About two months ago I got a call from a coworker asking me to go check up on his wife. James started with our company about six months ago. We have become good friends. His office is down the hall from mine. He also lives in the same neighborhood as I do. It's a gated subdivision with maybe 30 homes. James is married and has three kids. His wife, Erica is a sexy blond who is in her mid to late 30's. They have a great family. They have one of those picture perfect families. James is probably 50. He is a little older than Erica.
James called and told me he hadn't heard from Erica in two days. James was out of town in Houston on business. He sounded worried about his wife. He said it wasn't like her to not answer her phone. I told him I would drive by their house on my way home that evening and check in on her.
I drove down the street and saw Erica's car in the driveway. Nothing suspicious stood out. I got to know Erica fairly well from visiting with the two of them on the weekends over the past 6 months. Erica was always super friendly. Erica had a very religious southern upbringing, but I always felt like she had a bit of a wild side to her.
I pulled my car into the driveway and walked up to the front door. It was about seven in the evening. I rang the doorbell and could see Erica through the window. The front door was made of a glass you could see through but not well. It looked blurred. I saw her run across from the living room to the area where their bedroom was. It looked like she was completely nude. It took a few minutes before she came to the door.
"Hey." Erica said as she opened the door.
"Hey, everything ok?" I asked her.
"Yes, everything is fine. Ummm, why do you ask?" Erica replied.
"Ok, well, James called. He wanted me to check in on you." I told her.
"Oh, ok." Erica answered with a look that seemed puzzled.
"You sure you are ok?" I asked again.
"Yes." Erica answered as tears built up in her eyes.
"What's wrong? You seem upset." I told her. "You need to talk to someone?"
"I guess that might help. You have a minute?" Erica asked.
"Sure, I'm a good listener." I told her.
"Sorry, I'm not really dressed for company." Erica said as we walked to the kitchen.
Erica was wearing a pair of white yoga pants that were tight and completely transparent. She was wearing a light blue very tight T-shirt with them. I assumed that was the first thing she could find when she ran naked into her bedroom before answering the door.
"Would you like a glass of wine?" Erica asked.
"Sure. That is if you are drinking too." I told her.
"I already have a bottle open." Erica said smiling.
I sat at the kitchen table and Erica walked into the living room and came back out with a mostly empty glass of wine. She then walked to the kitchen, poured me a glass and filled hers back up. I watched her walk and it was then that I noticed she might have already had a few glasses. She wasn't drunk, but she was feeling good.
"So what would you like to talk about?" Erica said as she sat down next to me at the kitchen table. Her mood seemed to change from that sad look I saw at the door to a much more confident, happy, sexy mood.
"I thought we were going to talk about you." I said almost questioning if we were still going to talk about her.
"I know, I'm just teasing you." Erica said.
"How much have you had to drink?" I asked.
"Half a wine bottle. But I'm good." Erica said.
"Ok, just checking." I said. "So what's going on with you?"
"You really want to know?" Erica said with a sexy smile on her face.
"Yes." I said as I began to wonder more and more as to what all I got myself into.
"Can you keep a secret?" Erica asked.
"Sure." I replied.
"Even from James?" Erica asked in a much more serious voice.
"Um, I guess, sure." I replied.
"You have to promise you will keep this confident. Even from James." Erica said.
"Yes, I promise. I'm your friend too." I told her.
"Ok, so something horrible happened yesterday. I need to talk about it but I don't have anyone to talk to. I haven't told James about it." Erica said.
"Ok, your secret is safe with me." I reassured her.
"So you know James is out of town." Erica said.
"Yes I do." I replied.
"Well, last night I was supposed to go to this charity event?" Erica said.
"Ok, so did something happen at the event?" I quickly asked.
"No, no. Not the event. It was before." Erica responded.
"Before? What happened?" I asked.
"I'm getting to it, just listen." Erica told me.
"Ok, just listening." I replied.
"The problem was I didn't have a dress for the event." Erica said.
"Ok." I said tried to figure out where this was all going.
"So I went shopping. I found this very sexy black little dress." Erica said.
"Ok." I said trying not to ask anything but wondering why she told me it was a very sexy black little dress.
"It was on the revealing side." Erica said.
"Revealing?" I asked not being able to restrain not asking questions.
"It was backless and very, very short." Erica said.
"Well, people dress up for those type events all the time." I said.
"Yes, I know, but this dress, well, it was revealing. That's just the thing. I wanted it to be revealing." Erica said looking at me trying to make a connection to what she was saying.
"Gotcha. So you wanted some attention. Nothing wrong with that. Maybe a little innocent flirting, right?" I said.
Erica stood up from the kitchen table and walked over to the a shoe box on the counter. "I also bought these six inch fuck me heels to go with the dress." Erica said as she pulled the heels out of the box and showed me.