I was more than twenty years older than my girlfriend. That always bothered me, but whenever I'd mention it, Marie just say,
"You're just being silly! Besides, I told you, I like older men."
Still, I'd think about it. No, actually, I was brooding. I wasn't introduced to her parents. Hell, we were the same age, and Marie wasn't going to shock them anymore. (When she was seventeen, she nearly did them in by bringing home a thirty-two year old boyfriend.) Besides, she may have liked older guys, but I didn't think her friends would approve of me. She pointed out that she didn't have any friends her own age. She didn't have younger friends because they were,
"Too immature. Especially the guys! I don't feel I have to housebreak anyone. You're housebroken. You were someone else's problem."
And she was right. Marie was always right.
Marie was socially mature way beyond her twenty-nine years, but she had a figure and freshness that made her look, well, like a teenager, at times. What a combination we made. She'd get carded and, at 52, I looked like I should get a senior discount. (She pointed out that I actually had gotten a senior rate at a motel -- I hadn't even noticed.) She seemed to think our age difference was no problem. I wondered, from time-to-time, whom else had she dated? How old were they? No matter how long we had been together, I only got a few hints about her past. I knew she kept more than a few secrets.
What did we have in common? Well, for one, we could fuck like teenagers, literally. Actually, we both fucked better than we had when we were teenagers, but the similarity was there. Fucking beyond the point that you need to fuck. Fucking until we were both sore, and then doing it some more. It was like that every time we got together. When we weren't fucking, we ate, we took in movies and we went to the theatre. We'd return satiated, but we'd fucked again anyway. We didn't see each other all that often, but it wasn't the pent-up frustration, it was just that it felt so damn good we couldn't resist.
I thought she was a genius at lovemaking. She brought out things in me that I never knew were there. I could never quite put my finger on it. If I thought about it, I'd say that her sexual prowess was her ability to trick me. She made me feel like it was I that was seducing her -- that I could seduce her from that mature, brilliant, genius self, and bring her down to the level of animal sex. It was kind of like conking cavewoman over the head. She'd let me drag her around the bed -- hell, around the room. No piece of furniture and no part of her body went unused during sex, and she'd never say a word. She'd just get that blissful, wanton look in her eyes, and she was off in NeverNeverLand.
Was it her? Was it me? Whatever it was, I figured it was my job to get her to that point -- to the point where she let her hair down. It helped when I would take her away for a few days at a time. I was more comfortable out-of-town. She probably was, too. We could let the inhibitions go, you know, go to places where no one knew us. Where we could do anything. Over time, we seemed to be pursuing a theme of visiting old haunts: Other places that she had lived, cities where she had worked, where she went to school -- that sort of thing. I wanted to know about her. Where did she come from? What was her past? How did she come to be who she was?
Her youthful appearance had made a trip back to her college town a must-do for me. In anticipation of the trip, I had savored the fantasy of her as the nubile coed, me the horny professor. We actually took that trip, but as you'll see, it turned out quite differently than I had expected. Apparently, Marie had her own fantasies. It hadn't occurred to me that, if she had always been with older guys, then she hadn't really experienced younger guys. But she was about to.
We took the trip to her college town. I booked a room at a hotel on the edge of campus adjacent to the stately old sorority and fraternity houses. In that sense, it wasn't nostalgic. Neither she, nor I, could ever have afforded such digs, nor had we fraternized with students. She had worked throughout college, and she had gotten out of the dormitory within her first six-months. But, now, we walked the campus, we visited the theatre, the library, and the commons as if we were back in the old days. We'd return to the hotel and we'd do our usual fucking, although there was nothing usual about it. It was fucking intense. As I said, the more we did it, the more we wanted.
We needed a breather. We went to a movie. As we returned home, I noted that it was Friday, and that we had barely seen any students. They weren't in the library. There were only a few on campus. They weren't at the movies.
"Where are they?" I asked.
"Students don't go to school on Fridays anymore. Thursday night starts the weekend partying."
"Ah! That's what the whooping and hollering was last night."
As we turned the corner toward our hotel, I heard it again. People were coming and going into the frat houses. There were sounds of parties inside. I liked the atmosphere of people enjoying themselves. I made a suggestion,
"Let's join a party. Why not? We were here to play, after all."
I didn't think she'd do it. Although I might barge in uninvited, it wasn't Marie's style. Still, I liked the idea. I knew I might look too old, but I figured she'd be my passport. They'd never know how old she was.
Marie just laughed and said,
"I'd need some rum!"
The hotel was quiet -- except for us. (I'd hate to be adjacent to our room in the middle of the night.) The noise outside got louder as the night got longer, but it was never obnoxious. It was actually quite a turn-on for me -- the thought of all those people getting drunk and getting laid.
Marie wasn't in the same mood. She was getting grouchy. We made love anyway, but we didn't fall asleep. I didn't know what to do to shake her out of her mood. I didn't know if it was something I had done, or something I hadn't done. I suggested, feebly, that we could get up and check out the nearest party.
That's when she said, in a pouting tone of voice,
"It's not nice of you to take your girlfriend to a party without getting her drunk first!"
I see! She knows more about the etiquette of coed dating than I do.
"Ah, the rum! I didn't get you any rum."
I hadn't taken her request seriously. I hadn't put two-and-two together, but I knew how to handle a situation like this. No apology would do. Nope. I just put on my clothes and said,
"I'll be right back."
I walked -- no, I sprinted -- the few blocks to a liquor store that we had passed. I got rum. I vaguely remembered her mentioning rum and cokes from her college days, and I threw a 6-pack in the basket. I was back in the hotel in a jiffy.
She was impressed. And she drank. I knew from experience that she tended to drink in moderation, so I mixed the first drink half-and-half. It was foul (I couldn't drink it) but Marie said, to my surprise,
"The second drink won't be so bad."
I thought: You little vixen! You do know how to get yourself drunk. What else do you know? What secrets would a little drunkenness unlock, I wondered.
Three drinks almost finished the half-pint, and I had barely touched it. She was going to be more than just a little drunk, and I was going to be sober. I wanted to keep my wits about me. This was getting interesting -- very unlike her to let her hair down in public, but that was the point, right? Marie said,
"We'd better go while I can still walk."
It wasn't a long walk. The house just two doors over had the door open and people came and went freely. We walked right in. No one blinked. I felt right at home. At first, it was like any party I'd ever been to. People were standing around in every room of the house. People were going back and forth to get drinks. There was plenty of beer, wine, and hard liquor -- whatever your tastes. There were relatively few women, I noticed, but the ones that were there were loud and having fun with all the male attention. I pointed this out to my girlfriend as we stood in the crowded room.
"More guys than gals, eh? More fun for you," I joked.
Marie just nodded as she surveyed the room. The room was very crowded. Guys came by and jostled us as they tried to move through the crowd without spilling their drinks. Eventually, someone spilled some down the back of her dress. She shrugged, and said,
"It'll wash right out."
Ah, it hadn't bothered her! She was in a good mood. I told her that I'd get us some drinks. She said,
"I don't need anymore."
"Just to hold in our hands," I said.
"Good idea," she yelled over the surrounding noise.
I asked the guys next to us to point the way. They were slow to grasp the question. Like, this was a Fraternity, who-the-hell wouldn't know where the liquor was? (And, they were probably thinking, who-the-hell was this gray-haired guy, anyway.) They started checking out Marie. I was irrelevant. I headed off for the drinks.
You meet interesting people in unexpected places. There was a guy serving drinks, but it was an open bar -- he just liked to act like a bartender. He was good at the patter. I wasn't drunk like the others, and that gave him the opportunity to showoff to someone that could appreciate his wit and skill. He latched on to me like we had known each other for years.
By the time I broke away and returned with the drinks, I had lost my landmarks. People had shifted places, no one was in the same spot. In fact, no one looked familiar. Above all, I had lost Marie. She was not in the middle of the room. I circulated with the two drinks in hand. Nowhere to be found! On the other hand, there were lots of places to check out. She couldn't have gone far. I checked the porch. She might have been uncomfortable alone, and she might have gone outside to wait for me. Not on the porch. I lingered there in case she was on the lawn and could see me but I couldn't see her. Nothing. I went inside.
A woman said, in a sexy voice,
"Is that for me?"
I realized that she meant the drink. I said, graciously,