And now, a drum roll, please!
A fantasy originally created by International writers Julie Van, and Curt B, in conjunction with Wunderboi who joined them for this Chapter 9. In the previous chapter, you were introduced to Mrs Clarissa Johnson, mother-in-law to Janice who married Clarissa's son Herb. This chapter was Wunderboi's first with the group and some of it was published earlier by him. However, in order to provide continuity for our followers, new and old, he has re-edited it and posts it here as aforementioned Chapter 9.
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Clarissa Johnson slipped behind the wheel of her pearl white Mercedes. She had insisted on the most expensive paint option and the car glowed in the early morning sunshine. She smiled to herself, remembering her father's advice many years prior, which was to marry a much older very rich white man of the controlling class of Americans so that she would have a full life of ease and importance. She had pleased her father when she married such a man when she was just 22.
Maxwell Johnson had indeed provided her with everything a girl could ever want, a lovely mansion on the outskirts of Hawksville, a huge pool, a lovely guesthouse which even had a small kitchen, and freedom to live her life as she wished. Maxwell was a good deal older than she was, and in the early years of their marriage had provided her with decent sex which had resulted in her falling pregnant and producing a son and heir, Herbert. She doted on him although she finally had to admit to herself that as he grew older he tended to be more than a little effeminate.
It was one of a very small number of aggravations in her perfect life, that her son was quite unmanly; others were that nobody gave him the respect that was due to him as the scion of her noble family. Indeed, she regarded it as a great disrespect that everyone referred to him almost dismissively as 'Herb' and not by his proper name.
Such was her life at Hawksville and she often reflected that her home town was indeed very small-minded and insular and she longed to live in Los Angeles or New York, cosmopolitan cities that would better reflect her status and self-importance. However, over the years those thoughts had receded completely as she became more and more involved at the Confederacy Country Club and with her other charitable interests.
She had been doted on constantly, bought the best clothes and attended the top private school for girls. She had graduated at the top of her class which qualified her to go to an equally prestigious college where over the following four years she repeated her high school successes.
Her people skills, however, had never developed to match her academic ones and with her self-centred sense of superiority, she struggled to make true friends or forge relationships outside of her close circle of like-minded associates.
Thus it had been a major upset and jolt to her equilibrium when Herbert announced that he was to marry Janice, a girl he had met from outside of their social circle. Even before she had been introduced Clarissa had made up her mind that Janice was the wrong choice and from the start of the relationship she had set her mind against the one who was to become her daughter-in-law.
If she ever regretted the sour relationship with her daughter-in-law then in her mind it was a justified reaction for as time passed it became clear that Janice has no intention of doing her duty and producing any family to maintain the line for another generation.
Clearly, it was no fault of her dear Herb and could only be due to a conscious decision by Janice. (Had Clarissa enquired she would have learned that her dear Herb had an abnormally low sperm count). Also, Janice, it seemed to Clarissa, had completely dominated Herb, so that he no longer kept in touch with his mother, or cared enough to try. To Clarissa, this was short-sighted of him, as her enormous estate someday would be his unless she changed her will, which she was contemplating.
Thinking of Janice had Clarissa upset, and yet in a perverse way also content. She had noticed that Janice dressed more provocatively since she joined that new company in town, Rhino IMEX. What was she trying to do? The progressive company seemed to have been receiving a lot of favourable press recently reporting quite astonishing sales. At the same time, Clarissa was proud that Janice had been promoted to Infrastructure Expansion Manager with Rhino, and she told all her friends at the Confederacy Country Club how important it was for them all to support their own local industry.
Janice had never bothered to give her mother-in-law gifts over the years, so it came as a huge surprise when she gave Clarissa a fancy new, very expensive Rhino phone for her birthday. Clarissa had not yet opened the lovely package. But she had instructed her Investment Manager to obtain shares in the company for her retirement portfolio. The fact that Rhino was owned by a South African group was of little importance to her.
Clarissa loved the CCC as most of the women called it. After all the 'Confederacy' part of the name was somewhat dated. On her father's insistence, she had joined the club as a junior member, had taken lessons from a handsome golf pro, and was quite a good player, with a low handicap by the time of her eighteenth birthday.
Her thoughts went back to the eighteenth birthday party which her parents had hosted in the elegant clubhouse. She vividly remembered sitting beside her father's best friend whom she called 'Uncle' Tom.
He had been around their home and spoiled her with many expensive gifts as she was growing up. 'Uncle' Tom made a point of expressing how beautiful Clarissa was. He presented her with a magnificent diamond necklace which he insisted on putting around her neck, she blushed as his hands caressed her neck and then brushed against her full breasts which were straining at the material of her "little girl" dress that her mother insisted she wear. She felt her nipples harden and dampness appear in her love canal.
She was confused by her sudden attraction to a man who was nearly three times her age. He kept her wine glass topped up and he stroked her arm. She felt all grown up as surely this must be the way all women felt. As his hands wandered, Tom's wife Pamela turned to her other dinner companion and ignored her husband. His act was growing old on Pamela, she was tired of his philandering ways, always with pretty young women and girls. It was new to Clarissa, however, and she shifted in her seat as his hand 'accidentally' landed on her leg.
She was conflicted as she wanted him to stop, and when he lifted his hand off her leg, she wanted it to return, which his hand invariably did, higher underneath her short flared little girl skirt each time. Her heart was pounding with excitement, and her face was flushed.
The musicians started playing and the lights dimmed. Her father asked the birthday girl to dance and he proudly whisked her onto the dance floor in the Club that his grandfather had been one of the founding members. She thought she felt a hardness pushing into her midsection, but dismissed it as her mind playing tricks on her. She noticed her mother beaming with pride as her father kissed her on the mouth, his lips slightly open and she thought she felt his tongue ever so briefly.
She noticed that her mother was squirming under the attentions of Uncle Tom who had clearly turned the charm on the older woman.