APRIL
by Musings of Pan
I have known April for many years. Mostly when my wife and I attended church where April was very active but also at many other neighborhood functions. She was hard to miss with beautiful long hair, a pixie smile, and boobs that stuck way out past her slender waist. A friend with interesting ideas but that was all.
After my wife left for good (that story I don't want to get into) I pretty much kept to my same routine of work, church, and some of the social events that were not couples oriented. But I noticed that frequently I found myself standing or sitting next to April. We seemed to have many similar interests and conversed easily. I wasn't sure if this was coincidence or if April was showing interest. You see I am quite a few years older than April and could not believe that she would be interested in an old guy like me.
The Rialto Theater was presenting a new play that I wanted to see but I find going to a play by myself is not much fun so the next time I saw April I asked her to go with me. She seemed very pleased by the invitation and said she would. We both enjoyed the play and discussed it over ice cream after.
As time went on I was seeing more and more of April. I took her out to dinner next, then she invited me over for a home cooked dinner which was a wonderful change from my cooking. I took a bottle of wine with me. I wasn't in love but spending time with April was much better than hanging out by myself all the time.
This went on for several weeks, seeing her most weekends and occasionally during the week. One evening after going to a movie I told her we needed to talk so when I took her home she invited me in. She poured a glass of wine for each of us and we sat in her small living room. I explained that I was enjoying being with her and doing all the things that we were doing but I thought we needed to clarify our relationship. I went on to tell her that while I liked her very much and hope we can continue, I had no plans to get married again.
She smiled and told me that she felt the same way. So I continued saying, "I hope what I am going to say now will not ruin our beautiful friendship but it must be said. As much fun as we are having, you are very attractive to me and I would like to move our relationship on to sex." I paused waiting to see if she would scream and run out of the room or what other reaction she would have.