heading my way, so of course I waited for her. We hugged as usual and being across campus from our building we took the long walk together, slowly. She mentioned she had just been thinking about me and was going to e-mail me to say hi. I said something about her being great and gave her a little hug, she returned the compliment and I told her if she wasn't married I snatch her up in a minute.
"Yeah, me too," she smiled and looked me right in the eye.
That was quite a shock, with the spark heading to a very expected location; we had made it to the building and were talking in the stairwell when she asked me if I skied. Turned out she snowboarded and finding out that I used to skateboard she offered to teach me. I joked with her that her husband might not be thrilled about her and I spending time in the mountains, she blew it off telling me he wouldn't care.
I hadn't given that conversation much thought when a couple of weeks later I see Crystal standing in the doorway to my office. She said she had some free passes including free rentals and wanted to know if I wanted to take her up on her offer to teach me to snowboard. I decided to and the next day I found myself gearing up at a local resort. The day was tough on my ass, as I spent a lot of time dropping on it while trying to get my feet under me. Late in the day I was ready to take a full run down the mountain and off to the top we went. I did pretty good most of the way down when I caught an edge and hooked right into Crystal at the edge of the run. We careened off into the powder and crashed out with me landing on top of her. I quickly asked if she was ok and then equally quickly found myself locked in a fairly passionate kiss. We shuffled about and finished the run and there was more than a bit of awkward silence as we made our way back to the car.
Once in the car we found ourselves kissing again, she kissed me hungrily and I returned that energy. Wondering to myself if I should touch her my thoughts were shattered by the feel of hands running up my leg and finding what her fingers were searching for, and we mauled each other. Hands flying everywhere, mouths exploring each other's necks and then just as suddenly as it had started she pulled back and stopped. We drove the first half hour off the mountain in silence, listening to the radio and then slowly dropped into small talk. We pulled into my apartment complex as it was getting dark and she pulled in and parked. Like clockwork we were kissing again and this time it ended more slowly, not much being said and I got out of the car and went to my apartment.
A few days later I ventured over to Crystal's office and said hi, I could see immediate confusion in her eyes and then we hugged like we normally do, but it lasted longer than usual. We stayed standing close together and looking at each other and I told her how much I enjoyed our trip and thanked her for the lesson.
"God you are so hot." I leaned in and whispered in her ear and she smiled.
