It was the first evening of our holiday, two weeks away on the continent, staging half way at our friend's house in the north of France. It had been a long day, overnight on the ferry, we had disembarked at 7.00 am and four hours later we were driving down the narrow track to Monique's house in the deepest French countryside.
After the usual welcome feast we settled down to a bottle of well deserved wine. It was a warm summer evening as we sat on the terrace to the rear of the small and cosy cottage, catching up since our last visit two years earlier. We made the usual plans for the stay, where to go, what to do and who to see.
Hillary, my wife, went upstairs in the stone built house, for a shower as the evening cooled. Monique and I adjourned to the cosy little, stone clad, sitting room and chatted merrily.
Monique was an attractive woman, demure, medium height with short fair hair, slim with small boobs. She was in her late thirties with two teenaged kids and was a divorcee. The kids were staying at their father's house in a neighbouring village.
Hillary was around the same age, shorter than Monique, but perhaps a little plumper, with a curvy body, shoulder length brunette hair and sexy 38 DD boobs.
When Hills came down it was my turn for ablutions, after a long shower I came downstairs in my pyjamas. Both women were sat opposite each other chatting away, Hillary in a deep and wide arm chair opposite a matching green leather sofa, a simple but well appointed hearth and chic entertainment stack across the room, typical French rustic, with the ubiquitous continental style.
It was unusual to see Monique drink anything, this was indeed new, but she and Hills were glugging it back with almost gay abandon, by the time I came back they were well in to the second bottle. Our welcomes were always emotional, tonight was going to be no exception.
I managed to pour myself an ice cold beer and sit down on the sofa before Monique turned to Hills and bleated out in a thick French tone,
"Why can't I get a man?"
This was a reference to her last boyfriend who after several months had kept her hanging on and on, she knew how to pick them, ever since her husband had knocked off her best friend Monique had cut a somewhat lonely figure. To her great credit she had raised two lovely children and forged a career, but as a result couldn't hold down a long term relationship with any male suitors.
Hills and I looked at each other; we had had this discussion before.
"Perhaps it is because you try too hard, you get nervous and don't relax," Hills said.
"I am still very lonely," Monique replied.
"But you have the boys," Hillary responded.
"The boys are great, but I need some adult company, a man".
"What do you want from a man?" I asked, "love, sex, or marriage?"
"I just want companionship," replied Monique.
"Then get a dog!" Hillary joked. This didn't go down all that well, the tears started welling up. I was starting to think Hills had drunk enough.
I glared at Hillary, swung around, took Monique by the shoulders and started to give her a massage.
"There," I said, "try to relax, we are here now. Have you tried looking on the Internet?" Monique turned away from me and shrugged her shoulders to encourage me further.
"Yes I have, but they only want one thing there." She said.
"Money or sex, I bet." I said, knowing she still had feelings for her deadbeat ex. "Sex is easy to get, love is a lot harder,"
"I don't know why people are so hung up about sex," she said, arching her back towards me, her voice faltering a little. She took another sip of wine as she started to shuffle her backside deeper into the cushion.
Hillary was watching, her eyes starting to widen and her jaw starting to drop. Monique's breathing started to shorten and her concentration began to waver. A slight judder shook her body; she arched her back further and let out a short sigh.
Monique grabbed my wrists and moved them to the base of her neck and whispered, "Again," in a deep and husky tone.
There was an eerie silence as Hillary, holding her wine glass, taking the occasional sip, gazed on in disbelief.
I continued to rub as ordered. Monique licked her lips, closed her eyes and leaned towards my manipulating fingers. This time a stronger convulsion took a grip of Monique, she gave out a louder moan,
"Mon D......My God!" she stammered out in a thick French tone.
After an awkward and what seemed an eternal silence. Hillary asked, "Did you just .....?"
Monique just burst out crying. "Oh my God," she kept repeating over and over. I let go.
"I am so sorry," she kept repeating.
"Its OK," I said, "you are with friends," trying to keep it light I said, "what is an, er, orgasm, between friends eh?"
"It is just that it has never happened to me before," Monique replied.
"Well you never had one of my neck rubs before!" I said.