I arrived at the Free Press, self-proclaimed New York Times of the Bayou, during the oil boom of the '70s when cash was abundant and apartments not so much. Rents, of course, were unaffordable. Jean-Paul Gelpi came to my rescue with a two-room garage apartment next to his two-room garage apartment atop George Lasseigne's 356 Porsche Speedster – the whole garage shook whenever George turned the engine over. Four years before, George stopped building and repairing fishing boats, and began building and repairing oil-field supply boats. And buying Porsches.
One evening during my first week on the job I stopped to eat at the all-night Blue Bird Grill across from the bridge before taking the Lafayette highway to a friend's sofa – I was homeless, you might say.
That night in the booth next to me sat two young Canadiennes, Marie-Louise and Josette. Josette was one of the "French Teachers," a group of about 200 or so young people brought to Louisiana to teach French in elementary schools as part of an unconscionably political program run by the unconscionably political Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, CODOFIL. Jean-Paul was one of only a handful of men in the program.
Louise was Josette's friend come to visit from St-Bozo-de Clown, Quebec, or someplace like that. Josette was most unattractive, with a nasty personality, a big ass and a pair of enormous tits, though of different sizes. Louise was pretty but very thin – no boobs, no butt. I was flirting with Louise for a good 10 or 15 minutes before, in my bad French, I introduced myself and asked them to join me. They were the ones who told me about Jean-Paul and the garage apartment.
Jean-Paul, a Parisian, had this good looking girlfriend, Claire, who was from Canada. She was relatively tall, with dark hair, wide hips and an ass to die for. But we'll get to that later.
Jean-Paul had already warned me that most of the French Teachers looked more like Josette than Claire or even Louise. Jean-Paul and Claire promised to introduce me to Claire's roommates, two other Canadiennes also named Claire, who lived in the eponymous House of the Three Claires, a former rectory on St. Anne Street. My hours at the newspaper were irregular, but it seemed that every time I walked up the stairs to my apartment, Claire was walking down. We'd say hello and all, but that was about it.
Being the ass-obsessed son-of-a-bitch that I was/am, I made regular visits to the Blue Bird Grill hoping to run into Louise again. No such luck. So, next time I saw Jean-Paul I asked him if he had a phone number or address or whatever for Josette. To show I still maintained a modicum of taste, I quickly mentioned that my interest was in Louise, whom I assumed I would find there. He seemed to approve (with a big smile I might add) and, after finding a mimeographed piece of paper, provided me with an address for Josette. He also told me that Louise spent most of her days alone at Josette's mobile home watching television. I began trying to come up with a plan, for lack of a better word.
CODOFIL provided a wealth of single women to South Louisiana, and I knew I had to get the first one right to avoid unfavorable gossip. Mess up with Louise, and it may be hard to recover. At first I thought of waiting around her trailer park and "accidentally" bumping into her when she walked to the store. But I didn't have enough patience. Besides, that was a stupid idea. Then in a fuck book I had bought in New Orleans at Christmas this guy shows up at his lovely neighbor's house with a bottle of champagne and a pack of condoms.
Yreka!
Originality doesn't count in these kinds of things, so two days later, with three hours between deadline and a city council meeting, I picked up a loaf of French bread, wine, sausage and brie, and drove to Josette's trailer. I found a place to park, straightened my tie, brushed off my jacket, and at one thirty-five knocked on the door of the trailer in Lot No. 9.
"Oui?" came the voice from inside. Suddenly it occurred to me that Louise may be out and the voice behind the door was Josette's. I certainly was not familiar with either voice. And again, what if it was the wrong trailer? I mean a lot of people spoke French in South Louisiana in those days. What do I do with the wine, bread and stuff?
"Jack de Blue Bird Grill. Le restaurant pres de pont bridge." Gibbrish, I guess, but I was trying.
Well, Louise excitedly called my name, flung open the door, pulled me inside, and proceeded to welcome me with hugs and kisses as well words I couldn't possibly understand even now – that St-Bozo accent I guess. I felt I had crossed the finish line before the race even began. I pulled my bottle of wine out of my sack, which Louise grabbed from my hand and rushed off to find a cork screw and glasses. I closed the door behind me, walked to the kitchen, and began putting the groceries on the counter.
"Non, non, non. Ici, là bas, here, there" and she pointed to the coffee table in the living room. So, while I sat on the sofa and arranged the bread and stuff on the table, Louise was in the kitchen collecting wine glasses, knives and plates. She was all giggly and excited, acting busier than she really was.
She was wearing loose fitting jeans – she didn't have much in the way of an ass to show off anyway – and a blue v-neck sweater, which matched her eyes perfectly. She wasn't wearing a bra, but then she didn't have much in the way of tits to show off either. She sat down on the carpet at the end of the rectangular, glass coffee table, and signaled for me to get off the sofa and join her on the rug. I did.
I picked up the wine and poured – I still think it's presumptuous to sample table wine. We made small toasts, "Le lunch" and stuff like that. And for about 20 minutes or so we sat in silence, sipping wine and munching on bread, sausage and cheese and staring at each other. My French was awful, and she had no English to speak of. When I looked into her eyes, which I remembered as being bright and blue, I understood from the dilated pupils her giggles and perkiness.
We had another glass of wine, at which time Louise came to sit next to me against the sofa. I carefully pushed the table toward the center of the room. Louise brushed against my body as she sat, accidentally on purpose so to speak. And some things don't need verbs and nouns.
I put my arm around her and pulled her close. Her light body folded into mine and our kiss foreshadowed our coming union: tongues darting, exploring, breathless. I put my hand on her small tits. "y'a pas grand choses là ," she laughed, not much there. She reached for my crotch, briefly wrapping her fingers around my shaft. (There would soon be something there.)
I removed her sweater and ran my hands up and down her back. I could feel each rib as my hands passed. I could feel her heart beating faster and her breath became more rapid as I passed my hands over her back, my fingers kneading every rib. And I kissed her long neck.
Louise by now had undone the knot of my tie and was unbuttoning my shirt, rubbing my chest and planting kisses on my neck and shoulders, before looping my tie around my neck and pulling me to the floor on top of her. All this time, we continued to kiss and to nibble on ears and necks. She opened her legs just a bit and lightly squeezed my leg between hers, inviting me to move my leg father up so it pressed against her pussy. She squeezed tighter now. I in turn pressed my growing cock against her. I kissed her tiny breasts and sucked until her nipples were hard.
We turned on our sides, Louise hitting the coffee table with her foot but somehow managing to avoid knocking anything over. I unfastened and unzipped her jeans which being baggy swiftly came off. When I reached down to touch her cotton bikini panties I could feel a wet spot, which I found terribly exciting.