Better than expected

When you arrive at the hot springs you each get a fluffy, white robe and are shown to the dressing rooms. You're told that the bureau has arranged for a couples massage at four p.m. and that you are free to use all the amenities the resort has to offer until then. There is a plethora of different kinds of pools, saunas and treatments you can enjoy. The both of you decide to start of with a dip in the naturally heated mud baths.

When you get into the actual retreat, you notice to your relieve that it's fairly deserted. Thanks to this being a weekday, most guest are pensioners who seem to be minding their own business. When you find the mud pools, you quickly drop your robe and slide into the warm mud. You let out a content sigh and look up at Veronica, who was just behind you, just in time to see her letting her robe slide of her shoulders.

You're immediately rendered speechless. Your mind seems to shut off, as your eyes start to roam her naked body with a will of their own. You once again notice her elegant legs, her flat stomach, her tight ass, her pert breasts with their small areola's but big nipples that you find so inexplicably alluring. When your eyes wander over to her face you see her grinning at you with raised, questioning eye brows.

"Oh, I'm sorry... I didn't mean to... I don't know," you stutter, embarrassedly averting your gaze. She, however, starts to laugh at your uncomfortable apologies. "Don't worry," she says as she gets in next to you, "I'm only joshing you. If it makes you feel any better, I was kinda checking you out when you got in as well." That does make you feel better.

After a slightly awkward start of the day, you notice to your surprise that you really start to enjoy yourself. You start to not be bothered as much by being naked in public, and you relish in the pampering and relaxing in the various variaties of hot and wet places the resort has to offer. But most of all, you really start to enjoy the conversations with Veronica. You find her very easy to talk to. At first you bond over shared interests, like some of your favorite Netflix series, and soon you're both complaining about your male coworkers. Over lunch she almost has you chocking on your cucumber sandwich when she hilariously recounts all the contrived ways Bobby has tried to get into her pants. You're relieved to hear that he hasn't succeeded yet, although it does sting a bit that she's apparently able to blow him off so easily, when you seem to fail more often than not.

After lunch, Veronica starts telling you about how she hasn't been so lucky with the chief. With clear annoyance and sadness she talks about all the ways he had abused her desires to become a secret agent to get his rocks off. She laments the fact that the only way for a young woman to make a career at the bureau, is to suck the chief's cock.

Talking to Veronica makes you realize two things. The first is that she wasn't the conniving slut you first thought she was. Sure, she was banging the boss, but she did it with great displeasure and only because it was literally the only way to get somewhere career-wise. In fact, now that you think about it, it really was the same for you. You didn't start out as a secretary, you were recruited in college, but as soon as you started the chief had you perform sexual favors for him under the guise of 'seduction training.' Over the years, he has been taking advantage of you less and less, but you still distinctly remember having to prove you were able of taking on your first solo mission by taking the old man up your ass. You had always thought it was something he made you do because the opportunity presented itself, you never thought it was something he did systematically with all young and eager employees. You realize with shame that you had been judging Veronica for something you had to go through yourself.

The second realization came when Veronica paused her story and sighed heavily. She looked so incredibly sad, and suddenly you were overcome with a desire to hug her and tell her everything would be ok. It hit you that you were developing feelings for her. Not just the lust you had been feeling these past couple of days, a lust you had never felt for a woman before, but also a deeper infatuation. Let's face it, you were crushing on her. Hard.

Wanting to change the subject, you suggest that the two of you go and check out the sauna. You still had about forty minutes before your couples massage, and you hadn't been there yet. She agrees, so the both of you get out of the pool you had been lounging in and head over.

When you get there, you notice it's almost empty. The only people there are three elderly gentleman engaged in a conversation. They are of course naked, their beer bellies mostly obscuring their flaccid penises, but they pay you hardly any mind as you enter. You take off the robe you've been wearing when walking from one place to the next and sit down on one of the benches. Veronica does the same and plops down next to you. She's become quiet and is staring straight ahead. You can hardly bear this and decide you need to do something to console her.