When Joanna called, ( I'll call her Jo for short,) I was thinking she had a change of mind - meaning I am her painter/decorator and she had second thoughts about the colour I had done her bathroom. I'd already changed it twice, "well it looked right on the colour card," said she. But I didn't mind because she always took full responsibility, didn't try to blame me at all like many would to get a free recoat. But I was curious as to why she kept asking me back and I was soon to find out...
After I'd completed another coat - sunset red this time, she gave me coffee and biscuits and we chatted - which was nothing different, I guess I knew quite a lot about her, she seemed to delight in telling me about her life, her philosophy and the like - and it's true we did agree on many things.
But I guess, being the sort of guy I am I was unprepared and completely knocked for six when, after a fairly intimate chat - things like how she liked her guys, that once her partner John seemed perfect, but not since the shine had worn off, what she wanted, that she wanted some excitement in her life, she asked me out of the blue if I found her sexually attractive - and for the first time I was looking at her in a different way. Up to then I had always thought of Jo as just another customer and the thought of anything more never came into my head.
In Jo's case my mindset of her being happy with her live-in guy was well accepted and John was a nice easy going guy I would never want to upset. So no, absolutely not, the thought never entered my mind, body or soul. But now my thoughts were tingeing at the edges, her voice, the way she sat, her whole body language made me realise she wasn't just a customer - she was a woman, and to top it all, a woman I did find I was attracted to.
After another couple of swigs of coffee and a biscuit dunking I brought myself around to reply to her question - like she was sat there, on the settee opposite , looking slim, sensually rounded in the right places, her eyes deep and very suggestive - urging me to give her the answer I guessed she wanted...
"I do find you attractive, Jo - you are easy on the eye no doubt about that."
"Just easy on the eye. Oh! I see, Pete - so you wouldn't want me?"
I guess my silence was embarrassing, for she suddenly stood up and declared that she was wrong even to have had such naughty thoughts, that I was probably quite happy with my life and that I had a girl friend anyway, she was giving herself a hard time, that she was so foolish even thinking that I may be submissive to her wanting. And anyway she should know better being a solicitor of good standing, and perhaps she should not cheat on John.
I told her not to beat herself up, that I was flattered by her invite - if that's how she meant it - and I would like to understand .That she was nice, she had a wonderful disposition and - what was I saying... I was getting involved.
"But you have no heed what it is like for a woman in my genre - who needs the comfort a man can give, and you fit so well into that category, Pete. I have had wild imaginings that is part of what you are all about, the way you decorate so beautifully, your heart and soul in your job, like you want to give it your all.. You see, Pete - things are not what they appear to be, I do love John immensely, - I do, I really do, but he has problems - you know down there, he is unable to give me the satisfaction I crave for - Okay, that may seem crude to you, I don't know, but I am simply expressing my feelings how they are. I am in need, sensually and mentally. Love alone is not enough and a woman so highly sexed needs more than just love, she needs physical love, you glow with charm and grace and attractiveness, Pete So please help me to understand the blessings you can give in a way only you could give.
"I promise you - the reward I can give you probably surmounts all that which you may have experienced, all that a woman can give of her true femininity - come on, Pete, let me feel that which you must desire within, I can see the glow in your eyes when now you look at me, do you think I don't notice? You have as much need for it as I do, show me that, that you are indeed a red blooded guy, simply that, and a guy needs the comfort of a woman as much as a woman needs man."
I was taken by Jo's declaration. I just needed to think, time to breathe, about the possible consequences and she too, despite all she had said, and now she was saying she wanted to sprinkle my being with her passion, well any guy would I am certain be taken by that. Seeing Jo in a completely different light and all.
I said she ought to be a writer, the way she used her words.
"I do need a quote for my bedroom, Pete. Note I said my bedroom, John and I sleep apart now, in separate rooms so that should tell you something, I do not believe he would mind at all about us - well getting together. I really thinks that is what he wants for me, he almost said the other day, he loves me that much you see."
She said she was on vacation and at home for a week and we arranged I returned the next day to see what she wanted to do about the bedroom, and I would give her a quote then.
"I look forward to that. And please if you feel at all offended by my outburst of affection for you, please, when you come tomorrow, just behave like you were the standard decorator and I the customer okay, and no umbrage taken?"
So I left with a different mind of Jo Buntin. When I got back to my flat I just chilled and went though what we had talked about. Me thinking how strange - me not even having realised how she felt for me, and just me - not realising I had any particular charm that would attract any woman. I have had two or three girl friends but they have never worked out, there seemed always to be something missing - and after the initial stage the magic soon wore off and we had nothing more to give each other.
Was it really worth then even thinking about starting something with this woman, who, despite her confession John was nothing to her
physically? But the mind of a natural guy led to other fruits, that okay - I could not love this woman, not just like that, but could I fuck her? Well she had indicated in no uncertain terms that is what she wanted and I felt a certain urge inside.
It was as if my sexual prowess had been redundant for some time but now the branches were sprouting. By the time I got to bed I was well and truly fixated, even besotted by the thought of being with Jo, her image in my mind, floating before me, displaying that gorgeous hind in so tight jeans, just waiting to be explored and seen to - and I found myself automatically squeezing my self, then working up into something more frenzied and by the time I was done, images in my mind were so erotic and so real - Jo and me in a tangle of sexual deviations, the Waterloo came so dynamic and so complete, and I knew in my mind I had to have her, in fact I needed her, everything came to the fore - that is what I had been missing so very long, the scent, the taste the feel and the fuck of a good woman...
I slept deep and well, probably more complete than I had done for a long time and come morning, surprise! I was hard again, the throb of passion was there, so acute and demanding - and it wasn't long before I subdued the ache. I had a good hearty breakfast, and after a good hot shower, sprayed on a good cover of Brute (something I had not done since two years back, when I was with Janice) and, knowing I was on a promise I was singing again, me singing,? - that had not happened for some time either - I was thinking, Jo, you have already done me a power of good and we have not even been with each other yet.
Hopefully not long now as I rinsed the dishes, closed the front door behind me, jumped into my truck and headed for number five Truebridge road, the house on the hill and there, as if waiting for me, opening the front door, was Jo. Looking absolutely breathtaking, her long flowing hair the sway - everything was so good about her. She smiled, the scent of her, those cool tight embroidered jeans and the blue blouse to match, silken with tantalising buttons down the middle, already I wanted open - my whole being as if surging for her touch. My God! I wanted a woman like never before. Whatever she had, she had loads and I wanted to share.
"Shall we go up to the bedroom?" she suggested and now my heart was pounding, and she knew it - but she chose to tease me, like most women do, "well you do need to know how I want it, the bedroom I mean, - colours and wallpaper and such?" she giggled.
"You lead," she said. "And I'll follow, and I will show you the way when we get up there" There was that certain tone in her voice, everything she seemed to be saying now had an innuendo. "I have already got a notion of how I would like it, but maybe you have other ideas?" she continued with a certain tantalising undulating tone in her voice - and I was sure that touch on my hind was meant as we got to the top of those winding stairs . I turned and she glowed, her eyes wide "well you do have a lovely wiggle, how could I resist?" she said coolly. And all the time I was pounding, I bet she knew it too, if she didn't she would soon notice, I just could not stop myself, looking down I could see, and when we got to the top of the stairs, she was looking down too. "My, what a big boy!" she taunted .
She opened the red door and told me to go through. To me it looked good enough, as if it had only recently been freshly painted. I guess she read my thoughts..." John painted it for me a few months ago, before I knew you as a decorator, but, well need I say more?, and it never looks nice painting over wallpaper - it is so bland, so nothing -like how John has become really - but you, I'm sure you have the brush strokes to make this woman bloom again - you know me and wanting a change!"
I took in her perfume, it was so atmospheric - added to my need for her. She seemed to be stumbling over her words then as she went through the colour chart with me, saying she wanted to strip it all off now - and go for just painting the walls. "You do, do stripping don't you Pete?" she asked, that certain look in those very deep and expressive brown eyes again.
I returned her smile, wanted it to be as warm and inviting as hers.
"Shall we be seated so we can run through things?"
"I am fine with that," I returned trying to resist my knees shaking with excitement. She beckoned me to join her seated on the edge of her divan bed, holding the paint catalogue in her hands. It was then I noticed the burgundy sheets.
"Are you alright, Pete, you seem to have gone into a trance?"