Chapter 25: Julie stays another day
Like the previous morning, Julie Jasper came to wakefulness on Monday after having had some intensely sexual dreams. The difference was these dreams had been pleasant and pleasurable; she had enjoyed what was going on in these dreams. She cracked an open eye at the clock on the bedside table: 5:32, it read, and the darkness in the room told her dawn was still a while off. The muffled noise from below, however, told her that the diner was humming with the early-risers.
Suddenly, Julie realized that while someone still shared her bed, it was Janetâs smaller female frame that lay facing away from her, her long strawberry blonde hair fanning across the pillow. Michael was apparently gone. Julie noticed, too, that as she lay on her back, there was a large wet spot under her butt. Since she vividly â exquisitely â recalled Michael spraying her face with his cum the night before, she surmised that he must have fucked her again in her sleep before he left.
Julie shrugged her shoulders as she rolled over and dozed back off. She chuckled sleepily as she recalled the most vivid of her sexy dreams. She had been in a room with a single spotlight on a bed, with a dark background, surrounded by men with hard cocks. She couldnât see their faces, but she could definitely see their dicks as they took turns fucking her in all of her holes. Suddenly, she was alone, with Michael fucking her hard and, strangely, her Aunt Cora had been in a chair off to the side watching. Maybe that had been when Michael was actually fucking her earlier. In Julieâs dream, her aunt didnât say anything, but just sat in the chair watching avidly, nodding her head and smiling. It appeared that she was masturbating, although she couldnât recall actually seeing anything. But Aunt Cora was dressed in her sexiest blood-red nightgown, with the hem of the gown bunched up in her lap and her hands between her legs. In her sleepy haze, Julie decided it meant that Aunt Cora approved of her radical new life.
To say that Julie came from a small family would be an understatement. Her mother, Estelle, had been the older of two daughters of the owner of a shoe store in a small town in East Texas: Cora was four years her junior. Julie had been an only child, born in 1960 when her mom was 41, and Cora, despite three failed marriages, never had children.
Her father, Ed Leary, had grown up in San Antonio with an older brother and a younger sister. Uncle George had had two sons and a daughter; one son was killed in Vietnam in 1967 and the other died in a refinery accident in 1971, both leaving no children. Her uncle had died four years after that, of a broken heart, they all said. Her Aunt Louise had married an Army man from New York and gone back to live there, and Julie had only met the woman twice, at her uncleâs and her fatherâs funerals. So that left her cousin Diane in San Antonio, with whom she exchanged Christmas cards, but only saw about once every six years or so, and Aunt Cora, who lived alone in a townhouse in New Orleans.
Cora was 74 and still active, although arthritis was starting make walking more difficult and she had started using a cane to help her get around, but otherwise she had aged well. She had frequently visited her sister, who continued to love and stand by her even as she strongly disapproved of her lifestyle. Julie, of course, adored her aunt, because she was so sophisticated and charming, and she always brought Julie the neatest gifts. Then, when they had lived in the New Orleans suburb of Slidell, in the late 1980s, she had become even closer to her aunt. That had been the only thing she had liked about living in Louisiana, and they had stayed in close touch.
Many who saw them together were astounded to learn that Julie was not Coraâs daughter. They had the same tall, slender build, the same striking good looks and the same bright red hair, although her auntâs shoulder-length mane of curly hair was shot through with silver by now. Estelle â and Ed, for that matter â had both been shorter and stockier, and Julie, at a shade less than 6 feet tall, had been considerably taller than both of her parents.
Cora McConnell had scandalized her family with her bohemian, feminist lifestyle, but now Julie understood that her aunt had chosen to embrace her sexuality and not hide from it. It had been her aunt who had encouraged her to take an interest in the arts, and to major in theater education in college when her high school interest in the stage became a passion for acting. Her aunt had even run interference for her with her mother on the issue, although her mom had insisted that she earn a minor â nearly a double major â in business. The irony was not lost on her mom that Julie had actually made better grades and won more honors in the business school at Baylor than in the drama department.
The point was, Julie thought as she woke up again and glanced at the clock, which read 5:46, Aunt Cora would encourage her to push forward fearlessly with her new self. Julie reasoned that God had made her like this; had given her a sexy, desirable body, an outgoing personality and an apparently enormous capacity for giving and receiving sexual pleasure. Why shouldnât she enjoy it? Why shouldnât she share her talents with the wider world? Sure, there were risks, a lot of them. Julie was well-read, and she knew what hazards awaited the careless and unsuspecting. But, she finally decided, she could also get hit by a truck on the way home. There were no guarantees in life, and she made up her mind that she was going to experience everything she had missed by living a sheltered, proper life.
As she woke up again, with a start, she understood what she needed to do. Getting up out of bed, she looked around on the bedside table until she found what she needed, Janetâs cell phone. She also found an envelope with her name on it. She picked up the letter and the phone, went to the bathroom and shut the door. After peeing and starting a pot of coffee in the small 4-cup pot that sat on a small serving wagon, she opened the cell phone and dialed her home number. It was 5:54, and she knew she needed to hurry. Glenn left the house at 6:05 so he could negotiate the freeway traffic to his downtown office. She wanted to catch him just before he walked out the door, so he wouldnât have time to argue with her about her decision.
Emily answered on the second ring, âHello?â âHi, sweetheart! How was your weekend?â Julie asked her daughter brightly. âEverything go OK?â âHey Mom!â Emily answered. âEverything went great. Gramma left yesterday afternoon, after Dad got back. Really, it was kind of a quiet weekend. Howâs Kansas City?â âItâs been a real interesting visit,â Julie said. âIâve had a great time! Look, I need to speak to your father real quick before he leaves. Is he still there?â
Emily went to get Glenn, who answered the phone breathlessly. âYeah, darling, what is it?â Glenn said. âDear, Iâve got some good news and Iâve got some bad news,â Julie began. She had her script just about all worked out in her head. âFirst of all, the van broke down in Oklahoma. It wasnât anything serious, but they had to bring the part down from Oklahoma City and couldnât get it replaced until Saturday. So I didnât get here until Saturday afternoon, and by then the Hyatt was full. Fortunately, I ran into an old friend, Janet Koslowski, from KU, while I was at the desk trying to figure out what to do.â
Julie was talking hurriedly so Glenn wouldnât be able to get a word in edgewise. âShe lives here in one of the suburbs, and offered to put me up for the weekend,â Julie went on. âBut hereâs the news I wanted to tell you. We were talking at the dinner Saturday night, and she mentioned that she was in sales for a company that contracts with publishers to sell textbooks and other educational materials. And she said they needed somebody to handle their Dallas account, and that I might be what theyâre looking for, because of my background in education. It pays $30,000 a year, plus commission, for part-time work. Sheâs arranged an interview for me at 10 oâclock this morning, and thatâs the bad news. If I get the job â and itâs almost guaranteed that I will â then Iâll have to stay this afternoon to fill out forms and go through an orientation. So it looks like I wonât be home until tomorrow.â
Despite his need to hurry up, finish dressing and leave for work, Glenn was stunned by his wifeâs announcement. âA job?â he stammered. âWhy do you need a job? Donât I make plenty of money? Donât you have enough to do at home?â Julie felt her anger boil at that last remark. You asshole, she thought, enough to do at home? God, what a sexist question, she thought. âGlenn, I donât know where you ever got the idea that I was happy being tied to the house by my apron strings,â she said slowly and evenly. âBut the fact is Iâve been miserable. I need to get out of the house and do something. I want to do something for myself, for a change. Iâve been a homebody too long. I want to meet people and become involved in the community.â Julie had to suppress a giggle at that. She was going to meet people, all right. She was going to meet them and fuck them, she thought wickedly. âI donât know about this,â Glenn said in that pompous tone of voice she had always hated, because it emphasized his feelings of superiority. âI donât know if I approve of you going off behind my back and looking for a job.â