It was quick, butlong enough so that I knew they were intimate with eachother. “Hope you enjoy yourself tonight and become a regular,”Jame... said.“Oh I know I will, from what I see already.” Shelaughed. Then we walked off.Barbara said that in a few minutes, the women will betold to go across the hall to prepare for the party,the black men will go into one of the rooms next door,and that the husbands will told be have a seat in oneof the straight back chairs in the room.. If Brad hadn't been looking for it, he'd never have seen the furtiveness in her eyes when she turned around."Why?" Ashley asked. There was almost no tremor in her voice."Oh..." Brad said, pointing into the living room, "there's a message from her on the answering machine... she wants you to call her." He pretended he didn't see Ashley's eyes dart to the doorway. He ignored the fact she was clearly restraining herself from trotting into the living to call this woman back. Brad's mind was dark.. She doesn’t know I’ve tanned and swam nude on several occasions, since I’ve chosen not to advertise that in our rather uptight community.There had been some tall, overgrown shrubs between our houses that were becoming too large and out of control, so Rob, Judy’s husband, trimmed them a few weeks ago. The houses are rather close to one another, and the shrubs have always provided privacy for their patio. After finishing my weed-pulling out front, and grabbing some lunch, I went up to the bedroom. This place was right behind the restaurant she had waitressed at when we were first “shacked up”, as living together was called then. It too hadn’t changed much. We’d have our dinner there “for old time’s sake”.I was nineteen then and she was a year younger. She wanted to get out of the house where her step-father was screwing her all the time with no objection from her mother. I didn’t find out about all that till later.I had already noticed how compliant she was, never resisting for long my.