On a summer evening, when the sun seemed to hang low in the sky for what seemed years, A women pulls a chair out on the porch and takes a seat to catch the evening breeze. The last of the reddish yellow hues loosing themselves to the increasing grey black of night, with few clouds in the sky the stars begin to make their appearance one at a time. The woman sits motionlessly waiting for the cool to engulf her as she goes over her days events in her mind. “Just more of the same”, is the only words that come to mind, her husband is far off and her child is away for several weeks for summer camp. The days have been dull and dreary, with only the relentless sun of the Midwest to scold her during the day and staggering endless nights of alone to keep her company. She is tired, and lonely and needs to have some company of some kind, of any kind, but, this is a farm and the closest neighbor is miles away. With the planting season in it’s prime, there is no one to come to her need. Even her husband has abandoned her for work on a corporation farm that pays more than the thirty acres they have. Sometimes she wishes that life would be different for her, but, take it as it may, this is her lot in life and she must bear under its weight.
Occasionally the headlights of an automobile or a pick up truck speed by her porch on old highway 61. A stretch of blacktop between to large interstates that cover points to the east and west, with the largest port of call some five hundred miles distant. Along the interstate route are small towns and villages that barley survive as entitles unto themselves without the support of some large agriculture conglomerate. Thus each summer she is left to tend to her vegetable garden and chickens while her husband makes a living elsewhere. Not that it matters much to her what her husband does, for the romance in their marriage has long since diminished to subtle greetings while passing each other in the hall. The one joy in her life, her son, is allowed to escape the prodigious boredom of a summer in the Midwest via a vacation bible camp in the Rocky Mountains courtesy of the local Baptist Church. The family cannot afford such a luxury if not for the goodness of Pastor John, a nice man who does odd jobs to make ends meet. Last year, Pastor John lost his wife of ten years when she succumbed to lung cancer and left him alone to sort out the wisdom of God’s intentions for him and his life. Every year, the Pastor received donations of eggs, vegetables and chickens in order to alleviate the cost of sending her son to the Great Rocky Mountains, a place she has yet to see in her own life.
As she watches the stars begin to appear in strength she is relieved of the day’s heat by the cool breeze that rustles past her on the porch. “Ahh, something to thank God for, at least” and she close her eyes and drinks in the coolness. In a few moments she rises and retrieves a bowl of water and a wash rag and places it on the table next to her chair on the porch and she begins to giver herself a nice cool wipe with the moist rag around her neck and face. Heaven is in the most simple of things and she is comforted by this.
A set of headlights turns off of old 61 and a rusted out ford 150 pick up truck rolls to a noisy halt in her yard scattering chickens and followed by a cloud of dust. From the pick up emerges Pastor John who on occasion has visited her while her husband and son are away to ease the loneliness in both of their lives.
Being a tall lanky man, he seems to unfold himself as he gets out of his truck and upon seeing Emma sitting in her chair, he smiles to her showing an even row of white teeth surrounded by a weathered face of a man used to hard work and not much more.
“Evening Emma,” he calls to her as he strolls toward her, “it’s a good night for sitting on the porch and watching the night roll on.”
“Ain’t that the truth Pastor. Why don’t you pull up and have a sit, I’ll fetch you some lemon aide if you like?”
He ambles up to the porch and takes a seat on the opposite side of her with the table between them. “Lemon aide sounds real nice, Emma, and even better if there was a little more than just lemon aide in it,” together they have spent many an evening sipping lemon aide with just a touch of sour mash to spice up the tartness.
Emma smiles at this and without any more talk she is anxious to oblige him, for in truth, sometimes the sour mash is what gets her through these nights and she would never drink alone. John being a Pastor and all, there seems no harm in it and so, to the devil beware.
They are both accustom to sitting for long hours sipping on their lemon aide and not discussing much but the weather and what the season has been like so far, with maybe a bit of speculation as to the comings and goings of some of the parishioners within moderation, of course. After about four hours and the better part of a quart of sour mash the two of them retreat inside to allow the mosquitoes to feast on something else for a change. This happens often and soon, Pastor John is fast asleep in a rocker by the fireplace and Emma covers him up with a blanket and, happy for the company in the house, puts herself to bed.
The clouds obscure the moons light and the blankets on Emma’s bed peel off of her and she feels his hands as they raise her night gown slowly up her body. He softly angles her this way and that and succeeds in removing the night gown completely. She gasps as she realizes that he is naked and is sporting a full erection. His body is beautiful and the size of his erection is something she hasn’t seen since her wedding night years ago. She wants to scream but she can’t find her voice. He begins to arrange her on the bed and she is helpless to resist him. He kneels before her legs and gently spreads them wide open and he leans forward to taste the essence of her. The first lick sends a shock wave through her entire body and she lies on the bed, an eye transfixed on his bobbing skull as he wets her insides and begins to send erotic pleasure through out every fiber of her being. She feels a wealth of emotion surge inside of her and she wants to moan out loud but she can’t find her voice. Instead she clamps onto her breasts and pulls at her nipples and lets out a long breath. She feels the heat building up inside of her and it’s impossible to contain any longer and she arches her back and. . . then she wakes up to find her own hands being used as she imagined his mouth was being used.
Wide eyed and in a cold sweat she completes her orgasm and immediately feels guilty for using the vestige of a Pastor for such carnal pleasure. She wonders if he heard her or even if she made any sound at all. Then she keeps herself awake wondering if the good Pastor would or could ever support an erection that she dreamed of and if she should try and find out.
Emma rises before dawn and takes her time dressing. She chooses certain underclothing that accentuates her firm breasts and flat belie, and uses clothing to suggest rather than revel her womanly charms. So armed with cleavage and a tight skirt she goes about preparing a little breakfast for the Pastor, should he require sustenance prior to leaving.
When John does awake, he is taken in by the sight of Emma’s round buttocks as she is bent over a table to arrange something out of his sight. Not for the first time in his life has he been so taken in by her, but today she is lovely. She smells of fresh soap and a faint scent of floral perfume touches his noise. The skirt is modest but revels her lovely legs and he can trace the outline of her panties underneath. She straitens up and he can make out the line of her bra through a fabric that although not see through it could have been. She wheels around and plants her eyes dead on him and sends a slight smile in his direction. Though it is not the smile he is observing but the welling of her cleavage and the almost distant outline of her nipples. How does a woman do that he wonders.
“Can I get you anything? Anything at all,” she asks.