I said, “She knows where it is and it’s ready for her any time she wants.” I heard Divi laugh as she pulled open the sliding glass door to the deck. A thought came to me and I yelled out, “Hey Divi?” I listened to see if I had caught her before she’d closed the door. A moment later, Divi reappeared in the bedroom doorway. I said, “Tell your mother that it doesn’t have to be anything more than physical.” I felt totally stupid for saying that to a teenage girl but I couldn’t think of any other way. Sex with Priya had been amazing when she was married and we were just a physical distraction for her.
Divi grinned at me and said, “I don’t know how I would tell her that, but I’ll find a way.” She tossed me an air-kiss and left. The slider gently closed and Divi was gone. I dropped off my elbow to my back and my mind went to Priya. I missed her beautiful face and her incredible body. I missed her voice and her laugh. I missed the curves of her hips as my fingers traced over them from her slender waist. I missed her sex.
I forced myself to get up. The coffee cup on the triple-dresser was stone cold. I drank it anyway and went to the kitchen to make another. I pulled on a pair of athletic shorts and took the cup out to the deck. I stood at the railing and surveyed the mirror surface of the lake. There wasn’t a puff of wind. My flags hung as limp as my dick. The sun was bright in the east, but clouds were moving in from the west. It was likely going to be an overcast day. I couldn’t complain too much; we hadn’t had many this summer.
The weather stayed the same for several days. I just spent the time lying in bed reading and napping. I was anxious to get back out in the sun again. On Thursday, I woke to bright sunlight and was sitting in my chair on the deck sipping a cup of coffee contemplating whether or not I should go to the diner for breakfast. I would see Donna tonight. I wished we could go out more often but she worked every night at the Inn Restaurant except Thursday. More than once I had thought, ‘she has more than seventy-five million dollars and she acts like she has seventy-five dollars.‘ I guessed it was because, until she had a child to pass on the family fortune to, she probably had seventy-five dollars to count on.
The phone rang and I went inside to answer it. By the time I got there, it had rung several times. As I reached for the receiver, I glanced at the caller ID screen. It read ‘caller unknown’. A male voice said, “Hey Jack-O, guess who?” I didn’t recognize the voice right away but the use of the nickname ‘Jack-O’ told me everything I needed to know. It was my childhood friend, Eddie.
I smiled to myself as I said, “Hey Eddie. It’s been ages. You still in the Air Force.” I was trying to remember the last time I’d heard from him. He was always stationed somewhere around the world but never close enough for us to get together. We’d talked on the phone but I couldn’t remember that we’d done even that since I moved here ten years ago.
“Nah. I just retired. Just finished up my twenty. Jesus, Bro, it’s been a century since we talked. I ran into Frankie yesterday. Jesus, Bro, she is fucking hot. She was just a kid when I left. She reminds me so much of Anna. Anyway, we had coffee and chatted about things and life. She gave me your phone number. I didn’t have it for your new place.”