December 17, 1988
Single, middle-aged and bespectacled Angelina Lione may look the part of the prim, proper and sexually repressed, buttoned-up bibliothec, but she's most definitely NOT your father's librarian -- at least not while in a lover's company. Blessed with a ravenous and unquenchable sexual appetite, Angelina's orgasms are so intense that she frequently faints during the throes of passion.
While never mistaken for a perfect 10 with her large brown eyes, tucked behind oversized, Diana Prince-style eyeglass lenses, Angelina still cuts quite the desirable figure, with a fetching face always perfectly and tastefully made up, and a sleek and shapely body. Her short, black hair, speckled with gray, was cut in a chic, wedge/pixie-style, puffed and piled on the top and curled forward around the ears. Angelina's attractive physical traits, however, always paled in comparison to her overwhelming sex appeal. Using her vast store of feminine wiles, Angelina negotiates about her lovers' hearts, minds and bodies as deftly as she navigates the Dewey Decimal System, manipulating infatuated men for her monetary and personal gain.
High maintenance and even higher fashion, Angelina always models the latest designer threads -- oftentimes accentuated by any one of her dozen pairs of high-heeled dress boots. Her sophisticated look even extends to smoking accessories. The haughty diva wouldn't dream of smoking a cigarette if it wasn't filtered through her long, black holder. More of a cigarette holder sucker and stroker than a smoker, Angelina seductively works the black shaft with her mouth, tongue and fingers as if it was a penis proxy; the effect that playing with the long, stiff holder has on would-be lovers is like snake charming. Under the sexy siren's magic spell, they're entirely at her mercy; powerless to resist the temptation to pleasure her -- as if they really would.
Angelina spent her 20s and 30s as a fully-committed member of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and '70s -- bedding dozens upon dozens of men. Only when she reached age 40 did her love life settle down -- for her anyway -- when the lusty librarian entered into a long term, nearly exclusive, torrid affair with the principal at her school. After the forbidden relationship unceremoniously ended six years later, Angelina found herself alone at a time when her peers had long since settled down into blissful domestic life. A prolonged romantic dry spell followed, until a former student unexpectedly burst into her life.
Twenty-two year old Tom Bailey had been in lust with Angelina for years, drawn in classic fetish fashion to the sexy librarian's stylish, high-heeled boots, seductive smoking and even her pretentious and snobbish personality. Over time, his feelings -- like his fetishes -- for the femme fatale only grew stronger, until he could no longer keep them to himself. The pair had just launched an intense, physical relationship when Harry Seymour, Angelina's old boss and lover, re-entered her life. Unable to decide between the two romantic suitors, Angelina proposed a date-off -- or "fuck-off" -- as Tom bitterly described the arrangement.
Now, with her love life once again in full bloom, the amorous woman was in sex heaven -- reliving her youth, when men practically lined up around the block to date her. Preying on the men's sexual addiction to her, Angelina gleefully bounced between their beds for nearly a month, until Tom finally prevailed.
The love triangle finally broken, Angelina and Tom were finally free to embark on a committed, loving relationship. But the couple's path to long-term romantic harmony was lined with a phalanx of challenges -- not the least of which was familial. During their first fortnight together, Tom met Angelina's family -- and had been unnerved by her brutish and overprotective brother-in-law.
It was a couple months into their relationship before Tom worked up the nerve to introduce Angelina to his folks. The encounter set off a tremor that was bound to trigger aftershocks along the fault line of their courtship. The meeting with what turned out to be an old work adversary so unnerved Tom's mother, in fact, that she subsequently resumed a long dormant smoking habit.
That introduction went poorly enough, but how would Tom's college friends react to seeing him with a much older woman? What would be their impression of her? What would he see in her? Sure Angelina was attractive enough -- but she was an attractive older woman. Why would young Tom be interested in a 50 year old, when there were plenty of lovely ladies his own age available? And when they got a whiff of her pompous and bitchy personality, they'd really question what was in this relationship for Tom, and the age difference would be even more pronounced. The very real possibility existed that they'd disapprove of this affair, judging Tom a weirdo and mere boy toy to Angelina's dirty old woman.
Private by nature -- and especially embarrassed to confide in anyone about his smoking and boot fetishes -- how could Tom possibly explain to them that Angelina embodied all that he found physically alluring in a woman? How every time he saw the bitchy diva smoking from a cigarette holder or strutting about in a pair of delicious, high-heeled, knee-high leather boots it made his dick dance and pulsate with delight. Or that when he and this MILF-before-the-term-was-coined made love it brought him to heights of pleasure he never dreamed possible.
For a year, the pair engaged in an intense physical relationship, characterized by daily bouts of uninhibited, care-free sex and yet somehow devoid -- at least in Tom's viewpoint -- of satisfactory emotional intimacy.
Finally after a year of "dating," the two professed their love for each other and subsequently became engaged to be married. Although their future seemed as romantically dysfunctional and clouded as their present.
Angelina Lione rose from the dining room table and began clearing the dinner dishes.
"Ang, you really outdid yourself tonight," Elaine Musso said to her younger sister and hostess for the weekly family evening meal, after dabbing at the corners of her mouth with a red cloth napkin. "That lasagna was out of this world."
"Why thank you, darrhhling, but mama deserves the credit," replied the middle school librarian, putting on her trademark phony air. "I just followed her recipe."
Angelina disappeared behind the swinging door that led into the kitchen, holding a handful of dirty plates, returning a moment later with a pot of coffee.
"Thomas, darrhhling, would you be a dear and bring in the pastries, please?" she asked of her young fiancΓ©, before turning back to her family. "Why don't we repair to the living room for dessert?"
"Repair?!" asked Rocco, Elaine's husband. "What'd ya do, break a chair in dare or somethin'? I'll go next door an' get my toolkit."
"She meant we should go into the dining room and make ourselves comfortable," corrected Elaine.
"Well, why didn't she just say dat?" Why does she have to use dem $5 words all da time?"
Angelina's family filed into the living room. Elaine and her 23-year-old son, Tony, settled onto the sofa with her mother, Sophia, the 76-year-old matriarch of the family, while the newlyweds, Angelina's 24-year-old niece, Lisa, and her husband, Richie, cozied up in the love seat. Meanwhile, Rocco commandeered the only arm chair in the room.
Tom carried the tray of pastries in, placed it on the table, next to the coffee, then sat next to Angelina on the companion sofa to Rocco's left.
"Before we enjoy dessert, Thomas would like something to ask of you, Rocco," Angelina said, giving her fiancΓ© a gentle elbow to the ribs.
"Ummm...Rocco," said a nervous Tom, standing up to face his lover's beefy brother-in-law. "Since Angelina and Elaine's father passed away, you've been the man of the family, so I thought it appropriate that I ask your permission. So...ummm...with your permission, I'd like to ask for Angelina's hand in marriage."
In the awkward silence that followed the request, the only sound that could be heard was the ticking of Angelina's grandfather clock in the west corner of the room.
"So, if it's...ummm... okay with you..." Tom said, stammering in nervousness.
"I heard you the first time," Rocco snapped.
Once again, uncomfortable dead air filled the room. Now, the beating of his heart was competing with the grandfather clock for space in Tom's ears -- and the sounds were growing louder and louder.
Angelina and Tom had been secretly engaged for a week now. The older woman thought it only right -- traditional, in fact -- that they not spring the news on her family, but ask Rocco's permission first, as a gesture of respect.