For a change, I woke up to an empty bed and the smell of coffee and bacon cooking.
I was shocked, when I looked at the clock and realized I had slept until 9:30 in the morning. I couldn't remember the last time I slept that late.
I peed and brushed my teeth and walked in to see Paula finishing up breakfast. She looked particularly fetching in just her short apron.
"I thought I heard you stirring, sleepy butt," she said and put a cup of coffee on the table.
I muttered something and started on the coffee, hoping my heart would start beating soon.
"I think," I said, yawning and scratching, "that we're spending an extra day in Baton Rouge. I don't want to have to hurry to get moving."
She smiled and said, "okay, it's not like we have an appointment."
It turned out to be one of the best decisions EVER!
We had breakfast and decided to just kick back. One of the great joys of retirement is to be able to just do nothing.
We took a walk around the RV park, spotting flamingos and waving at other campers. We spent some time in the pool, made a quick, light lunch, and then I laid back in my hammock with my Kindle, read a little less than a chapter of my latest Jack Reacher novel, and took a nap.
The warm sun woke me after an hour or so and I went inside, showered quickly and then went back out to tune up and practice. Paula joined me in little while, bringing a beer and sitting beside me, singing softly as I tuned and played through some of the songs we knew.
And then a Goddess and Her attending angel appeared.
Okay, okay, I know they weren't truly divine, but that was my first impression.
What with my Y chromosome and all, I looked at the woman first. And I couldn't look away. She was Earth Mother and a Fertility Goddess in one being. She was short, I guessed her at just a hair over five feet tall but it was hard to be sure since the young man next to her was tall, over six feet and I guessed six foot three.
He was young, early 20s but he probably wouldn't get carded if he ordered a beer. She had one of those faces that said she was somewhere over 30 and under 70 but it was impossible to guess any closer.
She was pretty, not cute, not gorgeous, but pretty. I just wanted to look at her. There was no single thing that caught my eye, but the package was perfect. She was round faced with smooth skin, the phrase alabaster skin came to mind. Wide-set eyes made another phrase, "cornflower blue" come to mind, and the sclera, the whites, were perfectly white, the whitest I had ever seen. Her nose was thin and straight, her cheeks were round with a great underlying bone structure. Her mouth was generous and when she smiled her teeth were unbleached, a natural ivory with slightly crooked bottom incisors the only flaw I saw. And that face was big. She had a big head. A mass of strawberry blonde hair, that color favored by women of a certain age that no combination of genes has EVER created naturally, framed her pretty face.
She and her attendant angel stood, calmly, respecting the RV park protocols and not stepping onto our outdoor carpet without permission. In RVland, that is our front room.
And I kept staring. I couldn't remember being affected like this since puberty had left me speechless around girls so often.
She was like two women had been formed into one. Between the neck and hips, she was reasonably thin. If that had been her overall shape I would have guessed her at no more than a hundred pounds.
But it wasn't. Below her waist, her hips were about twice the size you would expect. She had on jeans so tight you wondered how in the hell she got them on. And her bare arms, big and tanned and very soft with those big pads of fat on the back of her upper arms associated with a truly fat woman belonged on another body.
She was a fertility Goddess incarnate.
And her attending angel was a perfect match for her. He was ridiculously good looking with the square jaw with an actual cleft in it, high brow, blue eyes to match hers, and the physique of a long distance runner.
I didn't pay as much attention to him though, my eyes drifted back to the Goddess.
Paula pinched my arm, giggling, and said, "eyes in your head, bub."
I chuckled and the spell was broken.
I waved the newcomers over.
The angel stepped forward and offered his hand.
"My grandmother DOES have that effect, doesn't she?" he said by way of greeting, "I'm Fred and this is Ashley."
I stood to shake his hand then turned to the Goddess and took her hand in mine. It seemed perfectly natural to bend and kiss it, something I had never done before but only seen in movies. It was a good hand, strong with long fingers that seemed out of place.
Fred moved and patted the big flamingo standing at the edge of our "front room."
"You understand the meaning of this?" he asked.
Paula, evidently as taken with Fred as I was with Ashley, moved to him, did the two-hands-on-the-arm thing, looking particularly, well, "available" as she looked up at him, and said, "we do."
He grinned then, and you could tell he practiced that grin in front of a mirror, covered her hand in his and said, "well then, Gorgeous, would you like to see my etchings."
She giggled like a schoolgirl at that. She was, and it's a word I had seen but never really used before, "simpering" at him. You could practically see the desire rolling off of her in waves.
"I'd like that," she said, and turned to face Ashley and me.
"Don't wait up," she said, and then turned away, her whole attention on Fred, her focus perfect.
"My grandson has that effect on women," Ashley said beside me.
It was the first time she had spoken and her voice was just as captivating as the rest of her. It was musical, a clear soprano, and I wanted to hear her sing although I know that often a speaking and singing voice are far different.
I managed to get myself together and say, "it's obvious where he gets it from," and I deliberately looked her up and down.
She giggled at that, another musical sound, delicate bells ringing, did the same two-hands-on-the-arm thing that Paula had done, and said, "why thank you, kind sir."
"Do you know 'Stormy Weather'?" I asked.
She smiled and sang, "Don't know why.........."
And her voice was as good as I had hoped. She sounded like Ella Fitzgerald with just a hint of gravel deep in there somewhere.
So I played it and she sang it and it was beyond just singing. It was a sensual, an erotic experience.
I could smell it getting to her, her womanscent was full of need and desire and also with love.
She hopped down from the picnic table where we had been sitting side-by-side and turned to face me. I wasn't surprised to see a small darker circle where her too-tight jeans forked between her legs.
"Yes," she said, and the grin she flashed was as well practiced as her grandson's had been, and giggled.
I didn't know what to do so I sat still.
She giggled again.