I want to thank everyone for the positive comments and encouragements. I especially want to thank aussie_101 for all his time spent editing and talking me through this process. All mistakes within this work are mine and mine alone. And a big 'thank you' sleeplessgurl for introducing us. I owe you guys! Anyway here is Chapter Two, I hope you enjoy it!
For those of you new to the story or cursed with a really bad memory like mine, Melissa has manufactured an excuse to come to "Uncle" Robert's apartment the weekend while her parents, Peter & Evelyn, are out of town. She has come with the clear intention of seducing him. She is 18 to his 32 years and while he is trying to resist, she is not going to make it easy for him. (Or you could quickly go and read Little Lissa Ch. 01—just sayin')
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Robert groaned low in his throat and her eyes flew open. He pulled back to look at her. "God Lissa, what have you done to me?"
She could only stare at him mutely. With the target of her fantasies so close, the man of her dreams finally in her arms, Melissa realized she didn't know what to do. Should she pretend to know what she was doing, to have experience she didn't have? Play the coquette and try to bluff her way through this?
Her innocence shone on her face and for a moment he considered, hell he tried, to back away. As if sensing his retreat, she wrapped her arms around him and laid her lips against his.
"Please. Please! I want you. I-I want this. Oh God, please," she pleaded, almost sobbing with the overwhelming need of it.
He took her hands from around his neck and brought them between their bodies. Holding her clasped hands in one of his, he lifted the other to smooth back her hair and look at her. His hand stayed cupped at the back of her head as he kissed her forehead in an almost paternal gesture.
'God help me, but I've pictured this moment often enough,'
he thought. But before he had always put his unbidden, sordid imaginings down...to what? An appreciation of the female form? Inwardly he scoffed at the notion. Somehow with Melissa it was different. He had never noticed any other young woman, never fantasized about any young woman the way he thought and dreamed of her.
Melissa closed her eyes and leaned into the contact. She could feel tears gathering.
'This isn't going to happen,'
she thought defeatedly. Her body began to shake with a sense of impending rejection.
"Shhh..." he crooned. "It's okay. Breathe for a moment."
She tried to breathe but a hiccup escaped as the tears began to fall
'Oh God, how childish I must seem,'
she thought. She tried to get herself under control, but the more she tried the more she seemed to spiral down.
'I'm losing any chance here.'
Desperation crawled into her belly and the hiccupping increased.
He hugged her close and stroked her back, trying to calm her. "It's okay Lissa. Calm down." Robert placed small kisses along her hairline as he tried to soothe her. Finally, thankfully, the crying subsided and she drew a shuddering breath. Melissa pulled away from his comforting embrace.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done this," she stammered, stumbling over the words. "It was wrong of me to...you must think..." She closed her eyes and tried to gather her thoughts as she scrubbed at her face.
Robert gave a crooked little smile and reached up to wipe an errant tear away with his thumb. "It's okay," he repeated. "Here, sit down. Let's talk."
He eased her onto the couch and sat down beside her. He took her hands in his again and she stared miserably at their entwined digits.
"Lissa, look at me." His deep warm voice poured over her, touching every nerve ending of her body.
She swallowed before meeting his gaze. She expected to see mocking condescension but instead she saw a gentleness that stole her breath.
"Uncle Robert," she began.
"Please, just Robert," he interrupted. "'Uncle' just seems a bit... wrong, right now."
She shifted nervously and started again. "R-Robert, I-I just...I c-came here tonight..." She blushed as she stammered, the words dying in the throat. Her embarrassment overcame her ability to speak and she again looked down to their joined hands.
Robert's voice was cool. "Lissa, I have a very clear idea of why you came here tonight. What I don't understand is why. Why me? Why now?"
He watched as her blush flared higher. "Lissa you must understand. I'm a grown man. I don't go around having affairs with young teenaged girls. So I have to ask. What made you think this would work?" He waited in the growing silence for her answer, curiosity and dread beginning to mix and curl in his stomach.
Melissa finally looked up at him. "I just wanted you so much that I hoped," she hiccupped on the word and started again. "I hoped to convince you."
Robert sighed. "But why, Melissa? I'm your father's friend. Christ, I've known you since you were a little girl. Why me? What are you seeing here? What do you see in me?"
She shrugged. "I don't know," she muttered.
"See," he said his voice suddenly hard. "That right there is why this is just a bad idea."
Melissa blinked in confusion.
"You're still such a child," he explained, rough and unfair. "You come here with a half-planned seduction you can't even explain. You are asking me to put a friendship on the line for what? You don't even know. You can't even say the words, can you?" He made a move to rise. She grabbed at him to stop him.
"Wait please," she cried. "Give me a minute." Taking a deep breath she gathered her thoughts.
"I know why I came to you Unc—Robert," she corrected. "I came to you because you're a man, a grown man. I'm going away to college in a few short months and up to this point my experience has been with boys. Grabby, groping little boys—"
"So you just—"
"Please don't interrupt," she quickly said. "You asked me to explain and I'm trying to. Do you remember the New Year's Eve Party my parents had?"
"Vaguely," he responded, wondering where this was going.
"Well, I do. You were there with a date. Her name was Susan, or something. Anyway, I was there with Tommy and when the ball dropped everyone was shouting and kissing." She looked at him to see if he remembered. At his nod, she continued.
"Anyway, there is Tommy slobbering and grabbing at me and I happened to look over and see you. We were in the kitchen and you were in the little alcove in the dining room. I could see you kissing her and I heard her moan. She moaned. She seemed so into the moment, you seemed to be having such an effect on her... I've never felt anything like that, not with Tommy or anybody, and at that moment I wanted to trade places with her so badly."
Robert shifted uncomfortably at the thought of being watched during such an intimate moment. Normally he would never have engaged in such behavior openly at a party where anybody could see. He wondered what Melissa's reaction would be if she knew that she was the cause of his uncharacteristic and unknowing exhibitionism. He had watched her all that night with that young kid and it made him jealous. Jealous at the way she would occasionally turn to smile and giggle to her date. Jealous of the way she settled into the young's man body as everyone began to count down the minutes to midnight. By that time he had been in such a state, he had dragged Susan into that darkened recess and tried to purge Melissa from his thoughts.
Embarrassed by his silence she quietly continued, "I broke up with Tommy the next week, but after that night, every time I looked at you I...I..." She brought her head up, looked him in the eyes and cleared her throat, steeling her resolve. Determined to make him understand.
"After that night, every time I looked at you I had fantasies of being held by you. Being kissed by you. I realized that I'd had enough of slobbering Tommys."
Robert couldn't help but smile at that, even despite his inner turmoil. 'Slobbering Tommys,' his mind echoed as he grinned.
"I just...I want this so bad, Robert," Melissa went on. "Just once before I leave for college, I want one night with you. One night to understand the difference and see what it
should
be like."
Robert coughed. "Melissa," he began.
"No Robert," she said. "You told to me explain why I've done this – and I have. I know you don't go for teenaged girls and I waited until I was eighteen, but I can't wait any longer. If not you then I will find someone else." She chewed her lower lip, waiting for his response to her veiled challenge.
Robert was surprised at the stab of jealousy that came over him in thinking of his 'Lissa' with someone else. It didn't make any sense. He had no claim on her. Had no right to claim her. She should be out with people her own age. She should go away to college. Meet some nice young man. Experience the beginning of her life. She could never be his.
But God, he
wanted
her to be his.
'You can have her,'