Ann: The Married Years Ch. 44

"Yes, but I'm the only one wearing a wet one... and it's white. Well, it's see-through right now! I still can't believe you squirted me with the sprayer."

Tina laughed, recalling how she'd doused Ann with warm water just moments before when she was rinsing her hair from the shampoo she'd given her. The tiny string bikini she was wearing became transparent, showing off all her feminine charms underneath.

"I told you, that wasn't me. That was the ocean spray."

"Whatever."

"Hey, I'm not the one that told you to wear white today."

"It's the only one I brought with me. And I've been naked every other time I've been in here."

"Well, I'm sorry we're not a nude beach today. But like you said, you're nearly naked now. You should feel right at home."

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It was all part of a sales promotion theme that Tina had come up with to celebrate the expansion of her salon. She'd grown her business steadily over the previous five years, but things had become a bit stagnant of late. With it being such a small town, there were only so many people to draw from, although she felt like she got the lions share. That said she began looking for new revenue streams.

At first, she considered opening another salon in different town, thinking that might be the way to go. She did a lot of research, and while it was still a possibility, it seemed more like something she should do further down the road. Instead, she went a different direction, mostly because of a change in her building.

The tenant next door had decided to close their small jewelry store. The couple that owned it was of retirement age, and they couldn't find a suitable buyer. With the space opening up, Tina went to the building manager with an idea to expand. It took several months to work out the details, but in the end she'd gotten a new lease agreement, met with a contractor, submitted for building permits and began renovating by opening up a couple of doorways in the shared wall between the two storefronts.

The expansion allowed her to move the tanning bed to what was now the other side of her growing business. In fact, she added a second bed, since the first one seemed to be booked more often than not. The additional space also allowed her to add to her services. Not only did she begin offering manicures, pedicures and nail maintenance, the girl she hired to do that also was licensed to do piercings. And not just ears, but body piercing as well.

In truth, there hadn't been much call for body piercing to that point. But Tina was looking to the future, thinking that it might actually take off someday. It didn't hurt that she knew someone that had her labia done, and she saw firsthand how sexy something like that could be. In fact, she'd been one of the first clients in her new side of the store, having her own pussy adorned as well. And she was seriously considering having her nipples done.

But that was all an aside. The main function of her store was still doing hair, and moving all of the extra things into the new side of the salon allowed her to create more space for cutting and styling. She now had three full time employees and several part timers on staff. But she had visions of becoming bigger, and that's where the remodeling came in.

In addition to creating two separate open doorways between the two units, one at each end of the long north-south wall that they shared, she had the new side of the business separated by a new wall that ran east and west, splitting the front half from the back.

She'd closed the main street entrance door to the new side, making it an emergency exit only, wanting everyone that came in to go past the new welcome desk on the side of the hair salon. The front half of the new part housed the nail salon services. There was another door in the new wall that separated the front of that room from the back where the tanning booths were located, but it remained closed, marked for employee use only, as well as for emergencies.

Tina wanted anyone going into the nail salon to enter through the main entrance to register, and then go through the new opening at the very front of the salon. The opening at the back led to three smaller rooms she had built. There was a small hallway

along the center wall of that separated the two original stores. The first two rooms down that hallway were for the tanning beds. The third was for bikini waxing, pubic hair styling and piercings. It was that last service that had Tina wanting to keep that room away from the nail area because it needed to be sterile, and that made it easier to keep clean.

She loved the way everything turned out. She'd just wished the timing of it could have been completed a little sooner, hoping to take advantage of people wanting to get a base tan before heading off to spring break. Unfortunately, the deal for the new lease and the renovations took a lot longer than expected, which delayed the grand opening.

The month-long celebration event for the new side was something she'd dreamed up when she first approached the building manager and the bank about her thoughts for expanding her business. Because it took longer to make it all happen than she'd figured, instead of a spring grand opening, it was unveiled in the summer.

Not wanting to change her idea, she simply revamped it, calling it the Sexy Styles Summer Splash Spectacular. She was hoping to capitalize on the warmer weather, and find a way to fill the slots for the tanning beds during a time when a lot of her customers scaled back on that service.

To that end she went all out, decorating the store in a tropical theme. On the hair salon side, next to the front entrance she'd had a display area put in. Her intent was to eventally use it for promoting hair care products. But the design was a platform that was the height of the large front window. In essence, it was a twenty foot by twenty foot square stage, with several steps leading up to it.

Having the foresight to have the contractor put an edge around it, creating what was essentially a four-inch kick plate so nothing could just roll off, she took a risk. First putting down a tarp to cover the flooring, she brought in a couple dozen bags of play sand, pouring them over it. She added a large blow up pool filled with water, along with a beach umbrella and a lounge chair. She'd even put in a couple of actual potted palm trees, although they were fake. It became the Sexy Styles version of a beach.

There were two more palm trees in the shop on that side, along with a small Tiki Hut styled refreshment stand that had self-serve lemonade and iced tea, and some fruit snacks. Hawaiian or Jamaican music would play softly in the background, depending on what tape was in at the time; the smell of fresh coconut prominent from the specially scented candles burning throughout the room. Not to mention the distinctive aroma of Coppertone that was wafting through the air. Tina had created an island paradise in the middle of her salon, in the middle of her small town, in the middle of nowhere Indiana. And the place was bustling with activity.

One of the reasons it was so busy was the promotions she was advertising. She had special deals going on for the products, as well as discounts for tanning. She also had set up introductory offers for the nail salon services. But it was the other marketing ideas that had the place on edge.

The reason for the Coppertone was because Tina had discussed the notion of having her staff wear bikinis or bathing suits. The girls readily bought into the idea, going so far as to oil up with suntan lotion to make it feel more authentic. Not only did the staff wear swimsuits, so did the vast majority of the customers. It was part of the feel of the experience. Tina had even hung a makeshift sign out on the sidewalk by the open front door that read 'No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem'.

Besides the attire, there were the contests. They were ones for the staff as well as ones for the customers. Things like best hair design and best coloring for the girls working. There were contests for best overall tan and best contrast for the customers; but only those that had done at least some tanning in the beds inside. There were other contests and artistic challenges for everyone... and it was making for an incredible month.

One of the biggest reasons was the door prizes Tina had thought up. She'd placed five huge straw beach bags on the sandy beach next to the front entrance, a sign post placed behind each one. They were all labeled for the event they were having. It looked like an odd Burma Shave advertisement, only in reverse as you entered the store. But that was because the bags were all together next to each other, and Tina wanted the wording to look right.

The first bag was marked as 'Spectacular', but it had 'Kids Are' in parentheses above it. It was filled with un-inflated beach balls and sand castle buckets for the youngsters that might come into the shop, although that was limited. Tina had some specific rules during the sales event, including that kids under the age of eighteen weren't allowed to come into the store after 3:00 PM.

The bag next to it was labeled 'Splash', and it held VHS copies of the Tom Hanks comedy by that name. That's why the words in the parentheses above said 'The Movie'. The middle bag with the large 'Summer' tag had the codeword above saying to 'Enjoy', which was made easier with complementary sample tubes of Coppertone in different SPF ratings. The bag marked 'Styles' had 'Change Your' over it, and the bag itself contained free samples of mousse and styling gel.

It was the last bag that really set the stage for the event. It was a bigger bag than the rest, and it was separated in half by a strategically placed folded beach towel. The sign played off the one at the other end for the kids. It read (Adults Are) Sexy. There was another notation that the bag was for those aged eighteen and over.

At the bottom of it there were two arrows, one pointing to the left side of the bag and one to the right. Inside, taped to the bag itself were two smaller signs. The blue wrapped boxes on the left side said they were for 'Surfer Studs', while the pink wrapped ones on the right were for 'Baywatch Babes'.

Tina had made another sign that was placed at the end, saying each paying customer was allowed to take what they wanted from any two bags, not counting the one for kids, who could choose one item from their bag even if they were just there with a parent. The adults had four bags to choose two items from, and it was that first big bag marked 'Sexy' that Tina had to constantly keep stocking up.

The door prizes in those carefully wrapped boxes had created a buzz around town. Customers were making appointments or dropping in simply by word of mouth. Tina reasoned that if she could get them into the door, they might just come back. The way that word got around didn't surprised Ann. The entire town seemed to feed on gossip, and Tina's boyfriend Matt was the son of the biggest practitioner in the community. It was clear Tina had used that conduit to help market her event without having to do that much additional advertising, and the event was a smashing success.

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So it was that the place had a steady stream of customers at four o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon. Ann smiled, thinking about her job, comparing it to what Tina had done. It reminded her of the Happy Humpday Sales events that she came up with at the store she worked at. Of course, that also brought to mind her husband, who was likely sleeping at that very hour. She sighed, thinking of what she could have been doing that very minute if she were home. Mainly that would be calling Neil that very minute, telling him where and when to meet her so she could fuck him in the back of her van.

"I really want to play that game again," she mused, the idea of pretending to be a naughty housewife cheating on her husband becoming appealing to her at the moment. It was such a stark change from the way she felt a few weeks after she first came up with the idea. She'd felt so guilty doing it once she realized it might dredge up old memories for Neil. But that never concerned him at all. He loved it for what it was; another adventurous sexual thrill ride with his wife that they both found exhilarating.

She was still squirming in her seat as she daydreamed about where she could be meeting him after she got off work. Now that he was back on third shift, that role-playing game was one of the few fringe benefits those work hours provided.

Tina grinned as she looked at her friend squirming in her seat. "Are you sure you don't want a dildo?" she laughed.

"Why, because you're giving them out like candy?" she replied, knowing what was inside the bright-pink wrapped boxes. In fact, they were her favorite, the ones she first bought when she was looking for a fat dildo to simulate her husband while they were separated by two thousand miles during their engagement. Tina had contacted their friend Missy in California, ordering a big shipment of Antonio model rubber cocks to give away as door prizes.

"They have other choices they can pick from, Ann. There're four bags up there." Then she leaned over, whispering, "Besides, it's not my fault everyone wants to fuck your husband."

"Not as much as I do right now," she quietly replied.

That comment made Tina snicker. Ann heard her, smiling in reaction. But her eyes were on the mirror, catching the reflection of the older woman directly next to her, watching her fondle the fake cock she'd picked up when she first came into the salon. Apparently, she didn't want to wait to look it over, opening it like a kid on Christmas morning as soon as she sat on down in her chair. Ann could tell; the story behind the woman's wondrous stare was easy to read. Finally making eye contact, she smiled at her.

"Is that your first dildo?" she asked in a hushed voice.

The enamored expression on the woman's face answered Ann's question, but that didn't stop her from giggling. With a nod she replied, "I know I shouldn't be this excited about this, but I am."

"Well good for you. You should be excited. I have one just like it at home."

"You do?"

"Several, actually," she winked.

"Really... why?"

"I have a couple for myself. But I give them to friends. It makes me happy, because I know it's going make them happy. That's how Tina got her first one. I'm guessing that's the same reason she's giving them away now. Right, sis?"

"Absolutely... it's all about spreading the joy," Tina laughed.

The woman still seemed puzzled, but not about the explanation Ann gave. It was more to do with the object of desire she was holding. "Tell me then. How in the world can you... handle it? I mean, it's so... big."

Chuckling, Ann offered another sweet smile. More because the woman didn't seem at all shy about the subject, or talking about it with a total stranger. "You get used to it. I've had a lot of practice."

"Practice? How often do you actually use one of these?"

"Well... I have a child now, so not as often as I'd like. But I try not to have it be less than three to four times a week."

"Three or four times a week? What in the world does your husband say about that?"

"To be honest, that is my husband."

"I beg your pardon?"

"Well, he's pretty damn close to it. The hardest thing was getting used to sucking him, because I have pretty high standards as far as my oral skills are concerned."

"I thought it was anal," Tina teased.

"Well, that too. But I was never sure I was going to do that until you talked me into it. I bought the first one because I was more worried I'd never be able to suck him the way I wanted to."

The woman kept fondling the head, staring at it. Then she glanced at Ann, her eyes transfixed on the captivating young woman sitting next to her. She'd taken a chance just engaging in the conversation. Actually, she had taken a bigger risk by un-wrapping the gift in the store and taking it out of the box. She'd heard from a friend what would be inside, but she needed to see it for herself. Yet it was the explicit chat that she now found fascinating. It wasn't embarrassing to her at all, mainly because of the way Ann put her at ease.

While she wasn't shocked that Ann talked about sucking it, it did come as a surprise when Tina brought up something sexual she'd never really considered.

"So, you've had one of these... up your...."

"Yes. But I have to admit, it's not nearly as much fun as my husband's," she grinned.

"So, you're really saying this is Neil. That is what you're saying, right?"

The question caught Ann off guard, since she hadn't recalled saying his name. "Uh... yeah. You know my husband?

"Yes... for a long time. I go to church with his parents."

Ann's infectious laugh filled the room, even as she covered her face with her hands. "Damn, I keep forgetting how small this town is. That's so funny."

Then Tina said, "I'll tell you what's really funny. Betsy told me when she came in that it's just like Darren too."

"I'm sure it is. Neil's apparently a chip off the old cock," she joked.

They shared another good laugh, but Ann could tell the woman was looking at the fake phallus with even more interest. In fact, it was pretty obvious she was suddenly thinking about Darren.

"Well no wonder Betsy always has a smile on her face," she finally opined.

"Same as me," Ann playfully responded.

"I'm Alice Johansson, by the way. It's so nice to finally meet you Ann. I've heard such amazing things about you."

"Not like this, I'm sure."

"Oh... more than you think. Your In-Laws are pretty proud of you and Neil. They've been fairly open about how much you've improved their... relationship, because of how you are with their son."

"You mean their sex life?"

"Well to be blunt about it, yes. Betsy doesn't brag, but she also doesn't mind sharing about her and Darren. Although she's never said anything about how big he apparently is."

"She talks about this kind of stuff in church?" Ann asked, wrinkling her nose.

"Heavens no. We also swim together at the indoor community pool. There are four of us that meet once a week to do laps and pretend we're teenagers again. You should see her dive. My goodness, she is so acrobatic. She could have been a gymnast."

"Well the swimming explains the little bikini she wore in here two weeks ago," Tina chuckled. "You should have seen her Ann... my god has she ever kept her figure. I wouldn't say she was a teenager, but she certainly looked like she's in her thirties."

"She wears it at the pool too. I do too, most of the time," Alice admitted. "I'm a little miffed I didn't wear mine here. I feel stupid that I went with this modest one-piece thing I'm wearing. Anyway, like I said, Betsy has been pretty open with us about how you and Neil have changed their outlook on a few things."

"I'm not so sure about that. I've always gotten the impression that Betsy was already a lot like me before she ever met me, to be honest. That's one of the reasons we're so close. But it's nice that she thinks that way of me and Neil.

"She does dear. She does. So, do you mind telling me... just how in the world can you fit this fat thing into your mouth," she laughed.

"Ha. Well to be honest, I can do more than that with it now. That's why I got one in the first place. I wanted to practice."

"Wait... did you say more?"

Ann reached over, her wedding ring sparkling in the bright lights. "May I Alice... I'll have Tina get another one."

Alice let Ann have the dildo she was holding while Tina ran over to the front display, returning with another box. Ann brought the familiar model dildo to her lips. Playfully licking at the head, she made it wet while gathering some saliva in her mouth. She winked again before opening her mouth wide. With a quick motion, she swallowed the entire shaft, her lips pressing against the big molded balls at the end of it.