The doorbell rang and I opened the front door just in time to see the UPS truck pull away. On the stoop sat a plain cardboard box. My heart sped up as I bent to pick it up because I knew what was in the package. Kicking the door closed behind me, I took it into the kitchen and set it on the counter.
Mitch, I can't believe I let you talk me into this.
I thought as I stared at the cardboard. The contents of the box on my counter was the end result of a party invitation that my husband and I had received. It had been decades, since I'd gone to a Halloween party. The last one had been all about princess dresses, cartoon characters, face painting, and other child appropriate activities. The party my husband Mitch and I had been invited to was explicitly labeled "No children allowed."
"Come on Leslie, it'll be fun," he'd said. "We haven't had any adult fun in a long time."
"I beg your pardon," I replied and slapped his arm. "If you don't think that what we did last night was fun, and 'adult', then you won't be getting any more of it for a long time."
Mitch and I were in our fifties and empty nesters. We took advantage of our childless home to rekindle the active sex life that had, by necessity been put on hold while children lived in our house. Not to say that we hadn't been physically intimate throughout our child-rearing years, but the wilder fun we'd enjoyed before kids (a sex swing, toys, and cavorting naked through the house) had definitely been suppressed due to our curious kids. The night before we'd gotten the party invitation, Mitch and I had spent long hours enjoying an erotic massage that ended with us both loudly climaxing. I sighed reliving the pleasure of that evening.
"Hey, I never said that wasn't fun. In fact, it was spectacular," Mitch quickly tried to correct his misstep.
"Damn right it was. And if you're a good boy, I'll do it again with you," I flashed a bit of the dominatrix side that I knew he loved.
"Come on Leslie, let's go to the party." It was his final appeal and he said it with such desire and conviction that I agreed.
And now our outfits, the ones that we'd shopped for on-line together, were sitting in the brown box on my counter. I thought back to the night we'd bought them. It had started with two martinis and my protesting that I had no idea what to wear.
"Leslie, you could wear a burlap sack and look hot," Mitch had said mixing a second drink for each of us.
"Hot? Who said anything about looking hot for this?"
"Hon, it's an adult costume party. It says so right on the invitation," he pointed to the elaborate paper invite.
Who sends written invitations any more?
Everyone does it online
, I'd thought. Chiding myself I realized,
Jonathan is hosting this. He's over the top about everything
. I nodded to my husband, "You're right."
"Let's do a couples costume," Mitch poured the drinks.
"Bonnie and Clyde?"
"Booooring! How about Tom Cruise and what's her name from Eyes Wide Open?"
"You mean Eyes Wide Shut, and that's Nicole Kidman." I took a sip from my drink. "No offense honey, and I hate to break the news, but I'm no Nicole Kidman and you're not Maverick."
"Hey, don't sell us short. We can still hold our own." My husband was right. We'd both worked hard to avoid having mom and dad bods and were in better shape than we'd ever been. Nobody would mistake us for super models, but I had a well-toned body that didn't jiggle with cellulite and Mitch garnered plenty of admiring looks from our female friends.
"How about Greek god and goddess?" I suggested.
"Not bad, but spending the evening dressed in a bedsheet while juggling drinks seems like a recipe for disaster."
"Your right."
"You should be Cat Woman," Mitch suggested.
"You have got to be kidding! There's no way I could pull that off." I was thinking about the outfit that Halle Berry made famous.
"You absolutely could and then some," Mitch typed furiously at his phone. "See?" He turned the screen to me. Surprisingly it was not a picture from the 2004 movie, with the star and her rock-hard, bare abs, but an image of Anne Hathaway from the Dark Knight movie. It's not as if that outfit wasn't sexy, skin-tight with thigh-high boots, but it was much more like what I could wear as a fifty-year-old. My interest was piqued. "Okaaay. And you'd be Batman?"
"How about Zorro?" He pulled up another photo showing Antonio Banderas from the 1998 movie. I'd always thought he was so sexy in that role. "Not really 'couples', but sure," I said enthusiastically. The second martini was letting lose my randy feelings.
"Cat Woman and Zorro it is. Let's order them right now," he pulled out the laptop. After a quick Google search we found both outfits in the correct size on an adult costume website. I pulled out the credit card and clicked through the site to place the order. The sex we had that night as I fantasized about being taken by a sexy masked lover, and I'm sure Mitch about screwing Cat Woman in thigh-high, spike heeled leather boots, was amazing. We never made it out of the kitchen and both came multiple times as we vigorously fucked on the counter, the table, and the cool tile floor. Now, the result of that alcohol fueled decision was sitting on our countertop.
I poked at the box with my finger as if there was a wild animal inside of it.
This is ridiculous,
I thought.
It's costumes in a box. Just open the damn thing.
I grabbed scissors and cut the sealing tape. Under layers of newsprint stuffing lay the two plastic wrapped outfits. The picture on the Zorro package showed a ripped model sporting the cape, mask and sword of the movie star. I swooned a little imagining that was exactly how my husband would look. I dug deeper and pulled out the costume meant for me. My heart sank. The cover photo showed a twenty-something year old model with zero percent body fat sporting the skin-tight outfit. There was no way I'd look that good. I threw it back into the shipping box and petulantly sat down on a kitchen bar stool.
Who am I kidding? There's no way I'm going to look sexy! Even the teenager on the cover doesn't look hot like Anne Hathaway!
I buried my face in my hands and held back tears.
I'm old, washed up. There's nothing sexy about me
. All kinds of negative thoughts rushed through my mind. Then, unbidden, Mitch's face appeared before my closed eyes. On it was the look he gave me the night we ordered the costumes and cavorted in the kitchen. His face was filled with love, and more than little bit of lust.
He loves me
, I thought.
And HE thinks that I'm sexy.
Confidence coursed through me.
Fuck it! I can do this. With my hot, sexy husband, I can do anything. Fuck Anne Hathaway, fuck everyone. I'm gonna wear this and I'm gonna own it!
I pulled the cat woman outfit from the box and tore open the packaging.
There wasn't a whole lot to the costume, but then again that was the point wasn't it? The material was thin, but it looked decently well made.
Not too bad,
I thought.
I can do this
. There was a utility belt and a mask with a pair of cat ears made from fake leather.
Shoes? Where are the spike heeled shoes?
I wondered as I pawed through the box. I read the package carefully, "shoes not included" it said.
WTF? Shoes not included. How can this be a cat woman outfit without the damn shoes? The shoes make it!
My mind raced. I thought of the CFM heels that Mitch and I had bought years before. My spike heels and the fake costume boots (actually just flared leggings made to look like the upper part of the boots) would definitely work. I squared my shoulders, gathered the pieces of the costume and headed to our bedroom to try on everything.
I stripped in front of a full-length mirror and studied my image. Flat stomach courtesy of hours in the gym doing core work, tight butt, the result of many miles on the stationary bike, and well-defined leg muscles from countless squats.
Not bad for an old broad
, I thought turning sideways. My thirty-eight DD breasts rested just right on my chest. Not too high that they looked fake, but not droopy like an old lady
. I've still got it,
I decided and reached for the costume package. The costume was a one-piece affair with a long zipper that ran from crotch to neck. I squirmed into the skin-tight outfit, clipped on the utility belt and settled the mask and cat ears onto my head. When I looked up at my reflection I gasped.
Holy shit! I look kinda hot!
I raced to the closet to get the CFM heels I kept in the very back. I pulled them on then realized I needed to get the "boots" on first. Laughing while I rearranged everything I stood, fully outfitted, in front of the mirror. TI was surprised by the image before me. The tight spandex clung to every curve, emphasizing my form and concealing my softer, older features. I looked way better than the model on the package cover. I turned left, then right and liked everything I saw in the reflection. The CFM heels and thigh-high boot leggings added a spicy touch.
Damn, I look good!
I twisted and turned, bent and arched, striking every sexy pose I could think of. They all looked good.
Fucking-A!
I thought.
I did a second, more careful inspection and saw that the fabric was so thin that I could clearly see the outline of my bra and panties.
Kills the image