Author's note:
Like many of you reading this, I have been a faithful follower of BusyBadger's series, A New Way of Seeing Things for nearly four years. I always thought I would like to try writing for Literotica too, even though I have little experience writing fiction, especially erotica. A recent medical event, that fortunately I fully recovered from, made me decide to get out the old bucket list and get started on it. Since writing a series on Literotica was on the list, here goes.
I have no idea how long the series will be but hope I can keep it going for a while. After writing the first three chapters, I feel like Dave & Lisa are good friends that I care about even though they are of course, fictional. So, if you like them too, I'll keep writing as long as their story lasts. I welcome comments and suggestions but please understand that I'm a romantic at heart and believe good sex is a result of love, affection and consideration between those involved. If you agree with me on that, I think you will enjoy Dave & Lisa's story, hopefully even the parts without sex. If not, well thanks for stopping by, but you might enjoy some of the other stories in Literotica more. Either way, thanks!
Setting: A small city in the Midwest.
Characters:
David (Dave) Thompson, age 52, widower for three years. Two grown children. Dave is the owner/operator of a commercial printing business and is a part time professional photographer.
Lisa Williamson, age 50, divorced for 10 years. Three grown children. Lisa is a high school English teacher.
Melissa Thompson, age 25, daughter of Dave, unmarried.
Chris Thompson, age 23, son of Dave, unmarried
Matthew Williamson, age 27, son of Lisa, unmarried.
Rachel McAllister, age 25, daughter of Lisa, wife of Travis.
Travis McAllister, age 26, husband of Rachel.
Stephanie Williamson, age 22, unmarried.
Synopsis: Dave and Lisa meet when he is asked to photograph the wedding of Lisa's daughter, Rachel. A difficult divorce had left Lisa feeling unsure of herself, undesirable and not very sexy. Dave strongly disagrees with her self-assessment and begins to help her discover how beautiful and sexy she really is.
Chapter 1 Lisa Discovers Her Sexy Side—With Some Help
Lisa Williamson was nervous. She didn't like having her picture taken. That was true in part because she was not comfortable with the way she looked. After her children were born, she never seemed to be able to get off the few extra pounds she had gained and to her embarrassment, most of those extra pounds eventually went to her chest. Over the years, her bra size had gone from the 32 B she wore on her wedding day many years ago, to the 36 D she wore today. Ok, she was really a 36 DD but only busty young women or old ladies wore cup size DD and since she was neither, (50 is NOT old, she kept telling herself) she usually squeezed herself into a 36D.
Lisa was blessed with long auburn hair and to her, this was her saving grace. When she was younger, her hair seemed to be what attracted men first. She knew she had a nice body back then, but nothing spectacular. It was her hair that had gotten her noticed. She was grateful that her auburn hair was still what people noticed first, not her extra pounds.
Of course, her ex-husband John had not complained about the extra pounds—right up to the day he announced he was in love with someone else and wanted a divorce. Then he had plenty to say, suggesting it was her fault that he had an affair with a woman ten years younger than she, because Lisa had "let herself go." This from a man whose belt size had grown from a 30 when they married to a 44 when they divorced. Lisa might be an English teacher but her math was good enough to know that John's waist was almost half again bigger than it was when she married him. "And his penis was half again smaller," the slightly bitter side of her snickered.
That was ten years ago. After the divorce was finalized, John moved to Chicago, taking his new wife with him and leaving Lisa to finish raising their three children. Fortunately, they were good kids and had turned out OK. The only one she really worried about was Stephanie. She was only 12 when her father left and navigating her teen years without a father in the house seemed to have been a challenge for her. This was reflected in the way she talked and dressed. Lisa feared she was trying to use sex to attract attention from men; seeking the wrong kind of attention from them because she never got the right kind of attention from her father.
Lisa sighed and brought her attention back to the matter at hand. She had to get ready for the photographer—her fiancé. How had she ever let Dave talk her into this? Yes, he was a part time professional photographer, but still...
That was how they had met. He was the photographer for her daughter Rachel's wedding earlier that year. His daughter, Melissa, was one of Rachel's bridesmaids and when the photographer Lisa had hired backed out at the last minute, Rachel saved the day by asking her father, Dave Thompson, to photograph the wedding. He was an amazing photographer, making everyone comfortable and knowing just how to arrange the bridal party to get the best results. His candid photos during the wedding rehearsal and again at the reception captured moments in time that had become cherished memories.
When they were reviewing the photos, trying to decide which ones to have printed for the album, Lisa noticed there were a lot of her, not as many as there were of the bride of course, but still there seemed to be a lot more mother of the bride pictures than was usual. "I'm just imagining things," she thought to herself—until her younger daughter, Stephanie said, "Wow! There sure are a lot of photos of you Mom. I think the photographer has a crush on you!"
"Don't be silly, Steph."
"No, she's right Mom," Rachel chimed in, "You're in a lot of the photos and you look great."
"Yeah, Mom," Steph said, "And look at your cleavage! You look sexy! No wonder the photographer has the hots for you."
"Steph!"
Lisa could feel her face redden, especially because her son-in-law Travis had been looking at the photos with them. Because she was uncomfortable with the size of her breasts, she tended to dress conservatively, trying to hide them. Her daughters had talked her into a dress for the wedding that was modest by today's standards but felt a bit risqué to her, showing a hint of the cleavage that she had tried so hard to hide over the years. And if she was honest, when she leaned forward a bit, more than just a hint of her cleavage could be seen.
"Maybe if you'd showed off your boobs a little more, your husband wouldn't have left you," she thought to herself, followed quickly by "John didn't leave me because I didn't show my boobs enough. He left because he was a jerk! Anyway, he didn't ask me to show my boobs. If fact, the last few years he rarely even looked at them."
Bringing her thoughts back to the present, Lisa felt the butterflies in her stomach make their presence known as she again thought about the photos Dave was preparing to take. It turned out Stephanie had been right about why there were so many of her in the wedding photos. Soon after the wedding, Dave called Lisa, asking how they liked the photos and ended up apologizing for taking so many of her. "I just couldn't help myself," he said. "You looked so beautiful and the lens was just drawn to you." They talked for over an hour and before the conversation ended, she found that she had agreed to go on a date with him.
Now, just three short months later, she and her daughters were planning
her
wedding. Which once more brought her mind back to the dress waiting for her. When Dave had talked her into letting him take some "engagement" photos of her, he specifically asked her to wear the dress she had worn to Rachel's wedding—with another request. With a twinkle in his eye he asked her to wear a bra that enhanced the cleavage peaking from her dress. Embarrassed that he would ask such a thing, she shyly told him, "I don't even have a bra like that."
Handing her his credit card, he looked her in the eyes and said, "Buy one." His smile widening, he lowered his voice and said, "Buy some sexy panties too!"
"Sexy panties!" she exclaimed, "You won't even see them under the dress."
"But it will drive me crazy knowing you're wearing them."
So here she was, wearing a bra and panty set that would be more appropriate for her daughters than for her 50-year-old body. Looking at herself in the mirror, she tried to objectively evaluate the image before her. "Actually, not too bad considering my age," she thought. "Sure, my boobs are bigger than I would like, and my hips are those of a woman who bore three children, but my stomach is still pretty flat and my legs look pretty good, if I do say so myself." Although she couldn't bring herself to think she was still pretty, she did like the way her hair framed her face.
She looked more closely at the bra and panties, thinking, "I bet Dave would love to see me wearing just these, without the dress. Just a couple more months, my love."