PICTURING HERSELF Ch. 03
Anna and Adam and Cynthia... Oh my.
Author's note:
While this chapter picks up right where Chapter 2 ended in the Exhibitionist/Voyeur category, it's written to be enjoyed as a stand-alone story if that's your choice.
MP
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Cynthia tidied Anna's bed and locked up her toys. She didn't watch the video she made for Anna and Adam because she feared that if she did, she'd delete it before they ever saw it.
I was so daring... So unlike who I've been since college.
Meeting Anna changed everything. Anna was in her early thirties, Cynthia in her fifties, yet it was Anna who introduced her older friend to new aspects of being a woman. A sexually uninhibited, more sensual woman. Deleting the video would be a step back from the new world Anna was showing her. A world she'd imagined her whole life, but never experienced.
Looking at Anna's bed, she remembered what she taped herself doing and the recording she made with Anna. She remembered the live feed of Adam and Anna making love on this bed. She imagined joining them... Then she left Anna's house and crossed the lawn to hers, curled up on her love seat and fell asleep feeling unburdened.
Cynthia didn't wake when Anna came home with April, or when they carried packages into their house. April was excited to tell her mom all about what happened at violin practice so there wasn't a chance for Anna to watch the video she made with Cynthia, or to see if Cynthia made a solo recording after she left to get April. It was a busy evening at Anna and April's while Cynthia slept in her home across the lawn.
The sun was close to setting before Cynthia woke confused and disoriented. She never napped, so it threw her off to wake at such an unfamiliar time. Still in a mental fog she remembered making the videos in Anna's house and her eyes flashed open.
What did I do? Fuck!
She felt like a drunk regaining consciousness after a black-out bender, but her bender had been sexual. Without turning on a light or getting out of the love seat, she looked at the house across the lawn. In windows aglow with domestic warmth, she caught glimpses of Anna and her young daughter preparing dinner. It was just the kind of evening where Anna would send April to invite Cynthia over.
I hope they don't.
The thought surprised her because she always enjoyed them, then she understood. She was ashamed. She'd been so indecent on Anna's bed.
And I recorded it? Fuck's sake!
Images scrolled through her memory like the trailer for a new movie but the kind of video she shot didn't come with trailers. She remembered the exhilaration, the folly really, of believing she could be shameless. While she'd indulged every filthy urge that flitted through her dirty mind, she forgot that her own life of being respectable was waiting to pass judgement.
That judgement when she woke in her cushy love seat was harsh and unforgiving.
When Cynthia saw April running across the lawn she wanted to sink deeper into the chair but knew it wouldn't do any good. The twelve year old came through the back door hollering, "Aunt Cyn! Where are..." then she spotted Cynthia and ran to jump into the loveseat with her. "You
have
to come eat with us tonight. We're celebrating so you
have
to come." April started calling her 'Aunt Cyn' a month before and Cynthia loved it. They weren't even remotely related.
"What are you celebrating April?"
"You have to come to find out." She looked around. "Do you want me to turn some of your lights on?
"Sure sweetie."
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Ten minutes later, Cynthia carried a bottle of red into Anna's kitchen where the smell of baking bread engulfed her. Her younger friend was busily chopping the ingredients for an Italian chicken dish. Cynthia gave her a one-armed hug so she didn't have to pause, then pulled a corkscrew from its drawer. She knew her way around Anna's kitchen from evenings just like this, where Anna was the cook and she was the audience. Anna was an amazing cook, a house cleaning machine, fierce lioness as a mother, and privately, the most sexually liberated woman Cynthia ever met, by a country mile.
A woman like Barbara Billingsley's character from the old TV show,
Leave it to Beaver
, who was also a breathtaking seductress.
"What's the special occasion?" Cynthia asked
"We have to wait for April to tell you." She indicated with a nod of the head that her daughter was in her room. "When she's done telling
all
her friends." Anna stopped chopping to look at her landlord and friend. "I haven't had a chance to look, did you make a solo video after I left?" She smiled conspiratorially and continued, "You certainly seemed to enjoy the one we made together."
Cynthia turned crimson so completely it was as if she'd been illuminated by red floodlights.
"Oh my," Anna said with a smile, "I can't wait to watch it, when April goes to bed."
"Delete it Anna?"
"Why Cyn?" She paused chopping again.
"Please." Cynthia said. "I'm ashamed... of what I taped."
Anna studied her friend before saying, "Now... you're ashamed now."
Cynthia nodded, not quite understanding.
"How'd you feel when you were making the video?" Cynthia didn't reply so Anna spoke for her. "Not ashamed. You felt sexy in a way you'd never felt before." Certain, because she'd had the same experience earlier in her own life. "Even extra sexy
because
you weren't ashamed to be making a dirty video for me and Adam."
Cynthia's expression was all the confirmation Anna needed. "I'll delete it if that's what you really want Cyn, but think about it? If I do, you'll probably never make a video like that again." She let her older friend consider that. "You'll pull back from everything you're discovering... just when it's getting really good."
She searched Cynthia's face. "You told us, didn't you? In the video."
Cynthia shrugged non-committedly.
"I knew you would. You said you wanted to be with both of us in the video, right?"