Serena.

I had fancied Serena for quite a long time. Long before my marriage broke up in fact but it was only in the latter stages of that I started flirting with her. I used to time my visits to the shop where she worked to see her. She was a great laugh and we would always end up laughing about something or other every time. I remember being annoyed if the shop was full and even tried to hang back from the counter until she was free. Serena was quite tall. About 5ft 8 I thought but the standing area behind the counter was about 8 to 10 inches higher than the customer area so even at 6ft 1in tall I had to look up to her! She had classical features with black hair cut in a fringe just above her dark eyes. A long angular nose really made her look stunning to me and a smile from her white teeth was to die for! It was worth buying something I did not want just to bathe in her smile! When it was clear my marriage was over I waited in the shop one day until she was alone then had our usual flirting conversation. I waited for the chance to ask her for a date. I had to hang around as customers came in and out but finally got a chance. “Serena we get on so well I’d like to get you to myself for a while. Do you fancy coming out to lunch on Wednesday?”

She looked a little shocked and said, ”I don’t know. I don’t know.”

“What don’t you know?”

“I don’t know if I should”. After a pause, I think I’d better say no”

Crestfallen at my lack of charm or attractiveness or whatever it was I said, “ I can’t pretend I’m not disappointed. Maybe another time”.

“Sorry” was all she said before another customer arrived at the counter and I just left the shop. A few weeks passed and I kept going into see her. We both carried on the flirting banter as if nothing had happened. Then one day I asked her again. She could not make my specified day so she turned me down again. I kind of knew this was true as she’d already told me that her son was home from Uni’ and demanding most of her time. This time though she finished with, ”Another time” as a statement rather than a question. I thought it was time I made it known that me and the wife were splitting up so I told one of the other girls in the shop. Sure enough the next time I saw Serena she asked me about it. I asked her out to lunch and she said Yes! I arranged to pick her up at 12 the next day at her house. I arrived at about ten minutes to twelve but she was clearly not there! I waited about half an hour and still no show so I gave up. Very disappointed.

The next month or so brought no contact as I was told in the shop that she was off work and quite ill and she was off for a further two months. During which time I had moved out of the matrimonial home and moved to a flat in a nearby town. Nice, fairly recently built clean but smallish flat with separate bedroom, lounge and kitchen. It was here that Rhiana first came round and we started an affair.( See other Rhiana stories). I rarely visited the shop but never stopped thinking about Serena. I had even found a model on “We Are Hairy” site that looked like her. I downloaded her pictures and would compare these to Serena’s Facebook photos. I could now openly befriend her on the afore mentioned and managed to get in touch with her. She apologised for the missed date and it was again due to some emergency with her son. “Can I make it up to you?” she asked on messenger. “Don’t worry about it” Serena I wrote, “Just come on the next one!”

“ Do you still want to see me then?”

“ Of course I do. It wasn’t just a joke I asked you before!”

“OK (shocked emoji). Still lunch?”

“ No whenever you’re free”

“OK I’ll let you Know”

I didn’t hold my breath waiting and I was now having an amazing sex life with Rhiana so I wasn’t in a hurry. The only contact I had with Serena was on Facebook which I didn’t look at often. But I did get to have a messenger conversation with her about a month after our last. I had missed a suggested date but we made another for a Saturday might a week later. And then guess what? I had to cancel because Rhiana wanted to come round on the Tuesday after. I made an excuse about my family and Serena was very good about it and agreed a new date the following Saturday.

I was right to cancel the first Saturday as Rhiana and I had a whole day in bed on the Tuesday after and I just would not have been fit for that. It also gave me the chance to tell Rhiana about my date before it happened.

The new date duly arrived and I drove round to Serena’s house wondering if she would honour it this time. She was waiting on the door step and rushed to jump in the car.” Quick get going!” she said, “I’ve just seen Jo (Rhiana’s Mum and my step daughter) and she’ll tell your wife”.

“ Doesn’t matter about that Serena. I’m a free agent. Its nothing to do with them”

“ Yes but they all come in the shop” she said, “and I can’t do with any problems there”

“ OK. I won’t drive past their house. Dinner?”

She smiled. “That’ll be nice”. We roared off up the road and I made for a country restaurant about half hour’s drive away. We talked about her children and some of her past. Some about mine! And I asked her some of the questions that had me wondering over the last two years! Why was she single? (Divorced and not friends). Had she had men friends since? (Practically none. Her dog was all she needed!) Why did she work in a village shop when she had a degree?( lack of opportunity and Benefit limitations). Why had she finally said yes to me? “I really like you but when you first asked I knew you were married to Jo’s Mum and they’re all friends. I just worried about the effects if it got out. When you asked again one of the girl’s had told me that your marriage was on the rocks and I thought Why not and then my son had that problem with housing I just had to sort out and I thought that was an end to it. What you never have, you never miss!” she laughed.

“ Well that doesn’t work for me” I said, “ In fact I wanted you more after you turned me down. But I didn’t want to seem like a stalker or something so I didn’t push it! There was a lot of publicity at the time about female abuse”.

“So what are you after?” she asked bluntly

“Eight!” I shot back and it brought a laugh from her.

“I’ve only got seven!” she joked back.

“So have I!” I gave her a sideways piercing look. “I’d just really like to get to know you. You flirt outrageously and you’re a great laugh. My kind of person. And”, I paused, “ you are very good looking. I loved coming in that shop to see your lovely face”.

Serena blushed as I knew she would. Every time I had complimented her she had blushed.

I pulled into the restaurant’s car park and was pleased to see it half full. Because of a problem with my car’s central locking I had to reach across her to open her door. I turned my face up to hers and she quickly kissed me on the cheek! “Second kiss!” she said.

“And I haven’t forgotten the first” I said. That was on Christmas day at the shop when I called in to see her. “The first was on my lips” I reminded her and in response she kissed me quickly on the lips and then she was out of the car! I got out and offered her my arm and escorted her into the restaurant. We ordered a drink and got a table. We sat down opposite each other and she gave me one of her leering smiles while tilting her head so that she could look slightly down at me. One of my photos is of that look. “What’s that look about?” I asked, grinning at her.

“Just wondering what you really want”.

“ I don’t want you to worry or be suspicious” I said “I just take things as they come. I have no plans. For the time being I’m just happy to be with you”

“ And you don’t want anything else?”

“ Oh my God. You’re really putting me on the spot. I don’t want to put you off so I’m not going to tell you much.” I paused. Serena just smiled. She was making me say too much! “ But I really fancied you the very first time we talked in the shop and I saw your smile and your eyes. By the time I asked you out, I wanted you in every way”.

“ Did that have anything to do with your marriage splitting up? She asked, sounding concerned.

“ No not really. There were loads of issues. Not least being my role in her family but in my mind there was always the hope of you”

“Oh my God. If I’d have known I would have said yes earlier because” pause, “I really fancied you too. I used to warn the girls in the shop off you. Especially Marie. She always made a point of telling me you’d been in.”

“ OK. Lets take it as it comes Hey? I’m very happy that we’re here together”.

She held up her glass. Here’s to As it comes” she said as we chinked our glasses together.

We had a wonderful meal with a lot of laughing and once when she gave me a compliment I stood over the table to kiss her. She responded by holding the back of my neck for a few moments to make the kiss a bit more than a peck. Oh god I wanted her badly.

When we left I had her on my arm across the car park. I unlocked her door first and as I opened it she stood in the entrance and pulled me to her. We kissed and it developed into an open mouthed tonguing. When we parted she said “Thank you”

I walked round the car and had to use the key to get in again. When I finally sat down. I immediately leaned over and kissed her again.