Having tried to call Katherine that morning, I was told by her brother that she was not yet up, and that I should try later. It wasn't until three o'clock that we finally spoke, and she said that I could come over that evening. I passed the rest of the afternoon thinking about her and how she (and her mum) looked when I stopped by last night for our cancelled date, and looked forward to some sexual activity when we got together.
When seven rolled around, I headed over, and was greeted at the door by her dad.
'Hi Tom. I'll tell Katherine you're here,' he said, in a slightly less unfriendly tone than he normally took with me.
Katherine came to the door, dressed in yoga pants and a t-shirt I hadn't seen before, and gave me a kiss on the lips.
'Hey,' I said. 'Can we go to your room?'
'How about a walk?' she countered. 'That way we can talk without having to worry about my brother or my parents.'
I was disappointed, as this meant having to put off touching her, but I said okay and remained where I was standing with my shoes on. Katherine slipped some trainers on her feet, and we stepped out the door holding hands.
She began before I could even ask anything. 'I'm so sorry about last night,' she said. 'My mum had arranged for me to get together with her and her friend (you remember Monica, don't you?) without telling me. The three of us went out for drinks and dinner.'
I was frustrated. It was so like her mum to not care about me or whatever I might have planned with my fiancée. But I did like the image of the women going out together, looking like they did last night--assuming, of course, that Monica was dressed equally well. Of course I remembered her. I had only seen her over once or twice, but she was Teresa's hot friend and hard to forget!
'So how was it?' I asked.
'It was fine...' she said, but seemed to want to say something more.
'What is it?' I prompted.
'Well... it's just that I think there may be something going on between Monica and my mum,' Katherine said.
'What sort of thing? What do you mean?'
'Well, I got up to use the toilets, and when I came out, I could see them from where I was, and they were talking awfully close. Their legs must have been touching under the table. And when I got back, they stayed close. I thought Monica might even have her hand on my mum's leg, because she didn't bring it above the table cloth once.'
I got immediately hard at the thought, especially considering the shorter dress and pantyhose Teresa was wearing. 'Do you really think so? Do you think your mum is cheating on your dad with Monica?' I asked.
'That's just it,' she said. 'If it is something, I don't think it's cheating, because when we got home, and sat around having drinks with my dad, Monica stayed seated beside my mum all night, and the two of them were acting really flirtatiously in front of us.'
'Holy shit,' I exclaimed. 'You think your mum might be having an affair with her friend, and your dad is okay with that. That's bizarre. Well, I don't think I would want that sort of thing between us.'
'Yeah,' Katherine said, somewhat quietly. 'We wouldn't want anything like that between us.'
What I obviously did not pick up on at the time, was that my fiancée was telling me a half-truth with the hope of feeling out how tolerant I would be of a similar situation. She couldn't tell me anything close to the truth about herself, but she could hint at a slightly divergent way of seeing sex, and lay the groundwork for telling me later.
'Where did you get those yoga pants and that t-shirt?' I asked, thinking I was changing the subject.
'Oh, Monica gave them to me. She said she had a bunch, and thought I might like them. They're nice, though, aren't they?'
They were nice, alright. They seemed to have a lot of lycra in them, and they clung to her long legs like a second skin, showing off her beautiful shape. Then I noticed something, and said playfully, 'Hey! You're not wearing any underwear!' putting my hand on her rear end.
She brushed it off. 'Sorry Tom, but I'm just not feeling it today. I'll try to make it up to you this week, though.'
To say I was disappointed is an understatement. With all the visual stimulation I had had from seeing Katherine and her mum dressed so sexily, and the mental stimulation I now had with the idea that her mum was having a lesbian affair with her best friend, meant that I wanted Katherine badly. Now, though, I couldn't have her.
We sat down on a bench alongside the pavement, and I tried kissing her and placing my hand on her leg. 'I said not tonight,' she responded, and that was that.
***
The week passed slowly, and Katherine and I didn't see each other much as we were both studying, she was dancing, and I was picking up some extra hours at work. Then on Thursday, she called to tell me that she was going to be occupied on Friday evening, and that we wouldn't be able to see each other until after I had finished my shift on Saturday. She didn't explain why, except to say that her dad was having a colleague over from work, and he wanted his family to be around to meet him.
'Weird,' I thought, but the way my luck had been with her since the previous week, I just resigned myself.
***
What actually happened on Friday was that when Katherine got home from her lectures, the house was empty, and she found a note on the kitchen table addressed to her.
"Kat, please be sure to shower and dress up tonight. Your dad is having a man named Michael over from work. Michael is from out-of-town, and your dad is trying to get him to sign a large contract. He wants us all to make a good impression. I'll be home about two hours after you read this, but I have laid out an outfit on your bed and would like you to wear it. If your brother gets home before me, tell him I expect him to dress smart as well. Shirt and tie at least. See you soon. Love, mum."
Katherine went into her room immediately, and saw a pair of sheer white tights still in their package lying on her bed. She knew where they had come from, and knew they were expensive, as she recognised them from Charlotte's store. She could see, too, that, like the pair she wore with Monica, these were completely seamless, and her mum had laid no underwear out to go with them. She wondered what was up. The dress, meanwhile, was a royal blue velvet backless affair with a deep v down the front, spaghetti straps. The skirt was an a-line cut, and relatively short. On the floor were some navy blue suede high heels. 'Wow,' she thought. 'Dad must really want to impress this guy.'
She stepped into the shower, got out, and while she still in her dressing gown doing her hair and make-up, her brother Chris came in, and she passed on the message about a shirt and tie. He didn't look too happy about it, but soon after, she heard him get into the shower as well, so she figured he must have accepted it.
With hair and make-up done, she opened up the tights package and slid them on, taking great care so as not to put a run in them, then put on her dress, and finally the shoes. Looking in the mirror, she became self-conscious, as she knew on some level that she looked sexy, but was not one to preen and boast. When she came out of her room, she passed Chris in the hallway.