"Hi, kids! Hi, Mr. Anderson!" Lizzie was zooming up the street into our driveway on wheels. She had no idea how intense my roller skating fetish was.
"Hi, Lizzie!" Sarah and Marco ran to meet our babysitter as she braked to a stop.
"Look what I got, Sarah? New skates just like you!"
Lizzie was the curvier of the two Johnson girls, but her older sister, Jen, was taller and prettier. Lizzie had put on a few pounds since I saw her last, but she wore them well. It was all a matter of preference, and I liked the bounce of Lizzie's body.
Especially on roller skates.
"Are we going skating today?" Sarah was beyond excited, and so Marco started jumping up and down. He did everything possible to mimic Sarah; she was his hero.
"Maybe. Should we teach Marco how to skate?" Lizzie had her full attention on the kids, which gave me a quick moment to enjoy the scene. Her long, white t-shirt and spandex shorts were doing nothing to quell my mischievous thoughts.
"Dad, didn't you say it was going to rain today?" My trance was broken when I heard my name.
"Yep. My phone says it will be raining in an hour." The thought of Lizzie in a wet shirt got my cock stirring a bit more than it already was.
"We could always go to the roller rink, but I don't have a car today." Lizzie was home from college and didn't take a full-time job so she could babysit four days per week for me. Life was hard since my wife died six months ago, and the Johnson family was beyond compassionate and helpful since we found out she had cancer.
Becoming a single parent at 40 is not a task I would wish on anyone, especially with an 11-year-old daughter. I was not well-equipped to teach her what it was like to become a teenage girl. I was counting on Heather for that, but God had a different plan.
Sarah handled her mother's death much better than Marco did. Maybe it was because she was eight when Heather was diagnosed and Marco was only four. Maybe it was because even at 11, she handled everything with the grace and confidence of an adult. Maybe it was because of people like Lizzie and Jen taking her under their wing. It's hard to tell.
"I can drop you off at the roller rink if you need me to. I can work from home today and come pick you up when you want to leave. I don't have a lot to do today." I tried to make things easy for Lizzie and Jen when they watched my kids. It's the least I could do.
"That sounds great, Mr. Anderson! Thanks so much!" I felt good knowing they would get to do what they wanted, but I was unprepared for the question Lizzie was about to ask.
"Why don't you come skate with us?"
First, I hadn't been on roller skates since high school. The physical results of skating could be catastrophic. Single fathers and broken bones are not friends.
Second, I'm not sure I could handle watching Lizzie and others gliding around the rink without pitching a painful tent. I had never taken Sarah to the roller rink, and Heather never knew why I asked her to take our daughter the few times she asked to go. I was too embarrassed to share my fetish with Heather, and I was afraid she would have thought I was weird or perverted. I thought it was best left hidden from the outside world. Looking back, I wish I had taken the chance by revealing it to her.
I panicked. "I have a lot of work to do today, Lizzie. I'll just drop you and the kids off and come back home." I forgot that I just told her I didn't have much to do.
"You just said you didn't have much to do today, silly!" Shit. She remembered.
Panic response #2. "Ok, you win. I'll come with, but I can't stay long." What just came out of my mouth?
The kids cheered and I stood there with a dumb look on my face.
"Great! I just have to run home to get my shoes, and then I'll walk back here so we can go. The rink won't let me enter wearing skates." Lizzie's smile was one of her best features. Her blonde hair framed her face perfectly, and her smile could light up a room. Or a driveway.
"Why don't we all get in my car, and we can stop at your house so you can change footwear? Then, we can just go straight to the rink. Let me run upstairs and change clothes." The gym shorts I was wearing would not be able to contain the bulge that I knew would arrive very soon.
I walked into my bedroom and stared directly at a picture of Heather. What the hell am I doing? I just agreed to go to a roller rink with my 21-year-old babysitter and my kids, and I most certainly will be aroused more than any time since Heather died. She said she wanted me to do whatever I needed to keep me happy after she died, but she certainly didn't have this in mind.
"Calm down, Paul," I said aloud to myself. "You are just taking the kids to the roller rink."
I quickly changed into two pairs of boxer-briefs, thinking that would act as an additional layer of erection suppression. I threw on some cargo shorts and grabbed my Yankees hat. The Johnsons had taken the kids to a game a few weeks ago and Sarah bought me a hat with money she had saved up from working in the neighborhood yards. Naturally, I bawled when she gave it to me.
As I hurried downstairs, I thought one last time about where this little trip could lead to. I caught a glimpse of Lizzie out the window and decided to just go with it. After all, it wasn't every day that a 21-year-old blonde with a great body roller skated into my driveway.
Heather and I were married for 15 years. We met in college, and though she graduated a year before me, we continued our relationship without interruption. She was tall with beautiful brown hair and the most magnetic personality. What she saw in my frumpy ass was beyond me. Her parents loved me and her siblings treated me like part of the family immediately. It was too good to be true.
Then, the diagnosis. The cancer wasn't localized to her breast. It had spread to her lungs. At 37 years old, she had a death sentence, and we had no idea when her number would be called. Doctors said she had a 20% chance to make it five years; she lived for three. We had as much fun as we could in the first year, but the last two were pure hell.
Prior to her illness, our sex life was good. On several nights when my in-laws wanted to take the kids, we had long, passionate sessions of love. It wasn't sex anymore. It was an artistic appreciation of each other. It was beautiful.
We both had our flaws, like everyone else. She didn't like the little bit of belly fat that stayed with her after the kids were born. I didn't like the little bit of belly fat that I had carried since I was 14. We were in love, and we decided long ago to look past the imperfections.
About a year after she was diagnosed, she didn't have the power or stamina to have sex anymore. Given the situation, it certainly didn't make me look at her any differently, but she felt awful for me. She told me to go out and find a sex partner if I wanted to, but of course, I never did. I quit my job and got my real estate license so I could make my own schedule. I was fortunate to be able to be there for her final few years.