Was it a fantasy or was it becoming reality? Was it all in my dramatically vivid imagination or had these events actually happened? Did I dream them or act them out? Was it all simply emotional or had my physical being been involved as well?
I was getting to the stage where I wasnāt all that sure. I knew that the psychological and emotional nightmare Iād gone through just before and for some time after the final parting from my husband had done things to me. Unbalanced me a little, unsettled me and had played tricks with my feelings and thoughts. The absence of his mental stimulation, albeit in the later times of a quite negative way, the loneliness I suffered during, particularly, the first few months after the break-up and the brain wrenching thinking Iād gone through as I set out on planning a whole new life had made me very introspective. I had gone to bed many nights my head so full of worries, guilt, hopes and plans that Iād laid awake for hours my mind in a whirl. And the loss of the sex, that even up until quite near the end had certainly been frequent and, in an oddly perverse way, still exciting and stimulating, did other things to me. Despite my full resolve to finish with him there was hardly a evening and certainly never a full day when I didnāt think of him inside me, him kissing my breasts or placing his face between my legs or me feeling his erection against all parts of my body and in my mouth. That I was enormously frustrated I had no doubt although it was not a state of which I had much experience. My entire body almost continuously ached and pulsated for the touch of a man on it and my complete being and brain screamed out for the relief he would bring by giving me a total orgasm.
All these mental and physical sensations were now combining and closing in on me. In my depressed and confused state they seemed to merge fantasy into reality to a point that I was at times not sure where one ended and the other began.
Had I really spent time driving around the East End looking for likely places? Was I imagining that hidden in a suitcase securely locked so that Sarah wouldnāt find them, was the red plastic, simulated leather skirt, the black fishnet holdup stockingd and the frilly blouse that was partially see through? Was I kidding myself when I sat in my room after S had gone to bed, perhaps finishing a bottle of wine, planning it down to every detail? Living every moment, imagining what it would be like, how Iād feel doing it and after? Thinking what would he be like, how heād react and how heād treat me?
Iād given myself a timetable. Iām like that sometimes. When I have a big decision to make I often say to myself, āgive it two or three weeks and if the idea hasnāt gone away then decide a date and then do it.ā So I did that. If I still had the fantasy in mind after so much time then I would do it on such and such a date.
And I did still have it in my mind. If anything it was firmer and as that period of thinking ended so the excitement mounted and the idea took on a clearer view and my resolve became stronger. So the actual date was set for 7 days away, a Thursday night, chosen specifically for it was the Cityās night out and I knew the pubs would be full with what I needed to be there.
Had I really arranged for S to spend the night at a friendās house to give me the freedom and peace of mind to act my fantasy out? Was I actually standing in my bedroom naked taking the suitcase from the top shelf of the wardrobe? Was it in my mind that I was taking out the clothes and laying them on the bed or was the feel of the cheap plastic skirt real and strangely exciting me? Standing looking at myself in the mirror clad just in the black, fishnet holdups I could hardly make out whether they were real or whether the blatantly erotic image was me. And when I slipped the tight, short skirt on and again looked in the mirror did I know whether that was really a reflection of me, bare breasted with the vividly tarty, plastic pelmet and black net, or was that image a figment of my sexually tormented imagination.? Had I really, completely purposefully avoided pulling on any panties or bra as I did the loose buttons up on the thin black lacy bra? Was that also a reflection or was something playing tricks with my mind I wondered as I looked and worked out that others gazes would think, but wouldnāt be sure, that the full breasts that moved around and the hint of darkness under the lacy material suggested that I wasnāt wearing a bra? Still not sure whether the mirror was sending back faithful reflections or whether it was all in my mind I saw the woman sitting, crossing her legs, slowly, and I watched mesmerised as the skirt slid up her legs until beneath its hem could be made out the darker strip of her stocking tops telling whoever might be looking at that she was indeed wearing fishnet stockings.
In a daze, a dream, a flight of fantasy or maybe in vague reality it went on. Was that really the rather prudish, 30 something year old single mother, the golf and tennis club member and a bastion of middle class Docklands that beamed back from the beguiling glass of the full-length mirror looking, at best, an easy, good time girl or, with just a tad more imagination, a rather cheap whore about to go on parade? And that thrilled me, it played to my needs and desires, my imagination and the fantasy that had been gathering strength in my mind ever since I parted from Kevin and had my supply of sex curtailed.
It could well have been part of the fantasy or a particularly vivid dream that saw me wrap a long, black leather coat around me and call a cab. It could have all been in my mind as I climbed out just ten minutes later outside a drinking club in Bethnal Green. Yes I felt nervous. Yes I was concerned and worried about how it would go. Not worried for my safety for I was ok on that and accepted that some pain might be needed to fulfil my fantasy but more just what it would be like, how Iād feel and what it would do to my feelings and emotions.
As I walked slowly across the room to take a seat at the bar so my feelings began to explode. I saw lots of eyes following me as I undid the coat and let it drape down my back as I perched myself on the high stool. I saw mensā eyes riveted on me as I lifted myself and locked one heel of the, almost, stiletto high heels in the rung between the legs of the stool. In a surprisingly calm voice I heard me ordering a dry white wine from the young waitress behind the bar. I was beginning to experience some of the feelings Iād imagined so often as I sat there knowing I was being ogled and possibly also spoken about amongst the, largely, male clientele. It wasnāt long before I was offered a drink that I declined or before a man asked if I was wait6ing for someone. I said I was and turned away.
It was getting toward 10.30 the time I knew from my fantasy research when many of the customers would move onto the clubs nearby and sure enough it started thinning out. I casually looked around and saw several couples, male and female, a few groups of men and several guys by themselves. In my fantasy or this new realit6y I looked each of the singles up and down when they were looking at the TV so they wouldnāt notice. One was in his forties At least and was immediately rejected along with another younger guy with ginger hair who was no more than 5 feet6 or so. I wondered if the fantasy was about to unravel when looking around slightly panicking I only saw two others and neither of them in any met the image Iād dreamed up during the long time Iād been thinking about it. And then I saw him. Coming out of the menā room he was over six feet tall, nicely built with a shock of blondish hair. Fairly good looking, lthough that was of no real concern to me,I saw as he came closer walking past me that he could not have been more than 21 or so. Perfect I thought turning a little on the4 stall to follow where he went.
It was time. All the thought, the planning and the fantasising were about to come together. I tried to recall exactly how Iād imagined doing this as Iād laid in my b ed so many times masturbating about it. I tried to shake me head to see whether I might wake up and find that it had been a particularly vivid erotic dream. I tried to see if really I was in my home and that my imagination had gone into overdrive and all this was the fantasy and not the reality. But as I turned on the stall so that I could look directly at him it didnāt seem unreal for I could feel the unlined cheap plastic skirt on my bare bottom, slightly sticking to me. And as I saw him look straight at me the sudden pounding of my heart felt far from anything other than real. I caught his eye and I quickly looked away, taking a swig of my wine. Holding the glass to my lips I looked back and he was still looking at me. I held his gaze a moment and this time he looked away. I lit a cigarette averting my gaze from him as I did. But then with that in one hand and the drink in the other again held near to my lips I raised my eyes and caught his stare. I held his gaze looking deep into his eyes my pulse racing. I slipped my tongue out almost unconsciously and licked the rim of the glass, suggestively I thought.
Was I really doing this? Was this actually happening, at long, long last, I speculated or had my sex torn body corrupted my emotionally damaged mind so much that I could imagine this?
Still staring, now unashamedly at him, holding his look I slowly, so slowly crossed me legs. The feeling of the cheap, plastic, simulated leather skirt sliding up the net of the stockings seemed so real and surely I didnāt imagine the feeling of air on the skin slightly above the tops of the stockings. He was the only one left sitting in that area and I was shielded from the few other customers by the bar and sitting there my skirt now so far up my leg that I was sure he would be able to see the stocking tops. I looked into his eyes again and I saw him standing. He smiled at me and mouthed, ādrink?ā I shook my head slowly but smiled as I inclined it to one side towards the door.
Was I really easing myself off the stool and allowing the plastic to catch on the bar so that the hem rode up almost to my crotch? Surely I could not really be doing this? Exposing nearly all my legs to a man almost young enough to be my son in a public bar? I dropped my eyes as I stood and taking each side of the skirt in my hands I wiggled it down knowing that my breasts would jiggle beneath my b louse as my body moved. That done I looked at him again and made a meal of struggling into the coat realising that the material of the lacy blouse would be stretched across my breasts and that the front would gape so that through it a flash of white flesh would be on view to him. I knew what that would be like for Iād rehearsed that and the other moves so many times in front of my mirror and I wondered if perhaps I was now really in front of that mirror again and all else was purely imaginary. But was I imagining walking over to him, looking down and smiling? Was it in my mind that he stared at me a slight grin on his rather better looking face than Iād thought a\t first? It surely couldnāt be an illusion that I whispered, āfollow me,ā before turning and walking confidently to the door. And the footsteps I heard on the pavement were so loud and seemed so real that surely they were āt a fantasy were they?
āHi,ā I heard him say exactly as my imaginings had though he would as he drew alongside me, āmay I walk with you?ā
Now that hadnāt been in the plan. In the fantasy he didnāt speak after the āhiā. He said no more and we didnāt speak at all. āIs it ok if we talk? He asked confusing me for I hadnāt covered that in my planning. I had to quickly develop a contingency plan. Did that mean this had to be real? In the fantasy I controlled everything but now I wasnāt so perhaps I really was walking alongside him down Bethnal Green Road towards the narrow street Iād selected.
āNo, you mustnāt talk,ā I said not even looking up at him.
āOh right,ā he replied obviously confused. I said more so that told me that this may well have been real for in the fantasy I had never uttered even one word.