In reality, Maria was 48, but no one could ever pin her age just to look at her. She'd always looked younger than her age. When she'd graduated from U Penn, she was 23 and she still had braces. After graduation she moved back to SoCal and got an apartment in Long Beach with three friends from Uni. They shared an apartment and all got jobs, they planned on kicking around for a year to figure out what to do next. It would be some form of graduate school for each of them, they were privileged white girls with degrees from Ivy League schools. They also planned on cutting loose. Maria went into porn, just the outskirts of it, she did it for fun, not because she had to.
She would meet him in just six months in his timeline. He would be 28, she would be 23, they would fall in love, move to Portland. She would dump him eventually, despite his marriage proposal and the lame ring he'd give her on bended knee. She'd actually laughed at him when he gave it to her. He was drunk and could barely speak. He was a fool. She did love him though, but just because of the sex. He could make her orgasm like no man could. She was also bisexual and prefered women because they knew how to make her cum. He was the first man to make her cum with his mouth. She'd had men make her orgasm. Men in porn, with huge cocks that simply because of their sheer size had made her orgasm. But, he was so good to her she couldn't bring herself to leave him.
She would leave him once she went to law school in Chicago. She'd found a better man, and a smart man. A competent and savvy man. He was a simpleton. A rube. Once he'd come to Chicago to surprise her for her birthday and Maria took him and all of her law school friends out on the town and all of her friends had laughed and teased her later after he'd gone. How simple he was. He had no idea. But she'd fucked him one last time before sending back home unwittingly, blissfully unaware that she'd dump him in just a week's time.
She finished law school at the top of her class, got a job at a top law firm in Boston, found a man to marry and bear two children with and eventually divorce. When she was 48 she went back to Portland for a huge case and rented a small house for almost a year. She'd lived in Portland for three years with him. They'd moved there together. He was going to start school at PSU and she was going to do her charitable work with Habitat for Humanity that would help her get into Northwestern a couple years later. She knew Portland well. She rented a house in Washington Park overlooking the city on the west hills. She worked and spent quiet time in her small house next to the rose garden while her teenage kids stayed back in Boston. They didn't want to leave school and stayed back with the nanny. She used to love walking the rose garden, it was a massive garden with many secret nooks and crannies to get lost in.
It was during this time, in one of the secret nooks that she'd found the time portal. That's how she described it to herself. She was walking in a remote area of the garden near an area of exposed basalt with a sheer drop off that was cut off from access. She found herself there overlooking the cliff and staring down at the city far below. She could see Mt Hood shimmering in the glow of the sunset. She suddenly felt herself vertigo and waver and when she'd recovered and found her way back to her little house it was clear that something had happened.
It took her a while but she eventually realized she had slipped through a time warp and was back in 1999, the summer before she'd met him.
Of course she'd gone through all the denials, the questions, the disbeliefs, but eventually, when all the evidence pointed to the same conclusion, she reconciled the mystical occurrence and accepted her senses. She had traveled through time.
She tested it out. She returned to the spot in the rose garden several times just to make sure it was stable and reliable. Maria was an adventurous spirit at heart and she wanted to believe in magic so this happening to her seemed to fit and she embraced it.
She had no idea why it dropped her at this time of her life. She didn't want to risk telling anyone and testing so she kept it to herself. She had questions, but she contented herself to her experience and that's when it dawned on her to go to Long Beach and seduce him, now, as a 48 year old woman.
She had spent four years of her life with him. Four years of the prime years of her life. Not an exorbitant amount of time, but significant nonetheless. She'd recalled telling him one time that he'd wasted four of the most valuable years of her prime. She'd genuinely believed that it was a waste of time because he'd given her nothing except a bunch of good sex. She knew now, at 48, that she couldn't have been more mistaken. Her prime was yet to come and if she was honest with herself, she was still in her prime. She'd felt bad about saying those things to him. She wanted to somehow make it up to him. She knew him well and she knew, with all of her knowledge and experience, she could really give him a treat. That's when she decided to go visit him, right before he and she would meet.
She woke up the following day after giving him a bag full of Vanity Fair panties. She knew him so well. When he arrived at her hotel room in Long Beach, and she was dressed only in her robe, panties, and satin white high heels, that when his eyes traveled from her eyes, down her body, and settled on her heeled and manicured feet that he was still that same sex-starved cross-dressing, feminized sissy boy she fell in love with so many years ago, that she had him.
She felt that same tingling deep down inside her. She wanted to control this young "boy" as she perceived him now, as an older woman. She had so much power now, she knew if she could get him to open up to her, to reveal his hidden secrets to her now, she could open him up and make him blossom. She needed to go and meet her 23 year-old self, tell her what she knew, work with her to open him up. She knew how their lives would unravel from here. She knew her 23 year-old self was a passionate young woman who loved unconditionally, and she knew she had to tell her everything, that if she would just listen to her, her 23 year-old self could help her blossom this young man into the feminine creature he so desired. She wanted this for her, her younger self and for him.
"This is going to sound impossible to you," she told her younger self. 23 year old Maria worked days at a video store and at night she would go down to the marina and party on Carl the porn producer's boat.
The two Marias stood outside, behind the video store and smoked cigarettes and drank coffee. Older Maria stepped back and told younger Maria to look at her. Then she stood next to her and turned them both so they were facing the glass of the video store. In the hazy reflection of the glass it was clear that these two women were one and the same. Younger Maria jumped back and shook her head.
"Are we related?" This was the first of many questions younger Maria asked to try and make sense of who this woman was. When she finally calmed down enough, older Maria explained everything. Younger Maria was stunned, but she believed it, eventually. It was when older Maria told her about their father's abuse, something neither of them had revealed to anyone, that she finally knew it was really happening.
Older Maria told her younger self about how she would meet him in six months and how they would fall in love, move to Portland, habitat for humanity, law school, the many relationships, the job at the law firm, her precious babies, the divorce, and then the portal. She tried to keep it from her younger self but she insisted. Younger Maria had dreams of something like this, something out of a movie happening to her, something definitively unique and that made her special. Every time older Maria tried to stop, or warn her that the future wasn't completely written, she would beg for more until there was nothing left to tell.
The two Marias were infatuated with each other. They loved talking and looking at themselves. Older Maria examined her younger self like an admirer of beauty, and younger Maria scanned every inch of her older self for signs of decay or neglect.