Where it really began was Jim's visits to Jane's mother's house. Mrs. Riemer became Victoria who became, when they became intimate, just Vic. Jim loved saying Vic.
Strangely, even after he and Jane had broken up, he continued to call Jane's house once a week to chat with her mother. It was less about missing Jane as it was about enjoying this older woman's company. After a couple months, with Jane well ensconced in her dance classes and her work in New York, Victoria told Jim to come over. Her neck was getting tired leaning into the phone, and her hand was tired holding it against her ear, and it was silly to put her through such discomfort when he could just come over, and they could chat face to face.
Their conversations were very honest. Jim told her about school and his friends and wrestling. Victoria talked about her work producing photo shoots and promoting those photographs. They both created dialogues. Lots of questions. They were interested in what the other would say. When Jim would feel a surge in his heart for her and a clarity to his vision of her, it didn't bother him that what he was feeling was love for this woman. It was a chaste love, appropriately platonic, considering Plato and his question and answer philosophy. At least he thought it was platonic. She was a beautiful woman, but he saw her in the light of being Jane's mom.
One night everything changed. Jim came over after his dinner at home, arriving at Mrs. Riemer's house about 7:30. She was in mid shower when Jim rang the doorbell. When she didn't arrive after a couple minutes, Jim rang again. He knew she was there, since she had invited him over. He was a little early, though. A half hour early actually. But he had usually been early. He sat on the steps of the stoop for five minutes. When he rang the doorbell a third time, it was only a minute later that Mrs. Riemer opened the door looking damp in a white terry robe, her shoulder length blonde hair wrapped up on top of her head in a towel. Jim was transfixed by her vision. She looked soft and exuded a warmth and her cheeks were rosy. Jim knew she was beautiful, but this was ridiculous.
"Come in, Jim," she finally said. As she did so she looked down, catching his club's expansion in his white trousers. Jim was glad he had chosen not to wear shorts or the head of his club would have been popping out the bottom. Still, never wearing underwear and wearing tight slacks, he knew he was obviously on display. He was afraid he had offended her, but when she looked up into his eyes, he saw a smile. At first he thought it was a smile of reassurance, but then he noticed her mouth was a little more open and her eyes had a devilish glint. When her little tongue darted out across her lips, his club hardened and expanded another inch in length and girth. "Sit in the den," she continued after a long and hot and transformative silence. "I'll get dressed."
She hopped up the stairs like a teenager. "Press play on the CD player," she shouted down the stairs at him before disappearing inside her bedroom. He did. The rich funky slow music of Mr. Magic by Grover Washington Jr. smoked out of the speakers, filling the room with a sensuous air. He sat on the comfortable couch. He wondered whether to stroke his thickened club or let it slip back into dormancy. His fingers tapped at it with indecision. The vision of her ultimately luscious body and face standing in the front door were imprinted on the back of his closed eyes. He could still smell her warm clean scent she sent wafting into his nose when she stood before him. He unzipped and pulled his club out of his pants. He had to have it out. And he pulled on it. He paused briefly to listen through the music for sounds of her drying her hair. Reassured his hand again attacked his manhood. His strokes were making it as hard as he could remember. The flesh club touched the buttons of his shirt as it stood up straight and rigid. He began to feel pressure in his balls. He tapered off the strokes and then resumed, bringing him closer and closer to cumming. He stopped completely when he heard her on the stairs. There was no more room down his pants, so he tried covering the proof of his delirious excitement with the bottom edges of his shirt, only a partial success. She stood behind him, behind the couch.
"Jim," she said. For some reason he kept facing away from her. Was it shame? He didn't think so. He liked the feeling of her hands when they rubbed his cheeks gently.
"Mrs. Riemer," he said, and to him the words could barely be heard over his heart beat.
"Victoria. Call me Victoria."
"Victoria," he said, and her hands could feel his smile. She leaned down and kissed the top of his head.
His eyes opened, and he was about to tilt his head back. She could feel the muscles begin to tense at the back of his neck. "No. Keep still," she said. "Keep your eyes closed." He obeyed. "Now think back to when you and Jane first began seeing each other. Not as children. You know what I mean. What was it about her that attracted you?"
"Mrs..." he began to say as his eyes opened.
"Unh-unh. Victoria. And keep your eyes closed," she said, sounding amused but with an edge and ultimately with the tone of seriousness.
Once again obeying, with a swallow, he said, "Victoria, do you think its appropriate?"
She massaged his face and his neck. "Please. Please just relax. Relax your head and your mind. Trust me," she said, working hard at her massage while eyeing his still remarkably long and thick but dwindling club of flesh a couple feet lower than her hands. When she closed her eyes briefly, she imagined taking that quick and yet somehow vast journey down to grasp his magnificent physical proof of his lust for her. She opened her eyes, staring down, resisting. She had to know where she stood in his heart first.
She whispered into Jim's ear through the slow throbbing music and Grover Washington Jr.'s strong rope of melody he was blowing through his tenor saxophone. "Picture Jane. Tell me what you see. Tell me what attracts you."
"She talks to me intelligently. Her voice is low."
"No, Jim. Look at her."
"I love the way she walks."
"Yes. Is she walking towards you or away from you?"