Meeting new friends

Once Duke and Sarah reached their friends’ house, a nice two-story house slightly larger than their own, she rang the doorbell and turned to her husband as they waited, a smile on her face. They could hear the sound of music and a few voices coming from inside already. No more than a moment later, Isabella opened up the door, beaming at them.

“Sarah, Duke, c’mon in! Don’t just stand there,” the freckled blonde joked, ushering her friends into the house. She was wearing a short black dress with jeans underneath and a pair of black sandals on her feet.

Stepping into the house, Duke and Sarah could see that a few guests had arrived, and as expected, they did not know any of them. The interior looked very similar to their place as they followed Isabella to the backyard, where a number of men and women were sitting either on the porch or around the covered pool.

Bella was eager to introduce her old friends to the new ones she and Luke had made since moving to Emerald Lane, especially the ones chatting animatedly with her husband at that very moment.

“Lookie, lookie, Sarah and Duke are here,” she announced, sidling up to her husband.

“Duke, dude, come help Jack and I with this, will you?” Lucas grinned at his friend as he pointed to the grill. “You do this way better than any of us.”

Duke smirked and made a show strutting over to the grill. “Step back, let the Master work and learn, my young apprentices.”

Sarah, Bella and Jack’s wife laughed at the men’s antics. Bella turned to Sarah and nodded at the third woman. “Sarah and Duke Adams, these are Caitlin and Jack Matthews, they live a block down the street and helped us to settle down here. Between all of us, I think we can all do the same for you.”

Duke nodded and shook Jack’s hand as Sarah and Caitlin exchanged kisses on the cheek. Jack was a very well-built man of twenty-eight, with an almost completely shaved head and dark grey eyes, whereas Caitlin was a slender woman of twenty-seven, with a long mane of brown hair and eyes of the same color; the yellow sundress she was wearing hugged her medium-sized breasts and tight ass very nicely.

“Of course we can,” Caitlin chimed in. “Every friend of Bella and Lucas is a friend of ours.”

“Exactly,” Jack nodded before tossing a beer to Duke.

Over the course of the next hour, Duke and Sarah learned that Jack and Caitlin worked at a hospital just a few miles outside Emerald Lane, and that Luke had actually met the two of them there when he suffered a minor car accident near the law firm he worked at about a year ago. He was surprised that the doctor who patched him up lived in the same neighborhood he and his wife had just moved into. The four of them quickly became friends after that.

Lucas and Isabella had not invited too many people, just close friends, but the tables in the Stevens’ backyard became quite full when the food was served, with over twenty people chatting and laughing about just anything. While the two of them had to play the part of hosts, Duke and Sarah kept talking to Jack and Caitlin, getting to know them a bit better.