Here's my entry into the Winter Holidays Contest, albeit there's not too much mention of the holiday season in it. Not until the end anyway. I didn't intend it to be that way when I started, but the thing grew legs and wandered off and went where it wanted.
In this one a middle-aged man is seduced by a twenty-something hottie. But the trouble is she's also a married woman. He tries to resist but is too weak and can't manage to find the strength to deny him, and her it seems, the pleasure.
Just a note on the point-of-view: because it's in the first-person doesn't mean it's autobiographical. I anticipate there might be some confusion over that issue. Well, that's been my experience in the past, with some of the Public Comments and other feedback on previous first person POV submissions being of a personal nature, a lot of it regarding the marital status of my parents or accusing me of all manner of perversions in my mother's cellar, etc.
Anyway, we'll see what happens, if anything. Some of the comments make good entertainment in their own right -- better'n the crap I write most of the time!
Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoy the short piece despite any shortcomings. Feedback is appreciated ... mostly. *wink*
GA -- Ranong, Thailand -- 20th of November 2014.
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She breezed in on long legs and high heels, somehow slipping past and then leaving me standing at my own front door to gawp over one shoulder, stunned by the audacity. She was in my flat before I could stop her. I can't explain just how she managed it, some kind of sleight-of-hand Houdini technique it seemed: blink of an eye quick. A trick the old door-to-door salespeople would have coveted.
"Hiya," she'd said when I'd responded to the knock. Then she'd flashed a smile at me to complement the cheery greeting before, somehow, she was past me and strolling into the living room.
I recognised her as a neighbour from two doors along, a striking young woman not long moved in with her husband. I'd passed her once in the entryway downstairs, but only exchanged a nod in greeting on that occasion. I'd been going out and she was coming, her laden with a bag of supplies from the Budgens shop across the car park.
We didn't exchange a word at the time, but I'd noticed her all right. She was difficult to miss with that platinum blonde hair and a propensity towards miniskirts.
And why shouldn't she wear those skirts? There was no complaint from me, seeing her legs certainly brightened my day. And the rest of her, in my chauvinistic opinion, was worth a second look as well -- a good long look, too. But that's all it was, a look. I indulged as we passed in the vestibule, contriving a brief survey of her slender yet appealingly curvaceous frame from behind. I fully appreciated the moment, soaking in the sight of a very engaging feminine swing. I knew she was involved with someone, was spoken for, and I respected that. Plus she was at least twenty years younger than me, probably even a quarter of a century. I doubted she even registered my existence.
Oddly enough the athletic way she moved, full of bounce and energy, caused me a brief stab of melancholy. It suddenly dawned that I would never experience such vigour again. I'd had my day, plenty of days in fact, but in the ignorance of youth I'd failed to fully appreciate just what it was I'd held in my hands, literally as well as figuratively.
The blonde girl climbed the stairs and I walked out of the block, the moment passing as I went to my car, day-to-day matters displacing the young woman in my thoughts. I didn't really think about her again until I found myself confronted by her physical presence at my front door.
Following her breezy entrance into my flat -- a
what-the-fuck
moment if ever there was one -- I closed the door and caught up with her in the living room.
She stood there in front of the sofa, backlit by the afternoon sun coming in through the balcony doors. I have to admit she made a very appealing sight: high heels, long legs, hemline to the tops of her thighs. She also wore a canary-yellow 'gypsy' blouse loose about her torso, a garment that revealed nothing but somehow still emphasised the bounty beneath. In that way she reminded me of a lady I'd known a long time before, her charms concealed yet with me very aware. I had no way of knowing it at that moment, but this blonde would resemble my decades ago former lover in another way. Both women shared a very specific physical attribute, something I would help the young lady discover for herself that same afternoon.
In my living room there was another flash of her smile and, before I could speak, before I could ask her just what it was she thought she was doing, the first words I ever heard her utter were, "I was just wonderin'..."
She paused, face tilted in survey towards her legs and, regardless of my surprise at her not completely unwelcome yet totally unexpected intrusion, with my brain not processing much in the way of sense, it still filtered through that she was a long way from her home city.
In that second or two I placed her accent at distinctly North West England, from somewhere close to the city that birthed The Beatles. All it took was that single word, the distinctly Liverpudlian drawl in the way she pronounced
wonderin'
.
I was just taking in that fact when her face came up from the critical appraisal of her own legs, those eyes fixing on me, huge and blue and captivating. She blinked twice, flawless brow furrowing when she pouted, "I was just wonderin' if this skirt isn't a bit too short. You're a bloke -- what do you think?"
Several impressions tumbled in my head, a tombola of thoughts, a lottery draw of ideas:
Who bursts into a neighbour's home -- a man she doesn't even know, a man at least two decades older than she is -- and asks a question like that?
What am I supposed to say?
What does she want to hear?
Why is she asking me
?
This has to be a joke -- where are the cameras?