This is part eight of a serial narrative. For maximum enjoyment, please begin with part one.
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It's late August. The sun is shining. I'm driving with the windows down while the bewitching voice of Nina Simone sings through the speakers.
Birds flying high
You know how I feel...
Chloe leaves for school tomorrow.
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel...
I hadn't found a place for us to rendezvous.
Breeze driftin' on by
You know how I feel...
I'd thought of a motel room, but it felt sleazy.
It's a new dawn...
Then Chloe messaged this morning.
It's a new day...
Her mom and brother are away all day.
It's a new life
For me...
She told me to come to her house in the afternoon.
And I'm feeling good
The horns suddenly blare out a weighty
Bump! Ba-dump-
and then immediately cut out.
Damn streaming service.
I lost my signal. Chloe's house is outside of town, in an area where the driveways are a quarter-mile apart from each other with patches of woods in between.
I had put the music on to distract my mind. Right before I got in the car, I checked my email. There was a new one from Abbey Grace. I'd only been back from the conference for five days. And every waking hour of those five days my head was filled with the image of her golden hair glittering in the morning light as she bounced on my cock.
She's planning a small tour this coming spring- New York, Boston, Portland, Montreal. She wants me to be her accompanist. It would mean that over the winter, I'd have to fly to her for a few multi-day rehearsal sessions. There are plenty of other pianists that she could work with -higher profile, more conveniently located. What she's asking me is to turn our fling into an affair. My gut says no, not to take the offer. I'm confident Jen still doesn't have a suspicion of all I've been up to. But me spending many weeks away from home in the company of a gorgeous and newly single friend? She'd be a fool not to be suspicious! And Jen is no fool.
But then I think of Abbey Grace's long, tan legs. Her flat belly. Her deep blue eyes. To have her again... and again and again... I'm breathless at the thought of it.
Not to mention, I could really use such a prominent and lucrative gig. But, no. No!
I force my brain to focus on more immediate opportunities. Chloe. I don't have a lesson planned. She wanted this session. It's her house. I'll let her decide what we do. Though, God, I hope it involves her ass.
When I pull into her long dirt driveway, two things happen almost simultaneously. First, I realize that Chloe's old silver Volvo is nowhere to be seen, but there is a black RAV-4 in the garage. Second, I finally get a signal again and I read a message Chloe sent who knows how long ago:
ABORT! ABORT!
Fuck.
The RAV-4, it's her mother Danae's.
What should I do? Back up and hope she didn't notice me pull in, or pretend I'm here for some other purpose? But what if she knows? Is that why she's here? And where the fuck is Chloe?
My decision is made for me when Danae steps out onto the front stoop and waves. It's a friendly wave, if not very enthusiastic.
I pull closer to the house and step out.
"Danae! Lovely to see you!"
"You too! It's been a while."
"It certainly has."
I've never met Chloe's father, but I know she gets most of her looks from her mother. Danae is Greek and has the requisite olive skin and wavy black hair. Danae is shorter than Chloe, probably an even five feet. She's got the same hourglass waist, but her hips are wider and her breasts smaller. Her face is almost identical in shape. She has the same round cheeks, the same dainty chin, the same cupid's bow lips. The only difference is the presence of a few wrinkles and her eyes, which are shaped the same but are brown with flecks of green and bronze.
"What brings you around?"
"Felix can't find their favorite jacket. They need to pack it before they head back to school. They thought they might have loaned it to Chloe. So I agreed to stop by and see."
"Oh. Well, you just missed Chloe."
"Ah, well."
"But I might be able to find it. Come on in."
She turns and steps into the house. I can't help but take a glance at her large and delightfully shaped backside, made all the more noticeable by her peach-colored capri yoga pants.
I follow her inside. Their house is usually a complete mess, but that's not the case today. Today, everything is neat and clean. It's open-concept, the living room, dining room, and kitchen all connected. A hallway leads down to the bedrooms.
"What's it look like?"
"It's the denim one with all the patches sewn on. I'm sure you've seen them in it plenty of times before."
"Oh, her special jacket? I'm surprised she lent it to Chloe."
"I think Chloe was adding a new patch."
"Ah! Well, make yourself at home, I'll go check in her room. Can I get you anything? A drink?"
"No, I'm all set. Thanks."
Again I watch her ass in motion as she walks down the hallway to Chloe's room. In my mind, I'm plunging my cock deep within that ass, just like I did with Chloe's. I'm surprised at how arousing the thought is. To have a young woman completely and utterly give herself to me and then to have her mother do the same? It's a wild fantasy, but one that is fun to contemplate.
She comes back, her loose top bouncing with each step.
"Didn't see it anywhere."
"Ah well. Maybe it's at home. Felix is terrible at finding things."
"
Felix
. That will take some getting used to. How is- are they? I didn't see them much this summer."
"Who knows, right? They seem happy, but barely share anything with me anymore."
She's standing with her hands on the back of her hips, elbows out, her weight shifted to one leg.
God, she looks like Chloe, but darker, stronger, more intense.
"What about Chloe?" I ask. "I've only had a few passing words with her this summer."
"She's..."
Danae walks over to the kitchen island and picks up a glass of white wine.
"She's the reason I'm drinking this in the middle of the afternoon."
"Something wrong?"
"I don't know," she answers, exasperated.
I move to the living room area. There's a sofa and chair. I stand in front of the chair.
"Wanna tell me about it? Get some things off your chest?"
She smiles and walks over. I'm blocking the chair, so she sits on the sofa. I then sit on the sofa as well. She brings her feet up so she can turn a face me. Chloe likes to sit that way too.
"Are you sure I can't get you anything?" she asks. "We've got Sprite. I know you are a soda guy."
"Not these days. Had to cut the habit. I was getting a gut. Stopped drinking soda, three months later my gut was gone."
"I did notice you're looking lean."
"Oh, thank you. I wasn't fishing, but I like what I caught."
She laughs.
"You," I say, "are looking wonderful."
She looks skeptical.
"I still try, but it's getting harder. Jogging is harder on my knees, but I still do as much as I can. Yoga helps."
"I should be doing more of that. It's good to stay limber. I imagine you're pretty flexible."
A small twitch of her eyebrow shows me she caught what I'm really imagining.
"I guess I am."
There's an awkward silence.
"So," I say, breaking the tension, "Everything ok with Chloe?"
"Oh, I don't know. I took Kevin to an amusement park to hang out with a bunch of his friends. I was planning to stay all day, but I
hate
amusement parks, so when one of the other moms offered to drive Kevin home, I left early. When I got here, I was delighted to find that Chloe had, for once in her life, voluntarily cleaned the house. But for some reason, she was livid that I came home. She screamed at me about never following through on plans then stormed out of here. I don't know what the true issue was. I don't know. Like you were saying with Felix, she just doesn't let me in very much anymore, you know? And we used to share everything with each other. I think she is up to something she knows I wouldn't approve of."
"Why do you think that?"
"Lots of little things. Some big ones too. Early this summer, there was an entire week where she'd leave home mid-morning and wouldn't come back until after midnight, with no explanation! One night she never came home at all. I was worried sick. She told me later she stayed the night at Jazlyn's, but I talked to her folks and they said she hadn't. She's gone off and disappeared other times as well."
"You think she's developed a bad habit?"
'What, like drugs? No. Not my Chloe. I mean, I know she's a pothead, but whatever. I was too at her age. But she wouldn't do the hard stuff. It must be a boy."
"What makes you say that?"
"What else makes girls her age act so irrationally? Brian -you know, her ex?- has tried to hang out with her many times this summer, but she's given him the stiff-arm treatment. And when I've asked her if there are any boys in her life, she's gotten irritated and told me, in so many words, to buzz off. Why would she not want me to know about a boy?"
"Maybe it's not a boy."
"What do you mean?"
Maybe it's a man.
"Maybe it's a girl."