Lois was either totally crazy, or completely, utterly sane and in full control of this incredible moment: she was not at all certain which, and had some time ago abandoned the debate.
Bare-footed, she padded silently down the dim, carpeted hallway. She wore only the short terry robe borrowed from her hostess and oldest friend, Jeannie. Its texture generated the most delicious sensations in her nipples as her breasts swayed back and forth. If only she were at home she'd have her nice silk robe instead β the thought was utterly inane: were she at home she'd certainly not be off on this clandestine nocturnal expedition!
Harold's bedroom door was wide open, streaming moonlight into the hall. He was Jeannie's nephew. Lois halted in the darkness just short of the door, leaned against the wall, her heart thumping. The basics were simple enough β she and he were Jeannie's house- and party-guests, theirs just an accidental meeting.
Which helped not at all with the question, What to do next?
Self-doubt swooshed through her again and she took inventory for the Nth time this evening: the overriding concern was a pair of small numbers - him thirty-one to her seventy-four. But more detail - first, things physical ββ- five-five, 121 pounds, quite reasonably distributed, all her own teeth and them attractive; all her own hair (silver-gray but short, cute, and it still pretty thick); able to run (slowly) five miles nonstop. A good couple of sets of tennis in her, any day. The only thing in excess, really, was years. Far too many of those β but of course, the alternative wasn't very enticing, was it?
Second β and perhaps more important, came things mental, especially emotional. Too many years and, perhaps, inhibitions? Too many utterly dry years, that was certain. She carried twice his plus a handful to spare! What the hell did she have to offer him? Certainly society at large would (at least "officially") find this whole rendezvous patently ridiculous! But very clearly not so to him, for she could read it in his face, mirabel dictu! How hard was THAT to believe?
So how had they come to this? How the devil had she gotten here?
They had hit it off extremely well, true kindred souls. In their first ten minutes they ascended (or descended, whichever!) into the third and fourth-order puns that both were addicted to, interlarded with layer after layer of innuendo, mostly sexual and all buried within the context of very interesting conversations about 'serious' (whatever that meant) topics. They volleyed converstion back and forth at a speed that left others completely out of their private loop. It had been decades since she'd stretched her mind that way, she was delighted β and the fact he was so unafraid, even willing (almost eager!) to be physically attracted to her despite their different ages was mind-bogglingly gratifying. As were the occasional envious glances she'd intercepted from other singleton women party-guests as she monopolized him.
Maybe thirty years in the gym was going to pay off after all?
At any rate, Lois found Harold fascinating intellectually, and attractive (very!) physically β a runner's body, scientist's mind. Attractive, too, in the way he studied her face as she spoke, the way he actually listened and heard β as if he had a woman's ability to read faces and body nuances - most disconcerting in a male although nice once she got accustomed to it.
So β answering her own question yet again, certainly she had something to offer him between the ears. But physically, what? With him in the prime of male life and her with this antique body? What she really needed was one of those sci-fi temporal dislocations! Gravity had won about 80% of the battle with her boobs β no possible attraction there, was there? At least she could find one plus, although even it had to be expressed as a negative - she had no real pot-belly (having avoided childbirth helped), and no droopy-drawers butt, no turkey-wattles flapping about.
And physical lovemaking? Rusty was an understatement. No partnered sex-life since her husband died β and they'd been celibate (his decision, not hers!) for years before that. How long ago, her last actual lovemaking session? Or, if not lovemaking, at least a good solid fuck? She hated to think of it, but the dry spell was longer now than Harold had been alive! Good GOD! No love-life β but then, it had been far easier to surrender to that condition than fight it. When young she had been powerfully sensuous, quickly dried up by her unfortunate marriage.
Since about her fiftieth birthday her solace had been a strange thing β well out of menopause, she noticed with dismay and distaste the way her pubic thatch was thinning and spreading sideways, and in a fit of some un-recallable emotion she shaved her crotch completely. The whole slippery process, razor-steel slithering so close to clit, fingers grabbing and tugging and slipping, turned out to be incredibly erotic and brought her off in a most unexpected but delightful fashion. Ever since, twice or thrice weekly she would discover stubble, and indulge herself. Some sex-life, she berated herself mercilessly in the few seconds left to her before the assigned time.
Getting from the party to the present, the here-and-now? Ninety minutes ago: eleven thirty, party going full-tilt, maybe twenty people in the house. She and Harold had dropped into one of those momentary lacunae in any party's conversation and turmoil, alone and out of earshot. In that private moment, he had seriously rattled her with a look β from very close β that seemed to go in through her eyes and finished embedded in her lower abdomen. His hand on her wrist was indulging in anything but casual contact, the touch almost incandescent.
Quietly but clearly, leaving no possibility for misunderstanding, he said "If you'd care to join me in my room I'll be up for you. Exactly zero one hundred. My door will be open. If you wish. I'd like it very much."
Without waiting for her answer, his expression almost but not quite presuming acquiescence, he turned and vanished, leaving behind something akin to a vacuum, a wake that sucked her breath away and left her speechless. And down in her pussy a great surge, a literal jet of moisture, the sensations exactly the same, and every bit as intense, as if she'd bitten into a lemon and her salivary glands had exploded. Such a thing had never, ever occurred before. Never! And besides that, women her age weren't supposed to be capable of self-lubrication β much less of soaking their panties with it!
She had known instantly, watching Harold's legs disappear up the stairs, that she would debate with herself at some considerable length the rationality of taking him up on that invite... and she'd known equally well that regardless of the debate, and equally regardless of her swarming self-doubts and qualms and worries, she was going to be there at one o'clock, as invited. Rationality be damned, doubly and triply damned, the only real question was how to live through the next ninety minutes!