Fancy
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"Maybe I shouldn't tell you this. But the other day, Dad whispered to me, 'that one girl' - meaning you - 'she makes my dick hard.'"
"Awww," the strawberry blonde woman with the leathery skin and the rough hands said, smiling as much with her eyes as her lips. "That's so sweet."
The gray-haired gentleman returned her smile in apparent satisfaction. "Sweet? So you're not offended? That's a relief. I thought he might have said something to you. Sometimes I hear him say things that, well, cross a line."
"He never said anything like that. At least, not to me. He's what, 97? Who knows what he even thinks he's seein', to make him talk that way. He's half-blind, right? 'Blind in one eye and cain't see out t'other?' That's what my mamaw used to always say. Don't worry about it. You can't help but just love him. We all do."
"He also told me he figures you give good head."
"What?"
"Good head? Like, you know, a blow job?"
"I know what it means. Well, bless his heart," she said in her Appalachian twang. "You tell him, that's for me to know, and him to find out. Ha."
"Careful. He might just try to call your bluff."
"Nah, well, don't really tell him that, I guess. You know I wouldn't *really* try anything like that on him, right?"
"You're too much of a lady?"
She scoffed. "It's kind of you to say that. Not everyone would. But what I meant was, there's all kinda rules here about what we can, and can't, do for the residents here. That would be abuse. We can't commit abuse."
"I know."
"'Sides, he'd never ask it. He's a real gentleman. I tol' you before, why I call him Fancy? Because he's always kissin' the women on the hand, real fancy and stuff? He does try to treat us here like ladies. Few like him anymore. I didn't know he still had a little of the devil in him, too - I wouldn't even have guessed he thinks about his dick, pardon my French - you said he called it that. But I don't think he's gonna forget his manners, all of the sudden. He couldn't of raised a good son like you if he wasn't good too. I keep saying, you're a good son to come down from Chicago to look after him like this."
"So it doesn't bother you."
"Bother? Locker room talk, by the sound of it. Nothin' more. I'm just surprised Fancy would even think like that. Or, well, you know, that he could still... even... you know."
He chuckled. "I don't imagine he's any threat, if that's what you mean."
"Oh, no," she reassured, shaking her head and making her short ponytail swing, "he don't scare me. Maybe he still thinks about it. Men are all the same, I know that. No offense. But he's always sweet. A real sweetheart. You are too."
"No, I mean I don't think he can really put his money where his mouth is, so to speak. In that department."
"Ohhh, you never know! Ha. I've seen things. Not with him, but, you know..."
"Well, I'm pretty sure. Still, I can see where he was coming from when he said that. You have a certain something about you. You must have that effect on a lot of guys."
"In Assisted Livin'? You run into all types, I guess. Like I said. Sometimes one will get a little frisky, but we don't... "
"No, I mean with guys younger than the ones living here."
The caregiver scoffed again. "Your daddy don't have much competition outside the Home, at the moment. Ha."
"I don't believe that for a second. Someone who stays with a job like yours, has to be a caring individual. You've been here since he moved in, right? A lot of guys are attracted to that."
"Attracted? Nobody makin' nine fifty-five an hour attracts *nobody*. Ha."
"That's not what I mean. You like to look after other people's needs. You're stable and solid..."
"Now. Maybe. Back in school, not so much. And for a long time after, even.
"The past is past. But you're obviously a very caring person. Otherwise you'd never get into this line of work in the first place. That carries over. In a lot of ways."
"Well, that's different. I thought you were sayin'... well, somethin' else."
"I am. I'm saying you probably make lots of men think the way my dad thinks."
"How your dad thinks?" she echoed, a bit skeptically.
He nodded. "When he said you make his dick hard. You must do that to other men too. It's kind of programmed into the human species, when a man sees a woman who cares a lot. Must have to do with continuing the species. Any man. At least with working equipment, heh."
She looked appraisingly at him. "I'm sure I don't make *your* dick hard, pardon my French again."
"Why," he asked, grinning and returning her gaze, "because I'm older than you, too? And so you think I can't either? Like father, like son?"
She scoffed audibly once more. "Don't mean that. It's... just... been a long time since anybody looked at me in *that* way."
"How do you know?" he said lightly.
"I just know."
He moved slightly to the left, and reached behind her, touching the small of her back with his fingers, exploring. While not really skinny, she was of slender build, and he could detect her spinal column even through the layers of clothing. "Would it surprise you if I told you *I* look at you in that way?"
She glanced over at the closed apartment door. "What're you tryin' to start?" she asked, not particularly avoiding the contact.
He didn't break the contact, and she didn't try to stop it. "Does this bother you?" Looming easily a foot taller than her, his dominant position beside her was quite overt.