Copyright © merf68. Please respect copyright.
This story is entirely fictional, any similarity to people or places is purely co-incidental.
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I had called a family conference to discuss my future - which university? My grades were good enough to give me quite a wide selection, the main problem was financial. I was very reluctant to start my life with a mountain of debt: student loans are easy enough to obtain but can create a millstone around one's neck that takes years to pay off.
We all thrashed the problem out but it was Dad who suggested a possible solution, "I wonder if Mike and Wendy would take a lodger if Jon went to Bristol? Then he wouldn't have to pay so much for rent."
We tossed the possibilities around for a while and Bristol seemed to be favourite in my mind. Our family had moved from there just three years ago so I knew the area well. Mike had been one of Dad's work colleagues who had progressed to the upper echelons of the company for which he worked. He and Wendy were pretty close family friends - Uncle Mike and Aunty Wendy when my elder sister Sue and I were kids - and they lived in a small village about 15 miles out of the city and there was a good bus service just a mile away. Easy cycling distance too. All in all it seemed an excellent solution, if Mike and Wendy would have me.
Dad picked up the phone and gave Mike a ring. He put the proposition to his friend and Mike said he'd discuss it with Wendy and her father then call us back. It was only twenty minutes later when the phone rang. Yes, they'd love to have me. Dad and Mike later discussed the financial details. My parents would subsidise me to the price of my keep but Mike didn't ask much: well, Dad actually had to talk Mike up to a reasonable figure.
I was granted my place at Bristol Uni. so early in September Wendy picked me up at the coach station in Bristol and drove out to the Old Parsonage, an old stone house which had been added to and extended at least three times since it was built in the early 18th century so it was big and rambling.
The Old Parsonage belonged to Wendy's invalid father and, as Mike and Wendy were childless, there were only the three of them living there. My bedroom was on the same passage as the couple's and looked out past the ivy cladding and over the large back garden shed to a small swimming pool set at the edge of the lawn, all completely surrounded by a large dense hedge and so thoroughly private. The sounds and smells of the countryside wafting in through the open window were so peaceful and the whole house had a wonderful welcoming air about it.
My room had a low ceiling with dark oak beams and a large window framed by bright flowery curtains which wafted gently in the light breeze. The late afternoon sun slanting in illuminated a room furnished in antique oak, including the large bed in one corner with the cover pulled back invitingly. In another corner, in stark contrast to the 'antique' look of the room, was a computer work stand complete with computer and office-type chair. There was a small TV on a wall stand and half-way decent sound system. All the equipment looked new; surely they hadn't gone out and spent that sort of money for me? I knew I would be happy here.
I unpacked my bags and hung up my favourite poster on the wall opposite the bed, by the door: Jane Fonda's Barbarella in that famous pose in the clear plastic 'bra'. A teenager's wet dream! I stood back to check that it was straight and level when there was a knock on the door and Wendy opened it. Her figure curved in just the same places as Jane Fonda but unlike the actress, her attractive bronzed face was framed by thick and glossy blue/black shoulder-length waves. Her breasts strained the crisp cotton shirt and a flowered summer skirt was cinched in round her slim waist and flared over her hips. My eyes flicked back and forth from her to the poster. Wendy's figure was a good match.
A diplomatic cough made me realise I what I was doing and I blushed at her sardonic smile. "So to whom are you comparing me?" She came and stood by my side and looked up at Barbarella for a few seconds. "How do I measure up?" she asked, bumping her hip against mine but didn't give me time either to think or respond. Which was as well because I wouldn't have known what to reply. In the three years since we had last met, Wendy had changed from a happy, friendly 'aunt' figure to a very desirable woman, or maybe the change was in me. But how could I tell her that she 'measured up'? I could feel my face colouring.
"Tea's ready in the kitchen," she informed me, then turned and walked along the passage to the stairs. I waited for a minute to allow my incipient erection to behave itself then followed her down to the kitchen where I was sat down in front of an appetising cheese and ham salad.
Wendy's father – he asked me to call him 'Dad' as that's what his daughter and son-in-law called him – had his electric wheelchair drawn up to the table opposite me with Mike to my right and Wendy sitting to my left. Conversation was lively and entertaining and they me treated as an adult.
We talked about the routines of the house. 'Dad' had a small suite on the ground floor where he spent much of his time at the computer. He related a couple of amusing tales about some of his internet friends. Mike would be out at work most days and Wendy kept herself busy with the household chores and her great love, her gardens. She had flower beds everywhere and a fairly large vegetable patch which kept them almost independent of the greengrocer. Mike told me he had set up a network connection on the computer for me. I'd need that for my studies.
They asked me not to play my music too loud which was no problem, I don't want to be deaf in my mid-twenties, and not to run up big phone bills on premium lines. They also asked me not to login to any of the peer2peer groups on the computer, or download anything pirated, but again no problem as our parents had always placed the same restriction on me and Sue at home. I could entertain girlfriends in my room but no parties or overnight stays.
"Otherwise, Jon, we want you to be part of the family." Wendy had a twinkle in her eye as she said this. God, she looked sexy! For the second time in less than an hour I was rendered speechless, but managed to mumble my thanks. Conversation then drifted into a three-year general catch up, as if our two families hadn't phoned each other regularly in the meantime.
In the evening I phoned my family and reported that I had arrived safely and that I was settling in nicely. I retired to my room, put some music on and lay back on the bed looking idly at Barbarella with vague erotic thoughts drifting through my mind. It had been an exhausting day so it wasn't late when I turned in. As I beat my meat before dropping off to sleep, Barbarella somehow transformed into Wendy and I soon had to throw some sticky wet tissues out of the bed.