Chapter 2 – Oops!
Before bedtime, Howard asked if he could use the downstairs bathroom since it had a shower stall. Roger went up to his den to read a file. Tracy, unaware of this change, came into the bedroom and changed into her nightwear – a lacey negligee. She heard thumping from inside the bathroom, and some from upstairs, so she assumed that Howard was upstairs and her husband was in the downstairs bathroom. She waltzed into the bathroom, unannounced.
Howard was stunned. He was standing there with only his shorts on, in front of the mirror, when Tracy came in wearing the negligee. After what Roger had just suggested for the next day, involving switching kids for the morning, he was amazed that this might involve the wife as well.
"Sweetheart, how long are you going to be?" Tracy asked him.
"Um – um…" Howard was nervous. "Another ten minutes or so. Why?"
"Oh – just wondering – I'll wait for you in the bedroom," Tracy said flirtatiously, so Howard decided to flirt back.
"Good – can't wait!" That was true.
"This morning was phenomenal," she told him in a very husky, sensual voice. "I could enjoy more of that."
Howard replied, "Yeah – the soap was great this morning." Tracy looked back at him, rather sexily, yet puzzled.
Unfortunately, the masquerade was up very quickly. When Roger came into the bedroom to find his wife hanging out with Howard in the bathroom, he was none too pleased. "Tracy Lynn," he said. Tracy turned to see the real Roger standing by the bed, arms folded in front of him and his feet planted about a foot apart. He looked very commanding in that position. "What are you doing!"
"Flirting with…" Tracy looked from one man to the other, realizing where she was. "Uh-oh … I goofed, didn't I?"
"You did. But I daresay you wouldn't have gotten very far before you figured it out," Roger told her.
Howard snickered. "Damn. And I thought …"
"That's tomorrow. It doesn't include tonight, too," Roger stated. Tracy didn't understand what it meant, but she was still reeling from her error.