Mrs. B., as Josh called Mrs. Borden, looked incredible.
The successful businesswoman had just gotten home from work and was making dinner for her granddaughter Julia and Josh, Julia's boyfriend. They would often come to the older, divorced woman's house to keep her company. Julia and Mrs. B. were close, and similar in their athletic beauty.
And try as he might, Josh couldn't take his eyes off the fetching Mrs. Borden.
She was tall and alluring, 5-7, a willowy 120 pounds, short blonde hair and bright blue eyes, a gorgeous woman of 60. It was her legs that transfixed Josh most of all, he didn't know why they did, but whenever she showed any leg at all, he couldn't keep his eyes off them. They were long and lean, more than slightly muscular from running and playing tennis, sinewy and firm, tanned and decidedly sexy.
And Julia noticed Josh's infatuation, and it angered her, made her feel inadequate. At 5-5, 130 pounds, Julia, a good-looking 19-year-old blonde, had gorgeous legs of her own, thicker, more muscular. But it was her sexy granny's legs that seemed more hypnotic to Josh.
Like today. As Mrs. B. puttered around the kitchen, still in her smart, black business dress cut a few inches above the knees, no nylons and black strap heels, he watched intently as she moved fluidly around the kitchen. He and Julia sat at the kitchen island, all three talking, but Josh less so as he furtively cast glances at the older woman's legs, her calves flaring and dancing under her supple, tanned skin, the hint of thigh showing etched firm and hard as she moved.
"Uh, Josh, you like my new shorts?" Julia asked him, looking down at her denim shorts, high cut on her hard thighs.
"Yeah, honey, very nice," he answered politely, taking the occasion to look harder at her granny's legs while Julia was looking at her own.
But Julia caught him, she always did, and rolled her eyes.
"I'm going to change, be right back," Mrs. B said once she got water boiling on the stove for some spaghetti.
Julia spun around and confronted her boyfriend, whose eyes followed her grandmother out of the room.
"Josh, what is it with you and my granma's legs, it's really starting to piss me off!" Julia growled at him once she left.
Josh blushed. He knew she'd caught him on occasion staring at her grandmother's gorgeous gams, but never had she been so outspoken about it.
"Uh, hell, Julia, it's nothing," he lied. "She's got nice legs, sure, but it's not like I stare at 'em or anything."
"Bullshit," Julia said defensively, arms crossed on her chest. "You stare plenty. Do you fantasize about my grandma's legs when we're screwing, Josh? Do you? Answer me honestly."
Josh affected his most wounded look as he lied, "Julia, for God's sake, no way! I mean she's a pretty lady and all but c'mon she's...fuck, 40 years old than me, yuck! Honey, for crying out loud, you're making more of this than you should, believe me."
She knew he was lying but instead said, "Well, OK, if you say so," then slipped off the stool. "Be right back, gotta go to the bathroom."
She marched down the hall to her grandma's room and walked in where the lovely lady was changing into a tight, high-cut pair of bright yellow running shorts and white t-shirt. She did have great legs, Julia thought as she watched the sinew in her granny's thighs flex, those calves creased on the sides.
"Grandma, there's something I gotta tell you," Julia said, sitting on the bed as her granny pulled on a pair of sandals, sitting next to her.
"Sure, honey, what, you can tell me anything you know that," she said, patting her granddaughter's leg. "Now what is it, something's bothering you, I can tell."
Julia sighed and continued.
"Josh thinks you got great legs and he won't stop staring at them," she blurted out. "He denies staring, but I catch him all the time. Oh, Grandma, you DO have great legs, I guess I get my great legs from you, but for gosh sake, he's my boyfriend!"
Her grandmother looked back at her incredulously. She knew she had grat legs but had no idea Josh was noticing. Since the divorce, she hadn't felt the stare of any man, and in a sudden moment of self-honesty she realized this kind of tickled and pleased her, that her old legs had that sort of affect on such a young man.
But she hugged her granddaughter close and comforted her.
"Oh, honey, it's probably nothing," she said. "Why would he want to look at an old pair of legs like mine when he has yours? Besides, it's just a young man thing, really, don't make too much of it."
"Really, Grandma?" Julia asked hopefully.
"Really, hon," she said. "But if you want, I'll have a talk with him."
"Really, what would you say?"
"Well," her grandmother said. "You know the expression 'too much of a good thing'?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Maybe you don't remember it, but I used to wrestle your granddad when he got out of hand," she smiled.