/* This series is a sequel to Neighbors: The Surprise but you really don't have to read the first one to enjoy this one.
All characters are of course at least 18 years of age. */
Have you ever had one of those moments, an epiphany of sorts, when you thought that your life was absolutely perfect? Maybe it didn't stay that way -- hell, maybe things even got better. But in that moment, you felt like everything was exactly the way it should be.
I can recall one of those moments perfectly. It was a warm late August morning, a Wednesday. I was lying in the sun on a well-padded chaise lounge by a small pool behind a beach house on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, sipping coffee and Kahlua, wearing my RayBans and nothing else. I smiled as my wife Kerri walked out of the beach house, just as naked as me except for her mirrored aviator shades.
She walked over and bent down to give me a deep, lingering kiss before stretching out on a sun pad across the pool from me. I sipped my coffee, gazed adoringly at my gorgeous sexy wife and thought to myself, "It really doesn't get any better than this! This is perfect."
Then I heard the gate in the privacy fence that surrounded the pool rattle and in walked Reba and Alice. As soon as they closed the gate, they dropped their swimsuit covers. Their bikinis followed quickly after and it hit me that yeah, things actually could get better.
*** Prologue ***
Kerri and I had been planning a beach trip with our neighbors Tim and Christy for months. The four of us had developed more than your normal neighborly relationship. Much, much more, if you know what I mean. It wasn't the first relationship like that for our friends, but this kind of neighborliness was something that Kerri and I hadn't even fantasized about.
But it was awesome and loving and friendly and loads of fun and we found that not only did we love our neighbors, the sex between Kerri and me had become super-charged as well. The only thing that kept us from a continuous orgy was work, of which there was an abundance. We were all four at points in our careers where we felt that we needed to expend a lot of focused energy in order to not just meet goals, but to advance in our companies.
I think it was Christy that suggested a getaway to the beach, where we could legitimately take a couple of weeks off and just focus on each other. I had the perfect house in mind -- a place my brother had rented a few years before for a family Christmas get-together. It was in Corolla at the ocean end of a cul-de-sac and while it was much bigger than we needed, it had an ocean view, a hot tub on the top deck and a very private swimming pool where we could get freaky without offending any neighbors, at least visually. Of course, I couldn't promise the anticipated screaming orgasms wouldn't be heard over the crashing ocean waves.
We picked the last couple of weeks in August, when it appeared that our work schedules would allow some time off and after a lot of public schools had started their fall semesters, meaning the house was available -- even if the rates didn't really start to go down until after Labor Day.
We spent the next few weeks working our butts off to make sure that we'd be able to leave work behind us and focus on fucking each other silly. But of course, the best laid plans, etc...
Christy was the first casualty. She was a highly sought-after realtor and ended up with a closing on a really high-end house at the end of the first week of our planned vacation that she just couldn't move. And as it was the biggest sale she'd ever made, she couldn't hand it off. We agreed that Kerri and I would go on ahead and open up the house and Tim and Christy would join us that Friday afternoon after she wrapped things up. At least we'd have a week together.
But then my own work issues threatened to screw up the whole vacation. I'd been working on a long-running application implementation project that was scheduled to go live two weeks before our vacation, which we thought would give us plenty of buffer. But the installation did not go well despite clean testing and we couldn't try again the next weekend because the business wouldn't give us any downtime.
I called the rental agency and let them know that we would not be there on Sunday for check-in but that we would do everything we could to be there Monday early afternoon. I assured them that I was not looking for any kind of discount as the delay was our problem, not theirs.
The Sunday before our vacation was spent alternating between conference calls with the implementation team and Kerri and I packing up our aging Grand Cherokee. I had an agreement from the project manager that if we got an all-clear Monday morning at our 9am go-live-or-roll-back meeting, I was free to go.
*** Monday ***
Everything looked good throughout Sunday and the SUV was packed and ready to go by 8pm. I didn't sleep all that well, half expecting throughout the night to get a text message telling me to jump on a call. I was up by 5am, showered by 6 and on the phone with a cup of coffee by 6:30. But this time everything went well so by 9:30 I was released and by 9:35 we were on the road heading east.
It takes about four hours to get to Nags Head but then there is another hour or so to get up the barrier islands to Corolla. We got through Manteo around 1:45 pm and then headed north up the US 158 bypass, reaching the rental office in Duck a little before 3:00 pm. We signed the papers, got the door lock combination, thanked them for the beach bag full of goodies and made it to the house less than half an hour later.
It was a BIG house, as most of them on that part of the beach are. We parked and decided to check it out before doing any unloading. It was a three-story, with most of the living space on the top level to take advantage of the ocean views.
We walked into the ground floor, checking out the rec room. There was a foosball table (not my thing), a ping-pong table (definitely my thing, as visions of Strip Pong danced in my head), a couple of black vinyl-covered sofas, a big TV and what appeared to be a wet bar that opened onto the patio surrounding the pool. While I was thinking about a liquor store run, Kerri walked over to the French doors that led out to the pool and looked out.
"Sweetheart, did you order two naked chicks with the house?" Kerri asked, looking back at me over her left shoulder. I looked at her blankly and walked over to stand next to her, putting my arm around her and giving her a little smooch on the ear before looking outside.