Friends Upgrade (6 page)

Yes! Because he knew it wouldn’t just be one night, and he knew his feelings for her. Some things were worth the risk. Love being one of them.

Doug felt a lump in his stomach. He loved her. Why couldn’t he come right out and say it to her instead of going through this elaborated scheme?

Because he knew Judith too well. She would run for the hills and clam up about anything that had to do with feelings between them. Their friendship would deteriorate eventually. So he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t.

He went to the phone and dialed the front desk.

“Hello. Connie speaking. How may...Oh, room twenty. How did it go?”

“It’s still going. First I want to thank you for going along with everything. And saving my butt.”

“No prob. I think you two make a great couple. You’ve been friends for how long?”

“Ten years.”

“And nothing happened betwe—?”

“Please, don’t remind me. The reason I called was to order dinner and the best movie to get things, ahem, moving a little faster.”

“Really? If you don’t mind me saying, if
you
can’t get her in the mood...”

Doug felt himself blush. “Thanks, but you don’t understand my friend. She just sees me as her best friend.”

“Aww. We have to fix that.” Doug heard her rustle through some papers. “Okay, just exclusive to your suite, we have the Aphrodisiac Dinner special.”

“Aphrodisiac Dinner Special?”

“Yep. Oysters, of course. Chocolates, raspberries, strawberries, wine, almonds, and bananas dipped in chocolate.”

“Didn’t realize all those foods could make one horny.”

Connie chuckled. “And if those don’t work, we do have two great adult DVD’s. I’ll make sure the covers are off. They’ll just have the titles on them.”

Doug looked in the direction of the bathroom. Judith would be out soon. “Good idea, I’ll have enough explaining to do. Okay, send that all up.”

“Great. Good luck!”

“Everybody’s been saying that,” Doug mused as he hung up the phone.

He grabbed his suitcase, took out his silk pajamas, and saw the cologne that Judith loved so much on him. She bought it for him last year. He forgot the occasion, a “just because” gift more than likely. But she said she loved the woodsy smell it gave him and when he had his five o’clock shadow, it completed the whole look and aura. Doug didn’t know what she meant, but he wore it every chance he got. He made sure he had it with him for this occasion.

Doug did another walk through of the room. The more he scoped the place, the more new and exciting things he found. He looked at the bed and noticed for the first time a large red velvet box, blending in with the pillows. He peeked inside. A Kama Sutra kit and other interesting toys stared up at him, all neatly wrapped in pink paper. He quickly stuck it under the bed. He would save this for later.

Judith walked out of the bathroom, wearing a sexy nightgown. The sheer animal print sheath with a black satin trim left nothing to the imagination. For that problem, if he wanted to call it that, she wore a black sheer overcoat thing. He remembered her buying it and called it a Peignoir. Whatever. It left a trail of flames as she walked across the room. He was glad he’d switched out the flannel gown and robe at the last minute.

“Nice outfit.”

Judith looked down at herself as if seeing her clothes for the first time. “I don’t remember packing this. I mean, I know I was in a hurry, but I could have sworn...”

“I understand. I promise not to stare.”

“Oh, Doug,” She waved her hand at him in a playfully dismissive manner and took a seat in front of the television. “I’m surprised they have a television, considering what type of room this is.”

“Even lovers have to rest sometime.” Doug grabbed his stuff. “I’m heading to the showers. I ordered food and a couple of movies. You can start without me if I’m not out. I have a lot of car grime to remove.”

“Will do,” Judith laughed.

****

After about fifteen minutes, a knock came at the door. Judith opened it and the man that brought them to their room earlier had a long food cart beside him. “Wow, come on in.” Judith stood aside while he pushed the cart in.

After he situated the trays, Judith grabbed the twenty that Doug left. “Here you go.”

“Thank you. Enjoy.”

Judith trotted to the cart rubbing her hands together. “Yummy.” She lifted the covers off the trays.

“How decadent,” she mused. “Doug, you should see this,” she yelled.

Looking over the plate of oysters and trays of chocolate covered fruit, which consist of strawberries, raspberries and bananas, she began to salivate. Taking a strawberry, she popped it in her mouth. Heaven.

She reached for another and that’s when she noticed the two DVD cases on the table and picked them up. The one title was, “
Getting Friendly with the Joneses
.” The other was “
Body Buddies
.” Judith shrugged. She didn’t remember any of these movies. They were plain wrapped. Probably real bad movies that went straight to video, she mused.

These should be funny. She popped “
Body Buddies
” into the DVD, sat down on the huge red velvet ottoman, and fixed herself a plate. “Hey Doug, hurry up. I’m eating and starting the movie,” she yelled again.

“Just go on, I’ll be there shortly,” he yelled back.

“I swear, he spends more time in the bathroom than some women,” Judith said as she pushed the start button on the remote. She tucked her feet under her and started to watch the movie.

The opening scene started right off the bat with a gorgeous buff dude walking into a room. He stared at himself admiringly in a mirror.

Too admiringly, Judith mused to herself. He began taking off his clothes!

“What the...?”

Judith continued watching, more so out of curiosity. She just wanted to see how the scene concluded.
Yeah, right.

The man took off his pants and now standing in his boxers, his hands began to roam over his body, which was beautifully unreal. He started with his chest, rubbing his hands up and down, then to his abs. He added some oil, which he seemed to grab out of nowhere and continued his self-exploration, this time leaving a sheen of oil over his ripped torso.

At times, the camera only focused on his hands. Oily hands roaming over ripples of muscle, from his powerful neck, down to the band of his boxers.

He soon tired of those and took them off. What Judith saw next made her cream instantly. He had to be at least eleven inches! And the diameter—it seemed impossible.

He applied more oils to his hand and stroked his shaft. Judith may be slow, but it didn’t take too long to recognize porn. She turned to call Doug, but the moaning of the man on the screen and the sight of him pumping his cock had her mesmerized. He pumped slow and hard and applied more oil to his strained shaft. Just then, a woman entered the room—naked, of course.

Petite and curvy with red hair, she stood in front of the man who stopped pleasuring himself long enough to acknowledge the lady. The redhead began rubbing his body with her hands. She lowered them and took the base of his cock and followed his hand.

As they started really getting into it, the lady began pleasuring herself with her one hand. After a few seconds, the video became nothing but sounds of moaning and groaning. The camera would periodically move to their faces, then to their hands and close in on their oil and cum covered genitals.

Judith began fidgeting on the ottoman. She tried tucking and untucking her legs underneath her and taking several sips of champagne. It only made her mouth dryer.

She saw the remote on the food tray, and considered whether to turn off the television, but when she heard the characters begin to curse as they came, she couldn’t take her eyes off the screen. Just then, Doug walked into the room.

“Hey, whatcha watching?”

Judith groaned.

Chapter Five

Judith snatched up the remote and turned off the television. “Uh...nothing.”

“Nothing?” he asked quirking his brow.

“I mean...look.” She grabbed one of the DVDs and showed it to him. “I think they sent us the wrong viewing material. This is porn!”

“Porn? Really? Let me see.” He took the DVDs. He tried to be as nonchalant about it as possible. He figured if he didn’t take it seriously, she wouldn’t either. “These look entertaining.”

“You’re kidding, right?”

“Let’s watch it. It could be great for laughs. Yum, look at the food!” He reached for the remote and popped a chocolate strawberry in his mouth. Doug turned on the television and went to the bed with a plate of food. “Your head is in the way. Why don’t you come up here and sit with me.”

Judith turned to look at him as if he were insane. He could see right then, things might take a turn—for the worse. But again, he would play it cool. “What? We always sit together watching television,” he exclaimed innocently.

“Yeah, but we’re usually watching the movie of the week on the classics channel, or the D.I.Y. channel. Not naked people jacking off!”

“Maybe it’s time we expand our horizons,” he said with a smirk.

“Forget it!” She plopped down on a chair in the corner of the room.

Not good.

“Oh, come on, Judith. It’s harmless.”

“Harmless? You know everything that has happened up till now seems very suspicious. First, they only had one room, and the room that they put us in is a kinky honeymoon suite. Then this decadent food and now porn. You asked me on the way up here what would I say if you told me you wanted to make love to me. Just be honest with me. Did you plan all this?”

“Hon.” He got up to go to her, to calm her down. But deep down, he knew he’d lost this battle.

“Don’t hon me. You planned this. Why? Why would you want to destroy something so beautiful with sex?”

She got up and ran out the door with tears streaming down her face. Doug couldn’t believe it. Her overreaction startled him. But he didn’t have time to think. He needed to stop her, to explain everything.

“Judith, come back!” He went after her, but she made it out the door and in the elevator that fast. He had only his pajama bottoms on.
Think fast man
.

He ran to phone and called the front desk.

“Hello. Connie speaking. Hey, how did it...oh, dear.”

“What?” Did Judith hurt herself? Did she drive off? All kinds of things were going through his mind.

“I just saw your friend running and crying in the lobby. She headed to the spa area.”

“Stop her, please.” He fucked up. He knew it. But why this reaction? Judith never got hysterical. There had to be more behind this. “I’m coming down.”

Doug hung up and ran out the door, not bothering to shut it behind him. He didn’t know what he was going to say to her when he found her, but he needed to find her first and foremost.

He arrived in the lobby and went to Connie. “Which way are the spas?”

He heard some whistles and Connie stared at him with a comical smirk.

Doug turned around and saw no less than six female staff members. He looked back at Connie. Her gaze focused on his torso. That’s when he felt a draft.

Oh God! He forgot to put his pajama top on. Could this day get any worse?

“Over there.” She pointed to a pair of French doors, not once taking her eyes of him, or wiping away her smile.

“Thanks.” He ran out the doors that lead out to a courtyard, nearly knocking over one of the staff members. Several cabanas lined a lake. He stood in the middle of the grounds scratching his head. “Where could she be?”

Doug walked through the gardens, past a fountain, and saw a lot of loving couples all paired up and cuddling together. He felt a knot in his stomach. He hoped to God he didn’t ruin it with Judith.

He came up to one of the cabanas where the spas resided and went inside.

“Hello, may I help you?”

Doug turned to the voice in the corner. A dark haired woman stood behind a reservation desk with pen in hand. “Uh...yeah. I’m looking for someone. Have you seen a very beautiful African-American woman run through here? She had on a black negligee.”

“That’s a new one,” the lady smirked.

“No, you don’t under...” Doug saw a figure out the window.
Judith.
“Never mind I see her.” He ran out the door.

“Judith!”

She looked up and their eyes meet. She ran in the opposite direction. Doug didn’t hesitate; he bolted over a little bridge nearly knocking a couple into the drink down below. When he saw Judith flee in another direction, he took a short cut and headed her off. “Judith.” He grabbed both her arms.

“Let me go!” she tried getting out of his grip, but he held on tight.

“Not until we talk. Now something is going on with you and I need to know what.”

“There’s nothing going on with me. I like things the way they are between us. You’re the one that wants to bring sex into it. Why can’t you leave well enough alone?”

She broke from his grip and tried heading back to the room. But Doug had enough. He grabbed her, hoisted her over his shoulders and walked back to their suite. They went past Connie’s desk and he shrugged as he went by. She gave him a wide smile and a thumbs-up.

“What a man,” he heard someone say as he got on the elevator.

Once in the room, Judith tried to make a break to the bathroom. Doug caught her arm again. “Oh, no you don’t. I’m tired of you running, and I mean running away from whatever it is that got you so worked up.”

He walked her to the bed and sat her on it. Doug looked around the room and grabbed a chair. He sat it in front of her, took a seat and crossed his arms. “Talk.”

Tears began to flow again.

Oh no.

“Judith, my mother use to say, ‘You realize that even though you may know a person for a long time, you
really
don’t know them.’ I’m feeling that way with you. What’s going on, hon? This reaction you had, I don’t get it.”

“You wouldn’t understand,” she sniffed. “You’re a man, so you wouldn’t understand what it means to mix sex with friendships. How I lost so much, and I don’t want to lose you.”